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- From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
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- Subject: Re: Hollow Earth
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.014012.17848@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 01:40:12 GMT
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- In article <10292353.11678.14558@kcbbs.gen.nz> Richard_Plinston@kcbbs.gen.nz (Richard Plinston) writes:
- >
- > >>> from the early 60s. unlikely that he'd try to explain
- > >>> satellite photos
- >
- > On the contrary the author used satellite photos to help
- > 'prove' that the Earth was hollow. He printed two 'photos'
- > showing the North Polar region, one had a large white area
- > which was claimed to be cloud covering the hole at the North
- > Pole, the second had a large black circular area which was
- > claimed as the hole after the clouds dispersed.
- >
- > There were genuine NASA issue 'photographs'. A cretin may have
- > been fooled by the interpretation that the author placed on them.
- > A slight amount of knowledge would have made one look for the
- > 'night side' of the Earth - there wasn't one, the illumination
- > was constant all the way round. These 'photos' were made
- > of strips taken by satellite at midday as the Earth rotated.
- > The white was undoubtedly cloud cover over snow, the black
- > circular 'hole' was where the sun never rose at some later time
- > of year.
- >
- > As another inconsitency the Aurora were claimed to be caused
- > by light spilling out of the holes at the poles. If this were
- > the case then why is it claimed that the hole was the 'black
- > bit'. It should be bright if it could cause the Aurora.
- >
- The author who proposed this was Ray Palmer, publisher of _Fate_ magazine.
- I read about this nonsense in either Time-Life's _Mystic Places_ or one of
- Gardner's collections of articles from Prometheus Books. I have no idea if
- other Hollow Earthers accept this idea.
-
- That's one of the strange things about Hollow Earthers. Each one has his own ideas about the Hollow Earth and sometimes even put down one another.
-
- See the Hollow Earth Bibliography I posted.
-
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