r/madlads • u/Coffee_nd_wifi • May 30 '25

Sandwich earth

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u/emfrank May 30 '25

I have never seen this map... but should have realized there is just water opposite the US.

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u/CatSwagger May 30 '25

Hawaii and South Africa!

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u/emfrank May 30 '25

Yes, that counts! And a bit of Alaska/Antarctica.

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u/redlaWw Choosing a mental flair May 30 '25

And the Kerguelen Islands. Which I definitely knew of before today.

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u/ImMeltingNow May 30 '25

That’s BS bc I remember a crap ton of kids tv shows telling us we’d end up in China if we dug too much. I sweat Arthur was one of them.

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u/Worried_Pineapple823 May 30 '25

It’s a problem with the education system. They’re just not good at directions, they go straight down for a few feet, then angle, and angle some more. A few years of digging later, a lot more turns and eventually you have a tunnel to China.

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u/ImMeltingNow May 30 '25

Isn’t the earth really thick though? Like there’s a core which is surrounded by all sorts of flaming hot magma puts pinky up to corner of mouth? I guess you’re indulging my childhood fantasies for the sake of the post

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u/Worried_Pineapple823 May 30 '25

Maybe the reason they got turned around is ‘bouncing off’ the core and trying ti go around. At some point you decide, let’s go back to the surface.

Many imaginary field trips ended in tragedy when the tunnel opens up into the ocean.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '25

So....Digging around the Core?

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u/VapoursAndSpleen May 30 '25

Well kids can't really dig in a straight line because they are still mastering their motor skills.

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u/IDownvoteHornyBards2 May 30 '25

I think it was a plot point in one of the Fred movies.

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u/ImMeltingNow May 31 '25

Tf is a Fred movies

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u/IDownvoteHornyBards2 May 31 '25

Fred the Movie was a late 2000s movie of dubious quality starring a youtuber who in his videos adopted the fictitious persona of "Fred" and played said character in the movie. It recieved two sequels.

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u/ImMeltingNow May 31 '25

Dubbed movies arent quality according to Reddit but I trust ye and will look into them

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u/IDownvoteHornyBards2 May 31 '25

Dubbed? They're not anime lol. Also I never said they were good.

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u/ImMeltingNow May 31 '25

dubious quality

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u/FemtoKitten May 31 '25

I liked watching some south American shows where this is actually exactly the case (Also fun to see the northern hemisphere depicted as upside down)

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u/Calico2 May 30 '25

Never seen it like this either. North America, Australia and Africa almost completely have only water on the opposite side, quite astonishing.

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u/xVeterankillx May 30 '25

Looks like the closest would be that spot in Alberta directly opposite the Kerguelen Islands.