Voyage to the Hollow Earth

[Boltzmann]

Ever read Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth"? (Or, to the more literate members here, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordom Pym of Nantucket").

Now you can do it in real life, that's what Steve Currey's Expedition Company promises. "Steve Currey's Expedition Company of Provo, Utah, has chartered a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker from Adventure Associates and is standing by to take the first 100 people to sign up for this historic voyage."

You can read everything at: http://www.voyagehollowearth.com/hol...trip_info.html

On June 26, 2006 they'll embark on a voyage to the north pole, to find the entrance to the center of the Earth. You can sign up for it here . You'll not need much money, they just require a $18,950 to $20,950 deposit

According to their website:

Don't miss this chance to personally visit that paradise within our earth via the North Polar Opening and meet the highly advanced, friendly people who live there. We are of the opinion that they are the legendary Lost Tribes of Israel who migrated into the North Country over 2,500 years ago and literally became lost to the knowledge of mankind.

Apparently they even know details about the Inner Earth:

Within Our Hollow Earth at the City of Jehu, expedition members could take an inner earth monorail train to visit the lost Garden of Eden located under America on the highest mountain plateau of the Inner Continent. It is also the capital city of Inner Earth, according to Olaf Jansen. Perhaps in this City of Eden we can visit the palace of the King of the Inner World, as did Olaf Jansen and his father.

But this is the part that I like the most:

GUARANTEES: By joining Our Hollow Earth Expedition, expedition members agree that there are NO GUARANTEES that this expedition will reach Inner earth. The expedition will make a good faith effort to locate the North Polar Opening and enter therein, but worst case scenario is that we visit the geographic North Pole, explore the region, and continue on to the New Siberian Islands. At all times the expedition will also be at the mercy of the weather, ice and sea conditions.

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I'm amazed at how much gullibility there's in the world. I would like to go on this trip just for the privilege of travelling with some of the wackiest people on Earth

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[Strider]

haha, well, i never read that book you mentioned but i did see a documentary about it on discovery, at any rate the idea of getting to the center of the earth is completely absurd, might as well be raising funds for a trip through a black hole

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[Boltzmann]

Originally Posted by Strider

haha, well, i never read that book you mentioned but i did see a documentary about it on discovery, at any rate the idea of getting to the center of the earth is completely absurd, might as well be raising funds for a trip through a black hole

You should read Verne's book, it's very entertaining, even though it's not even remotely true (but keep in mind that it was written as fiction, he never claimed it to be real).

Anyway, lots of people in the 19th century believed that the Earth was hollow, and that there entire cities beneath the surface. With the info that we have availabe today, such idea is preposterous - but human gullibility has no known bonds. What amazes me is that the guy can find people willing to pay $20,000 for an insane trip like this.

I guess I'll follow your suggestion and create a company and plan a trip through a black hole. But I'll ask for $250,000, instead

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[Strider]

go ahead, just buy an old timey catapult and say it'll send em into space

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[Boltzmann]

Originally Posted by Strider

go ahead, just buy an old timey catapult and say it'll send em into space

IMO it would be ok to do that. Nobody will miss a sucker who pays $250,000 to travel through a black hole in an uncertain voyage

BTW, I wouldn't miss a sucker pays $20,000 to go on a trip to the Hollow Earth. They would be better off dead

EDIT: Strider, can you fix the thread's title? I hate to see my typos, and it's written "Earthq" instead of "Earth"

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[Strider]

i resigned as an admin a couple weeks ago, notice the purple stars though i agree, nobody would care

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[Boltzmann]

Originally Posted by Strider

i resigned as an admin a couple weeks ago, notice the purple stars though i agree, nobody would care

Oh, only now I've noticed

Well, I guess I'll have to live with this typo

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[Strider]

dont worry bout it, from the looks of it not many people seem to notice anyways

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[RF]

Fixed just for you Boltzmann

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[Ryos]

Paying $20,000 for the luxury of saying you wasted $20,000 seems really bright to me. Of course, you could pay a million+ to go into space. There are people with too much money and too few brain cells in this world, so maybe this will fit them just nicely.

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[Boltzmann]

Originally Posted by Rena

Paying $20,000 for the luxury of saying you wasted $20,000 seems really bright to me. Of course, you could pay a million+ to go into space. There are people with too much money and too few brain cells in this world, so maybe this will fit them just nicely.

When I was younger (13 or so) I used to think that money and intelligence walked hand in hand. That rich people were always intelligent, or else they wouldn't be rich. But then I woke up to reality

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[Proto]

Bwahahaha.... the worst is that the people behind this are actually some of the most practical people of the planet. I guess that even nowadays somebody would heard the sweet words of a neo Lustig and buy the Eiffel tower

... maybe they will even find that strange polar Yetti...i always wanted to know what would happen next in Poe's book

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[Boltzmann]

Originally Posted by Proto

... maybe they will even find that strange polar Yetti...i always wanted to know what would happen next in Poe's book

I hear ya'. That ending leaves so much open... that "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li" bird, that ominous statue in the horizon, the hot water in the arctic... I always wanted to know what would happen then

BTW, H.P.Lovecraft's tale "At the Mountains of Madness" makes several explicit references to Poe's "Narrative...". In a way, it talks about what would happen next in Arthur's travel. But of course the tale is told from the PoV of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos (for instance, some ancient creatures named Shoggoths make that Tekeli-li! cry, and there're entire cities beneath the glaciers in the south pole). But it's a very good tale, nonetheless

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[Proto]

BTW, H.P.Lovecraft's tale "At the Mountains of Madness" makes several explicit references to Poe's "Narrative...". In a way, it talks about what would happen next in Arthur's travel. But of course the tale is told from the PoV of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos (for instance, some ancient creatures named Shoggoths make that Tekeli-li! cry, and there're entire cities beneath the glaciers in the south pole). But it's a very good tale, nonetheless

Yeah I had heard about the sequel, but still we need another man with great literarian skills and delirius tremens attacks to obtain the quality of work that Poe has left us

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