Today I learned

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.

And here I thought you'd get lava instead

Hawaii, though not a country, you can def another land mass

This is so incomprehensibly stupid. Without elaborating, you assumed the exactly vertical path through the center of the earth. This is also the absolute hardest, most unrealistic path with most magma, heat and pressure, etc.. If you'd just dig curved sideways (you know, like people do for actual IRL tunnels) you can suddenly reach so many more countries without hitting water.

Masterful troll

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

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

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

...what? Clearly also included on that map are China, Russia, Canada, and Greenland, at a minimum - I'm sure there are more.

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.

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