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http://gizmodo.com/5551916/the-gates-of-hell-just-opened-in-guatemala
it seems there used to be a house there...
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:40:00 -0400, nemesis wrote:
> http://gizmodo.com/5551916/the-gates-of-hell-just-opened-in-guatemala
>
> it seems there used to be a house there...
My wife tells me that in the part of PA where she grew up, this sort of
thing could happen (though she hadn't heard of anything on this scale
there); in SW PA, coal rights under private property are mostly already
owned by coal mining companies, and occasionally they can have a mine
collapse that takes down part of the property above it.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> My wife tells me that in the part of PA where she grew up, this sort of
> thing could happen (though she hadn't heard of anything on this scale
> there);
Are you kidding? A huge hole opened up in the King of Prussia area a couple
decades ago. They dumped 10 or 12 dump trucks of cement into it before they
found it coming out in a quarry a few miles away. So they said "Screw it"
and rebuilt 276 in a big curve around the hole.
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=King+of+Prussia,+PA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.545434,84.023438&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=King+of+Prussia,+Montgomery,+Pennsylvania&ll=40.094029,-75.35162&spn=0.019173,0.041027&t=h&z=15>
That lake wasn't always there.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
> > My wife tells me that in the part of PA where she grew up, this sort of
> > thing could happen (though she hadn't heard of anything on this scale
> > there);
>
> Are you kidding? A huge hole opened up in the King of Prussia area a couple
> decades ago. They dumped 10 or 12 dump trucks of cement into it before they
> found it coming out in a quarry a few miles away. So they said "Screw it"
> and rebuilt 276 in a big curve around the hole.
>
>
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=King+of+Prussia,+PA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.54543
4,84.023438&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=King+of+Prussia,+Montgomery,+Pennsylvania&ll=40.094029,-75.35162&spn=0.019173,0.041027&t=
h&z=15>
>
> That lake wasn't always there.
bizarre world... can you imagine being in a building, enjoying your coffee and
then suddenly going freefall?
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On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:33:28 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> A huge hole opened up in the King of Prussia area a couple decades ago.
> They dumped 10 or 12 dump trucks of cement into it before they found it
> coming out in a quarry a few miles away. So they said "Screw it" and
> rebuilt 276 in a big curve around the hole.
They moved just a segment of road? Must have been a small mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna#Moving_the_town
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FE
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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> They moved just a segment of road? Must have been a small mine.
Heh.
IIRC, they were still in the process of building the road at that point, so
it wasn't all *that* difficult to go around. It only added a couple months
to the project, IIRC.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
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nemesis wrote:
> it seems there used to be a house there...
It looks photoshoped.
Seriously, why is the hole such a perfect circle, with exactly uniform
lighting which doesn't seem to match the surroundings. And why does it
stop about 20 feet down?
I don't know if this is real, but it definitely doesn't *look* real.
(Then again, neither do flames in zero-gravity...)
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
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> > it seems there used to be a house there...
>
> It looks photoshoped.
>
> Seriously, why is the hole such a perfect circle, with exactly uniform
> lighting which doesn't seem to match the surroundings. And why does it
> stop about 20 feet down?
>
> I don't know if this is real, but it definitely doesn't *look* real.
> (Then again, neither do flames in zero-gravity...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoOHmdL2I9Y&feature=related
well, they could have photoshoped each frame... :P
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4c06018c@news.povray.org...
> nemesis wrote:
>
>> it seems there used to be a house there...
>
> It looks photoshoped.
>
> Seriously, why is the hole such a perfect circle, with exactly uniform
> lighting which doesn't seem to match the surroundings. And why does it
> stop about 20 feet down?
>
> I don't know if this is real, but it definitely doesn't *look* real. (Then
> again, neither do flames in zero-gravity...)
Yeah, it's just more of this...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1153004/Mind-crevasse-The-amazing-3D-pavement-art-pedestrians-edge.html
Except this time, he really outdid himself, since it's viewable from all
angles. ;-)
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UncleHoot wrote:
> Yeah, it's just more of this...
>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1153004/Mind-crevasse-The-amazing-3D-pavement-art-pedestrians-edge.html
> Except this time, he really outdid himself, since it's viewable from all
> angles. ;-)
Lenticular lenses? ;-)
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