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Rotten Bastard
05-23-07, 10:53 PM
=O (http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/02/25/-huge-300-feet-deep-sinkhole-in-guatamala-city?url=http://www.ordena.com/digg/sinkhole.html&frame=true)

Serendipper
05-23-07, 11:04 PM
:eek:

GA-LAK-TUS?
Nicodemus
05-24-07, 04:58 AM
:eek::eek:

Tom Stormcrowe
05-24-07, 05:00 AM
Dante's neighbourhood? Man, that would suck, having the ground collapse and you fall into an underground lake of sewage in your sleep!
slvoid
05-24-07, 05:09 AM
http://www.ordena.com/digg/tophole.jpg

This one's pretty scary too.

http://florida.sierraclub.org/polk/imgs/sinkhole3.jpg

I think anytime a gigantic hole forms in the ground, it's scary.
Lecterman
05-24-07, 05:20 AM
What is Ann Coulter doing in Guatemala?? :D
EJ123
05-24-07, 06:24 AM
Let me get my repelling equipment=)
Air
05-24-07, 06:24 AM
This one's pretty scary too.

http://florida.sierraclub.org/polk/imgs/sinkhole3.jpg

I think anytime a gigantic hole forms in the ground, it's scary.

There's a great video on YouTube or Google Video on that whole progression - incredible! [Basically a drill went too far, water from the lake flowed into underground caverns and sucked the lake down with it.]
dcon
05-24-07, 06:38 AM
Air - where was that?
Nicodemus
05-24-07, 07:33 AM
sinkholes are COOL!
aikigreg
05-24-07, 07:48 AM
Let me get my repelling equipment=)

What, like your face? :p

Sorry, the devil made me do it.
Air
05-24-07, 07:50 AM
Here it is (http://axiomsun.com/home/video/whirl_pool_sucks_in_whole_lake!.html)
dcon
05-24-07, 08:06 AM
Holy ****
timmyquest
05-24-07, 12:05 PM
Here it is (http://axiomsun.com/home/video/whirl_pool_sucks_in_whole_lake!.html)


That's awesome.
jyossarian
05-24-07, 12:12 PM
So that's where I put that thing.
Recumbomatic
05-24-07, 04:39 PM
Here it is (http://axiomsun.com/home/video/whirl_pool_sucks_in_whole_lake!.html)


Human stupidity and carelessness knows no limits.
slvoid
05-24-07, 05:09 PM
There's a great video on YouTube or Google Video on that whole progression - incredible! [Basically a drill went too far, water from the lake flowed into underground caverns and sucked the lake down with it.]

Actually that was a DIFFERENT incident.
Your video is of a salt mine imploding. The pic is a gypsum stack imploding.
slvoid
05-24-07, 05:18 PM
Here are more pictures of holes.
http://www.francesbaard.gov.za/tourism/imgs/photos/Big%20Hole.jpg
http://www.flowerstone.de/images/rsa/kimberley.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/f/fb/Holeintheground.jpg
Air
05-25-07, 07:16 AM
Actually that was a DIFFERENT incident.
Your video is of a salt mine imploding. The pic is a gypsum stack imploding.

Ahh - looked liked a closeup of that whirlpool. Didn't know more than one of those happened!
sweetnsourbkr
05-25-07, 01:20 PM
http://images.askmen.com/galleries/model/paris-hilton/pictures/paris-hilton-picture-1.jpg