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Well, So Much for Theories About the Hollow Earth

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This is one that has always staggered me. Idiots like John Lear (why is he not in an institution?) seem to give credence to this rubbish.

Some may think my belief in UFOs is a bit crazy and I have to grant that, however, the hollow earth is one theory I've never heard ANY evidence for!


I mean, wouldn't the world's oceans not drain into the entrance holes?
 
Gene Steinberg said:
And Edgar Rice Burroughs is no doubt spinning in his grave along about now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/earths-core-the-enigma-1800-miles-below-us.html?hp&pagewanted=all
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Along with Raymond Bernard and Richard Shaver is providing the momentum.

But when I was a kid I had constant dreams of stepping in these soft spots and I'd start slipping down and having a hard time finding a purchase.Inevitably there would be a hoard of beings that would come running from the nooks and crannies to try to pull me down. They never got me through, I always got away.
 
To me its about heat, we know it gets hotter as you go down, we know volcanos spew molten rock.
Only where such massive heats meet the cold of space could a crust form.
A hollow centre surrounded by molten magma would be uninhabitable imo, unless of course it was venting the heat somewhere, which we would have noticed by now.

I dont discount there could be massive underground cave systems, but a hollow earth ?

Cant see it myself

Although the way things are going on the surface ATM, we may well find ourself retreating into Subterranean spaces, Human history...... from caves to ......caves...... how ironic

Having said that i think its a good scenario for preparation for space flight, any species that wants to live long term in space can train for it, by going underground, making their own air, food environmental sweet spot etc, and letting go the free ride, surface dwelling provides.
Its an artificial biosphere instead of a natural one.
 
mike said:
To me its about heat, we know it gets hotter as you go down, we know volcanos spew molten rock.
Only where such massive heats meet the cold of space could a crust form.
A hollow centre surrounded by molten magma would be uninhabitable imo, unless of course it was venting the heat somewhere, which we would have noticed by now.
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Well, there are volcanoes but I do agee with the sentiment of your post
 
I have just chipped open anothe Dero book with my chisel and it seems to refute this nytimes article thus;

stone_marble_pink.jpg
 
mike said:
To me its about heat, we know it gets hotter as you go down, we know volcanos spew molten rock.
Only where such massive heats meet the cold of space could a crust form.
A hollow centre surrounded by molten magma would be uninhabitable imo, unless of course it was venting the heat somewhere, which we would have noticed by now.

I dont discount there could be massive underground cave systems, but a hollow earth ?

Cant see it myself

Although the way things are going on the surface ATM, we may well find ourself retreating into Subterranean spaces, Human history...... from caves to ......caves...... how ironic

Having said that i think its a good scenario for preparation for space flight, any species that wants to live long term in space can train for it, by going underground, making their own air, food environmental sweet spot etc, and letting go the free ride, surface dwelling provides.
Its an artificial biosphere instead of a natural one.
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Yeah Mike, that's 'Alternative 2' in 'Alternative 3' lore!
 
I have the book here, which built on the TV show, increasing the 'conspiracy' by claiming the book was 'fiction' after an agreement to 'tone it down' etc.

The thing about Alternative 3 for me, is that it is very possible to see it as real and a genuine conspiracy. I don't mean going to check on all the scientist brain-drain accounts etc but just that if any such thing were happening, it is plausible that it might play out like the film.

'Batch consignments' is horrific.

I found the book/show also cleverly bound up aspects of the space program that were already under suspicion by conspiracy type thinking. A classic, and if you haven't read the book, I really recommend it!
 
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