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- dargon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Damn, they found my secret lair, now I have to move again.
- kochtravis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Im sorry, but that photo looks completely faked. Pools of water at the bases of waterfalls are generally very deep, caused by erosion. The rocks in the water just dont fit for a waterfall that "huge". And to top it, the pilot decides to land in the water, I think not.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pic of the two helicopters in the cave:
http://www.livescience.com/images/060213_new_cave_02.jpg - transpyre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SHENANIGANS!
I'm just not buying the photo. It looks like an effects shot or a matte painting. What about a picture from the outside? Where was the person taking it from the inside? Why not a picture from the helicopters.
Kochtravis: I wondered the same thing about landing in the water.
Any other vertification links around? Love for it to be real - it would be amazing, just seems like a hoax for now. - sandrino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, that coordinate is in Brazil, not Venezuela. You are not even in the neighborhood.
- Wamzlee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In other news...we have discovered a new continent.
I was under the impression that everything has been explored. - OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The picture does look kind of fake. If it is real, I would suspect the water fall doesn't have that much water flow, and what we're seeing here is just a long exposure from the camera. The fall is pretty transparent, so there can't be much water...it looks more like a mist. It kind of reminds me of pictures from the illustrated lord of the rings book.
- clumsyninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What do they keep in there, King Kong?
- ChewyBass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Found this on the frog, but nothing on the cave.
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01110p068f.pdf - hellsyeah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0is that a waterfall in the picture?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wonder what the chances of me discovering an island is. We can call it "The xchbla423 Republic" everything is legal except murder. Unless I see fit. Cause I rule.
+digg for pretty pictures. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you lick the frogs you get high.
- stonedgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I already saw this in Crimson Skies :)
Anybody found it on Google earth yet? - MrFisty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Someone tell Bruce Wayne that the gig is up.
- arostad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I want to see it on google earth.
- camintmier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ooh! New lickable frogs! Hopefully they make you see fun colors.
- zifnab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, as we find out many of the world's frogs are dieing out, we find some new ones to replace them.
- 2gunnZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow thats a huge cave, i wonder how far back it goes.
- bebopbass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0incredible
- bradzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The picture looks faked. If real, that's the world's longest waterfall by a long shot. And where's the spray? Where is the Amazon sized river to fuel the water flow? No digg.
- apeguero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder why it took people so long to find such a huge cave?
- ersatzphi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They weren't kidding about the helicopters being comfortable. I'd say you could fit 10 comfortably.
- timmyboywonder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Simply Amazing
- luftrofl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just what we needed! More poisonous frogs!
- Zeush8su, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome!!
- futoshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well time to destroy it!
- fallscrape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cave + no light = difficult photography conditions & long exposure time.
Watch out theorists! The men in the black cars are coming for you! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is one, big-ass, cave
- riskable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A cave big enough for a helicopter... AND THEY RELEASED THE LOCATION?!?
Am I the only one who's thinking, "Airwolf!"
...or it would have at least made a great evil lair!
-Riskable
http://riskable.com
"I have a license to kill -9" - danterner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Do not be fooled by this - I'm pretty sure the helicopters in the photo are shown actual size, making the supposed 'cave' only about a foot tall.
I for one welcome our micromachine helicopter overlords. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If its so big then hwo come it took them so long to find
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love it.
Centuries later, and we still have that 'Conqueror' attitude. Explorers have 'discovered' a huge cave. Right. Like the locals that you systematically ignore and strip their forests from didn't know it was there already. Maybe you should ask? - TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh great, now Survivor 2007 with invade it with their cameras and trash the place.
- licoricewhip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think we should all get together and have a LAN party in there.
- Scarblac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Previously, the biggest known cave chamber was that of the Deer Cave of Gunung Mulu national park in the state of Sarawak, on Borneo, part of East Malaysia. That chamber is about 80x150x2000 meters (w x h x l).
I don't know this cave is bigger, or if it even counts (since it's a collapsed gorge). But it sure is impressive :-) - capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+digg from capn_caveman
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"those frogs are gonna get licked"
i bet they taste like chicken too - psilocybes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One damn picture?
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@KevinSmokesPole
LMAO!!!
I love the screen name!!
bah hahaha!!!
oh *****, I need to get back to work... - sandrino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This area of the world is what inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Lost World. It is an extremely remote area in the middle of the rainforest, hundreds of miles away from civilization. The tepuis are very tall mesas jutting out from the landscape. The waterfalls are produced entirely by rainfall alone. There are no rivers at the top of the tepuis. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls (3,267 feet). Angel Falls is one of these tepuis. While the landscape in this area is fantastic looking it is certainly not fake. This area of the world is one of the oldest parts of the earth's crust. If you watch the beginning of the movie Dinosaurs you can see footage that was shot in this area. The movie arachnophobia also shot footage in this area. It is not uncommon to find new species there. This area has never been fully explored.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think that some indigenous tribe should come out of the jungle, go into the city, and say, "Look, we have discovered a new Hilton!"
- MiloMindrbindr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now all the military have to do is sit and wait for Stringfellow Hawke to come back with airwolf......
posted by johnmartyn
bahahaha that's exactly what i was thinking. it looks almost identical to the cave from the show. - elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Was Osama in there? Cause if we're findign new caves...
- Aidenag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its the real deal, ive been planning a trip for 2 years to a spot in this general area/region. from what ive seen from hundreds of hours of research into the tepui(s) is that you will find dozens of these worn away caves due to the fact these tabletop mountains are 2.4billion years old and have rainfall like no other(this coming from a seattle resident).
There is another cave about half this ones size with very similar shape closer to Sarisarinama wich btw accually has the sinkholes depicted in Arachnophobia the movie.
http://audy.speleo.cz/tepuy/galerie/Pages/4.html
anyone intrested in the tepuis should check out a PBS doc called living Edens:the Lost world...or a slovakian documentary that was filmed recently and is touring the indy festivals "amazonia vertical"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0According to this, those frogs are from a group that carry enough toxin to kill 10 humans-exactly why I dont pick up frogs-little bastards
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/top10_deadliestanimals-10.html - JakeMcMahon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's ***** huge! How've they only just discovered this now?!
- 0Troy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The area, known as the Venezuelan Guayana, is one of the most biologically rich, geologically ancient and unspoiled parts of the world."
Excellent! New spot for a mini-mart!
And, we really know very little about most of the world. There are jungles full of all kinds of crazy crap that no one scientific has ever explored. The world's a pretty big place... - andreo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is way cool. I really wish I would have became a geologist instead of just another computer bum.
- eseiat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know it looks like a waterfall, but could it possibly be that it's a ray of light breaking from the clouds and lighting a rather dark area? Just an idea.
- jofer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If anyone's interested, here's the location given in the holotype description of the frog:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5.4N+62.45W&ll=5.4,-62.45&spn=0.159319,0.154957&t=k&hl=en
It's only given to +- 1' (roughly the width of the plateau in the image). Feel free to zoom in, but what you'd be looking for would only be a few pixels wide, so even if the cave had an obvious surface expression (which it should, form the description), it'd be impossible to make it out. -
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