Humans, as far as we know, live on the surface of the earth with the rest of earth's creatures.
But there are actually conspiracy theories that exist that make the claim that our earth
is hollow, and actual humans live inside it.
These conspiracy theories havent been proven, but one has to wonder if there's something
to them.
Today, life's biggest questions asks, What if humans lived inside the earth?
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The idea of the earth being hollow is actually not new.
Its called the hollow earth theory, and it was first suggested by Edmond Halley, as in
the guy that discovered halley’s comet, in the late 17th century.
He suggested that the earth consisted of several concentric shells that were separated by individual
atmospheres.
He believed the shell that was on the outside was around 500 miles thick.
But the idea of the earth being hollow and habitable actually goes back to ancient times.
The concept of a subterranean land that existed inside of the earth is evident in mythology
across many cultures.
The greeks called it the underworld, In Judaism its Sheol, Buddhists called it Shambala, and
Christians called it Hell.
But the question today is not, what if hell was real, though that’s a great idea for
a future episode.
The question today is, what if humans lived inside the earth.
And guess what?
We’re not the first to ask that question.
There is even a theory out there that there’s a mythical civilization called Agartha that
exists deep inside our planet.
And you can thank Admiral Richard E Byrd, of the US navy for that.
Admiral Byrd is known for a record setting flight over the north pole.
According to one of his alleged diary entries from his polar flight, dated February 1947,
byrd came across a warm, lush climate with mammoth like creatures and an ancient human
race that had been living inside the earth.
His diary entry goes on to say that these people used a saucer shaped aircraft to commandeer
his plane in mid air, forcing him to land.
Once Byrd was on the ground he was met by representatives whom some believe were a part
of the Mythical Agartha civilization.
These representatives told Admiral byrd that they were concerned about the atomic bombs
that were used during world war two.
They sent him back to the US to relay their message to the government.
Unfortunately, I know you’re totally captivated by this story but I’m about to burst your
bubble.
Most believe that this diary entry was fabricated.
Admiral Byrd achieved his flight over the north pole 20 years earlier than the dated
diary entry, on may 9th 1926.
Its also believed that Byrd didn’t actually make it to the north pole and created fraudulent
navigation records of his flight, taking the numbers from a different team who had reached
the north pole a few days earlier.
Definitely a cool story though, you have to admit, but its not the only semi-modern reference
to Argatha.
Theres a theory out there that hitler actually escaped persecution and went to the center
of the earth.
The Nazis were obsessed with esotericism and the occult, and there are nazi maps in existence
that appear to be instructions on how to reach argatha.
Theres quite a lot of evidence actually that the Nazis tried to reach Argatha in case hitler
needed a last resort for escape.
None of this has been proven, but you have to admit, its interesting.
If humans lived inside the earth, it would mean that we know nothing about our planet.
We would have to reevaluate everything we know about how our planet and how other planets
are made up and created.
That would definitely be a hard thing for the science world to grasp.
If humans lived inside the earth, they might have a completely different way of communicating
than humans that live on the surface.
they could have other technologies as well.
If humans lived inside the earth, what would they even look like?
They might have evolved in a different way than us.
The biggest difference between living on the surface of the earth and living inside it
is the lack of the sun.
UVA and UVB rays are essential for plants.
Seeing as there's no sun inside the earth, maybe they would be very pale with a vitamin
d deficiency.
Depending on how advanced they were, these mole people, lets call them, could use LED
lamps to grow crops for food.
Or maybe those humans have evolved to not require vitamin d as we do.
Maybe the humans that live inside the earth are extremely primitive, somewhat looking
like neanderthals.
Humans can survive underground.
Accoridng to a 2012 report by slate, a russian cult survived underground thanks to a vitamin
D rich diet.
As long as these humans were regularily consuming things like egg yolks, fish, milk and cheese,
they would be able to survive.
So is there any possibility that humans live inside the earth?
The deepest known drilling, The kola superdeep Borehole in Russia, reached 12, 262 meters.
That’s around 12.2 kilometers.
That’s still way under what Edmond Halley proposed, he said that the outermost shell
was 500 miles thick.
The earth is comprised of layers, but they aren’t shells like Halley said.
Underneath the surface of the earth, it gets quite hot.
When you drill through the crust, you get to the mantle.
Its 1800 miles thick and temperatures reach 1000 degrees celcius.
humans don’t live inside the earth.
Our earth is very much a piece of rock with a liquid hot core.
The best proof that the earth has a liquid hot core is actually our magnetic field, generated
by the core.
If our earth was hollow, it wouldn't have a magnetic field.
But now i open up the question to you dear subscribers.
what do you think would happen if humans lived inside the earth?
let me know down in the comments.
for now i'm going to respnd to some comments.
gagieboy - just earned a sub.
welcome to the channel, and thanks for subscirbing.
qin cai - what if all the food on earth disappeared.
i would imagine there would be mass starvation.
but humans have actually begun geneticallty engineering and 3D printing food.
I would imagine most would starve, but some would survive on that.
Salvador - what if i say you've got a cute voice.
i wouldnt mind at all.