Reality Checks
Strength of Evidence | Name Calling | Critical Thinking | Trans-Arctic Air Routes
Live from the North Pole | Photos of No Hole
 Strength of Evidence
Many claim the Earth is hollow, but ... many people believing a thing does not make that thing true or false. Read that again. Memorize it. Believe it. It is a most powerful and exciting fact! It means that YOU alone may find evidence that disproves what everyone else on the planet believes! It is a key to freedom of thought. Einstein knew this. Gallelio knew this. Tesla knew this. You must realize as well, however, that for every Newton or Copernicus there are others whose entire lifetimes are spent in pursuit of wrong ideas. Don't forget the reality checks! Look for: physical evidence, multiple verifiable reliable sources, repeatable results. Odds are, you've never been to the hole in the earth. You've also never been to the moon. What is the difference? This: You can see moon rocks, pictures and video of the moon landing. Hundreds of people were involved in the Apollo program. ( Some claim, nevertheless, that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax.) I know of not a single unambiguous picture of the hole in the earth, nor anyone who publicly claims to have seen it.
Name Calling
A critical thinker must look beyond name calling. (See our article on propaganda techniques.) For example, some on the Internet newsgroups call McElwaine "a crank" for claims including that the earth is hollow. Does this name calling make his claims right or wrong? Nope.
Critical Thinking
The net is full of strange ideas because people are full of strange ideas. Some things are true, some are not. How can you know the difference? It takes work. Go to it! Sometimes you can only establish probabilities, not certainty. Collect data. Use logic and critical thinking. Don't jump to conclusions. Realize that you can be wrong. Consider as many possibilities and points of view as you can find. Seek clarification of details. Sometimes the truth is unexpected and bizarre. Read Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
Trans-Arctic Air Routes
The Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1944 reports that Trans-Arctic air routes "the distances of air travel between many major locations throughout the world ... can be markedly reduced if trans-Arctic air routes are pursued" For example, "the distance between New York and Moscow is about 1,000 mile shorter via the Arctic Basin and its peripheral landed areas. ... Over 6,000 miles is saved along the polar route from London to Tokyo." Etc. (p287)
Now in the year 2002, don't flights pass over the north pole all the time? One flight on a clear day would answer the question with first hand observation. Yes, but there are claims that these flights make corrections and never fly directly over the hole in the earth. Still, using our formula for distance to the horizon, we could tell how far one could see based on the altitude of the airplane.
Live From the North Pole
Did you know that there is a web cam at the North Pole? Check it out. No hole there. What is the exact latitude and longitude of this camera? They don't say.
Photos of No Hole
Here's one looking down on the Arctic Circle. Here are some nice Arctic weather charts and pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 Alaska from satellite 6 What it's like to be there in a ship 3 Ah ha! Here's a satellite picture that includes the north pole and surrounding area (could be retouched, could be that the hole is outside the area indicated by the square, or it could be that the photo does not really depict the area indicated by the square, but it's still interesting!) From Nasa.gov
Here is a high res photo of the area from motherplanet. Again, no hole.
Is a hollow planet even possible? How do we know what we know about the earth's interior? Three things are usually cited: gravity, magnetism and seismic data.
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