Submarine Journey to Center of Earth

[headscratcher4]

http://www.expeditioncompany.net/upcoming_trip.htm?trip_id=67

I'm not sure, is this for real? Strange, no matter what…any thoughts?

:eek:

[Pyrrho]

:jaw:

Amazing what 20 grand can buy these days, and guess what? The inner earth has monorails:

Day 8 - Spend day at the North Pole

Days 9-11 Enroute to Inner Continent

Days 12-14 Travel up Hiddekel River to City of Jehu.

Days 15-16 Monorail trip to City of Eden to visit Palace of the King of the Inner World

Days 17-18 Monorail trip back to City of Jehu

Days 19-23 Enroute from City of Jehu back to Murmansk

[Dragon]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
http://www.expeditioncompany.net/upcoming_trip.htm?trip_id=67

I'm not sure, is this for real? Strange, no matter what…any thoughts?

:eek:

First thought - you are sure, and its total b*llocks.

Second thought - the Arctic Ocean is actually an ocean, upon which the North Polar Ice Cap floats, so if there was a hole up there and the Earth was hollow ...

Third thought - this area must have been thoroughly mapped during the Cold War by the Royal Navy, US Navy and the Soviets for their nuclear missile subs. They would have found an ****** great hole.

[PinkRabbit]

GUARANTEES: By joining Our Hollow Earth Expedition, expedition members agree that there are NO GUARANTEES that this expedition will reach Inner earth. The expedition will make a good faith effort to locate the North Polar Opening and enter therein, but worst case scenario is that we visit the geographic North Pole, explore the region, and continue on to the New Siberian Islands. At all times the expedition will also be at the mercy of the weather, ice and sea conditions.


Hmmm, you might almost think they don't have total faith in their quest.

Now personally, I've always preferred to make me own international arrangements. Wonder if they Eden monorail thingie has a seasonal pass I could order over the internet? :D

Barb

[PinkRabbit]

Btw, the expedition appears to be genuine (er...with all of the obvious caveats), and apparently has something to do with the following website, which is good for a chuckle, though I'm way to cheap to really entertain myself and spend $12 on the book.

Our Hollow Earth (http://www.ourhollowearth.com/)

Barb

[NoZed Avenger]

Originally posted by PinkRabbit


Hmmm, you might almost think they don't have total faith in their quest.

Now personally, I've always preferred to make me own international arrangements. Wonder if they Eden monorail thingie has a seasonal pass I could order over the internet? :D

Barb


Err. Why yes, yes they do -- or will shortly. In fact, we are just setting that system up for them now. Just send me a money order for $75 and I'll take care of it. It will cover seasonal travel through the end of summer, 2004. Alternatively, a lifetime pass is only $300.

In case you are hesitant, I will personally guarantee that this pass will be accepted if presented by you, in person, at any Eden monorail station.

NA


Eden residents add 7%. Offer void where prohibited. Some restrictions apply, see Eden ticketmaster for details. Your mileage may vary. Results not typical. Not responsible for accidents or for falling down an '****** big hole.' If rash develops, discontinue use.

[SRW]

Well for a moment I though this might cause problems with the flat Earthers, but I guess it doesn't.


Flat Earth Society FAQ (http://www.flat-earth.org/platygaea/faq.html)
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11. Does this fit in with the Hollow Earth theory?
Yes. Beneath the Earth, or hanging off the edges, is a land populated by either green-skinned women or Nazis. All those claiming to have seen this have misinterpreted it to fit in with the spurious and false Spherical Earth theory.

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I'm sure glad thats cleared up.

[Correa Neto]

Oh...

The hollow-earthers strike again...

I thought they were exctint... At least an endangered species...

It seems I was wrong.

When they reach Agartha, they should send me a postcard, to show me and 99.999% of the geologists and geophysicists of the world that we are wrong. I met the remaining 00.001%. He is a retired slightly mentally deranged geophysicist that follows a woo-woo religious sect called eubiosis.

