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MUST SEE Photo series: Extreme Things on Earth

bbs.keyhole.com — This series of incredible photos include the largest seed on earth, the longest residential building, Largest Quicksand, Largest Flower / Parasite, Deepest Cave, Largest impact crater, Lowest Elevation, Windiest place, Highest Elevation, Hottest place, Wettest place, Smallest Park, Tallest water fall, Thickest Ice Sheet, and Most populated city

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  • DiggLord, on 10/12/2007, -7/+158http://weecheng.com/africa/indianocean/seychelles/coco.jpg

    Am I the only one who finds that picture funny?
  • Falldog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+78What'd the difference between "the greatest vertical drop on the earth" and "the worlds tallest vertical drop"?
    • Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35I asked myself the same thing.

      I think Mount Thor looks awesome though, much cooler than the other 'drop'.
    • scrag10, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12probably the altitude that the drop starts from.
    • whoaohh, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3versus the distance from top to bottom
    • PixelCloud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Mount thor looks very ficitional.. like something from LOTR
    • mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Also, what is difference between the world's highest elevation, and the tallest mountain on earth?
      Everest: 8844.43 m
      Mauna Kea: 10000+ m
      ...
      Does that mean that Mt Everest 'begins' higher and ends higher than Mauna Kea.. right?
    • ldkronos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa both extend way below sea level, so that's how they can be taller while still at a lower elevation.
    • Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Doesn't Mt. Everest also go below sea level? I would imagine all mountains start at the lowest point that the website pointed out.
    • Steelfox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Mt. Everest is tall from land up. Mauna Kea has the highest elevation because they measure the underwater part (which makes up most of it).
    • MSTK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The site and most experts agree that measurement of actual mountain height and size should be from the base to the tip. Mount Everest's base starts at a little bit above sea level. The actual mountain begins at that point. Go any lower and you're no longer on the mountain, you're on common Asia.
      Hawaii, however, has a base that's well below sea level. The actual mountain begins there, below sea level.

      It's not whether or not you measure it from the "underwater part" or "from the land up". They _always_ measure from the base to the tip. Mauna Kea simply has a lower base.
    • lesosso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3the angle maybe.
  • loconet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5The very thing I was hoping to see on the list is listed #1. Glad to see Colca Canyon listed. Not many people realize Colca Canyon _is_ the deepest canyon in the world, not The Grand Canyon. Yah yah, I know some argue otherwise but they have been proven wrong.
    • Tonyisbad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17After reading this article i realized i need to get out of my room and see the world before i die. Wikipedia isn't doing it for me anymore to find out about stuff, i need to experience earth before i settle down/die...
      Anyone want to go around the world with me?
    • gandre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5ROFL at your settling down equals death
    • ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I like Colca Canyon, but I prefer Pepsi.
    • jsballardx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'd rather go to hell than anywhere with you.
  • cyrusaman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12I became frustrated with the consistent misspelling of the state of Oregon as "Oregan". Wouldn't a member of the Google Earth community use spellcheck?
    • nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Why is he getting dugg down????
      Its OREGON (pronounced like and organ in your body)
      not how everyone who isn't from here says it (ore-ree-gone)

      its a sore point for us here,

      that and Californians
    • skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm from Oregon and I've always pronounced it like "Or-uh-gn." Sort of like "organ" but not quite...I don't think the "e" can be totally ignored.

      Definitely not "Or-ee-gun" or "Or-uh-gone" though.
  • kcap122, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5the largest nuts really do look like testicles. no, really, take a look.
  • lnappropriate, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0http://weecheng.com/africa/indianocean/seychelles/coco.jpg
    He wishes he had one that big
    • dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11if were going by stereotypes then ill bet he doesn't. he'd be smart and realize that first off that be a bitch to carry and second everytime he got a boner enough blood would leave his head to make him dizzy
  • MonsterMagnet, on 10/12/2007, -21/+4I guess Niagara Falls,Yellow Stone Park, Mississippi River,Grand canyon etc never made the cut? :rolleyes:
    • mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11Of course all the world's greatest things have to be in North America! :rolleyes:
    • gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3They mentioned that Mauna Loa is the largest mountain, but forgot to mention that it's also the largest volcano on Earth. But since volcanoes aren't entirely inside of mountains, that's kind of misleading... a supervolcano (i.e. a caldera) isn't much of a mountain, but rather a huge crater in the Earth's surface. It's like the crater you'd find at the top of any volcano, only huge. Yellowstone National Park is one of the largest, covering an area of several thousand square km. These supervolcanoes can eject hundreds (or in Yellowstone's case, thousands) of cubic km of material. In contrast the May/1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens (in Washington) ejected only around one cubic kilometer (and it still constituted the energy release of around 27,000 atomic bombs, at a rate of one per second).

