The first question to ask anyone with a wild new theory is - what would it take to falsify your hypothesis? What evidence would convince you it was false?
-- Charles On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 at 22:04 Nani <nani2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Slow Monday... figured this is as good a time as any to get folks wound up > a bit... :D > > THE ASTONISHING THEORIES OF CHARLES HAPGOOD AND HUGH AUCHINCLOSS BROWN > > Have you guys e > ver wondered why the most powerful nation on earth seems hellbent on > ignoring global warming, a phenomenon that virtually everyone is in > agreement as being real? > > Conspiracy theories are seen as being kooky; but what if, instead of > climate change denial, there is a 'conspiracy' of willful ignorance, and it > is a GOOD one for the benefit of mankind? > > #1 Tropical Antartica: > Those of you who've watched "2012', the Hollywood blockbuster starring John > Cusack, may recall a far out reference to an "Earth Crust Displacement > Theory" espoused by a Prof Charles Hapgood. > > Turns out, this gent did solid research on the world of cartography, and > unearthed scientifically accurate ancient maps describing Antartica and > other parts of the Earth that weren't "discovered" until centuries later. > These maps were so sophisticated and accurate that they couldn't have been > created without the use of advanced math such as plane geometry and > spherical trigonometry; yet the ancient sources, on which they were based, > dated back to times when such knowledge purportedly did not exist. > > Apparently, Antartica was a tropical land, rather than a barren icescape > with a mile-thick layer of sheet ice, as we know it today. Giant woolly > mammoths supposedly roamed the Arctic and the Antartic. Scientists have > found mammoths preserved under the Siberian permafrost - frozen solid and > standing upright with the flesh on their bodies still intact - as a result > of being almost instantaneously covered by meters of snow/ice - due to > rapid climate change from tropical to arctic within a matter of hours. Now > here’s a mind-blowing fact - the undigested grass inside their bellies was > TROPICAL grass! > > Modern experts dispute segments of these maps that show South America > merging with Antartica. But what if there was no sea there at that time? > What if these continents were indeed connected by a land bridge, much like > Sri Lanka and India were in antiquity? > > In fact, what if ALL places in the world that are deserts today, like the > Sahara, Gobi, and Thar, were once colossal lakes or even completely > undersea? > > #2 Global Warming: > Here is an unreal but true factoid - the Earth accumulates billions of tons > of ice at the poles EVERY year - that is billions with a B! A satellite > study by NASA concluded in 2015 that the Antartic sheet had a net gain of > 112 billion tons of ice EACH YEAR from 1992 to 2001, and 82 billion tons > per year subsequently. That is a whole lotta ice! > > Back in 1948, an electrical engineer named Hugh Auchincloss Brown > postulated a wild theory that when this polar 'weight' becomes too high, > once every 7 thousand years or so, the Earth "wobbles" on its axis and > "tips over", thereby causing the poles and equator to 'switch places' > rapidly, presumably to maintain centrifugal balance. > > If true, that might explain how Antartica could've been equatorial land > once. > > So what's the Conspiracy? > > HAB's fantastic theories have long been ridiculed, and Hapgood's theories > have never been investigated at all. > > But here's the thing - WHAT IF the powers-that-be had secretly figured out > all along that a cataclysmic event was indeed on the brink of occurring? > What if they have deliberately ALLOWED global warming to progress, thereby > causing the ice caps to melt at a controlled rate, sufficiently enough to > reduce polar weight gradually without causing gigantic tsunamis that could > wipe out the human race?! > > Even within our lifetime the North Pole has changed from being an icy land > where intrepid explorers once walked and planted their flags, to a seascape > where ships can now sail through at all times of the year. Maybe when > outcomes were weighed in the balance, a few polar bears losing their > habitat wasn't the worst thing compared to the potential obliteration of > mankind. > > Food for thought… ;) > > > Cheers, > Nani > > References: > > https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses > > http://www.archive.org/stream/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp_djvu.txt > http://www.skrause.org/writing/papers/hapgood_and_ecd.shtml > http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/fall_2000/ft_linehan.html > http://www.knowledge.co.uk/velikovsky/index.htm > > http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/198001/piri.reis.and.the.hapgood.hypotheses.htm > > http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/libraries/about/exhibits-new/ONLobbyExhibits/deepfreeze.html >
