Hollow Earth theories come in different flavours. One states that the inside of our planet is hollow and another is that we actually live inside the concavity of another world. Italian author Umberto Eco commented recently on the hollow Earth for the New York Times.
The theory has also cropped up in science fiction on occasion, such as Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth or Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core. Even some Nazis believed in the theory.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Living inside the Hollow Earth
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Didn't Rudy Rucker write one, starring Edgar Allan Poe and some other dude?
If he Earth were hollow, the seismic response would be quite apparent. This is one theory we can pretty much rule out.
Didn't Rudy Rucker write one, starring Edgar Allan Poe and some other dude?
Yeah; it's a hoot. And it gets a reprint in a couple months!
And while I don't buy any "hollow Earth" theories for a minute, I *do* think it's just possible that our planet harbors an intelligent subterranean species...
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