OT: Guatemala Sinkhole
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=2814749782…
Gears of War is real. Shit...
my second was disappointment that thing didn't hit in any number of other places
"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."
catastrophic oil spills?
Cats and Dogs living together!
Korean War II?
.... Electric Boogaloo?
always wondered....
Just wait 579 days.
The Year 2012 is in fact a real year that will happen in the future.
But the question is: will 2013?
Yes, the day after 2012 ends.
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
a drug tunnel leading to China.
Why do I get the feeling that Oprah somehow had a hand in this?
if the sinkhole was filled with cookies and fudge.
... 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 myth that Zoltan's punts stay in space...
would only use his powers for good.
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.
Batman guarding over the sinkhole so no one falls in???
It does seem photoshopped... Or maybe this guy just completed his latest and greatest work:
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.
to perform a soil density analysis before building!
THIS. IS. GUATEMALA!!!!!!
Reality, or deleted scene from "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer"? You be the judge...
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...
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.
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?
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.
Will have you blackballed, forever. You will never work in journalism again.
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 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.
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.
I keep expecting mynocks to come out of there.
That or the Millennium Falcon.
*in forrest gump voice* this is all I have to say about that
http://ttifi.blogspot.com/2010/06/holy-sinkhole-picture-roundup.html
Perhaps Barwis sent the Angry Michigan ____ hating gods back to Hades for another 150 years.
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 don't have to wait long for David Blaine's next "magic" trick...?