      There's no way to know what the largest volcanic eruption of all time was, but the largest one we can find evidence of probably blew out 5000 cubic km of ejecta - it was at the La Garita Caldera (in SW Colorado, a few hundred miles South of Yellowstone). But Yellowstone, unlike La Garita, is active today... and as the largest active supervolcano (I think?), it would have been worth a mention or a picture.

      Mauna Loa, Yellowstone and La Garita are all in the US (Mauna Loa being in Hawaii obviously).
    • EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ummm... caldera != supervolcano
    • ldkronos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@MonsterMagnet:

      Niagara Falls - Thats neither the tallest (Angel Falls) or largest (Victorial Falls)

      Yellowstone - I'll give you that this one could have been included for a number of reasons: largest supervolcano, and I believe it also has the thinnest crust on land and most active geyser basin.

      Mississippi River - It's neither the longest (Nile), widest (Río de la Plata), deepest (Nile), largest flow (Amazon), largest basin (Amazon), nor any other measure I can't seem to come up with. In terms of anything "extreme", the Mississippi is completely unremarkable (except maybe in "most repeitions per letter used in the name: 4 max, 2.75 average")

      Grand Canyon - the article covered this. Colca canyon is deeper, and there are other canyons that are longer, larger, or "better" in just about every individual measure (though I'm bored of looking up stats). Perhaps the only record it holds is "Grandest"
  • CrimsonFlash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12What about The Bay Of Fundy, Nova Scotia ? It has the highest tides in the world.
    • oskite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Us here that live almost in sight of the second largest tide difference in the world, Turnagain Arm, don't like them much.
    • Sealab2021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One really cool thing that has come from large tide difference are boar waves. They are rare but i have seen one :)
  • bwpayne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14How about oldest single living organism alive?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristlecone_Pine

    Yay California!
  • HHP2K, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50"1 registered and 2855 anonymous users are browsing this forum. "

    Lol, digg.
  • theundone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6In regards to the highest recorded wind speed, the May 3rd, '99 tornadoes in the OKC area:

    http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/wtwur318.htm

    I wasn't in the area, but I remember watching the news channels all night while the tornadoes touched down one after another, after another...
    • CedEx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think it counts because it's a storm and not regular wind speed.

      Though, I wonder, if you tethered yourself to the ground, could you fly in one spot in that kind of wind speed?
  • professorChaos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2sweet
  • anyquestions, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Red Sea : Warmest & Saltiest sea on the Earth"

    pretty sure the dead sea is saltier
    • dan00b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3…dead sea is a saltwater lake AFAIK, while Red Sea is attached to an ocean…someone who's taken geography correct me. Caspian Sea is a lake, Black Sea is a lake. Mediterranean is attached to the Atlantic…
  • skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Very interesting read. Digg+

    My favorite because it reminds me of Far Cry: http://www.sbell.co.uk/images/baikal4.jpg
  • FastZ, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4I dont think this was a "MUST SEE" but it was an interesting bit of info.
  • steveabb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ok. It shows the deepest canyon, but doesn't even give an exact figure of how deep it is. "Twice as deep as the Grand Canyon" is not a sufficient value.
  • slayersharpe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Is it just me or was the Asian guy pretending to stick that phallic shaped seed into that one that looked like an ass?
  • iMoth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1cool.
  • strabes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1What? No extreme kayaking?
  • ronaldpoi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yet another Peru mention on a digg story... sweet =)
  • ShBm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've always wanted to see a Rafflesia in real life. I hope some day I do.
    • SuperCujo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just to savour its wonderful aroma?
  • arthurp88, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0wheres a picture of your mom?
    • Guitarhero10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Welcome back from 1999, did you have a good time?
    • jsballardx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yo mama jokes will never go out of style.
  • theGOG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I want to drop something off of one of the "highest vertical drops".
  • sectiodivina16, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0What and leave my mom's basement?
  • dn11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3How have i not seen pics of Mt. Thor before - that is ***** awesome
  • xhadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am pretty sure I remember Kuwait being about 149 degrees Farenheit while I was deployed there, at least thats what the mercury read.
  • tlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Pretty cool pictures but the author should learn how to spell OREGON. There is no A.

