(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/1/1275352392107/guatemala-city-sinkhole-006.jpg)
That, my friends, used to be a three-story building at the intersection of two streets in Guatemala City. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/01/storm-agatha-hole-guatemala) Remember that scene in 2012 where San Fran falls into one giant sinkhole? Yeah.
I'm getting vertigo just looking at the thing...
And this was just with the first hurricane of the season. Honestly, I'm worried about Central America/the Gulf of Mexico what with all the crap happening nowadays around it...
Wormsign.
Quote from: Turnsky on June 01, 2010, 03:45:47 AM
Wormsign.
D: we
-MUST- evacuate the harvester... before it's too late
Quick, you parachute out first. I promise I'll follow.
:mwaha
...Well, I daresay they must've found China. :B
Quote from: Aisha deCabre on June 01, 2010, 06:53:58 PM
...Well, I daresay they must've found China. :B
I think that tunnel would pop out smack dab in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
I'm waiting for angry mole-men to attack Guatemala now, though.
...Did the gates of hell just open? D:
I hope nothing Lovecraftian lives down there.
Quote from: RJ on June 02, 2010, 06:54:53 AM
...Did the gates of hell just open? D:
I hope nothing Lovecraftian lives down there.
worse. i bet they're gonna throw sarah palin down there. >:3
Quote from: Turnsky on June 02, 2010, 09:29:11 PM
Quote from: RJ on June 02, 2010, 06:54:53 AM
...Did the gates of hell just open? D:
I hope nothing Lovecraftian lives down there.
worse. i bet they're gonna throw sarah palin down there. >:3
How is that "worse?"
Quote from: Valynth on June 03, 2010, 11:42:46 AMQuote from: Turnsky on June 02, 2010, 09:29:11 PMworse. i bet they're gonna throw sarah palin down there. >:3
How is that "worse?"
A dread realization began to form in my mind upon receipt of these revelations. The visitation of dreams on the psychically sensitive could not be mere chance, but must instead be part of some far greater visitation by a being alien to our world and physiology. That this being must have supreme vatic abilities, and need not even be of the cyclopean sizes that appear in the dreamers' visions. Even from the snatches of the Regnery translation, it is clear that this vision was seen thousands of years ago. I remembered Emperor O'Keefe's proclamation, ``None shall live who declare `Palin fhtagn!' Any who say this shall be put to death.''
Quote from: Valynth on June 03, 2010, 11:42:46 AM
Quote from: Turnsky on June 02, 2010, 09:29:11 PM
worse. i bet they're gonna throw sarah palin down there. >:3
How is that "worse?"
She'll come back. With a clone.
Well, we could try throwing Obama, Pelosi, and Reid down the hole, but they'd only be puked back up. Even the Earth has the sense to stay away from those fools.
And here I'm thinking that technically, this could be really useful. The city has a pocket to keep things in now. Rebuild that same building in that spot (albiet larger, so as not to fall in again) and it'll be just the same as before, except with a way cooler basement.
Actually, the first thing that came to my mind is that life can provide enough worries as we travel through it without wondering if one of those is underneath your home, just waiting to open up.
I would not be ok with dying like that.
Quote from: rabid_fox on June 03, 2010, 06:36:50 PM
I would not be ok with dying like that.
Ehm... i think the preferred form of dying is "not to"
Quiet your face, Senseman.
Quote from: danman on June 03, 2010, 06:39:09 PMEhm... i think the preferred form of dying is "not to"
Speak for yourself. I'd much rather die than spend eternity slowly getting more and more decrepit and begging for the pain to stop.
Quote from: superluser on June 03, 2010, 11:48:28 PM
Quote from: danman on June 03, 2010, 06:39:09 PMEhm... i think the preferred form of dying is "not to"
Speak for yourself. I'd much rather die than spend eternity slowly getting more and more decrepit and begging for the pain to stop.
Depends on if you got "eternal youth and health" thrown in with that "eternal life". If not, then yeah... That'd just suck...
Quote from: superluser on June 03, 2010, 11:48:28 PM
Quote from: danman on June 03, 2010, 06:39:09 PMEhm... i think the preferred form of dying is "not to"
Speak for yourself. I'd much rather die than spend eternity slowly getting more and more decrepit and begging for the pain to stop.
Technology, man - after some years you would be able to replace with cybernetic parts... perhaps in an army project - i think an operative that doesn't die would be interesting.
(otherwise the eternal youth and health would have to be thrown in as the old-age symptoms do lead to body failure eventually)
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on June 03, 2010, 02:07:35 PM
Quote from: Valynth on June 03, 2010, 11:42:46 AM
Quote from: Turnsky on June 02, 2010, 09:29:11 PM
worse. i bet they're gonna throw sarah palin down there. >:3
How is that "worse?"
She'll come back. With a clone.
That and she'd be lurking underground, unseen, plotting, planning...
instead of being in alaska where we can keep an eye on her.
Quote from: danman on June 04, 2010, 12:02:20 AMTechnology, man - after some years you would be able to replace with cybernetic parts... perhaps in an army project - i think an operative that doesn't die would be interesting.
That just raises further questions!
For example, if an immortal man were given a bionic arm to replace a damaged one, what would his still-living amputated arm feel? I will grant you that it would be immensely cool if you still retained control over your detached limbs, though.
Actually that hole seems like it might be worse:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/dont-call-the-guatemala-sinkhole-a-sinkhole.html
:O I used to have nightmares like this when I was little!
Where did that 9,688 m^3 (342,119 ft^3) of stuff go!? It looks like it opens up into an even larger chasm at the bottom of the hole.
Quote from: Tapewolf on June 04, 2010, 11:24:56 AM
Actually that hole seems like it might be worse:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/dont-call-the-guatemala-sinkhole-a-sinkhole.html
So wait... did they carve the sewage piping straight out of the pumice-fill etc? Either way, I'm kinda glad I don't live in Guatemala right around now.
Quote from: Turnsky on June 04, 2010, 02:06:43 AM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on June 03, 2010, 02:07:35 PM
Quote from: Valynth on June 03, 2010, 11:42:46 AM
Quote from: Turnsky on June 02, 2010, 09:29:11 PM
worse. i bet they're gonna throw sarah palin down there. >:3
How is that "worse?"
She'll come back. With a clone.
That and she'd be lurking underground, unseen, plotting, planning...
instead of being in alaska where we the Russians can keep an eye on her.
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Bah, you're all putting her in the wrong hole .... this is where she'd go :
The Doorway to Hell !
(http://naut6g.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pZmrdM2Lb3i6qjswpBV9xi0l42TFXZnvF3YY3j0zSz3XxgoeGQgiJCMziSSK78YrCesj2VmKVDnELOVqDQ5qOyIn0L5G5l4Lu/Hells_doorway.jpg)
Yes, that is two people at the edge of the crater.
And yes, there is indeed fire in that hole.
And finally, yes, it is real!
Quote from: Anker Steadfast on July 10, 2010, 09:15:26 AM
Bah, you're all putting her in the wrong hole .... this is where she'd go :
Yes, that is two people at the edge of the crater.
And yes, there is indeed fire in that hole.
And finally, yes, it is real!
Yes, that's an interesting one. Here's more information about it:
http://twistedsifter.com/2009/06/the-door-to-hell-flaming-crater-in-turkmenistan-has-been-burning-for-38-years/