Re: the inconvenience to EE of subduction observed in the real world and expansion not so observed

In article
<timberwoof.spam-8AC9AD.11085930082007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Timberwoof <timberwoof.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <198485566.000044dd.000.0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
TomS <TomS_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:04:35 -0700, in article
<1188482675.970089.327080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kermit stated..."

On Aug 30, 6:35 am, "louan...@xxxxxxxxx" <louan...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 29, 5:24 pm, Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Trying to defend a _single_ usage of a _two letter_
acronym against all other claimants is an exercise
in futility every bit as silly as trying to proclaim
that earth has been expanding since dragonflies were
large, in pretense that they were instead tiny:

Okay, granted. But surely _some_ "alternative" ideas are so lame that
we're entitled to ignore them. Expanding earth is several credibility
points below Flat Earth, and we don't beat them into dead-horse pate.

We don't, but then they don't come here offering pseudo-evidence to
support this assertion, either. Those of them who are not jokesters
seem to be fairly honest religious fanatics, and do not pretend that
their ideas stand without their bible.

<sigh>

Now watch them start showing up, just to prove me an idiot.

I don't recall any flat-earthers, other than jokesters, posting here.

I wonder whether there were ever more than a handful of serious
members of the Flat Earth Society. The president, Charles K.
Johnson, was undoubtedly serious about it.

But almost all of these "unconventional" ideas are just plain
boring. The one exception that I make is the "inside the hollow
earth" theory of Cyrus Reed Teed:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_earth#Concave_hollow_Earths>

My roommate is a skydiver who has been on some North Pole skydiving
expeditions. A hollow-earth fanatic once asked him to look for the hole
at the north pole. My roommate said he'd take his GPS receiver and get
photographed jumping out of the airplane, holding the receiver, which
would be showing the coordinates. Fanatic explained that GPS is set up
to lie about that location. Roommate explained how GPS works and that
there's no way to enforce that lie. Fanatic bet a lot of money that
nevertheless it would not show correct coordinates at that location.
Roommate was sorely tempted to accept the bet, but his ethics overruled
him. (The Ferengi among you would be disappointed.)

I remember seeing a hollow Earth book on my first job after college. It
was owed by a radar engineer analyst working on the progamming for the
early warning of ICBM over the Arctic. "If this book is correct,
everything I know is wrong.", he said.

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