Have you guys seen the photos? They are so surreal it looks photoshopped. I can't wait to hear what the depth is...I guess the last sinkhole there was over 330 feet deep which (I believe) is approximately a 33 story building. This one looks like it goes directly to the center of the earth.
http://berfofanation.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=28147497827...
Gears of War is real.
my first reaction was astonishment
my second was disappointment that thing didn't hit in any number of other places
So true...
"We're getting reports that the entire south endzone of the Horseshoe has disappeared into the abyss. Hell has apparently decided to reclaim its own, and the turf was swallowed in a matter of moments."
Dec 21, 2012 is only
Dec 21, 2012 is only 30 months away! Earthquakes, sinkholes, volcanoes, what's next?
catastrophic oil spills?
catastrophic oil spills?
Ghost Busters.
Cats and Dogs living together!
Semper Fidelis
Korean War II?
Korean War II?
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.... Electric Boogalo?
.... Electric Boogaloo?
So THATS what happened to maurice clarett
always wondered....
NAU Lumberine
That is so amazing
Really seems like there have been a lot more natural disasters maybe 2012 is real!
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
2012 is definitely real
Just wait 579 days.
Yes
The Year 2012 is in fact a real year that will happen in the future.
"We alway's did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view"
True
But the question is: will 2013?
Yes
Yes, the day after 2012 ends.
Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through
Actually, the number of
Actually, the number of natural disasters has been on par with any other year, they just get more media coverage this year because we started out with Haiti.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_21st_century_earthquakes
It's probably
a drug tunnel leading to China.
What the Hell. -Jack Burton
Why do I get the feeling that
Why do I get the feeling that Oprah somehow had a hand in this?
I'd believe that
if the sinkhole was filled with cookies and fudge.
What the Hell. -Jack Burton
what's amazing to me...
... is that there is no fence around the thing; there must not be many plaintiffs' lawyers in Guatemala. The overhead view looks photoshopped, but who knows...
Street Level
Aerial
I think we can debunk the
I think we can debunk the myth that Zoltan's punts stay in space...
Touchdown Michigan!
I was hoping he
would only use his powers for good.
That place
was the secret meeting house of the Evil Mustache Twirlers Association. They were plotting to tie some pretty young girls to railroad tracks right when it happened.
IS...
Batman guarding over the sinkhole so no one falls in???
Weird
It does seem photoshopped... Or maybe this guy just completed his latest and greatest work:
Could be real
Central America is a region that is a karst landscape, it could very well be real. There are existing holes in the ground that the Azetecs and other pre-Columbian societies viewed as gateways to the underworld...looking at that I can see why.
Semper Fidelis
Someone failed
to perform a soil density analysis before building!
the bearing capacity is
the bearing capacity is definitely questionable!
Was anyone else looking for Leonidis?
THIS. IS. GUATEMALA!!!!!!
Reality or...
Reality, or deleted scene from "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"? You be the judge...
Wow...
They aren't shopped. A quick query to Google News produces multiple reports that this is indeed real, caused by flooding from Topical Storm Agatha.
This is really sad for me. I was just in Guatemala a little under a year ago on a mission trip, so to see the country hammered by a tropical storm and a volcano at the same time is really sad, especially if its causing stuff like that sinkhole.
At least a guy I know from Guatemala decided to stay in Ann Arbor this summer. He seems to have picked the right summer not to go home...
"Good evening, and welcome to Michigan Stadium for this the one-hundred thirty-second season of Michigan football, and the thirty-ninth meeting between Michigan and Notre Dame." -Carl Grapentine, September 10, 2011
I'm skeptical of the pictures
The news I believe, and it is indeed sad. However, I think both pictures look eerily video-gamish, and the lack of other substantiating photos (CNN.com is running the same two) leads me to believe that they are at the very least embellished. With apologies to those who dislike analogy in all of its forms and to those who strew their feelings on the floor so that they may be more eaisly trod upon, the back to back nature of these calamities bears some similarity to 08 and 09.
Why would they fake them?
Is the Tropical Storm and the sink hole that swallowed a building but is NOT a tunnel through which Samus Aran falls while battling Ridley not terrible enough?
You know how it is.
We're a bit desensitized these days. A gaping hole in the street with bits of a building showing in the mud at the bottom might not get through to everybody that this is truly catastrophic. In order for some to be stimulated to shock, horror, or any other elevated sense of emotion, the pit has to be bottomless. It's similar to a recruit needing to be OMG Shirtless! (or at least OMG Half-shirt!) in order for us to believe he'll be a star D 1 football player.
You realize that submitting a doctor picture to the press
Will have you blackballed, forever. You will never work in journalism again.
I believe you.
I'm still skeptical that they're 100% real. They just strike me as partially computer generated. Maybe it's the regular roundness of the hole, maybe the way the lighting is on the descending sides - I can't put my finger on it for sure. I'm sure if it's a hoax, there'll be some sorry folks, and if it isn't I'll feel a little silly.
Other than the reason of "WTF
Other than the reason of "WTF doesn't look real".. take a look at where the gradient completely cuts off at the bottom...it's not a smooth transition but it goes from 7% opacity to 0% instantly, if you can follow that. However, a wider area opening up would explain why it looks like that.
Guatemala
They don't declare a "state of emergency" there...they declare a "state of calamity." I know that's just a translation thing, but it seems entirely appropriate.
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I keep expecting mynocks to come out of there.
That or the Millennium Falcon.
I'm confused
*in forrest gump voice* this is all I have to say about that
http://ttifi.blogspot.com/2010/06/holy-sinkhole-picture-roundup.html
http://ttifi.blogspot.com/ for interesting vids
http://ttifiblog.tumblr.com/ for interesting pics
Perhaps Barwis sent the Angry
Perhaps Barwis sent the Angry Michigan ____ hating gods back to Hades for another 150 years.
For anyone who thinks it looks fake
That drops straight down to the water table. That's why it's a black hole at the bottom. It's filled up with water down there.
So what you're saying is we
So what you're saying is we don't have to wait long for David Blaine's next "magic" trick...?
Gears of War is real. Shit...
For today, goodbye. For tomorrow, good luck. And forever, Go Blue.