Oh. Sure, Why Not?
Ever hear about that hole going right through the centre of the earth? No! Well, you're obviously not very well read. There was, in fact, a North Pole Inner Earth Expedition slated for 2006, that fateful summer jaunt that never quite materialized. Because the brilliant man who had planned the expedition, an adventure guide from Utah, Steve Currey, died suddenly of brain cancer.I know what you're thinking, but I wouldn't hesitate at all to venture the opinion that his illness had nothing whatever to do with his determination to find the location of the earth hole and access it, traverse it, make contact with a whole new civilization living at the centre of the earth, and write a book or produce a film about his truly remarkable discovery.
Seems back in the 17th century Sir Edmond Halley was an advocate of hollow-earth theories. See, a brilliant mind is no guarantee of high logic, and some intellects are simply drawn to out-there possibilities. They're thrilling to contemplate. They're the stuff of legend, like the existence of strange beasts living amongst us in shrouded-in-mystery inaccessible places, occasionally glimpsed, but whose presence remain unverifiable.
You see, along with the hollow planet theory is the complementary one that informs us that in the interior of Planet Earth there is an entirely different civilization. Quite different than ours. In that these people, somewhat resembling those who live on the surface of this planet, get along very well together. They know what's going on up on the surface. They're an inordinately clever race, making the most of their unique living arrangements.
When Mr. Curry, before his untimely demise was still planning his 2006 expedition to discover that fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean leading to the centre of the Earth he identified beforehand the very location of the portal: 84.4 degrees north and 41 degrees east, roughly 400 kilometres northwest of Ellesmere Island.
Now his successor, Kentucky-based physicist and futurist Brooks Agnew is set to launch his own expedition to sail the Polar Sea just beyond Canada's Arctic islands. In the best tradition of scientific enquiry - this is a scientific expedition after all, led by a scientist, a physicist, no less - Mr. Agnew states the expedition will be accompanied by several experts in meditation, mythology and UFOs. And just incidentally a team of documentary filmmakers.
They won't succeed, however. Reason? Well, those contented and somewhat snotty interior dwellers have no intention whatever of sharing their good life with the rest of us quarrelsome, dissatisfied, umbrage-burdened and war-prone inhabitants of the surface.
Would you if you were they?
Labels: That's Life
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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