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[zoukka]

For some reason, I feel extremely uneasy when watching this pic.

 

[Darkwater]

Oh God, I couldn't stare at the goatse-pic long enough to cut out the hands. My hat's off to you, sir.

 

[Bisnic]

Still 2 more years before the end of the world. The warnings are already there.

We are not prepared.

 

[weekend_warrior]

Throw a grenade into the hole and that'll close it. problem solved.

 

[Rei_Toei]

Really? You'd dive there? Just looking at it is scaring the shit out of me, I would be shitting myself even on those boats, I dunno why but I can just imagine it sort of 'flushing' and taking everything with it.

Sinkholes are damned weird, seems to be a lot of them lately too.

Yeah, I was exploring the crawlspaces under my parents 250-year old house when I was 4 . I'd love to check out such deep sinkholes, either on land or underwater.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Throw a grenade into the hole and that'll close it. problem solved.

Pretty much this. Explosives are an underrated way to solve most of life's problems.

 

[PumpkinPie]

This reminds me of when I watched The Descent, scary shit. I bet there's all kinds of monsters down there.

 

[epik]

Still 2 more years before the end of the world. The warnings are already there.

We are not prepared.

Let's get building.

 

[SolidusDave]

Still 2 more years before the end of the world. The warnings are already there.

We are not prepared.

Why would we need to prepare for the end of the world?



@these sinkholes: the almost perfect cylindrical shape of these holes with the smooth walls etc. always amazes me
this one is only 25m deep, but holy shit @ the 200m vertical tunnel in that pic from Guatemala.

 

[JoeBoy101]

We need guns.

 

[NotWii]

Oh wow, some new sinkholes popped up in Italy as well today!

I thought about doing an italian thread, but that might be overkill...
Mamma mia!

http://www.corriere.it/foto_del_giorno/home/index_20101101.shtml

 

[YYZ]

It's happening. You know...it.

 

[fixuis]

 

[Repgnar]

Translated

Appreciate it.

Sinkholes are crazy looking, would be even weirder to be there when it happens. Has there been any video footage of one happening? The Guatemala is still the coolest, even if it's not the biggest. The city with a giant black hole in the middle is just something you'd never expect to see.

 

[hsin]

something is going down in the world!

Man, FUCK. THAT. SHIT. This pic scares me all the time for some reason.

 

[SolidusDave]

oh that hole in Guatemala is "only" 30m deep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole#Piping_Pseudokarst

It's also not a "true sinkhole" and that city has two of those.

 

[iamaustrian]

Appreciate it.

Sinkholes are crazy looking, would be even weirder to be there when it happens. Has there been any video footage of one happening? The Guatemala is still the coolest, even if it's not the biggest. The city with a giant black hole in the middle is just something you'd never expect to see.

not really.
at least not of huge holes.

There is some footage from the Lake Peigneur disaster though. an entire lake was emptied into a sinkhole caused by a salt mine beneath the lake.
watch it. it's pretty interesting and terrifying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI

 

[The Technomancer]

...Mutter Gottes

 

[AndyD]

erosion.

124 metres (407 ft) deep

scaryyy

Dove there. Its scary and amazing all at once. Although its not as impressive visually when you are in the water, you don't get the sense of scale as much.

 

[funkmastergeneral]

I never noticed before, but the goatse.cx guy has a wedding ring on. Also you can see remnants of his butthole on his fingers, the redstuff. Blech.

 

[Meus Renaissance]

It has begun

 

[The Technomancer]

Oh wow, some new sinkholes popped up in Italy as well today!

Its...beginning.

 

[Hela]

So what causes sinkholes to happen?

 

[Ezalc]

While that crazy huge sinkhole in guatemala sacres the crap out of me when I look into it, I have the urge to sparta kick somebody into it.

Regardless, these things are ridiculous, but it finally confirms that the molepeople are beginning their assault.

 

[Charles]

Oh wow, some new sinkholes popped up in Italy as well today!

