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- digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22people marked it as lame, so it got pulled. i had dugg it too cause i thought it was cool.
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18Why would this get yanked? As you say in your title, it's incredible.
- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"There's a NEW Mexico?" - Homer J. Simpson
- p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -19/+27This is a re post of a story that was REMOVED from the queue for no apparent reason. Sorry, but I am a bit peeved about that at the moment.
http://digg.com/links/Incredible_Photo:_Land_s_End_
Quite honestly, I don't care about the front page credit any where mear as much as the story this image represents. I have never seen anything like this. As BloodJunkie aplly descibed: it's both "gorgeous and creepy."
Google Map (New Mexico): http://maps.google.com/?ll=34.970656,-103.329849&spn=0.232663,0.541763&t=k&om=1
Here is a larger image (3.45 Mb): http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=152869566&size=o
Does anyone know the story behind this environmental image? - welvis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I'm pretty sure it got pulled because your description is very inaccurate. This is an ariel photo where the word "eroding" is used to describe the visual. It's not a photo of erosion, those actually appear to be mountains in the Google pics. Sorry, not trying to be nit picky, but the whole environmental "this is a real photo of erosion" description is indeed inaccurate.
- loboforestal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yes. It's just the high plains running into a canyon. The plains are good for plant farming (wheat, cotton, soybeans) because it's flat and easy to plow. The canyon (or canyonesque) country is used for cattle ranching, it's too rugged to plow. This is fairly typical throughout West Texas and New Mexico.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9So columbus really did fall off the edge. Now I get it.
- wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8l have had that happen multiple times before too p9, it should tell you something you might have always wondered about ; )
of course they did not let mine get back through the second time : ) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Woah. If you look closely one of the imprints on the land looks like a hand. Look at the bigger picture in the first comment to see it better.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/3308/untitled6qp1.png
^A picture of it. - Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escarpment
In geology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, often involving high cliffs. Most commonly, an escarpment, also called a scarp (from the German word scharf meaning sharp), is a transition from one series of sedimentary rocks to another series of a different age and composition.
More loosely the term is used to describe the zone between coastal lowlands and continental plateau which have a marked change in altitude. - JibberJabber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I seen that happen on Digg Spy a couple times already. A queued story slowly goes to about 35-39 diggs. No one has been reporting any problems with it. Then all of a sudden 5 "this is lame" in a row. All within a few seconds. Then it's buried and no one ever sees it on the front page.
A user can only report a story once, but it's as if someone is logged on with 5 different accounts simultaneously and reports it 5 times in a row. This happened with a "video" story that I submitted and a "photo" story from another user.
Anyone else seen this happen? - richardsnotes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Uh, yikes! I was wondering where all the traffic in my flickr stream came from.
I took the photograph and wrote the caption. Just to be clear, I wasn't making a political or environmental statement about erosion, I was simply describing the view and to me, it looks like the land in the "canyon" has been eroded by a river or rivers or water. I'm no geologist, just someone who took a picture and described the view the best he could.
That said, I'm delighted that some of you like the image, thank you for the kind words. And thanks for "digging" the post/picture which I guess is a good thing. - LabRat777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The only good thing about NM is the view when you're flying out of it. I can't wait to get out of here.
- DrakeGTA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@loboforestal Yes, this is a very common sight around here in New Mexico, I live just outside Roswell on a Plateau, where it ends it and meets the Pecos River Valley looks much like this. Still a nice pic.
- DrakeGTA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Some of us New Mexicans like our state, thank you very much. Really, we%u2019re like Arizona, except with a lower cost of living.
- l7productions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A beautiful photo. It's an interesting view on what can commonly be seen throughout the southwest.
- Kerr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Looks awesome.
- Disgone, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Spawn more overlords!
- corevette, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Absolutely excellent picture.
- welvis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Okay, the text describing this link is a bit off. On the actual Flickr page it says:
"These fields seem to be slowly eroding away into barren wasteland. At 30,000 feet one can more easily see geographic transitions like this and it's one of the reasons I find flying so enjoyable."
