Thoughts on a Tunnel to China

I was reading my friend Pearlene's blog, and she had written this post on digging tunnels to China*. I was flipping through a few books of mine, and something rather wierd caught my eye. It said that if you really COULD dig a hole to China, you would have to start somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Which is wierd, because this "idea" probably originated in America (Though it could have originated from some other country, but most likely not in the middle of an ocean). But if it did, I must congratulate the creator for knowing so precisely where he/she was. But even if it was, it seems very funny to dig a hole under the ocean. And as Pearlene mentions, especially with a spoon. You can hardly dig a dent in the ground with a spoon, let alone a tunnel to China. Even if you were going to dig a hole to China with a spoon, you would have to pass the mantle, the outer core, the inner core, the outer core again, and the mantle again. Which pretty much leaves us with the conclusion that you are dead. And even if you are not, you would melt. Suppose you succeeded in digging the hole. Where would the matter occupying the tunnel go? You would have to throw it a looooooooooooong way up. And after you pass the center of gravity, it would be like digging a hole in the ceiling. The matter would come and collapse on you, which would kill you for the second time. And last. If you're digging a hole threough the Earth, which is millions of millions of miles across, you would probably be dead by the time you came up on the other side. Voila. You have succeeded in digging a hole to China, and you have been killed three times.
*Pearlene's post
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