A hole in the earth at each pole?

Question

So I hear there is a hole in each pole of the earth by some guy whose in some weird religion or something. He says that there is a whole nother civilization under the earths crust. So I say "what like in the descent?" and he follows. "No, but how do you explain all the new species of fish we keep finding?" Well, lets see. We haven't discovered all of the species on land let alone the 70% water that makes up earth.

Anyone know what the hell he's talking about or if I can see these holes on google earth?

Answer 1

No such thing at all, ridiculous. Really.

Answer 2

Sounds like the guy is dealing with a fifty card deck. Haven't you heard of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Juls Verne?
However, I remember a book published in the early 80's sometime. As I recall, there is a Hollow Earth Society somewhere and the book describes all that they believe. Possible title is This Hollow Earth. (can't guarantee that--its what I want to say the title is)

Answer 3

There are no holes at the poles (hey...that rhymes!). Your answer to him about the fish is correct.

BTW...I've been to the south pole and I've seen that there is not a hole. I've had friends that have skied to the north pole and also did not see a hole.

I think that should pretty much settle it.

Answer 4

ourney to the Center of the Earth
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Book cover of the 1874 edition
Author Jules Verne
Original title Voyage au centre de la Terre
Illustrator Jeff Hobbs
Country France
Language French
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date 1864
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA
For other uses, see Journey to the Center of the Earth (disambiguation).

A Journey to the Center of the Earth, also translated as A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy. From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains have since been proven wrong. It is important to note however that much of the works of Verne were due to his personal visualization, and not an attempt to create a hypothesis; and at the time of its writing there was a dearth of knowledge concerning the Earth's core. However, a redeeming point to the story is Verne's own belief, told within the novel from the viewpoint of a character, that the inside of the Earth does indeed differ from that which the characters encounter.


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* 1 Plot
* 2 Notes
* 3 Adaptations
o 3.1 Film
o 3.2 Television
o 3.3 Theater
o 3.4 Other
* 4 Allusions/references from other works
* 5 Trivia
* 6 See also
* 7 Further reading
* 8 External links

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The story begins on Sunday 24 May 1863, in the Lidenbrock house in Hamburg, with Professor Lidenbrock rushing home to peruse his latest purchase, an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga written by Snorri Sturluson. While looking through the book, Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel find a coded note written in runic script. (A first indication of Verne's love for cryptology. Coded, cryptic or incomplete messages as a plot device will continue to appear in many of his works and in each case Verne goes a long way to explain not only the code used but also the mechanisms used to retrieve the original text) Lidenbrock and Axel translate the runic characters into Latin letters, revealing a message written in a seemingly bizarre code.

Professor Lidenbrock decides to lock everyone in the house and force himself and the others (Axel, and the maid, Martha) to go without food until he cracks the code. Axel accidentally discovers the code when fanning himself with the parchment, realizing that the letters simply have to be read backwards to reveal sentences written in rough Latin. Axel decides to keep the secret hidden from Professor Lidenbrock, but after two days without food, he cannot stand the hunger and reveals the secret to his uncle. Lidenbrock translates the note, which is revealed to be a medieval note written by the (fictional) Icelandic alchemist Arne Saknussemm, who claims to have discovered a passage to the centre of the Earth via Snæfellsjökull in Iceland. The message reads (when reflected in a mirror):
The Runic cryptogram.
The Runic cryptogram.

"In Sneffels Joculis craterem quem delibat Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende, Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges. Quod feci, Arne Saknussemm"

which, when translated into English, reads:

"Descend, bold traveler, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the calendas of July, and you will attain the centre of the earth; I have done this, Arne Saknussemm"

Snæfellsjökull.
Snæfellsjökull.

Professor Lidenbrock is a man of astonishing impatience, and departs for Iceland immediately, taking his reluctant nephew with him. Axel repeatedly tries to reason with him, explaining his fears of descending into a volcano and putting forward various scientific theories as to why the journey is impossible, but fails to make Professor Lidenbrock see his point of view. After a rapid journey via Lübeck and Copenhagen, they arrive in Reykjavík, where the two procure the services of Hans Bjelke (a Danish speaking eiderdown hunter) as their guide, and travel overland to the base of the volcano. They reach the volcano in late June only to find that it has not one but three craters. Rereading Saknussemm's message they conclude that the passage to the centre of the Earth is through the one crater the shadow of a nearby mountain peak touches at noon. However the text also states that this is only true for the last days of June and for the next days, with July rapidly approaching, the weather is too cloudy for any shadows. Axel silently rejoices, hoping this will force his uncle to give up the project and return home. On the last day, though, the sun comes out and the mountain peak shows the correct crater to take.
Journey to the Center of the Earth DVD - the 1959 film
Journey to the Center of the Earth DVD - the 1959 film

After descending into this crater, the three travelers set off into the bowels of the Earth, encountering many strange phenomena and great dangers, including a chamber filled with combustible gas, and steep-sided wells around the "path". After taking a wrong turn, they run out of water and Axel almost dies, but Hans discovers a subterranean river (which Lidenbrock and Axel name the "Hansbach" in his honor) and the three are saved. At another point, Axel becomes separated from the others and is lost several miles from them. Luckily, a strange acoustic phenomenon allows him to communicate with them from some miles away, and is soon reunited. After descending many miles, following the course of the Hansbach, they reach an unimaginably vast cavern. This underground world is lit by electrically charged gas at the ceiling, and is filled with a very deep subterranean ocean, surrounded by a rocky coastline covered in petrified trees and giant mushrooms. The travelers build a raft out of trees and set sail. Because this ocean is subterranean and they are the first people to transverse it (with the likely exception of Saknussemm), they believe they have earned the right to name this area, and thus commission it as the Central Sea. Whilst on the water, they see several prehistoric creatures and are nearly eaten by an ichthyosaur, which fights and kills a