    "Oregan's D River also has a claim as the shortest river in the world. However in practice the length of both rivers can vary substantially, and to date the Roe River remains the official record-holder."
  • sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Not very good/illustrative photos
  • thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So of all the lower 48 states, we only get the two shortest rivers and the smallest park on earth. I'll have to remember to not bother getting out next time I'm passing through the USA.
    • gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, see my post about supervolcanoes above... and if you only get out of your car to look at the most extreme of any particular attraction, you must be one hell of a difficult person to impress. :-)
    • HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You should reconsider.
      Minnesota is the home to the world's largest ball of twine. Kansas is where you'll find the world's deepest hand-dug well, and the largest ball of mud. There's more treasures to be found, but you'll only want to plan one vacation at a time, I'm sure.
  • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When did Mexico City get dethroned by Seoul?
  • Thumper13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Reported as lame because someone can't spell OREGON! It's bad enough that most people can't say it correctly, but you should be able to spell it.
    Not once, but twice. SPELL CHECK!
    • nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0and p.s you pronounce it organ like in your body, or you play music on.
      not or ree gone
    • katulatakulu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah these pictures are lame because someone couldnt spell Oregon.
  • tomeitel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so does any one find it weird that Russia is hording all the fresh water...
    • dedalus00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's all part of the communist plot to flouridate our fresh water supply, thus sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids.
  • manicleek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Morcambe Bay (The least interesing one on the list) is about 300 yards away from my office. Didn't think I'd ever see it on anything linked to on Digg
  • astanhope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"World's worst formatted photo post: See above."
  • m23mike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0yooooooooooooooo
    keep rocking like dat
  • mattsidesinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any one have a picture of the web server that page was running off? It would be nice, since it is the slowest server in the world. Very X-TREME.
  • rujnf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok people just cause its recorded does not mean its the hottest place one earth. Bull head city Arizona frequently gets to be 136 in the July and August months, But because its a tourist location the temperature is recorded by te river so that the "recorded" temp doesnt scare off people. I think the Hottest I ever remember was 142. So hot that the asphalt melts almost every summer.
  • ldkronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2deleted...replied in wrong spot
  • JoeWindetc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Twenty bucks says I can swim from one end of Roe River to the other.
  • rambis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...where are the sources?
  • bellevuegeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very interesting list, but Seoul isn't the most populace city, Mexico City is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_city

    Makes me wonder about the claims of all the other "facts".
    • bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1quoting from wikipedia to boost your claims, you are?

      present the best of cases , this doesnt.

      Use those reference links given on the page if you want to be taken really seriously

      Oh and according India's Meteorology Experts Mawsynaram gets more rainfall than Cherrapunji. There are around 5 ot 6 places on earth that vie for that position every year because each year they receive varying amounts of rainfall
  • coldequations, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One of these is wrong. I know this for a fact, because the highest windspeed in human history was recorded about a mile from my house. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Tornado_Outbreak THAT WAS A FUN NIGHT.
  • juhani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Indonesian archipelago may be the biggest in terms of area, but the Archipelago Sea in Finland is the largest in terms of the number of islands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago_Sea
  • Speedraca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0How can a river be awarded a Guinness world record? It's a natural occurrence! Mount Everest may be the highest peak in the world, but watch out! I hear that Mount Thor is making a bid for the title by planning on growing a few thousand feet on a diet of lava and minerals over the next millenia.

    What the heck are the requirements for a Guinness world record? For that matter, does it have anything to do with Guinness beer?
  • Kingslasher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I thought this one was wrong: "The very bottom of the dead sea , in the deepest part, is over 2300 ft below sea level, is the lowest elevation on the Earth.It is the lowest body of water on earth, the lowest point on earth." The Marianas Trench is far lower than the bottom of the dead sea.

  • 0Xtreme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is no such thing as quicksand!
  • mridulchadha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the cherapunji pic is actually a pic from the streets of mumbai when it was flooded last year.
  • osubuku, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0cool pictures :-)
    Take a look at the pictures on http://www.mykayakingbuddies.com for extreme kayaking pictures.
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