• @[email protected]
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    …what? Clearly also included on that map are China, Russia, Canada, and Greenland, at a minimum - I’m sure there are more.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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

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        So if you pick a random point in China, Russia, or Canada and start digging,

        You keep adding more trivial criteria!

        • @[email protected]OP
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          I guess I’m a little surprised by people’s inability to extrapolate the overall intent of the post. I suppose it really was not clear…

  • diverging
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    What about New Zealand, Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Brunei?

  • Greg Clarke
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    I’m not sure you know what learned means. You’ve missed literally dozens of other countries.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          I’m sure you already know this, but just in case: if you want someone to learn something, it helps to actually point out their mistakes, rather than berating them with blank statements

          • @[email protected]
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            They weren’t berating you, they asked you to take another look at the map, for example canada, and russia, France etc should be on that list, amongst others

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              Canada and russia

              More than 80% of which would lead you right to water

              France

              I’m a bit floored by this one.

              • @[email protected]
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                More than 80% of which would lead you right to water

                And? As per your title it can still be done.

                And, I meant Spain, not France, thank you

              • @[email protected]
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                You just start tunneling at the right spot then.
                Most people in China would only need to start in their back yard.

                • @[email protected]OP
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                  Most people in China would only need to start in their back yard

                  I mean, I hear you in terms of the major cities being mostly on the west-coast of China. I’d still argue that the vast majority of the rest of China would just hit water

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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    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.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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.

      • CarrotsHaveEars
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        80%? Why this ramdom number? Why not use 1 sigma, 2 sigma or any other terms with more statistical meaning?

        And in a previous comment you implied 100% by saying “random point”. Here, I made a screenshot of it.

        https://lemmy.ml/comment/19474993

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          Because Im using rough visual metrics on an image, and not precise numerical analysis on GDAL? Jesus H.

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    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

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    Does this mean Looney Toons canonically takes place in either Chile or Argentina because of the digging straight to China?

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    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.

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      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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I’d argue that at least half of New Zealand isn’t covered.

      I do agree that vietnam shouldn’t be in that list, but Cambodia should?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          Fun? Otherwise hard to measure overlap of anything unless I start referring to topographic features / biomes / ecoregions which are less widely understood

  • @[email protected]OP
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    Other countries like China and Colombia have partial coverage in some regions.

    The Greenland and Antartica antipodes don’t really count imo

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        Definitely, but it’s near the poles, so I find it more obvious than eye-opening. It’d be like saying you could tunnel through the north pole to get to the south pole. It’s true, but it’s not interesting.

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          “It’s true, but too obvious so it doesn’t count.”

            • snooggums
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              Then you said it wrong.

              What you said was ‘only countries’ not ‘only countries that weren’t obvious to me’.

              • @[email protected]OP
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                “Today I, the author of this post, Learned” seems implicit to me, but I suppose we all make our own definitions of the acronym

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                  That is a separate thing from what you literally wrote:

                  TIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, and the Phillipines *are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water.

                  No, some of the ones you weren’t surprised by also lead to water. That isn’t conditional based on you learning something today.