psychoceramics: FW: GEORGE: Diagrams & progress...

["Wright, Bruce" <32000BKT @ macnet.cpa.state.tx.us>]

from a hollow earth mailing list....
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Hi George,
I haven't had a chance to get back on the e-mail track for some time, 
however I thought I'd drop some lines. I've so far written 10,000 
words of the 60 - 70,000 words which I've set as my target. It might 
be more of course, but the minimum is 60,000. Perhaps some 
embellishing, etc could push it up to 80,000+ - who knows.

While writing I am thinking visually. The result has been pleasing - 
considering that I don't have an artistic bone in my body. 

I have so far scanned 3 maps and a drawing which I'd like to include. 

The first piece I wrote was a general attack on geology as it 
currently stands - that needed some R&D and some statistics, maps, 
etc. That's done. It was quite long, being about 7,000 words.

Now I'm busy with the next piece, which is a detailed explanation of 
Hollow Earth theory. The funny part is that there is not a single 
book I have every bought on the subject which actually discusses 
Hollow Earth/Planet theory in depth. Especially nothing graphic to 
depict the issues and problems. So that's what I've been doing for 
the last 2 weekends. I began with very simple rough sketches from 
which your artists can work. While going about it I started producing 
quite a number of simple sketches. The total now stands at 11, as 
well as a table of height Versus distance of the horison. I found 
that it made things so much easier to understand when one 
incorporated some simple drawings. This should make it really easy 
for you to extract the stuff you need for an episode. I'm writing 
around 600 - 700 lines for each section, and you should have no 
problem choosing the 200, 300 or 400 lines you may need.

It's just been a little slow so far because of the need for thinking 
carefully, doing calculations or drawings and then writing it. I can 
see that I'll be going back over it all to clean it up.

Currently however, I am more concerned about making the quota of 
required words! Writing is bitch. I'm hoping that other sections 
further on will go quicker because I can quote directly from other 
books. Research is a dog. I say this because suddenly I feel the need 
for more R&D and that is extremely time consuming.

I'm hoping to be closer to 12,000 words by the end of today.

The stuff about the Hollow Moon should go a hell of a lot quicker, as 
will some other sections - I hope. It's the "thinking stuff" which is 
slow. You know, gathering data, formulating arguments, expressing 
them correctly and in detail. It's very laborious.

So what I'm saying is that the stuff I've written so far will be very 
suitable for visual presentation - perhaps even some animation. 
There's plenty of room for good, simple visual stuff which will get a 
good message across.

I think I'll try scanning some of my drawings when you are ready to 
look at them and to read what goes with them.

As I've said before, nothing like this has ever been done. I'm taking 
many questions which people have raised and am addressing them 
totally and thoroughly so that there can be no question that they are 
explained perfectly and that this is the correct explanation. People 
often send me some questions or weaknesses of the Hollow Planet idea 
- and in compiling this I'm attending to all the "Frequently Asked 
Questions" and attending to them as thoroughly as I can.

Take for example questions like:

If the earth is hollow then:
1. Why have explorers reached latitude 90 degrees? 
(Explanation of what latitude 90 degrees means, with accompanying 
diagrams, showing the effects of curvature. Also showing how the 
shape of the planet is critical to the concept of navigation and how 
it can not work with any concept other than a sphere. Explaining why 
latitude 90 degrees is always reached regardless of shape, etc)

2. Why do their measurements of the sun show it to remain the same
    height above the horison?
(Answer: The variations in the movement of the sun amount to 0 
degrees 0 minutes 0.88 seconds or 1/2000th the size of the smallest 
thing the eye can see - detailed explanation plus calculations and 
accompanying diagrams of the "up-down" wobble and the East-West 
wobble and problems in detecting them. Propose measurements of the 
Moon as a better means of detecting the hole, plus giving the 
expected results).
3. I have been to the north pole, or flown near it - yet I see no hole?
4. Why don't astronauts see the hole?
(Explanation of heights, distances you can see, curvature of the 
earth, plus the route taken by the space shuttle, aircraft, etc).

It's simple, straightforward, methodical and faces the issues head 
on. It's sort of like a kid in grade 7 getting a lesson in Hollow 
Earth geography.

I haven't gotten to the "evidence" section yet. That should be quite 
exciting since I just have to pull out pieces from various books, 
magazines, encyclopedias, write it down and then put a commentary 
after each one. So it will consist of groups of paragraphs which 
finally get rearranged at the end into various sections. Also, I will 
have to adjust it and hopefully add a lot more to it when you get 
round to doing your interviews, etc. When you have some time, 
and I've cleaned up some of it, I think I should e-mail it to you so 
you can read it.

As I continue to say, no one has ever approached the subject as 
methodically as this, point by point, issue by issue, clearly and 
simply. What we're doing will definitely be something that will be 
remembered for a long time. What we're doing could well become the 
standard "textbook" regarding the Hollow Earth theory - not even 
Marshall Gardner was as thorough.  I've piled up a whole stack of books 
and encyclopedias in my office from which I will pull the things I need, and 
scan the diagrams I want. I've so far hardly touched the pile.

Let's see how it goes - I might make those 60,000 - 80,000 words with 
no problem and still have plenty more to chuck in. Who knows, maybe 
80,000 words will be too little!

I may edit and re-edit it several times. But first I'm aiming for my 
quota and for factual accuracy.

BTW, I finally traced York Films. It's now called "Brite Films". They 
have so far not replied to my fax.