Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On 2/24/2026 7:40 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <10njlvm$3mjt5$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole?
Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

https://discernreport.com/now-they-are-actually-admitting-that-there-is-a-massive-gravity-hole-underneath-antarctica/


Pellucidar lives !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs was right !

Lynn

Quick, get some gunpowder on that fire!

Huh ???

Lynn

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Subject: Re: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 2/24/2026 7:40 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <10njlvm$3mjt5$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole?
Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

https://discernreport.com/now-they-are-actually-admitting-that-there-is-a-massive-gravity-hole-underneath-antarctica/


Pellucidar lives !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs was right !

Lynn

Quick, get some gunpowder on that fire!

Huh ???

Lynn

You really need to find better sources for your misinformation.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/discern-report-bias/

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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On 2/24/2026 2:05 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 2/24/2026 7:40 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <10njlvm$3mjt5$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? >>>> Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

https://discernreport.com/now-they-are-actually-admitting-that-there-is-a-massive-gravity-hole-underneath-antarctica/


Pellucidar lives !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs was right !

Lynn

Quick, get some gunpowder on that fire!

Huh ???

Lynn

You really need to find better sources for your misinformation.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/discern-report-bias/

Dude, it was a joke !

Get over yourself.

Lynn


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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:03:02 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:

?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity
Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

What is a ?gravity hole?? If it has something to do with the absence
of gravity, then surely there must be an absence of mass as well. So
how can it be ?massive??

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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On 2/24/2026 3:05 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 2/24/2026 7:40 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <10njlvm$3mjt5$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? >>>> Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

https://discernreport.com/now-they-are-actually-admitting-that-there-is-a-massive-gravity-hole-underneath-antarctica/


Pellucidar lives !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs was right !

Lynn

Quick, get some gunpowder on that fire!

Huh ???

Lynn

You really need to find better sources for your misinformation.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/discern-report-bias/

I'd be astonished if Lynn actually thought this was a Symmes Hole
type situation. Discern Report way over sensationalized the
story, but they didn't make it up out of whole cloth:
you can track it back to IFL Science:

https://www.iflscience.com/antarctica-has-a-gravity-hole-and-now-we-know-how-it-grew-in-strength-over-30-million-years-ago-82581

thence to a statement from the University of Florida: https://news.ufl.edu/2026/02/antarctic-gravity-hole/

and finally to an article in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28606-1

Yes, there's a gravitational anomaly they're calling
a 'gravity hole' in the UFL statement.

If Lynn wants to make Hollow Earth jokes with this as
a basis, I don't see a problem.

pt



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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On 2/24/2026 4:42 PM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:03:02 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:

?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity
Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

What is a ?gravity hole?? If it has something to do with the absence
of gravity, then surely there must be an absence of mass as well. So
how can it be ?massive??

If less dense rock underlies an area, the gravity level above it is
slightly reduced, and the sea level becomes depressed as it flows
to areas with higher gravity.

https://news.ufl.edu/2026/02/antarctic-gravity-hole/

pt

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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:16:23 -0500, Cryptoengineer wrote:

If less dense rock underlies an area, the gravity level above it is
slightly reduced, and the sea level becomes depressed as it flows to
areas with higher gravity.

It?s the other way: if the gravity is reduced, the sea level will be
higher.

The flow is about equalization of pressure. Less gravity ? less pressure.

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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On 2/24/2026 7:01 PM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:16:23 -0500, Cryptoengineer wrote:

If less dense rock underlies an area, the gravity level above it is
slightly reduced, and the sea level becomes depressed as it flows to
areas with higher gravity.

It?s the other way: if the gravity is reduced, the sea level will be
higher.

The flow is about equalization of pressure. Less gravity ? less pressure.

I found the explanation difficult to follow, but:

from https://news.ufl.edu/2026/02/antarctic-gravity-hole/

"Caused by different densities of rock far beneath the Earth?s surface,
these variations in gravity are small in absolute terms. But they can
have particularly large effects on the oceans. Where gravity is weaker,
the ocean surface can sit slightly lower relative to Earth?s center
because water flows away toward areas of stronger gravity. Due to its
gravity hole, the sea-surface height around Antarctica is measurably
lower than it would otherwise be."

pt

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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:21:01 -0500, Cryptoengineer wrote:

from https://news.ufl.edu/2026/02/antarctic-gravity-hole/

"Where gravity is weaker, the ocean surface can sit slightly lower
relative to Earth?s center because water flows away toward areas of
stronger gravity."

Think of how ocean tides work: high tide is where the net Earth?s pull
on the water is weaker, because the Moon is counteracting more of it.

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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On 2/24/2026 10:18 PM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:21:01 -0500, Cryptoengineer wrote:

from https://news.ufl.edu/2026/02/antarctic-gravity-hole/

"Where gravity is weaker, the ocean surface can sit slightly lower
relative to Earth?s center because water flows away toward areas of
stronger gravity."

Think of how ocean tides work: high tide is where the net Earth?s pull
on the water is weaker, because the Moon is counteracting more of it.

That contradicts the passage I quoted.

pt


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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:42:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:03:02 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:

?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity
Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

What is a ?gravity hole?? If it has something to do with the absence
of gravity, then surely there must be an absence of mass as well. So
how can it be ?massive??

I would understand "massive" here to actually mean "very very large".
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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Subject: Re: ?Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is a Massive ?Gravity Hole? Underneath Antarctica? ? Discern Report?

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:37:07 -0500, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 2/24/2026 10:18 PM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:21:01 -0500, Cryptoengineer wrote:

from https://news.ufl.edu/2026/02/antarctic-gravity-hole/

"Where gravity is weaker, the ocean surface can sit slightly lower
relative to Earth?s center because water flows away toward areas
of stronger gravity."

Think of how ocean tides work: high tide is where the net Earth?s
pull on the water is weaker, because the Moon is counteracting more
of it.

That contradicts the passage I quoted.

It does indeed.

OK, forget the reason I gave based on the tides -- that?s wrong.
Here?s a more logical explanation.

Think of two columns of water in the ocean, side by side. At any given
depth on the border between them the pressure on both sides must be
equal -- otherwise there would be a net flow of water across the
boundary at that point, since there is no wall between them to prevent
that.

That pressure on each side depends on the weight of the water on the corresponding side above that depth. Which in turn depends on the
height of the column above that depth, and on the gravitational pull
on that column.

So if one side experiences lower gravity, then the column must be
taller on that side. The side experiencing higher gravity will have a
shorter column. If the two columns were the same height, then the
pressure would be higher on the side with higher gravity, and water
would flow across to the other side until the pressures were
equalized.

Does that make it clearer?

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