Originally posted by mlpriorThe Earth is a CAKE!
Actually I always thought the center of the earth was solid with liquid around it and then solid again on top (crust). The magnetic field would be due to the hot liquid (metal) rising and then cooling and sinking causing a donut type motion that keeps repeating itself.
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Originally posted by nihilismorTell them that the Earth cannot possibly be hollow, because it is flat. Flat with five corners. They'll tell you that you're talking nonsense, everybody knows the Earth is not flat but round. Reply that they started it, and then cut such idiots from your life for ever.
Despite overwhelmingly contradictory evidence I still happen to run into people with the belief that the earth is hollow. (Much more so recently, due to the hollywood movie.) Can anyone here unfalsify this hypothesis?
Richard