May 31, 2010: New Guatemalan sinkhole - Page 3

squirell nutkin · 06-01-2010, 05:37 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americ...ex.html?hpt=T1

monster · 06-06-2010, 07:51 PM

What to do with a fucking great mysterious hole in the ground? Pee in it, of course! Right, UT?

gvidas · 06-06-2010, 08:47 PM

Sorry, boss. Turns out it's not a sinkhole:

Quote:

The giant sinkhole that opened beneath downtown Guatemala City over the weekend is all the rage right now. There's just one problem: it isn't a sinkhole.

"Sure, it looks a lot like a sinkhole," geologist Sam Bonis told Discovery News from his home in Guatemala. "And a whale looks a lot like a fish, but calling it one would be very misleading."

Instead, Bonis prefers the term "piping feature" -- a decidedly less sexy label for the 100-foot deep, 66-foot wide circular chasm. But it's an important distinction, he maintains, because "sinkholes" refer to areas where bedrock is solid but has been eaten away by groundwater, forming a geological Swiss cheese whose contours are nearly impossible to predict.

wanderer · 06-07-2010, 05:07 AM

Yeah, gvidas.....check out this too....
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...humans-caused/

Coign · 06-07-2010, 10:31 AM

An interesting update to the big hole. (What-ever its name.) They breifly talk about, what do you do with it?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/06...emala-sinkhole

spudcon · 06-07-2010, 11:28 AM

Just change the name to Giant Stinkhole," and let nature take its course.

HungLikeJesus · 06-07-2010, 11:33 AM

Perhaps it could be filled with potatoes.

wanderer · 06-07-2010, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Perhaps it could be filled with potatoes.

.......mashed ones

Shawnee123 · 06-07-2010, 12:36 PM

Half-baked?

Spexxvet · 06-07-2010, 01:28 PM

Fill it with the oil in gulf.

wanderer · 06-08-2010, 01:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Fill it with the oil in gulf.

......and put it on fire

TheDaVinciChode · 06-07-2010, 01:47 PM

Seems like a good place to dump rapists, and paedophiles.

... That's right. They should build a great-big Catholic Church down there.

Shawnee123 · 06-07-2010, 01:50 PM

haggis!

Adak · 06-08-2010, 06:03 AM

So we're preparing rapists and pedophiles fired in raw heavy oil, with mashed potatoes and haggis, for dinner?

I'm thinking overeating will be a thing of the past!!

TheDaVinciChode · 06-08-2010, 12:14 PM

It'll really mess with your butt-hole, on the way out, though.

06-01-2010, 05:37 PM	#1
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06-06-2010, 07:51 PM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	What to do with a fucking great mysterious hole in the ground? Pee in it, of course! Right, UT? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-07-2010, 05:07 AM	#4
wanderer Master of the Domain Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 225	Yeah, gvidas.....check out this too.... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...humans-caused/ __________________ smoke on the water

06-07-2010, 10:31 AM	#5
Coign Wanted Driver Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Vail, CO Posts: 279	An interesting update to the big hole. (What-ever its name.) They breifly talk about, what do you do with it? http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/06...emala-sinkhole __________________ Quoting yourself is the height of hubris. -Coign

06-07-2010, 11:28 AM	#6
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	Just change the name to Giant Stinkhole," and let nature take its course. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

06-07-2010, 11:33 AM	#7
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Perhaps it could be filled with potatoes. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

06-07-2010, 12:36 PM	#9
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Half-baked? __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

06-07-2010, 01:28 PM	#10
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Fill it with the oil in gulf. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

06-07-2010, 01:47 PM	#12
TheDaVinciChode Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 339	Seems like a good place to dump rapists, and paedophiles. ... That's right. They should build a great-big Catholic Church down there. __________________ "O' Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;" "The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;" - Walt Whitman / Leaves Of Grass.

06-07-2010, 01:50 PM	#13
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	haggis! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

06-08-2010, 06:03 AM	#14
Adak Lecturer Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 796	So we're preparing rapists and pedophiles fired in raw heavy oil, with mashed potatoes and haggis, for dinner? I'm thinking overeating will be a thing of the past!!

06-08-2010, 12:14 PM	#15
TheDaVinciChode Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 339	It'll really mess with your butt-hole, on the way out, though. __________________ "O' Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;" "The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;" - Walt Whitman / Leaves Of Grass.

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