Antipodes
Dig straight down. See where you come out.
Click anywhere on Earth and fall through the middle of it. Almost always you come out in the ocean. Sometimes you come out in Argentina.
Unrolling the map…
Why it is nearly always the sea
87%
of the world's towns and cities have open water on the other side. Land covers a bit under a third of the planet, but it is nearly all bunched into one hemisphere.
4%
of the Earth's surface is land with land directly beneath it — about an eighth of all dry ground. New Zealand and Spain, Argentina and China, Hawaii and Botswana.
42
minutes to fall through a frictionless tunnel — and it is 42 minutes wherever you dig, because the trip is one half of a pendulum swing. The animation uses the real curve.