Digging a Hole to China

When you were little did you ever try to dig a hole to China?  I tried once in the playground at the park, and I got about .000000048% of the way there.  For those of you doing the math, that's about 2 feet.  It's a good thing I didn't get all the way through though because I would have ended up somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
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I asked the Kiwi Flatmate if she ever tried to dig a hole to China as a kid.  She hadn't.  Digging straight through the Earth from New Zealand wouldn't get you anywhere near China.  In fact, if would spit you out into the northwestern part of Spain.  Perhaps New Zealand play grounds are filled with abandoned attempts to dig holes to Spain?
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Signed,

American Roomie