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Old 10-21-06, 09:51 PM   #3
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How fast do you think you'd be going?

Thats a very very very long distance to fall..

To escape earths gravity, you must be going at around 7 miles per second. Keeping in mind the closer you got to the center of gravity, the faster you would drop.. You could quite possibly attain speeds fast enough to push right through...

The question is whether you would be fast enough to not swing back and forth for a while before becomming stationary.

Thats where you'd need to be keen on physics.. Calculating the falling speeds of an average weight man falling right through the radius of the planet.

To put it into perspective, if you dropped a 5 cent peice off the empire state building, it would be traveling fast enough at its small weight to become embedded into the concrete below.

Imagine a human body traveling a far longer distance than that...
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