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Free-Fall Spinning Tunnels
Jump into an evacuated hole drilled straight through a uniform, static Earth-like sphere. Accelerate to 7.9 km/s (or 18 000 m.p.h.) at the center, then decelerate back to zero at the antipodes 42 minutes later! Step out of the hole upside down — or return 84 minutes after you left. Last fall, as part of his senior thesis,…
Thanks, Mark! I enjoy reading your posts as well.