I like this one:
November 2004:
Is The Earth Hollow Inside?
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The most ancient stories of mankind can be found written on the clay tablets of Mesopotamia. Two of these, "Gilgamesh" and "The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld", are about adventures among different kinds of creatures inside the Earth. Plato wrote of enormous subterranean tunnels both broad and narrow that made up the earth's interior.
Yes, and ancient myths and pre-scientific hypotheses are great sources of information about how the world works. Why, only last week, I saw a herd of unicorns stampeed of the edge of the world!
Conventional science claims that the Earth is solid, having condensed from gases. Gravity pulled this mass together into a solid 8,000 mile globe. This theory ignores the role of centrifugal force - an opposing natural force that must be taken into account.
Exactly. Everyone knows the idea that gravity is strong enough to pull things down is nonsense. Why, if I wasn't holding onto the ground this very minute, centrifugal force would throw me right out into space!
Current mathematical models all say the Earth is at least partially hollow,
Which models would these be?
Modern science has not been able to disprove the theory of a hollow Earth. Even using seismic data and radio waves, we can only penetrate a mile or two down.
Must be bad news for all thouse seismologists who thought they were using earthquake waves to study the structure of the earth, all the way down to the core and through to the other side.
It all sounds quite crazy, doesn't it? Well, here are a couple of things to consider: Hitler's scientists believed that the Earth was hollow, and that there was an entrance to the interior planet located at the South Pole.
Ah, now those are people you don't want to argue with!
They financed expeditions and placed a military force in Antarctica in 1938, which remained there until the end of the war. Since then, the United States has maintained a powerful military presence at the same location. The North Pole is also heavily guarded by the U.S. military. What need do we have for military units in Antarctica, unless there is something strategic located there?
Obviously not to guard resources or strategic locations, train in Arctic warfacre, or even just for reasons of national prestiege. No - occam's razor demonstrates that the presence of an entrance to the centre of the earth is the only logical explanation.
The presence of civilized life below would explain a lot of things. ... Aliens ... It might also explain mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, the ancient landing strips found in the Andes, the Northern Lights,
Wait, the Northern Lights are an unexplained mystery?
and more.
Oh, you mean like the subterranean aliens who used their secret network of tunnels to carry out the JFK assassination?
Scientifically, it is plausible and likely that the Earth is hollow, and inhabited by intelligent life. There is more evidence to support the theory than there is evidence against it.
If you say so ...
All I'm saying is not to be so closed to ideas. If you want to debunk a conspiracy theory, do it with facts-not making fun of people.
The problem with this is, though, that most conspiracy theories are so long-winded* that debunking them would take far more time than is worth exercising, and are so anathema to the basic tenets of the laws of science/economics/politics/physics/biology/etc. that debunking them practically involves massive dissertations on the basics of things like the scientific method, Newtonian physics, and pretty much any other tool used to understand the way that the world works. Then, of course, even after being given the basic information with which to debunk a particular conspiracy it gets pointed out that things like the scientific method are in and of themselves a conspiracy and cannot be trusted! Oooooh, spooky!
*Seriously, has anyone ever seen a conspiracy theory website that isn't the length of a novella? I don't have all freakin' day. Boil your conspiracy down to a couple of bullet points or sound bites so that I can easily digest them and move on.
Likewise, I think it's safe to say that most Americans do not believe the 'magic bullet theory' regarding the JFK assassination.
I would hope they don't, since the magic bullet theory was created by conspiracists using flawed models and diagrams of JFK and Connelly.
Exactly. Everyone knows the idea that gravity is strong enough to pull things down is nonsense. Why, if I wasn't holding onto the ground this very minute, centrifugal force would throw me right out into space!
They financed expeditions and placed a military force in Antarctica in 1938
We know thats ridiculous; AVP documented pretty well that they would be Alien chow if they went there. :/
My wife thinks there is significance in the large number of sightings of The Virgin Mary these days, complete with photographs to prove it ! My observation is that cameras have been around for 150 years, but Ive only heard about photographic evidence of these sightings in the last ten years ... that is, since Photoshop was invented.