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dmaestro
30-Sep-12, 21:04
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I read it decades ago. It is based on a crazy interpretation of a few statements and zero science. When the North Pole totally melts it should end it once and for all.
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I have never heard of this. Do they consider the earth's core to be hollow? If so my first two questions would be how does the mantle stay where it is, and how do seismic waves travel through the core?
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Air pressure.
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pellucidar
didn't you ever read edgar rice burroughs? david innes at the eath's core? dian the beautiful?
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<<Air pressure.>>
Would have to be a heck of a lot of air to maintain hydrostatic equilibrium! Plus the seismic waves would be damped considerably and the speed change would be noticeable I'd imagine.
NEXT
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... I remember Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth ... and that was pretty hollow, particularly in spots along the way ... then the thought plickened handily. I believed that to be true for a long time ... back then.
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By the way
This isn't something people used to believe in once upon a time this is a continued theory by some. Many new theories on youtube. Even pilots claiming to have seen the hole.
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It's scary the sheer scale of falsehoods that people will believe.
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Itchy ...
... "possibility thinking" is actually healthy in my opinion even if it slows the scientific process as it represents plausible challenges to more conventional approaches ... and prevents an apathetic acquiescence to all things not completely understood. It is also a natural human trait despite how impossible such alternatives might be.
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Sure, but we're not talking about things "not completely understood". ''Possibility thinking'' for alternatives to things we already know and ideas for which there is no evidence is at best unhelpful and at worst willfully obfuscating. It may be a natural human trait but that does not necessarily make it a desirable one.
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