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- inactive, on 10/19/2007, -0/+26With regard to the Welsh hobbit house, When it was first completed the local council applied to have it demolished as he hadn't requested building permission and they considered it not in keeping with the local environment. You can walk past it and not know it's there!
- lt2k1, on 11/09/2007, -3/+21Ummm....
"Tokyo, Japan is at the heart of a strange and gripping mystery involving seven riddles and a supposed secret underground city. It all began when Japanese researcher Shun Akiba found an old map of the Tokyo tunnel system that didn’t match current maps. Since then, he has found six other strange inconsistencies in historical maps and other records that suggest the existence hidden spaces. His claims have been vehemently denied by the Japanese government."
That's not a mysterious underground city, that's part of Japan's very new and modern flood control system. They even have the same photo that Time uses.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 ... - HBNDonut, on 10/16/2007, -1/+13The Japanese Underground looks like the set for one of Puff Daddy's old music videos.
- whatthefu, on 10/16/2007, -1/+10Bilbo sure fixed his ***** up.
- shinedout, on 10/16/2007, -2/+10One of the photos looks like the Mines of Moria.
- Nateon, on 10/22/2007, -0/+5Whoa, that Denver Airport thing is pretty freaky. All I have to say is wtf?
- mathamoz, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5Hobbit house is awesome!! I wish I had land and money so I could build one now. Not sure I would like the idea of the walls being packed with straw and heat from a fireplace though, seems like something of a fire hazard.
- Jakkukun, on 10/20/2007, -0/+4I thought that as soon as I saw it. Amazing pictures non-the-less. I wonder if there are people living in secret underground cities right now that have evolved over a billion years to survive entirely on soil.
- inactive, on 11/09/2007, -0/+4This article is piss poorly written. The descriptions should come before the big pile of pics for each so we know what we're looking at. The Japan ones arent'related to eachother and don't even say what they are (Tokyo flood protection, Neutrino detector etc)
That said, those are some interesting sites. It's a pity the writer didn't do more research into his subject - Terr01, on 10/22/2007, -0/+4Nice Marathon logo :P
The pictures for that are all bogus, at least the first and third. The first is part of part of the Japanese flood-control system, the third is from the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector. (Usually filled with water.) - Kerath, on 10/22/2007, -0/+4Look again.
- alibenx, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5No more general "I like the hobbit house" comments below this point.
- cyb3rdemon, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3What about the LHC?
- MikeyBillz, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3Very cool...except the Rome catacomb system should be on this list too...it's massive; it goes on for miles and miles - it took the city of Rome decades to build the subway system because they kept running into ancient ruins down there and they needed to re-plan the whole system...
- T-Maaz, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3Huge problems with the Denver Airport part:
1) The image of a young person in a coffin is actually a small piece of a _very_ large mural, that's in the main terminal - by no means hidden. (Thousands of people pass by it every single day)
2) The only tunnels that are out in the boondocks of cornfields and cow pastures surrounding DIA are the tram and support-way tunnels, that the shuttle trains and baggage system run through, to get from the terminal to the concourses.
3) The Masonic keystone they show is just the caplock over the time capsule they put in the ground, when the airport was built (also in the main terminal, in plain sight.)
This person went to a conspiracy-style site, and didn't actually read the articles - just pulled random images off the site, and stuck them together. None of the selected imagery is of anything 'underground' at DIA.
(side note: There are, however, tunnels underneath the actual city of Denver, but they are by no means mysterious; all of them are closed to the public, and most of them used to lead from very upscale hotels downtown, to the more seedy areas of town -- in the "good ol' days" these tunnels were supposedly used to sneak high-profile clientele from the hotels over to the red light district, and/or the reverse (hookers into the hotel, without using the main entrance or lobby). Not very mysterious or wondrous, by any means.) - drunk3nrabbit, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3I thought the same thing
- edwartica, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3more of a historical landmark. I know this seems like the same thing.
- satanatnmtedu, on 10/16/2007, -2/+5I liked the Hobbit House.