[BPSCG]

Quoting from the web site:

"... indigenous Eskimos believe there is a hole in the Arctic Ocean. Observations of several Arctic explorers of mirages of land in the Arctic indicate that the most plausible location for a north polar opening that leads into the interior of the earth..."
A hole in the ocean?

Every time I try to dig a hole in the ocean, it instantly gets filled up again. Guess I need to dig faster.

Maybe they mean a hole in the earth? As Ross Perot would say, "that giant sucking noise..." :roll:

[jj]

Originally posted by Dragon


First thought - you are sure, and its total b*llocks.

Second thought - the Arctic Ocean is actually an ocean, upon which the North Polar Ice Cap floats, so if there was a hole up there and the Earth was hollow ...

Third thought - this area must have been thoroughly mapped during the Cold War by the Royal Navy, US Navy and the Soviets for their nuclear missile subs. They would have found an ****** great hole.

And if they had found it, the place would hate us all by now, because of all the SSBN's that would be hiding at the doors.

Leaving out, of course, the obvious problems with the physics of the situation....

[Dragon]

Originally posted by jj


And if they had found it, the place would hate us all by now, because of all the SSBN's that would be hiding at the doors.

Leaving out, of course, the obvious problems with the physics of the situation....

DOORS? They've got doors? Of course, it all makes sense now!

[Correa Neto]

Originally posted by jj


And if they had found it, the place would hate us all by now, because of all the SSBN's that would be hiding at the doors.

Leaving out, of course, the obvious problems with the physics of the situation....

Try explaining to an adept of the "hollow Earth theory" (sic) basic Newtonian mechanics. Belive me, its most likely useless.

Among the woo-woo nonsenses this one scores 10 out of 10 in my scale. Lets see...

The Earth is hollow, has two giant openings, one at each pole, and an internal sun. Inside the Earth there are mammoths and tall blonde intraterrestrials that use flying saucers, the atlanteans and many races that dwell in caves located between this inner cavity and the earth´s surface (evil demoniac races, reptilian creatures that descend from dinosaurs plus the grey and reptiloid aliens are among them- oops, forgot about USA secret underground bases of the joint USA-aliens projects). The auroras are reflexes from the internal sun in the atmosphere. Oh, yes, many other planets are also hollow, and there is the standard conspiracy to hide it all. Centrifugue forces arising from Earth´s rotation avoid the mammoths to fall from the inner Earth´s surface and become giant barbecue in the internal sun.

See how our current scientific knoweledge in so many areas (geology, gephysics, astronomy, physics, geography, etc) is completely wrong?

[Andonyx]

So with hollow Earth, how do we explain the force of gravity with a such a huge reduction in mass?

[headscratcher4]

BTW: I feel compelled to add...in a vain effort to try and prove that I am not entirely a credulous fool...that I DO NOT believe that the theory behind this web site is credible or possible. THis is, indeed, complete nonesense. I merely posted the link because I wanted opinions on whether the web-site was a "real" site -- i.e. idiots out there who really believe this nonesense -- or whether this proposed expidition is a parody website.


There -- hopefully, no one thinks that I believe(d) that this was a possible legitimate theory (besides, no matter what Eskimo myth says, most serious students of the theory know that the real door into the center of the hollow earth is in the former root celler on my Great Uncle Herbert's farm in downstate Illinois...).

[De_Bunk]

Yeh...

Like i'd get in a Russian submarine...

They're dropping like flies....

They can kiss my butt on that one...

DB

[Dragon]

Originally posted by De_Bunk
Yeh...

Like i'd get in a Russian submarine...

They're dropping like flies....

They can kiss my butt on that one...

DB

DB - be careful of offers like that where sailors are concerned!

[whitefork]

I used to have a copy of this stunning (or steaming) piece of science writing:

The hollow Earth : the greatest geographical discovery in history made by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in the mysterious land beyond the Poles--the true origin of the flying saucers
by Raymond W. Bernard

Seems to be available used on Amazon. It was pretty strange. Donated to the graveyard of lost books years ago.

Now I know where my copy ended up.

