News of the Stupid

Ever read Jules Verne's "Journey to the Moon" or Edgar Rice Burrough's "Moon Men" or Pellucidar books? Notions of hollow planets and other 19th century silliness are alive and well. Take a look at this excerpt from a link recommended by Reptard on his mailing list:

The concensus seems to be that moon craters are caused by the impact of meteors. This is consistent with the quality of logic displayed in other areas of orthodox cosmology. The diameter of most of these craters is disproportionally great compared to their depth. A true impact crater has a depth commensurate with its diameter. An impact great enough to produce a crater with a diameter of some size on the moon would shatter the entire moon, since it is hollow with a relatively thin shell. To wit: some craters have a mountain in the center. It is significant that, in all cases in which the crater has a mountain, the mountain is always in the center. How did it ever escape destruction?

The only logical answer is that the craters were produced by particlebeam weapons during the great interplanetary war.

That last line is the killer. Yup, that's the "logical" answer all right! ROFLMAO!

The more I look into the incredible things that people will swallow the more inclined I am to follow in the footsteps of L. Ron Hubbard, Erich von Däniken, David Icke and others and come up with a collection pseudo-scientific horseshit that plays off pop-mythology and make a crap load of money pitching snake-oil (and when I do we'll see if this post comes back to "haunt" me, not unlike L. Ron's "I think I'll start a fake religion and make a ton of money" quip).