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Originally Posted by h5n1
is this also assuming you have a way to deal with the immense pressure and heat that are associated with going to/through the core? you know, not even mentioning the gravity of the situation (heh).
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Yeah, "somehow shielding it from the molten core and suck all the air out". Obviously it would be very hot, but let's assume you could completely insulate the tube from the heat of the core. And in a vacuum, there would be no pressure, right?
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Originally Posted by h5n1
you'd die from the acceleration alone, man. your corpse would do what you hypothesize, but it's impossible to feel ANYTHING when you're dead.
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Can you elaborate on the acceleration? It should just start out at 9.8m/s/s, right?
Also, I was able to find a link to the original Straight Dope article:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...ough-the-earth
According to him: Perfect vacuum == Falling back and forth forever. But throw a little air resistance in and you eventually get stuck in the center.