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- unicronband, on 05/09/2008, -2/+45Terrorism, global warming, Crab people, super delegates, GTA IV, gay marriage, mrbabyman's duplicate submissions, thetans, Uwe Boll's films, pictures of cats, Rick Astley and you touching yourself at night.
- unicronband, on 05/09/2008, -0/+30Some photos
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7390116.stm - inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+28When your mom goes skydiving and forgets her parachute.
- grumpyrain, on 05/09/2008, -0/+23/comment abuse
Seriously, what is the point in submitting a story about a GIANT sinkhole without any photos?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7390116.stm
(Thanks to unicronband for this alternative link) - spammishking, on 05/09/2008, -0/+21thanx the article is worthless without pics
- scooterbaga, on 05/09/2008, -0/+18Graboids.
- novenator, on 05/09/2008, -1/+15Strange, they are sapping billions of gallons of crude from below and a sinkhole forms there, how did that happen? /sarcasm
- aMammoth, on 05/09/2008, -1/+14Man Bear pigs.
Serially though,
If you read the article, which you failed at, you would of found this one was caused by an empty salt dome do to drilling for oil. Other causes include leaking pipes, and underground rivers. - Shogi, on 05/09/2008, -0/+12LOCUST!!!!
- DeskFlyer, on 05/09/2008, -0/+8Witchcraft.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -1/+8What causes sinkholes, anyway?
- CarStan, on 05/09/2008, -3/+10OM NOM NOM NOM
- grumpyrain, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7Matt Damon
- obliviousfool, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7due.
- AshamedAmerican, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7She was off by about 1,300 miles.
- Dumbledorito, on 05/09/2008, -2/+8What is it in Cricket Pitches, then?
- Shogi, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6Rosie O'Donell.
- anachronaut, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6The hole is fairly circular with a radius of approximately 300 feet. That gives an approximate area of 282,600 ft/sq. A football field is 360x160 ft, giving you an area of 57600 ft/sq per field. That means the sinkhole is approximately the same area as 4.9 football fields (with a much greater volume due to the depth).
You're literally comparing rectangles to circles, meaning that the original poster's estimate was much more accurate than yours. - Dumbledorito, on 05/09/2008, -3/+8I thought they waited until Presidents were out of office before building memorials.
- rusty0101, on 05/09/2008, -1/+6Funny stuff there.
In most cases Sinkholes are caused by the erosion of soil under the surface due to some characteristic of the physical geography of the area. Sinkholes are not at all uncommon in Karst topography areas, where active, and inactive, cave systems in limestone provide a way for groundwater to leave the soil, and carry some of that topsoil with it, undermining the soil above it. Depending upon how much water is entering the soil, how it's getting there, and the type of soil, you can see sink holes ranging in size from a couple of feet into tens or hundreds of feet in circumference.
Growing to this size in 24 hours is not at all unusual either. In most cases it means that the exit point for the water is fairly large, and deep. It also means that the underburden has been eroding for some time, months, years, or even decades may have been seen where soil has been eroding away. If active surveying is happening in the area, the surveyors may notice some settling happening in the area before it actually collapses, but if the 'drain' has opened recently, and there is a source for a lot of water to percolate through, you can see a tremendous amount of erosion happen in a very short time.
Look at the Engineering Disasters series on Discovery Channel, and you'll eventually catch the episode where a tunnel being put in for a train in Los Angeles caused a sinkhole that took out about a block of a city street in several hours after a torrential rain.
Water mains cracking in several major cities have resulted in similar issues. - commenter01, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4...and a proper title. This is the Sinkhole de Mayo.
- h3lx, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4In this case it's a salt dome collapsing.
here's a worse case scenrio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Of8cm0kS8 - Ocelot13, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4attention everyone, class 4 schizo is now class 5.
- jozb, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Of8cm0kS8 for a more serious answer. but i like u guy's answer better.
- InsaneWookie, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Pics or it didn't happen
- ColonelTribune, on 05/09/2008, -2/+4It's the size of six football fields, you know. Crazy.
- shondell, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2*****. I just got over my nightmares about those damn graboids. Well looks like ill be sleepin with a shotgun tonight. thanks a lot.
- DJCamCam78, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Its Satan coming for Bush.
- 116dreamlane, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Digg that! haha nice one
- Sub7, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2One day it'll happen to the rest of the world.
- AnimeCwboy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#24526615
- JesusDeluxe, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Someone drinking all your milkshake
- Mohonri, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Here's a link with pictures and video
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5766414. ... - Llanowar, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Photos are worthless. We need pics! Or it didn't happen.
- MMaster23, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2(Y) Emerge hole
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Good thing they measured it in football fields and not acres or anything like that. nobody can understand any measurement unless it is in "football fields" or "human hairs"
- VitriolAndAngst, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Some are caused by Erosion.
I'd say in Texas, it is caused by pumping water and oil out of the ground. Now, often, especially in the case of oil, water or salt water is pumped in to replace it -- it can help force out more oil with less pumping. But the water can drain off more readily than oil or they might not have pumped any.
So, when you remove water and oil from underneath the ground -- the land "floating" on top of it now has a big empty cavern -- when that collapses, you get a sink hole.
Some can be formed by erosion under the ground -- and this also can cause a lake to disappear overnight when a channel is found underground to allow the water to drain out. But, again, I'd say this is due to pumping. - blankoboy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2The answer to my long asked question "What happens hen you've sucked all the oil out of the ground below? Aren't there giant gaping holes that need to be filled?" The middle east must be due for some serious "sinkage".
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2http://www.kfdm.com/pictures/k0kxtm-0508sinkhole.j ...
- jozb, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TJRyzRUCXw
and the great Canadian sinkhole which swallowed a truck eh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjI8ywb73gg - h3lx, on 05/09/2008, -1/+3Of all the submitted articles with videos and live feeds and this dim halfwitted ***** gets it...
/it makes no ***** sense. - Furlong, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2ITS A TRAP
- MrFurious2k, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2"A large sinkhole swallowed up oil field equipment and some vehicles Wednesday in Daisetta, Texas and continued to grow."
Oh *****, yet another excuse for gas prices to rise. - truthhurts28, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1i might be way off base here but i think that there really isnt a large pool of oil in the ground such as like that of a lake. I think it is more like pockets and mainly mixed with sand, shale, etc, etc. I am pretty sure that today they do fill in the voids after drilling. I think it is called fracking. That is just what I think and would probably sound like an idiot to someone experienced in the field.
- NYankee2003, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1no, it's a half pig half man half bear
- truthhurts28, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Those damn invisible meteorites!
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2cause it's not nice to pick on retards
- NYankee2003, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1It's Bill Nye the Science Guy!
- Matteos, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1π FTW
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1no, Texass is Hell
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