On 11/11/2011 8:47 PM, Invisible wrote:

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> It's almost fun to try to make the math work, just to see how many
> different ways that this idea of a hollow planet is absurdly implausible...

Not that I support the "Hollow Earth" folk but I'd simply point out for 
the purpose of discussion that all of your arguments are based on 
natural planet and star formation and behaviour.

An alien race with sufficiently advanced technology could in theory at 
least construct and maintain any domicile that they wish and could do so 
for whatever reason they want.  Think force fields to form the hollow 
structure, fusion power for a micro star, gravity manipulation etc. 
Actually, scratch the gravity.  Imagine the living space of not just the 
surface but the entire volume.

Now they'd also have to produce things like the seismic propagation 
patterns that give evidence of the mantle / liquid outer core / solid 
inner core, plate tectonics, volcanism, mineral origin, isotope ratios, 
mass concentrations etc.  Geologists have a pretty clear - but not 
perfect - picture of the supposedly real structure of the Earth going 
down pretty much to the core.  It would be massively difficult to fake 
all of the phenomena realistically.  To do so in order to confuse the 
primitives living on the outer skin seems pretty extravagant and down 
right malicious.  Still who can say what their motives are?

So, mythical, super powerful beings (or being!) living in a hidden place 
who act for their own reasons and take care to produce evidence that 
would lead us not to believe in them / it.  All of this proposed by a 
few nutters who have no understanding of technology, no evidence in 
their favour and no capacity to alter their beliefs based on substantial 
evidence to the contrary.

Where have I heard that before?

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