• Question: how big is the world

    Asked by beerhawes to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Mario Campanelli

      Mario Campanelli answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      the earth’s circumference is, almost by definition, 40000 km

    • Photo: Sam Vinko

      Sam Vinko answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Big enough so that something approximately spherical looks locally flat. Around 200 million square miles in surface area.

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      It’s roughly six thousand km to the center of the Earth, and about 40 thousand km to travel all the way around in a straight line.

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      I know that if you were to travel straight through the centre of the earth using only gravity it would take 42 mins to come out the other side. You’d be crispy fried and porbably have been crushed by the gravity, but could still do it.

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