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- From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Hollow Earth
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.203628.1672@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 20:36:28 GMT
- References: <1g8sl0INNi60@pith.uoregon.edu> <1go4erINNik@gap.caltech.edu>
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- I'm sort of an amateur 'expert' on Hollow Earth theories. If anyone is
- interested, I can post my anotated list of Hollow Earth Classics.
-
- In article <1go4erINNik@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <1g8sl0INNi60@pith.uoregon.edu>, adams@bright.uoregon.edu (Jeff Adams) writes:
- >>2. We all know that the center of gravity of a hollow earth would
- >>still be the center of the sphere. How does he think people stay on
- >>the inside of the shell?
- >
- One Hollow Earth book held the view that there is not a 'center of gravity',
- but that the 'center' was within the shell fo the Hollow earth at an equal
- distance from the surface. Thus if you were on the outer surface or the inner
- surface or passing thru the polar holes, gravity never changeed.
-
- >
- >>3. Is there light inside the earth, according to the claims?
- >>
- Depends on who's making the claim. Early books held that light in the center
- came from sunlight passing thru the polar openings or from forest fires,
- later proponets claimed a miniture sun in the center. Such a sun is impossible,
- but that doesn't stop such people.
-
- >>4. Does he try to explain away things like satellite photos, research
- >>stations in Antarctica, the weight of the earth, seismic waves, etc.,
- >>or does he claim they are all governmental misinformation, or what?
- >
- >If the book was published in the (early) '60s, it's unlikely that he'd try to
- >explain away satellite photos.
-
- Actually some have tried to use satellite photos to PROVE a hollow Earth.
- Ray Palmer of _Fate_ magazine published a satelitle photo set that had a
- large dark spot at the pole. His claim was that the dark spot was the
- Polar Opening. Others have tried to claim the reflecction from the polar
- caps of Mars was really light from Mars interior sun and that the Ring Nebulae
- was proof that all planets form as hollow shells around a star.
-
-
- --
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