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Title: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Kosh on June 10, 2010, 02:47:41 am
Ok, so there was that big sinkhole in Guatamala not to long ago, but now a whole bunch of little ones have showed up in China (http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/sinkholes-appearing-around-china-chinese-netizen-reactions.html) recently. So what's the deal? Why are they all appearing now?
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: General Battuta on June 10, 2010, 02:56:26 am
Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.

but srsly folks, it's probably just coincidence.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Scourge of Ages on June 10, 2010, 03:48:13 am
All the vast empty spaces left by oil drilling are finally caving in? Land of the Lost is happenning?

I have no idea, but it's really cool.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Nuke on June 10, 2010, 04:10:06 am
why you should do geological surveys before building things. you have all kinds of things causing cavities to form in the earth's crust. underground water, caves, former mining activities, giant worms, ect. so if you dont take a good look at the ground youre building on youre just inviting disaster.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on June 10, 2010, 08:25:37 am
2012 is drawing near! The Mayans predicted it! :shaking:
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: watsisname on June 10, 2010, 10:08:17 am
Aliens come out of the holes?
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Snail on June 10, 2010, 10:27:47 am
Mathematical anomaly cluster****.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Solatar on June 10, 2010, 10:59:13 am
Had one a few weeks ago here in Tennessee, USA actually.  Right underneath Interstate 24.  Went undiscovered for a few minutes until an 18-wheeler ran over it. . .luckily the truck was long enough that it didn't go in (...that's what she said).
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: watsisname on June 10, 2010, 11:05:35 am
First it was the LHC, then it was antispirals, now its muther****ing sinkholes in my muther****ing countryside!
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Flipside on June 10, 2010, 12:03:00 pm
Galactus Cometh!!11!
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Snail on June 10, 2010, 12:45:17 pm
First it was the LHC, then it was antispirals, now its muther****ing sinkholes in my muther****ing countryside!
Antispirals?
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: redsniper on June 10, 2010, 12:55:48 pm
Antispirals. They'll **** you up, man.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Snail on June 10, 2010, 12:56:26 pm
Do they know who I am?
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Spoon on June 10, 2010, 12:56:29 pm
DEESSSPAAAAAIR
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Kosh on June 10, 2010, 12:56:37 pm
Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.

but srsly folks, it's probably just coincidence.


Probably, if it was it'd be like winning the lottery. It can happen. Still, whats a geologists take on all these sinkholes suddenly appearing all over the world?
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: redsniper on June 10, 2010, 12:57:47 pm
Do they know who I am?
Who the hell do you think they think you are?!
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: General Battuta on June 10, 2010, 12:59:03 pm
The lay explanation seems to be that it's an indicator of an imminent quake. At least three can probably be attributed to a major storm. Other than that, I dunno.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Snail on June 10, 2010, 12:59:41 pm
My drill shall pierce the Earth and make large sinkholes.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Spoon on June 10, 2010, 01:05:27 pm
(http://i49.tinypic.com/2lixvh4.jpg)
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Herra Tohtori on June 10, 2010, 01:08:37 pm
(http://www.game-reviews.ca/ktml2/images/uploads/incredibles/incredibles-4.jpg)

Behold, the Underminer! I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me! I hereby declare war on peace and happiness! Soon, all will tremble before me!
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Snail on June 10, 2010, 01:31:38 pm
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Make of this what you will.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: BloodEagle on June 10, 2010, 02:05:28 pm
This thread is made of awesome.  :yes:
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Kosh on June 10, 2010, 02:11:32 pm
The lay explanation seems to be that it's an indicator of an imminent quake. At least three can probably be attributed to a major storm. Other than that, I dunno.

Exactly. :) I know Blackwolf is a geology major, so is Mestufa, any one else?
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Dark Hunter on June 10, 2010, 06:14:26 pm
(http://i49.tinypic.com/2lixvh4.jpg)

If the Angels have appeared, sinkholes are the least of our concerns...
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: iamzack on June 10, 2010, 06:17:23 pm
Hades' mom is SO FAT sometimes when she's grabbing fistfuls of people and shoveling them into her four and a half mouths, she pokes her fingers right into the ground
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: watsisname on June 10, 2010, 07:06:40 pm
My drill shall pierce the Earth and make large sinkholes.

(http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/736/motherloadlagannlolwut.jpg)

AWESOME
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Nuke on June 11, 2010, 10:01:07 am
Hades' mom is SO FAT sometimes when she's grabbing fistfuls of people and shoveling them into her four and a half mouths, she pokes her fingers right into the ground

i thought about saying something like that, but decided to edit it out for no good reason.
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Liberator on June 12, 2010, 01:08:41 pm
Hmm...I just bet if you correlate recent flooding (in Tennesee's case the worst in recorded history, in both monetary and less tangible ways making Katrina look like an afternoon shower, with barely a blip from ANY mass media source.  Of course it's flyover country and the home of Country music so it's barely worth mentioning, but I digress...) and the locations of the sinkholes I suspect you'd find that the excess water is washing out the less dense strata beneath what's on the surface.  Of course what do I know....
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: chief1983 on June 12, 2010, 06:58:09 pm
Anyone seen a Deep (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/10/) Crow (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/3/21/)?
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Mongoose on June 12, 2010, 08:52:38 pm
(http://www.game-reviews.ca/ktml2/images/uploads/incredibles/incredibles-4.jpg)

Behold, the Underminer! I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me! I hereby declare war on peace and happiness! Soon, all will tremble before me!
God, I want Brad Bird to do a sequel. :(

(But a Toy Story 3 is fine too.)
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on June 12, 2010, 09:29:17 pm
Galactus Cometh!!11!

 
 
This.
Let it be this. . . .
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Liberator on June 12, 2010, 09:36:05 pm
Galactus Cometh!!11!

 
 
This.
Let it be this. . . .
I forsee several problems with this:

1)No Fantastic Four
2)No Ultimate Nullifier
Title: Re: What's with all the sinkholes?
Post by: Whitelight on June 12, 2010, 10:20:33 pm
Hmmmm, could this be why the dry well in our back yard is getting bigger..  :eek:

Thats funny (in a way) because my wife had thought about throwing our daughters old boyfriend in it. But thats another story..  :nervous: