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- MattJF317, on 12/20/2007, -4/+292"...so there is no 100% direct evidence the Earth is solid through an through!"
It has never been disproved, therefore it's true!
I demand we teach this in schools. - sjbdallas, on 12/20/2007, -4/+215If they do get to go on their expedition, I hope they'll be prepared to battle the crab-people.
- zakatov, on 12/20/2007, -8/+146I hate to be the definition nazi, but that is not a "theory". General relativity is a theory, evolution is a theory, hell, even certain aspects of gravity are a theory. That is just a idea pulled out of someone's ass.
- MattJF317, on 12/20/2007, -2/+135From the video at 5:56 to 6:16:
"Think of it as if you were standing in an elevator on a bathroom scale, and the elevator traveled to the center of the earth from the surface. As you went lower and lower, your body weight would actually drop, until when you finally reached the center of the earth, your body weight might actually be negative."
Negative weight? So that would be like... a force un-acting on you? - inactive, on 12/20/2007, -4/+134We can all go "Middle Earth" and burn down the shire.
- DeskFlyer, on 12/20/2007, -3/+120I think they divided by zero!
- lintmonkey, on 12/20/2007, -1/+76Neither. A polar bear eats you.
- metapop, on 12/20/2007, -2/+65did that guy in the video remind anyone else of troy mcclure?
- BenKenobi88, on 12/20/2007, -0/+50Or when he freezes to death at the North Pole next to a shovel and 4 foot deep hole in the ice.
- shaun1018, on 12/20/2007, -0/+48Hello I'm Troy McClure you may have also seen me in other nut job videos like the flat earth theory or the hunt for big foot.
- evodude, on 12/20/2007, -3/+51Hypothesis. It's the weirdest HYPOTHESIS on the planet. And buried, for promoting the abuse and misuse of the word "theory."
- lemon67, on 12/20/2007, -1/+48yeaaaaaa.... volcanoes dictate otherwise.
- DrywallThief, on 12/20/2007, -0/+43Give him 2 million. It'll be one less wackjob to worry about when he burns in the earth's core.
- inactive, on 12/20/2007, -3/+46Noah might still be in there boating around with a load of animals...
- socialpyramid, on 12/20/2007, -3/+44Yes, the scary thing is a creationist once came to my church and proposed a theory similar to this, with the Earth being filled with water. So Sir Francis Drake...
- inactive, on 12/20/2007, -9/+47Hey, why not? Lump it into intelligent design and the Bible, and then any contrary evidence can be written off with spurious logical arguments and God's mysterious ways.
- Brasky, on 12/20/2007, -10/+47Uhhh.....doesnt the force due to gravity INCREASE as you get closer to the center of the earth? Of course, if the earth were hollow you could walk on the "ceiling" on the inside as it would be where the gravitational forces are coming from...the more you actually think about this idea, the dumber it gets.
Besides, everyone knows the earth is flat. - digggggggggg, on 12/20/2007, -0/+37WANTED: A partner to travel back in time with me. Need to provide own rations, weapons. I have only done this once before and cannot guarantee safety.
- harvinator24, on 12/20/2007, -14/+51This is NOT A THEORY, its a dumb idea. with as much scientific backing as creationism.
- FoxOrian, on 12/20/2007, -1/+37As rediculous as it actually is, it would be seriously kickass if it were true. I'd live in there.
- inactive, on 12/20/2007, -0/+33ideas like these are fun to imagine...........on acid
- eridius, on 12/20/2007, -4/+34I hope you're kidding. Gravitational force most definitely decreases as you travel closer to the core of the earth (although that's a gross simplification). Similarly, if the earth were hollow and you went inside, you would not be walking on the "ceiling" as the gravitational center of the earth is the physical center.
- EdgarVerona, on 12/20/2007, -2/+31What I don't get about the post (and the article) is that there is direct proof. You don't have to actually dig a core through the earth to prove that there's no second sun in there. There's so much evidence on so many physical levels that disproves it entirely. Too much to even begin to touch the surface of in a Digg comment.
- TrekkieDude, on 12/20/2007, -1/+30I for one Welcome our new Underlords!
- maelstromwar, on 12/20/2007, -2/+29Bwahahahaha!
no. - Thex1138, on 12/20/2007, -4/+31I hope they'll be wearing their tin foil hats on their expedition...
- TheFrod, on 12/20/2007, -0/+27The reason there aren't pictures of the north pole is because the government is trying to protect santa's house/ the hidden temple were aliens hunt predators.
