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Last year, Maddie and her friends
undertook that classic kids’ boredom game, Digging to China.
Many of you will remember that Maddie’s posse began
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working on a hole to China on their school playground,
calculating that they should be finished by sixth grade. Maddie
even asked Brian to be there the last day of school in sixth grade
– and bring scuba gear for getting through the oceans –
so the family could go to China together. Fortunately, the gang target="_blank"
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called it quits a couple weeks into the project after one
mother brought up concerns that their digging might cause shifts in
the tectonic plates, triggering earthquakes in other countries.
Ever ones to worry about causing other people harm, the girls
regretfully called a halt to their diggings.


Until now.

Yes, Operation: China Dig is back and in
full force. I don’t know if they’ve forgotten the
earthquake thing, or are more confident in their math skills and
hence believe they can calculate around it, but whatever the case,
it’s back, baby. The girls have returned to one of the
original plans: dig straight down until they’re about a mile
from the liquid magma core of the earth, then dig circuitously
around the core until they’re at the other side, then
straight back out again. This way, according to the girls, no one
has to get inadvertently blown out by a volcanic-type eruption.


Always thinking, these kids.


In addition, Maddie has refined her digging style. She’s
purposely sought out earth that’s clumpy rather than smooth
dirt; she reasons that big clumps are easier to lift out of a
depression, thus removing more dirt in a shorter amount of time
than simply digging fine dirt would do.


I am truly beginning to wonder if we will need to bring some scuba
gear to school in a few years.