[bignickel]

"And so, at each death, the soul descends further into the inner earth attaining ever greater levels of purification, reaching enlightenment at the core. Assuming, of course, that your soul is able to avoid the lava men."

- Roki Crikenson, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'", The X-Files

[Dragon]

Originally posted by headscratcher4
BTW: I feel compelled to add...in a vain effort to try and prove that I am not entirely a credulous fool...that I DO NOT believe that the theory behind this web site is credible or possible. THis is, indeed, complete nonesense. I merely posted the link because I wanted opinions on whether the web-site was a "real" site -- i.e. idiots out there who really believe this nonesense -- or whether this proposed expidition is a parody website.


There -- hopefully, no one thinks that I believe(d) that this was a possible legitimate theory (besides, no matter what Eskimo myth says, most serious students of the theory know that the real door into the center of the hollow earth is in the former root celler on my Great Uncle Herbert's farm in downstate Illinois...).
No need to justify - we all knew.
You're thinking "Landover Baptist" scenario, yes?
I don't think it is a parody - there is a link from a believer's site which is promoting the expedition. Here (http://www.ourhollowearth.com/index.html)

[headscratcher4]

You're thinking "Landover Baptist" scenario, yes?

Exactly.

[De_Bunk]

Dragon...

Oooooh yeh...I can see it now...




:D

DB

[jj]

Originally posted by Correa Neto


Try explaining to an adept of the "hollow Earth theory" (sic) basic Newtonian mechanics. Belive me, its most likely useless.


That's one I've never actually tried, I must admit. I don't doubt it's useless, see the blithering about homeopathy that's presently happening in one of the forums...

But that internal sun. Coool... I wonder what keeps it together and masks its gravity :)

[jj]

Originally posted by headscratcher4

There -- hopefully, no one thinks that I believe(d) that this was a possible legitimate theory (besides, no matter what Eskimo myth says, most serious students of the theory know that the real door into the center of the hollow earth is in the former root celler on my Great Uncle Herbert's farm in downstate Illinois...).

Henh. I, personally, took your comments as quiet but rather intense sarcasm :)

Given your POV on other things, at least my presumption was that you were holding it up for our entertainment :)

[jj]

Originally posted by headscratcher4


Exactly.

Oh, I didn't think it was Landover Baptist in nature, myself.

I have actually MET a flat earther. On an airplane, of all places.

Blblblblblblblblblblblblblbl......

I didn't enter into any physics. I walked quietly back to my seat, and sat down far away from the person.

From EWR to GTW (New York - London)

(shakes head)

One of the stews was discussing the issue with the woman, and asking lots of "bright, cheerful" questions. Please note that I didn't say that she was buying the woman's ideas, she was simply examining them, and looking out the window, pointing out various parts of Iceland, for instance, while we passed... I have to give her points for not simply collapsing in hysterical laughter.

(The look on the stew's face when she turned around to do something for someone else was, well, amusing...)

[Psi Baba]

I loved this part in the itinerary:

"Please note that if we are unable to find the Polar opening, we will be returning via the New Siberian Islands to visit skeleton remains of exotic animals thought to originate from Inner Earth."

Uh huh.

[lofgoernost]

Green-skinned women??

Uhm...could someone lend me twenty grand?:roll:

[tracer]

Originally posted by SRW
Flat Earth Society FAQ (http://www.flat-earth.org/platygaea/faq.html)
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11. Does this fit in with the Hollow Earth theory?
Yes. Beneath the Earth, or hanging off the edges, is a land populated by either green-skinned women or Nazis. All those claiming to have seen this have misinterpreted it to fit in with the spurious and false Spherical Earth theory.
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Just for the record, in case it isn't obvious:

THAT particular Flat Earth webpage is just a joke. It's not meant to be taken seriously.

The "real" Flat Earth organization is called The International Flat Earth Society (http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm) -- or at least it was, before Charles K. Johnson kicked the bucket in 2001.



Of course, we all really know that the Earth is square (http://home.netcom.com/~rogermw/square_earth.html).