Ectoplasm

Tom Stanton tstanton at nationalgeographic.com
Mon Feb 17 16:26:15 CST 1997


>>...The one that comes to mind is an "inner earth" theory that suggested
>>that earth was a sphere, but that we were "inside" the sphere...

>My favorite is the Weltseislehre or "Cosmic Ice Theory," which held that 
>the size of the Universe is actually only about 5000 km (I think) and the 
>"stars" are just the glittering of the many chunks of ice that orbit the 
>Sun in a globular cluster... 

Yes, that's it, that's the theory I'd read about! Very weird & crazy
given they had some great minds available (Heisenberg, et. al.).
Who knows what we've sponsored since then?




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