masq's Journal: Gravity is a downer.

Heh heh. I like the line Slashcode gives me when I'm about to babble in my journal:

Entry (This will go down on your permanent record)

My permanent record? I'd better think twice about an entry THIS lame...

Ummm. Nope. Here goes anyway.

I was watching tv today, and I saw a commercial where some family was trying to dig through the earth to visit China. I know, I know, that's not special, we've ALL tried it when we were seven, but it got me to thinking:

Notwithstanding the molten core of Planet Earth, if I was able to dig a perfectly straight tunnel through the planet which came out the other side (which wouldn't be China, I don't think), what would happen if I jumped in? I think that gravity would pull me down at an increasing speed until I hit the actual centre, and then gravity would start slowing me down, because I'd be heading *away* from the centre of the planet. I might shoot out the other side a bit, but by how much? And if so, would I just reverse and keep falling one direction, then the other, until I started throwing up? And then my vomit would start flying back and forth at superspeed like deadly... well, vomit. Or would I keep on zooming into outer space like a Space Shuttle with the good quality O-Rings? Is this a revolution in Space Travel? "The Gravity Engine?" Can you patent digging? Or should I GPL it? Maybe that Warren Ellis guy can put me in a comic book. I'm HoleMan.

Anyway, that's a bit of what I think. The missus, however, thinks I'm an idiot. I don't even want to ask who you guys think is right. Hey, what else was I supposed to think about? American Idol didn't exactly tax my brainpower.

Any theories? Somebody help me, I can't sleep at night thinking about this. It's tearing me apart.

Re:Here's another one for you

[masq]

My brain just exploded.