Workers at the drilling site for a geothermal energy plant in Neustadt-Glewe, Germany. Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in ...

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Ever wonder what would happen if you dug a hole straight through the Earth, where would you end up? Recently, Google Earth Community member ‘KoflAIR‘ posted a simple little mashup for Google Earth ...

When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I would end up in China. In fact, if I had been able to dig straight through the ...