- luskin, on 12/20/2007, -2/+29Your scientific history is wrong. Columbus didn't prove the Earth is round, and besides, most intellectuals already believed that the earth was round. During Darwin's time, everybody with any scientific education believed that the earth was older than 6,000 years. Darwin didn't prove the universe's age, nuclear physicists did.
If you want to know more about this sort of thing, I suggest Bill Bryson's book "A Short History of Nearly Everything". - vervalsing, on 12/20/2007, -1/+28$2 million for a scientific expedition to the center of the earth? They might as well just spend a couple hundred on some shovels and a lot of beer, for all the good that 2 million will do.
- chrgrose, on 12/20/2007, -2/+28I'm really glad I saw this video. As a geodynamicist/geochemist, it was probably the most amusing pseudoscientific hash I have ever seen. I don't think even the creationists have material this good.
- cococooky, on 12/20/2007, -2/+28Jokes are often made by taking something out of context.
- Mikau735, on 12/20/2007, -1/+24And the goombas. I went inside planets multiple times during Super Mario Galaxy, and they were hollow, habitle and full of goombas.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+22When you are outside the earth, getting closer to the surface increases the gravity you experience. However, once you are underground, going even lower puts more mass behind you and less in front, lowing the pull you feel.
- TheDrop, on 12/20/2007, -0/+22Images from polar orbit satellites are available. The poles are often cloudy and there are few distinguishing features to see, which may be why they are not as pervasive as other satellite imagery.
Here's an example - http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1292
I did find it interesting, however, that to gain access to more images from either the NOAA or DMSP, you either have to fill out a form or navigate an archaic search function - http://dbaron.org/sat/comp/#polar - burrgrinder, on 12/20/2007, -0/+22Well, I'll go ahead and touch on it for those without as much knowledge:
The easiest way I would disprove a hollow earth would be to use seismic waves and a global array of seismometers, much like we have today. When an earthquake occurs, it (primarily) releases P-Waves and S-Waves.
Both can be measured on opposites sides of the earth, except P-Waves are compressional waves and S-Waves are shear waves (think: shaking a Slinky up and down). They travel at different speeds, and this difference is how we triangulate earthquake epicenters. If the earth was hollow and filled with air, P-Waves might travel through it (very unlikely over that distance), but S-Waves certainly wouldn't. Since you can be 180 degrees around the Earth from the epicenter of an earthquake and still measure P-Waves, and outside of the "wave shadow" of the liquid core, measure S-Waves, we can safely assume there is material there, excluding air and a vacuum, capable of transmitting these waves. - chan0429, on 12/20/2007, -0/+21The real reason is because we'd see the Fortress of Solitude or a military installation guarding the Ancient's control chair.
- starkes, on 12/20/2007, -1/+22a creationist came to your church? no way
- PHiZ187, on 12/20/2007, -11/+32The lizard people at the center of the earth support Ron Paul.
- zakatov, on 12/20/2007, -0/+21"No publicly available images of North Pole"? Have they heard of an invention called the Internet and the concept of searching on it?
- kinerry, on 12/20/2007, -2/+23This isn't a theory until it's been tested and cannot be proven false by peers
- fetussoap, on 12/20/2007, -1/+21P-waves and S-waves bounce and reflect off the Earths core and travel through the crust.This is how smart geologists locate earthquakes and explosions. The Earth is not hollow. You my writer friend need to study more science. Now if you want to discuss a Dyson Sphere, I am all ears.
- HentaiJeff, on 12/20/2007, -1/+20oh shi-
- einstevo, on 12/20/2007, -4/+20um, gravity? the center of gravity of a hollow sphere is not a spherical surface in the middle of the shell like the diagram says...it's the point at the center. newton derived that.
- chrisgnv, on 12/20/2007, -0/+16Well, isn't there at least some? http://www.livescience.com/environment/070228_beij ...
- cheeseron, on 12/20/2007, -0/+15he's not even trying :(
- unknamed, on 12/20/2007, -0/+14So that's where all my goddamn socks went...
- solidus636, on 12/20/2007, -0/+14We could FLY!
- probrian, on 12/20/2007, -1/+14my mistake.
- daliminator, on 12/20/2007, -1/+14And if you *really* want to get technical, even with any so-called "direct evidence" we could never be completely, beyond-all-possible-doubt certain that a theory is valid, since such a thing would presuppose causation as we know it based on possibly fallible empirical observation. All "science" is reduced to faith in something that *should* work a certain way.
Buuuut... such is the universe. Sucks for us. -
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