Marsupialized wrote:everyone knows the Earth is filled with the souls of expired fat women

Always check the "best by" date, folks.

Colonel Panic wrote:The Hollow Earth theory is an old one.

I remember reading somewhere that there was some Nazi scientist in the late '30s who promoted the idea that the surface of Earth was actually the inside if a hollow ball.

He theorized that if you had a powerful enough telescope, you could look into the night sky at the certain angles and spy on other locations on the globe.

I wonder how he reconciled the idea of sunrises and sunsets with that harebrained theory...

Even better, the original Koresh cult leader: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Teed

No way. Wow what an awesome kook.

clocker bob wrote:Geo-Spatial Alignment of Southern Death Rows & Abu Ghraib as Evidence of Human Sacrifice Ritual to Superhuman Entities for Temporal Power

I would go see a metal band called...

clocker bob wrote:

I'm sorry, but any map of hollow earth that puts a "sun" at the center, and not a conference room where the Illuminati meet to discuss their complete control over planet is just NOT realistic enough.

In all seriousness, this fascinated me for a while. The problem is that I am not a scientist. My friend is and he said it could be conceivable based on the science of one particular theory but then again, lots of things are theoretically possible aren't they?

The theory I read is that rather than the gravitational pull of the Earth being such that it draws everything to it's core, is it possible that the force of gravity is a kind of 'field' if you like that is created by the spinning core of a hollow Earth and so then everything outside the field (i.e. us) is pulled down onto it and everything within it is pulled towards the other side of it. Thus the inside and outside of the Earth are constantly drawn together as though stuck to opposite sides of a magnet. Shifts in the Earths surface are then explained as movements caused by the inner and outer surfaces of this 'field' shifting to maintain a state of equilbrium.

In a nutshell.

(Which is kind of what it is really...)

I'm not so convinced but there are certainly strange anomalies with compass readings etc at the poles of the Earth.

Also, there is an interesting theory about aliens being from the hollow earth, not outer space, but I think it was around this time that my housemate told me he was considering moving out when I brought it up in conversation so we'll not go there.

Colonel Panic wrote:The Hollow Earth theory is an old one.

I remember reading somewhere that there was some Nazi scientist in the late '30s who promoted the idea that the surface of Earth was actually the inside if a hollow ball.

He theorized that if you had a powerful enough telescope, you could look into the night sky at the certain angles and spy on other locations on the globe.

I wonder how he reconciled the idea of sunrises and sunsets with that harebrained theory...

Actually, I think it's documented that Hitler spent a lot of money researching the hollow Earth theory. Which means, by Godwins Law, this discussion is over.

the core is actually quite fascinating. they don't really know what's going on in there. the magnetic field is changing... all the moving iron, friction etc. blows the mind. amazing how it just happens to protect us from the solar wind.

we like to think that there's some miracle going on, how all these things come into perfect balance, but the unfortunate truth is there are billions of very similar planets just like ours, that just don't have the same amount of this or that...

of course they may actually have a better planet. perhaps ours would be a little better if it was a little larger, a bit farther from the sun, no moon and no crazed abrahamic religions.

COOL: currently I'm HADES.

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Mercifully.

What we do know about the earth's core:

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Arc ... -core.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc ... 9/fob5.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_core
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... ature.html

From the last link:

Scientists have taken the temperature of Earth's innards, more than a thousand miles beneath the surface, and found that the mercury there soars to about 6,650 degrees Fahrenheit.



That's nearly as steamy as our sun, where the surface reaches 9,980 degrees.



The findings, detailed in the March 30 issue of the journal Science, will help geologists as they seek to understand how heat is transferred through the planet's interior, which drives all geologic processes like earthquakes and volcanoes, and Earth's magnetic field.