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I’m not sure you know what learned means. You’ve missed literally dozens of other countries.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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...what? Clearly also included on that map are China, Russia, Canada, and Greenland, at a minimum - I'm sure there are more.
And here I thought you'd get lava instead
gotta dig harder to get past the lava
Only reason someone would realistically dig that deep is to restart the core.
What about New Zealand, Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Brunei?
That is an incredibly arbitrary definition, but still would seem to only rule out New Zealand. As far as I can tell 100% of the landmasses of Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Brunei are opposite another landmass.
Very true, though I went with the larger countries since I thought they'd be more recognizable and didn't want to fit every single island into the title
Masterful troll
That was definitely my intent apparently, I thank you
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.
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
Other countries like China and Colombia have partial coverage in some regions.
The Greenland and Antartica antipodes don't really count imo
Why not though? I could tunnel to antarctica throigh greenland.