I was laying in bed last night pondering. When I was young and a group of misfits was standing around admiring the hole that was being dug into the ground. It seemed to always come up that if you dug the hole too deep you would hit a Chinaman's foot. How deep you digging that hole? You planning on digging to China? It seemed to me that other places around the world that had similar bullshit would surely not all pick China as the final penetration point and I am wondering if other parts of the globe speculated as to just where their hole would reach.
I was put to need the answer to where an actual opposite of my place on the earth was and I got up and Googled an answer. Much to my non amazement there was even an app for this tottally useless information. It ended up that we got it all wrong and the oppisite side of my world is off the south east coast of Madasgascar. In the Indian ocean. I then had an idea that it would be an interesting statistical analosis to ponder if you drilled a hole through to the oppisite side of the earth from land, what percentage of the time would you end up in water?
http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-o ... -earth.htm

so you've had a busy day then?

Hahaha that's pretty cool..... I'm into the middle of the ocean but near the "French southern & Antarctic lands".

Your kidding, Muricans getting their geography wrong?
If China wasn't so big I doubt half of them could find it on a map....
We are down under, so I am guessing the North Pole?

Growing up English it was aways Australia that you would hit. That's the 'down under' place. I nearly made it a few times but always had to go home for tea before we broke through.

On a similar geographical theme I once rode to a Point Of Inaccessability.
It is a place on a land mass that is furtherest from any ocean.
The one I visited is for the Europe/Asia continent and is located in Xinjiang, China.

Comrade Dribble: You've let us down on this one. I felt sure that somewhere in there I would eventually find a link between a Chinaman's foot and global economics - not even a sideways reference to "making" a hole.

Funny is that in mainland Europe they used to say the same thing, China.
If you try it one would actually break trough close to New Zealand

So it appears all of us poor US or European souls were lied to. Checking that map shows that the only kids who could dig through to China live in Argentina, Chile or the Falkland Islands. No wonder I don't trust authority figures!

BTW, any idea of what the kids in China are told?

The kids are only allowed to dig after their 14 hour shift at the crappy wunhunglo/KTM rear hub factory.

I'm laughing at all of these responses and only understanding half
I have yet to hear a postulation as to a percentage of land to sea hits over land to land hits.
Here is my guess
78.29317% land to wet shovel. 100-78.29317 for land to tickling a toe.
I wonder if the land down under should not have a ocean up over. "We're now flying up over the land down under the sea up over, over."

Guess I will be a white sharks afternoon snack somewhere far from new Zealand :/

Just for Dribble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s

Used the same saying growing up but the antipodean for me is somewhere off the coast of New York.
Which got me thinking.....
If I dig a hole through to the other side and hit water what then?
If you dig down when do you start digging up and does the dirt the just fly out of the hole?
Can of worms Dribble.

Well I never.... always was the case of dig too deep and come across Oorstralia.....must have been something in it as I married one, but it appears I just end up in the sea

All very interesting but has anyone looked closely at an actual picture of the Earth. Its flat. It was flat several centuries ago when boats sailed off the edge of the world never to reappear and its still flat today because planes seem to mysteriously disappear.
If you did dig too far you will fall through into space until finally hitting a big yellow object called the Sun. That is also flat. And a little hot.