We watched the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in this 08-08-08 edition in Beijing – spectacular, as I’m sure you’ve all seen … we missed the start (there will be many opportunities later; this exhibition must have been canned in every medium available and i’m sure we’ll see many replays).

Then I recalled this handy reference to the antipodes, in Wikipedia – and collected this map. It appears that from here, central Argentina (31.95 South, 64.56 West *) we are exactly at the opposite side of the planet. So: digging straight down, through the core get us within a few miles of the Stadium – with some correction, our tunnel could emerge within the boundary and save us the cost of the entrance tickets – I suppose there are tickets, and that they must be pretty well sold out by now.  The hole will have to be a mere  12, 742 kilometers … ah – deep? High? Both? Across!  Not too bad.  I will start digging presently – meanwhile, enjoy The Games.

Q

*Latitude and Longitude coordinates have been slightly modified: they actually belong to an obnoxious neighbor, so if any of you have a cruise missile handy … but please advise ETA as I’d hate to miss the fireworks -  if I’m not too far down on my way  to China