TIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greenland, and the Phillipines are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water.
...what? Clearly also included on that map are China, Russia, Canada, and Greenland, at a minimum - I'm sure there are more.
So if you pick a random point in China, Russia, or Canada and start digging, you can say with reasonable certainty that you would hit land? Or would you more likely hit ocean?
Greenland one is true, I just don't find it that interesting since it's essentially part of the arctic circle
What about New Zealand, Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Brunei?
And here I thought you'd get lava instead
gotta dig harder to get past the lava
Only reason someone would realistically dig that deep is to restart the core.
jakarta is a country? new zealand is not a country? vietnam counts even though not all of vietnam maps to a landmass on the other side?
this is extremely confused.
Sorry, finding an interactive map with simple country borders is surprisingly difficult. I tried OSM and Google and just wrote down the names I saw. My geography of southeast asia is obviously bad.
Suggest a better title, and I'll happily change
Does this mean Looney Toons canonically takes place in either Chile or Argentina because of the digging straight to China?
I believe so
Am I stupid? If you can tunnel down and hit those other countries, than the opposite should be true, the countries you can drill down to are the same you drill down to from the other side, so that would include Canada and Southeast Asia according to this very map.
The definition I'm using is something like: "more than 80% of a country's landmass is covered by a landmass on the other side"
So china has parts where you hit land, but most of it hits ocean, and so it's not on the list.
I know right, what kind of idiot would even conceive of such tomfoolery
Masterful troll
That was definitely my intent apparently, I thank you
Ironic how US kids cartoons commonly portray "digging to China" as something americans can hypothetically do, to the point where a good portion of American adults just assume it to be true. Yet the only place where that's possible is South America.
Usually the people debunking the notion focus on the fact that the Earth is molten in the center so you can't dig all the way through it in the same way you can't dig to the ocean floor from the surface (which is reasonable don't get me wrong), but they rarely mention the fact that China is not actually on the opposite side of the Earth to the US.
This isn't a political comment. I just find it interesting that this is something literally anyone can disprove with a dollar store globe but no one bothers to do it and instead just assume the cartoons for children are factual.
Hawaii, though not a country, you can def another land mass
Oh wow yeah, Hawaii is weirdly one of the few that would hit Africa haha
I also love how Japan, barely just barely scratches the coast of Brazil.
In the anime Darker Than Black, one of the plot points is a Heaven and Hell Gate centered around Tokyo and Brazil, with the implication that one is the antipode of the other. But they're not!
The only place where Japan overlaps Brazil is the tiny Kagoshima prefecture
Other countries like China and Colombia have partial coverage in some regions.
The Greenland and Antartica antipodes don't really count imo
I’m not sure you know what learned means. You’ve missed literally dozens of other countries.
Empty criticism isn't that welcome, but feedback with helpful corrections always is
I recommend you look more closely at the map and try again.