When NewMexiKen was a kid we always heard about digging a hole to China. I see that even a recent television car ad shows a Jeep falling through to China.
At some point in school, however, I realized that the Earth being round and all, if I dug from North America straight into the ground I wouldn’t end up in China at all. For one thing, digging from north of the equator, I’d have to end up south of the equator.
But where would I come out? This has troubled me for decades, keeping me awake nights as I tried to calculate latitude and longitude in my head. (Hey, you count sheep, I imagine the globe.)
Well finally, someone has assembled a tool.
The key, as Bugs Bunny once pointed out after burrowing a tunnel to the wrong destination: “I shoulda taken a left toin at Albuquoikee.”