The photographer is using the word erosion to describe what he's seeing, not necessarily any actual erosion going on. In other words, the whole erosion/environmental angle was added by the digg submitter, it's not present in the link at all. - TekeeTakShak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Well whatd'ya know...it does look like a hand. Good find! Digg+ for insane picture!
- flake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2While the picture is beautiful I have to say, after viewing it, that I think the statement about land erosion might be a bit far reaching. Just look at the roads neatly arranged at the edge of the plateau. If the land was rapidly eroding, the people would never put roads right there.
This kind of drastic climactic change is common in that part of the US. There is nothing funny or strange going on here, move along - sixlocal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, exactly my thoughts.
This really looks like a Starcraft map. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Like Arizona, except instead of grand vistas, it's flat scrubby desert for hundreds of miles. I'm stuck in Carlsbad, so I know whereof I speak.
- zyntax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The zergs are here!
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's also not man-made erosion caused by the agriculture on the plateau. It's just a bog-standard transition from fertile table lands on top of the plateau down an escarpment to the basin below.
- deweyhewson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's the Nothing...
- iWorks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's The Nothing!™
- aximbigfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thats really cool... thanks for the new wallpaper!
- peregrine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5It was probably a old lake that dried up. Or something. Also looks like the google maps have been edited...so yea.
Maybe its a old environmental disaster that the government hide? or something. - synthfx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5i think i can see jesus in there too!!!! how much 2 sell on ebay?? /sarcasm
- KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's one of the reasons I didn't usually play as Zerg. The overlords are required for you to raise a large army, but they can't do anything but crawl around the map.
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2>"This kind of drastic climactic change is common in that part of the US. "
What makes you think it's an example of "drastic climate change"?
When you look at the Grand Canyon do you think "Damn, that must have been some gully washer they had here last week!"
This is a standard geologic transition from a plateau to a valley. It looks like that all over the world and is the product of millions of years of incredibly slow erosion as the table land rises up from the force of a thrust fault. - haigMeister, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Wow, really cool. +Digg...and wow :)
- chris.kelvie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Woah, slow down compadre, there's a New Mexico?"
Mr. Burns, to Smithers.
(I'm not sure this is perfect, so don't call me on it) - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yum... fractal-ly. :)
- deweyhewson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Pictures taken out the window of commercial airliners." ~Quote from Aerial Photos slideshow
- HydraulicToast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see it.....an average clothing line....
- mydiggname, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here here, I live in Roswell....soon moving again...I hope. Maybe Texas Hill Country.
Parts of New Mexico are pretty though (mainly the North). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, but what it really needs is a hatchery and command center photoshopped into it, then it'll be a perfect wallpaper.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1like everyones said before: this is an amazing picture. Thanks for sharing it with us.
- treachen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When I burn paper it looks very similar to that.
- redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I, for one, welcome.... Never mind, but a cool photo indeed.
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I saw this happen to a digg of mine just yesterday: http://digg.com/links/Newspaper_Apology:_Iran_Is_Not_Eyeing_Badges_For_Jews
I kept an eye on digg spy, watching reports-only, and didn't see it get reported once. Meanwhile over in the queue it managed to reach the top and then all of the sudden it was buried. Not even reported once. - rolypolyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What you're looking at is the western edge of the Llano Estacado, called the Mescalero Escarpment. Read all about it:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/LL/ryl2.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I actually set it as my wallpaper too. Before, I had been using the standard green hills XP wallpaper.
- silentvirus, on 10/25/2008, -1/+1Okay, so is he a pilot, or just flies a lot?
- fangthorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Excellent picture Richard.
For anyone interested in seeing the pic in Google Earth, click on this link. It should open up Google Earth and fly you to the location.
bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=428096 - infra172, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1WE DIDN'T LISTEN!!!!!!
- p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Monitoring this in Digg Spy.
If this get's yanked again - will someone submit this again for the Digg users? -
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