Our earth is hollow! Let's go exploring!

Our Hollow Earth is one of the biggest reserves of crazy on the internet. Let's have a quick look at their beliefs.

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Located at 87.7 degrees North and South Latitude are Polar Openings
that lead into the hollow interior of our planet where the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel today dwell
in perfect harmony, with life spans equal to those of the Methuselahs of the Bible,
whose only desire is to live in peace. Their flying saucers in defense of their
country at times are seen on our surface world. They don't come to destroy, they are waiting...

Well, that description doesn't sound all that peaceful to me. Waiting for what, you cry.

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Waiting for us to discover
that world peace is the only answer, not without God, but WITH Him.

We Must Prepare for Their Return...

Now, oddballs and loons would at this point prepare their tinfoil hats and banners saying, "WE WELCOME YOU, OVERLORD".

This site has a somewhat different attitude. This lot want to go on an expedition

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The North Pole Inner Earth Expedition is by far the most innovative and courageous exploration effort in modern times. We are unable to go to the Moon. We are decades away from manned exploration to Mars. This Expedition to the North Pole region is possible and within reach.

The interary for the voyage sounds mostly like a group of oceanographers are playing an elaborate hoax to get some data collected, apart from this little bit:

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Day Ten
Use completed human consciousness training to attract inner Earth presence
24-hour day of observation for Inner Earth contact

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the people who live inside earth are telepathic.

For a laugh, I'd recommend you read about the science. And once you're convinced, hand over your money. Deposits are due by December, totalling to $750000! We can't do it without your help!

I know whats waiting for us under the polar ice.

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Yeah, no so eagar to go now are ya, daft religious bastards.

Don't forget that Cthulhu is probably under the ocean waiting to surface too. =P

I thought Israel only had one Lost Tribe. Now you're telling me they've actually got nine more? Obviously, God needs to pay more attention to his chosen people if they keep wandering off like that.

I do so love conspiracy theory sites. They're like finding this box with dozens of different things in it that are in no way related, and you have to try and put them together so they make sense. But they never do, so you start filling in the gaps with bullshit and the next thing you know-BANG! You believe the Earth's hollow.

Pfff, fuck donations. WUGWUH FIELD TRIP! SIGN UP NOW, THE BURROWING BEGINS TOMORRY!

I'll totally go, Delly. I'll bring the beer! Lost tribes of Israel like beer, don't they?


Weirdest. Metaphor. Ever. Nice typo too.

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“For many years, we have been like blind men touching different parts of an elephant,” said U. of I. geologist Xiaodong Song. “Now, for the fist time, we have a sense of the entire elephant, and see what the inner core of Earth really looks like.”

So apparently Xiaodong Song fists elephants.

ZoZo wrote:

I'll totally go, Delly. I'll bring the beer! Lost tribes of Israel like beer, don't they?


Weirdest. Metaphor. Ever. Nice typo too.

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“For many years, we have been like blind men touching different parts of an elephant,” said U. of I. geologist Xiaodong Song. “Now, for the fist time, we have a sense of the entire elephant, and see what the inner core of Earth really looks like.”

Isn't this a reference to that old story of the three blind monks who all touched different parts of an elephant (trunk, ears, tusks, I think) and thus came away with three vastly different ideas about what an elephant looked like?

Or maybe I'm letting my everlasting hope in the bare minimum of intelligence of other people mislead me here.

ZoZo wrote:

I'll totally go, Delly. I'll bring the beer! Lost tribes of Israel like beer, don't they?

I hope not. More for me.


Do we get a check list of what to bring?

Unless we get to bring tasty chocolate snacks, I'm not going. But as long as I get to bring those, I can totally bring my own shovel and my super special snow-shovelling skills (alliteration is awesome!).

I keep reading that, but the words seem to morph into "SHIT THAT'S BEEN MADE UP TO SELL THIS HACK'S EBOOK" as I read them.

Hot Cancer wrote:

I keep reading that, but the words seem to morph into "SHIT THAT'S BEEN MADE UP TO SELL THIS HACK'S EBOOK" as I read them.

Congratulations! You possess the rare power to see through bullshit! Have an internet.

Hollow Earth theories have been around forever. What's odd about them is that they've persisted given that modern geology shows the Earth is not hollow like a balloon.

One proponent of a Hollow Earth theory in the '70s was German born Canadian Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. Under an alias he published a book on the Hollow Earth that included the claim that UFOs were actually Nazi superweapons operated by a group of Nazi escapees hidden at the South Pole. At one point he even tried to collect money for an expedition to contact the Nazi saucer men, and produced a newsletter that included a drawing of a 747 with a swastika on the tail that was supposed to transport the expedition. Whether Zundel truly believed this stuff is unclear, as he implied to one interviewer that it was merely a way of getting media attention, allowing him to bring up his other ideas.

The Blind Men and the Elephant
By John Godfrey Saxx

It was six men of Indostan

To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant

(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation

Might satisfy his mind

The First approached the Elephant,

And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,

At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant

Is very like a wall!"

The Second, feeling of the tusk,

Cried, "Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?

To me 'tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant

Is very like a spear!"

The Third approached the animal,

And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,

Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant

Is very like a snake!"


The Fourth reached out an eager hand,

And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like

Is mighty plain," quoth he;
" 'Tis clear enough the Elephant

Is very like a tree!"


The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,

Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;

Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant

Is very like a fan!"

The Sixth no sooner had begun

About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail

That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant

Is very like a rope!"

And so these men of Indostan

Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion

Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,

And all were in the wrong!

Moral:

So oft in theologic wars,

The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance

Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant

Not one of them has seen!

Well at least the elephant thing makes sense now. Pity the same can't be said for the rest of the site

Rabid Badger wrote:

Hot Cancer wrote:

I keep reading that, but the words seem to morph into "SHIT THAT'S BEEN MADE UP TO SELL THIS HACK'S EBOOK" as I read them.

Congratulations! You possess the rare power to see through bullshit! Have an internet.

I wasn't operating in the belief that I'd made a profound discovery about the accuracy (or lack of it) in this site, just that he strikes me as intentionally making it up, rather than being a Timecube-grade nutjob that might actually believe it.

tim gueguen wrote:

Hollow Earth theories have been around forever. What's odd about them is that they've persisted given that modern geology shows the Earth is not hollow like a balloon.

Even deliberate, proven falsehoods can have a surprising ability to persist. Just look at the Protocols of The Elders of Zion.

They're just now covering the old hollow earth theories with new-sounding pseudoscience and jumbled interpretations.

Call me crazy, but I thought all that "hollow earth" garbage became passé right about the time Herbert Hoover took the presidential oath of office.