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Pixart


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« on: June 01, 2010, 14:57 »
Was I shocked to see the Guatamalan sinkhole photos from yesterday.  This thing is 330 feet deep, they make it look double the height of the statue of liberty!  Thankfully it was at an intersection, a house fell in and 2 boys were killed - a third person as well I believe.





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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2010, 14:58 »
I saw this online, it is just incredible.


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mantonino



« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2010, 14:59 »
The top picture in your post is a sinkhole from 2007.  The bottom one is from a few days ago.  Smiley


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« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2010, 16:08 »
It doesn't look real Shocked Like a huge drill made an almost perfect circle. Extremely bizarre.


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« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2010, 16:14 »
Quote from: mantonino on June 01, 2010, 14:59
The top picture in your post is a sinkhole from 2007.  The bottom one is from a few days ago.  Smiley
Groan... I was trying to impress ya and scrounged for the photos!  Oh well, equally as horrifying.  I simply can't wrap my head around it.


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mantonino



« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2010, 16:21 »
They're cool pics - didn't mean to spoil your fun, just didn't know if some site had said both were the same hole.  It's two sinkholes - very similar.  Crazy!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070226-sinkhole-photo.html

This is the first one and its story.


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« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2010, 16:53 »
A friend at office showed me this today.  Now, what's below?  Where did all the soil go? A cave?


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« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2010, 20:29 »
I had a bit of a chuckle with the depth graphic. Americans usually relate to how long something is by comparing it to a football field - I guess depth is done with how many Statues of Liberty it is.
« Last Edit: June 01, 2010, 20:31 by sharply_done »

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« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2010, 21:11 »
Quote from: madelaide on June 01, 2010, 16:53
A friend at office showed me this today.  Now, what's below?  Where did all the soil go? A cave?

That's what I was wondering too. Are there mines under there?


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« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2010, 22:31 »
Quote from: Tomboy2290 on June 01, 2010, 21:11
Quote from: madelaide on June 01, 2010, 16:53
A friend at office showed me this today.  Now, what's below?  Where did all the soil go? A cave?

That's what I was wondering too. Are there mines under there?

Yeah, it's just like a big black abyss.  Weird.


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« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2010, 22:45 »
It seems it was the sewage system down there. I thought it might be a cave, as their neighbour Mexico has so many of them.


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qwerty


« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2010, 01:00 »
that is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Just how perfectly round it looks. Kind of like how you would draw it in a comic or something.


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« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2010, 02:16 »
I'm glad I never saw photos like that when I was a kid as it was always a big fear of mine that the road might break and we'd drive into a big hole.


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holgs


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« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2010, 03:38 »
Pretty crazy week for Guatemala - first a volcano erupts, then a big storm with flooding and a sinkhole opens up.

People must be wondering what's next.


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PowerDroid



« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2010, 10:45 »
Quote from: sharply_done on June 01, 2010, 20:29
I had a bit of a chuckle with the depth graphic. Americans usually relate to how long something is by comparing it to a football field - I guess depth is done with how many Statues of Liberty it is.


Fact is, comparing something of massive size to an instantly recognizable "thing" is an effective way to describe scale.  It fires up the imagination in a way that saying 330 feet does not.

But to be fair, perhaps Americans should instead start using some iconic Canadian landmarks for scale comparisons, like... um.... help me out here...


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« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2010, 12:10 »
Canadians don't use distance/height/depth analogies use too much, but if we did it might go something like "100m ... that's about 1.1/2 hockey rinks deep!"


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Pixart


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« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2010, 12:12 »
Quote from: PowerDroid on June 02, 2010, 10:45
Quote from: sharply_done on June 01, 2010, 20:29
I had a bit of a chuckle with the depth graphic. Americans usually relate to how long something is by comparing it to a football field - I guess depth is done with how many Statues of Liberty it is.

But to be fair, perhaps Americans should instead start using some iconic Canadian landmarks for scale comparisons, like... um.... help me out here...


I'll take that challenge.  The CN tower stands at 1815 feet and was for many years the largest freestanding structure in the world.  (The Empire state building is 1250)

Yes I lived in Toronto.  When I moved there I thought, wow, these people are really proud of that tall tower.  I found it very useful whenever I came out of an unfamiliar subway and didn't know which direction I was pointing.  I would can the horizon for the tower and knew that was south.


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Dreamframer



« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2010, 15:38 »
Poor kids died...


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Phil



« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2010, 19:17 »
sad for the people who died.

I saw the title of the thread and assumed it was a new site and thought I dont think much of the name Smiley


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Microbius

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« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2010, 16:05 »
I can't picture it, how big is it compared to the size of Wales?


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mantonino



« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2010, 16:13 »
Quote from: Microbius on June 07, 2010, 16:05
I can't picture it, how big is it compared to the size of Wales?

About 1/2 as wide and infinitely deeper. Wink


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Microbius

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« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2010, 16:18 »
Quote from: mantonino on June 07, 2010, 16:13
Quote from: Microbius on June 07, 2010, 16:05
I can't picture it, how big is it compared to the size of Wales?

About 1/2 as wide and infinitely deeper. Wink
Ahhh okay about as deep as 50 routes of Nelson's columns squared Shocked


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Suljo


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« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2010, 16:53 »
It is fake  Wink


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mantonino



« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2010, 20:25 »
Quote from: Microbius on June 07, 2010, 16:18
Ahhh okay about as deep as 50 routes of Nelson's columns squared Shocked

After I wrote what I did I thought "that's a perfect girlfriend update - half as wide and infinitely deeper." 


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« Reply #24 on: June 08, 2010, 08:28 »
lol


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