Hey guys,

I was reading this article and I wanted to post it but had no idea where. So I guess I'll bring up the myth of the Earth being hollow. What do you think?? Well here's the article I have read, hope you enjoy it.

HOLLOW PLANET THEORY; U.S. scientist, believers to sail on icebreaker
Richard Foot, CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2007
A U.S. scientist and a small band of believers are planning a journey to the Canadian Arctic for what they call "the greatest geological expedition in history."

Are they searching for Arctic oil reserves? Documenting evidence of climate change?

Not quite. They're looking for a fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean that leads -- they say -- to the centre of the Earth, where an unknown civilization is lurking inside the hollow core of the planet.

This time next year, Kentucky based physicist and futurist Brooks Agnew hopes to board the commercially owned Russian icebreaker Yamal in the port of Murmansk, and to sail into the polar sea just beyond Canada's Arctic islands.

"Everest has been climbed a hundred times," Mr. Agnew says. "The Titanic has been scanned from stem to stern. [But] this is the first and only expedition to the North Pole opening ever attempted."

Mr. Agnew is the latest in a long line of people to peddle the nutty, yet persistent, theory that humans live on the surface of a hollow planet, in which two undiscovered openings, near the North and South poles, connect the outer Earth with an interior realm.

In the 17th century, English astronomer and mathematician Sir Edmond Halley, who calculated the orbit of Halley's Comet, advanced hollow-Earth theories, as did German scientist Athanasius Kircher.

More recently the myth has experienced a slight revival, thanks in part to a 2006 book, by American author David Standish, titled Hollow Earth: The long and curious history of imagining strange lands, fantastical creatures, advanced civilizations, and marvellous machines below the Earth's surface.

A year before the book was published, a Utah adventure guide named Steve Currey also tried to cash in on the hollow- Earth legend, by organizing an expedition to locate the North polar opening.

Mr. Currey made a living organizing rafting trips to the world's wildest rivers. He knew how to hype exotic destinations and recruit would-be explorers on trips of a lifetime.

It's not clear whether Mr. Currey was a true hollow-Earth believer, or if he could simply see a good business opportunity. Whatever his beliefs, Mr. Currey somehow pinpointed the Arctic portal at 84.4 degrees north and 41 degrees east, roughly 400 kilometres northwest of Ellesmere Island.

The North Pole inner Earth expedition was scheduled for the summer of 2006, with spaces offered to anyone with US$20,000 to spare.

"There are no guarantees that this expedition will reach inner Earth," Mr. Currey cautioned on his Web site.

"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..."

When Mr. Currey died suddenly of brain cancer last summer, Mr. Agnew stepped in to take his place. The trip was postponed to 2008.

While he insists the journey has a genuine scientific purpose, Mr. Agnew also says the expedition will include several experts in meditation, mythology and UFOs, as well as a team of documentary filmmakers.

Randy Freeman, a Yellowknife writer commenting in the current issue of Up Here magazine, warns that "besides heaps of throwaway cash, prospective cruisers should bring along enough gullibility to swallow an outlandish theory that, despite centuries of scorn, refuses to die."

But Mr. Agnew is unfazed by such criticism, promising a grand polar adventure, no matter what the outcome.

If the polar opening isn't there, the voyage "will still make an outstanding documentary," he promises.

"But if we do find something, this will be the greatest geological discovery in the history of the world."


Original article: http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/off...ad9%26k%3D77359


So what are your thoughts?? Do you want them to find a hollow earth with all kinds of crazy things goin on, or would you rather nothing? Do you think they will find something or not?

I'd like for them to find something, just for some excitement. I don't expect them to find anything but it would sure make some good tv and reading. Can't wait for the findings.


Cheers,

Gene

I doubt they'll find anything. But it would be cool to find a lost civilization.

P.S. My 250th post! Yay!

there's no part of the hollow earth theory that makes sense, total rubbish

To you, maybe you believe in something that someone else may think is rubbish - but you will say, "well I'll believe what I want to believe", and there's nothing wrong with that. Everyone has opinions ... I don't think it makes too much sense at all really, but that's my thoughts, what's yours people?

Cheers,


Gene

I say let em spend their cash as they want along with their time. If they find something new, then yay. If not, well thats X dollars and Y days that they're out for.

However...The story sounds farfetched enough to make me wonder if folks are also out hunting for smurfs. (Which would rock btw )

Forever and throughout time there has been and always will be those who believe something to be rubbish just because it seems impossible. In many cases these people have been proven wrong. Many cures and inventions have been discovered or created though most considered that very ideal rubbish.

The Vikings were looking for a mirage, the Nazis were looking for a mirage and now a so called "scientist".

Oh well, we should let everybody spend his money as he/she sees fit.

Everything I was able to find says that most scientists discount the theory with current knowledge of planet formation; they disregard it as pseudo-science. This theory doesn't seem very plausable to me, but hey, to each his own. But aparently in early science fiction, this theory was put into the plot quite a few times. It is referenced in works by Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, and many others.

On a side note, doesn't this theory seem similar to the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie where they sailed off the edge of the world at the South Pole to rescue Jack. I know the Hollow Earth Thoery has been around longer than the movie, but I have to wonder if that is where the writers got the idea from. Or it could come from the idea that sailors thought that the world had an edge and you could fall from it.

No, the clue lies in the Nordic legends and/or religion. It implies that Valhalla and Hel are physical places on this Earth. And some just can't quit looking.

That's EXACTLY what I think! I hope they find something.

How bout a slice of toast with some Heinz beans and a cup of tea?

I'll take the tea you can keep the rest.

Yeah as the world became a smaller place writers needed a new mysterious location. Now we are sticking things on moons or other planets in movies. The general plot of most horror is people go somewhere they shouldn't, bad stuff happens, then they are changed because of it. The more we know the more you need places like the center of the earth as a setting.

In astronomy we learned that the Earth had a liquid core, that is also why (the scientists believe) that there is a wobble to the Earth's rotation. Really, Where do they think the lava comes from when a volcano erupts?

molten iron? I perfer Dr pepper myself. just saying it wouldnt be very hospitable place

I'm confident they wont find anything, so If people want to waste their time and money, let them... unfortunatly failure won't convince them they are wrong... IMO