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Buffalo’s antipodal point

Photo is a screen grab from Google Maps

blog by S.J. Velasquez • May 07, 2012 @ 11:26am

Contrary to the popular children’s joke, you wouldn’t end up in China if you dug a hole straight through the Earth.

Buzzfeed—a favorite time-waster site of mine—recently brought to my attention Antipodemap.com, a website that shows how to determine a city’s antipodal point, or the point on the opposite side of the Earth.

Unfortunately for Buffalonians, we’d—hypothetically—end up in the Indian ocean, just south-west of Australia. That is, if we could make it through the planet’s magma center.

TAGGED: antipodes, australia, buffalo, buzzfeed, google maps, maps

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bkirst09 May 07, 2012 @ 11:51am

What is a Buffalolean? Is that the AP Style way to spell Buffalonian?
Ben Tsujimoto May 07, 2012 @ 12:15pm

I thought it was a dance move. Shows how much I know about dance moves.

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