I thought about doing an italian thread, but that might be overkill...
Mamma mia!

http://www.corriere.it/foto_del_giorno/home/index_20101101.shtml

The first picture is an aerial view of the German one

 

[Hootie]

Mein Zimmer ist klein.

I'm taking first semester German right now. Get on my level.

 

[iamaustrian]

So what causes sinkholes to happen?

A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the Earth's surface caused by karst processes — the chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks[1] or suffosion processes[2] f.e. in sandstone.

the biggest is located in china and is called "Xiaozhai tiankeng".

Most impressive sinkholes of the world are located in China. These pits are grouped in several locations in Chongqing Municipality, Guangxi, Guizhou and also Sichuan provinces. Here they are called tiankengs - "heavenly pits". Nature has been generous and offers here to us one of the most amazing sights on Earth - up to 662 m deep (!!!) holes with vertical walls and patches of unique subtropical forest below. Underground rivers appear at the bottoms of these holes and disappear underground again.

Bottom of this sinkhole is large enough to sustain small, isolated world full with life. Here have been registered 1,285 species of plants, including such rare plants as ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba L.) and many rare animals like clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa Griffith, 1828) and many others.

size compared to a Boing 747 plane(upper right corner)

one can only think of prehistoric species unknown to man down there....

 

[Atenhaus]

Last I heard, GAF was an English speaking forum, so please talk in English. Same shit for the OP. WTF...

Hast du Angst darüber?

 

[Raistlin]

Wow, that shit fades to black...

Did anyone die?

That one is fake to my knowledge. Other ones are real

Spoiler

?

 

[How About No]

Pfft...those are some pretty pussy sinkholes compared to other ones.

Also, please tell me that we're going to have mandatory sinkhole tests everywhere now, so we know to move the fuck out.

 

[koam]

That one is fake to my knowledge. Other ones are real

Spoiler

?

It isn't fake, your knowledge is wrong.

 

[Jzero]

wtf is going on

 

[Foob]

 

[spiderman123]

wasn't there a thread about Michigan's asscrack.

 

[BudokaiMR2]

Really? You'd dive there? Just looking at it is scaring the shit out of me, I would be shitting myself even on those boats, I dunno why but I can just imagine it sort of 'flushing' and taking everything with it.

Sinkholes are damned weird, seems to be a lot of them lately too.

Hell yeah I would go with him.

That looks awesome

 

[MechDX]

Its goona get very cloudy?

 

[skyfinch]

See, the thing about a hole is, if you dig around it....until the depth matches the depth of the hole, the hole no longer exists. It's simple physics.

 

[Lonely1]

An small Sinkhole appeared in front of my house a few weeks ago. Should I be worried?

 

[stilgar]

Last I heard, GAF was an English speaking forum, so please talk in English. Same shit for the OP. WTF...

Awww three post in German they're not respecting teh rules!!!!!!

 

[Max@GC]

 

[RustyNails]

Morbo has awakened.

 

[Treo360]

Can you prepare for Cthulhu?

In short? No.

 

[pix]

This is just viral marketing for WoW: Cataclysm.

 

[soul creator]

it's 200m deep and swallowed an entire house, so you can assume that people died

well, they could've jumped right before their house landed and survived.

Spoiler

I know that doesn't actually work

 

[UFRA]

And you all laughed in the Michigan crack thread.

Now it's too late!!!

 

[Atenhaus]

Awww three post in German they're not respecting teh rules!!!!!!

Wie sagt man "To ban" auf Deutsch? :lol

 

[Neo C.]

Wie sagt man "To ban" auf Deutsch? :lol

"Verbannen"

 

[Kodiak]

Man... this shit is gonna start happening in Yellowstone, too. Which means the super volcano will likely go off shortly thereafter - thus the end of the world as we know it. ("The Road" was set in such a post-super volcano environment)

 

[NotWii]

MODS!
EDIT THE TITLE!

It's 40x30m!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11668012

 

[Zzoram]

What's with all the giant sink holes lately?