The discontinuity showed a higher density of the inner core. It showed either a solid or a higher density liquid. The only way a rational person could take that as evidence for a hollow earth is if they completely misunderstood what they were reading about it.

Any idea of a hollow earth has been completely non-viable for a long time now, for at least as long as we knew there was magma below the crust. Molten rock is a liquid and even if some sort of hollow chamber could survive at that temperature, it would intensely float. The buoyant force would be equal to the weight of an equal volume of solid rock. A hollow space the size of the inner core would have a buoyant force of 26,000,000 Trillion tons. The chamber would float up with such incredible force that it would lift up the earth's crust and violently burst through with the energy of trillions of nuclear bombs. It would turn an entire continent into slag and exterminate almost all life on earth.

There is no such thing as absolute truth or absolute proof in science. The relevant standard in science is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. And we have a multitude of evidence establishing beyond any reasonable doubt that the earth's core is iron. The list of substances with a density matching iron is a reasonably short list, centering on iron. The list of substances with a density matching iron, and capable of generating the observed magnetic field, is a very short list prominently featuring "iron". The list of substances with a density matching iron, and capable of generating a magnetic field, and which is even remotely plausible as the dominate composition of the core of the earth is pretty much "iron". I don't know much about this particular field of science, but I do know enough to know that scientists expert in the subject know far more than I can list off the top of my head. I have no doubt that there are a multitude of other scientifically established properties of the core, all of which converge on the same answer "iron". If they converged on a different answer, we would know *that* answer instead of iron. If they didn't converge on an answer, we would know that the field was in a big famous state of confusion on the subject. Just off the top of my head *I* know enough to fairly well establish that it has be iron, and what I know on the subject is diddlysquat compared to the experts.

The article I linked was merely the first result showing the earth's core was iron in a solid state, as opposed to iron in a liquid state. There is a vast body of other evidence and other experiments establishing beyond any reasonable doubt other aspects of the earth's interior. And it is not remotely compatible with any large hollow space anywhere below the crust.

In any modern well informed scientific context, "silly" is an entirely appropriate term to describe any sort of hollow earth theory.

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Civilization is about living in cities. Government's job is to maintain civilization, not to ensure your self-assumed right to consume specific carbonated beverages proven to cause a number of harmful effects to health. It is the government's responsibility to promote public health insofar as having a city full of sick people is not in the civic benefit. If you don't like it, I suggest you move the fuck on up out of the city and stop partaking in civilization.

I'll go with that if we can get labels that describe in agonizing detail what each product actually contains. The problem with letting nature take its course (aside from any qualms a human being might have about watching other human beings suffer) is that it will have extensive, expensive repercussions for everyone else.

The same way you do it now, except that there would be more servers?

I realize that Paypal is supposed to be evil and so on but so far they have been good to me. I hesitate to use them for really major purchases, but then, I try to make really major purchases as close to me as possible for a variety of reasons which have been discussed by a variety of people ad nauseam but which mostly boil down in the end to being able to walk into a store and shake my fist at someone if I am dissatisfied. Now, I happen to have a bank account attached to my Paypal account (I don't keep much in that account... I don't have a lot to keep in there anyway) but I've wondered, what's stopping you from collecting money via Paypal, then spending it again? Often the cheapest source for a product takes Paypal, and I rarely pay much of a premium to use them.

I know I sound like a goddamn commercial, but so far I've found them to be convenient. Again, I wouldn't like to spend thousands or even hundreds of dollars on a purchase through them or run much of a balance, because of the scary stories I've heard.

Does he really use the word "beater"? There's a lot of used cars out there there are vastly cheaper than new that are still great cars. I see fantastic candidates on my local bumfuck craigslist weekly or even more frequently, in every class and price range from pretty cheap to very very cheap. Yes, you need some guidance, but honestly, spending enough time with KBB and similar online looking up the cars which are cheap will give you an idea of what you even want to look at. The vast majority of vehicles out there were never worth owning IMO. Usually the difference is obvious to any vaguely trained eye but you can't blame people for not knowing about cars any more than you can blame them for not knowing about anything else, where do you draw the line?

One's parents are supposed to help them out, and not have more kids than they can help get going in life, but that's apparently unrealistic to expect. Most of the most successful people I know had good parental support to get going. Not surprisingly, these are some of the people most concerned about taking care of their parents.

Spend the savings on the $20k toilet seats and $30k hammers on installing and lifting an additional carbon filter. I suspect there will still be some money left over.
In all seriousness, there is a lot of pork that goes on when the government gets involved that private investors won't stand for.

That's OK, NASA would contract someone to build it anyway. They can contract SpaceX to go to Mars and SpaceX can also help exploit LEO without NASA's direction.

As it is there's no point to buying many racing games used for any appreciable amount of money because you then have to go out and buy more content for it.

That might actually be illegal. But what's not illegal so far (apparently) is including all the content that makes the game not suck as DLC that you can either get for a bunch of money or with a coupon included "free" in the game package, downloadable once.

I am no Microsoft-lover, I have often ranted about their evils here et cetera, but I can play the downloadable games on my Xbox 360 even if I don't have an internet connection. Is this frequently not the case on the PS3?