Yo, people. If there was a hitherto unknown green, verdant landmass at or near the North Pole holding a polar opening 890 miles across into the interior of the hollow earth, we would have seen it from orbit by now. (Actually, never mind orbit ... intercontinental flights cross the north polar region every day.)
Remember, kids, just because you saw it on the Internet doesn't mean it's true ... and this is a classic example. This is so crackpot loony it's not even wrong.
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One way, of course. :)
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For Science!
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What I find most distressing is how easy it has gotten for us to forget the basic principle of tolerance. We're supposed to protect the rights of the minority - not make fun of them, or try to throw them in a loony bin or strand them on the North Pole.
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They do not have the right to have their own facts, or the right for their wildly-at-odds-with-facts worldview to be spared from public scorn.
I respect their rights. I'm not going to get in their way, I'm not going to get them involuntarily committed. And, likewise, they must support my rights, including the right to not take them at all seriously, and to do so at a modestly loud volume.
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[1] Correction — about 2250 years ago; I just looked it up. I was misremembering it as circa 1500BC, but Eratosthenes actually performed his experiment in around 240BC.
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concludingasserting, with no supporting evidence or logic whatsoever, that the entire last two thousand years of physical science must simply be completely wrong.The former is worthy of respect; the latter, of amusement and polite ridicule.
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The have absolutely every right to be loony. We have absolutely every right to point and laugh. We also have absolutely every right to encourage them in their lunacy, nay, even to enable them in said lunacy, as a means of cleaning out the gene pool.
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When launched in 1957, Lenin was powered by three OK-150 reactors.
In February 1965, there was a loss of coolant accident. After being shut down for refueling, the coolant was removed from the number two reactor before the spent fuel had been removed. As a result, some of the fuel elements melted or deformed inside the reactor. This was discovered when the spent elements were being unloaded for storage and disposal. 124 fuel assemblies (about 60% of the total) were stuck in the reactor core. It was decided to remove the fuel, control grid, and control rods as a unit for disposal; they were placed in a special cask, solidified, stored for two years, and dumped in Tsivolki Bay (near the Novaya Zemlya archipelago) in 1967.
Monument of the icebreaker "Lenin" in memorial to Conquerors of the Arctic in Murmansk
The second accident was a cooling system leak which occurred in 1967, shortly after refueling. Finding the leak required breaking through the concrete and metal biological shield with sledgehammers. Once the leak was found, it became apparent that the sledgehammer damage could not be repaired; subsequently, all three reactors were removed, and replaced by two OK-900 reactors. This was completed in the Spring of 1970.
Details of these accidents were not widely available until after the fall of the Soviet Union.
so thats at least not possible
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