- soulkitchen, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Freud was right
- xjonnyx134, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2If by 'underground' you mean mostly not underground and by 'more' you mean ones we havent already seen a thousand times well then I enjoyed it.
- edwartica, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2The Seattle underground is really interesting. Been there once. Though I hate how they've made it into a tourist trap.
- RRightmyer, on 10/16/2007, -0/+2Surely Moscow's Metro system is more of a wonder than the shire.
- colincornaby, on 10/22/2007, -0/+2As opposed to making it into what exactly?
- Alotar, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2I was in Wieliczka once. Amazing statues, they have even church and concert hall there
- ettin, on 10/22/2007, -1/+3The hobbit house is the ultimate home.
- lt2k1, on 10/16/2007, -1/+3Fixed Link
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 ... - Terr01, on 10/16/2007, -2/+4WTF? I think the underground Japanese thing is just a hoax. Or at least, all the photos are bogus. What triggered this for me was this picture:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/1574396193_cce ...
I recognized it: It's a science facility for detecting neutrinos. (Thank you, popular science. Or mechanics. Whatever.)
http://www.aip.org/png/html/super-k.htm - anotherjeff, on 10/15/2007, -1/+3That third pic kinda looks familiar.
- Shwinkster, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1i wonder why more people don't live in hobbit holes...
- theodenking, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Me too! And it actually looks feasible, a lot of times you see houses like this which are hugely expensive but this was made so cheaply.
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1dirty boy
- wtfmate112, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1That was the most sensationalist description I've ever read on digg.
- fareed, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2Kandovan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandovan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliza_tasbihi/sets/72 ...
http://gallery.azlink.info/gallery/folderview.asp? ... - Yamaste, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1If you want to build one check this site out: http://www.simondale.net/house/build.htm
- Wacer, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Where I live, people are just happy to have homes that don't have radon gas accumulating in the basement.
- supaklaw, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1you mean "Dark Days".
- XenonofArcticus, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Archive.org mirror of the original photos collection:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070601214512/www.g-ca ... - wishninja, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Since science has mostly failed to deliver on promises of endless energy made from cold fusion and extreme power and efficiency from room temperature super conductors we will all be living in a hobbit house in the future so we had better get used to it. Our world has become toxic anyway plastics and chemicals making boys grow ***** and girls go into puberty at 8 years old. The fiberglass in our lungs causing cancer and the air has gone stale from the agriculture and industrial pollution has made the earth imposable to live on so we might as well live inside of her.
- Mononuclear, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1when I was there it seemed like a historical landmark. I lived in Seattle for several years and went there a couple times. My favorite "landmark" though is the Troll under Aurora
- MikeyBillz, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Here's an old map of the catacombs in Rome: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndalls/497869356/
and a current picture of one of the tunnels: http://www.flickr.com/photos/batigolix/211111349/ - merkk, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1kinda lame that some of the 'wonders' are just complete rumors with no proof at all. A couple of maps that dont match up isnt much of a wonder. And the last one doesnt even have a map, just pure rumor.
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Some of the pictures reminds me of the era of the Flintstone's. ;-) (The use of semi-colon before nose and smile means wink, as in a joke)
- inactive, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1GIMLEH!
- Mononuclear, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Hobbit homes have no basement so problem solved.
- jkharris07, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I like the cities in Kapadokya, Turkey. I think it is really amazing how they are linked underground.
- sistaweotch, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1"Tokyo flood protection"
Is that what the first one is? I really wish it had a distinct caption. - inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+0Turkey is one of the World's oldest settlement area. There are so many wonders and old constructions in Turkey. As a Turk, I think we aren't advertising Turkey enough. I believe that no other country has as many wonders as Turkey.
- michiamojoe, on 10/16/2007, -0/+0Is it the first, with the song called "None Shall Pass"? Or is that just a really odd coincidence?
- michiamojoe, on 10/16/2007, -0/+0....aaand i got the wrong story. no wonder none of these comments made much sense. good god time for bed.
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