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Entire school inside of a huge cave [pics]

reuters.com — The school is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave.

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  • markiemarke, on 11/17/2007, -3/+91i was expecting a very large structure built intertwined with the cave rather than a few buildings erected inside of a very large cave like this but its still rather cool. poor kids wont get much sun light though will they :(
    • Kier, on 11/17/2007, -0/+9Everyone loves rickets!
    • AgentKPB, on 11/17/2007, -7/+1Isn't that where peasant kids like these normally live?
    • sanman, on 11/17/2007, -8/+1I don't see any buildings, I just see some desks
    • bluezinc, on 11/17/2007, -4/+2From the title I could tell it was going to be in China. Poor Chinese kids. You can't paint wal-mart toys in the dark!
    • Audacitor, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4If you ignore the poverty, that's actually a pretty damn cool place to have school.
    • DesignEx, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2Talk about old school !
  • kevlarbaboon, on 11/17/2007, -5/+123It's a vampire school.
    • davesecx, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8It must suck when someone asks to turn up the heat
      • kevlarbaboon, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Get it? Suck?! As in...Blood?!

        Whatever.
    • graemee, on 11/17/2007, -6/+1Bat School
    • danconia, on 11/17/2007, -1/+6Well regardless of what kind of monsters can fit in the far end of that cave I think I can admit I'd be scared to go to school every day. Caves are naturally scary as hell.
      • MadHarvey, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1I agree. Have you ever seen that movie The Descent?? I wouldn't go into no cave, not for all the edjumacations in the world.
  • drknownothing, on 11/17/2007, -6/+41Seems depressing.
    • cankillar, on 11/17/2007, -3/+6They get to say, respond "I went spelunking!" when their parents ask them how their day was.
      I wish I could.
    • jklikesnews, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2In my opinion, quite the opposite. Seems surreal, I wouldn't mind going there for sch... Oh, that's right. Nevermind. I wouldn't mind visiting.
  • trghpy, on 11/17/2007, -0/+33I could so see kids trying to climb to the top...
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3Behold the future Gold Medalists of the 2020 Olympics Rock Climbing Team!
  • carterbaldwin, on 11/17/2007, -1/+71Man, that is the lamest cover ever for what is obviously a secret excavation project to create a nefarious superweapon.
    • sanman, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4Gotta keep them from creating a mineshaft gap
    • MasterODisaster, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1Haha carter, I LOL'd
  • andrewcsayer, on 11/17/2007, -0/+32I can see a sequel to The Goonies coming from this...
  • nateabel, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4While this is interesting, I'm not sure I would want to go to school there. Must be dark and cold!
    • Kurisuku, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2Everyone complains about there not being enough light, but I guess it's just the way I was brought up...

      My family is obsessed with blinds and keeping all the lights off all the time. I grew up in a house that was ALWAYS pitch dark, everyone else in the family would bitch and whine if you turned on lights because it was "too bright". Most light I ever got was from a TV, or when I went out.

      When I grew up and met people who DIDN'T live like that it boggled the hell out of me. I still don't understand how people can stand being in bright places for long periods of time, it's painful. I find dark places like this cave to be cozy, whereas I find bright places to be cold and unwelcoming. (Like most American schools, now that I think of it.)
  • invectivelover, on 11/17/2007, -15/+2Picture a cave in *giggle*
  • thekronz, on 11/17/2007, -1/+159Alright so we got this huge cave, what can we do with it?

    Can we.... Can we teach children in it?
  • jc7012, on 11/17/2007, -7/+2You are the future.
  • UtahApocalyse, on 11/17/2007, -15/+2entire school.... one classroom...... buried lame
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 11/17/2007, -3/+2What if the entire school consists of one class?
  • ekravchenko, on 11/17/2007, -2/+12makes me glad that I didn't attend a school in a cave.
  • Duncast, on 11/17/2007, -1/+17They probably built it outside the cave, then run out of money for the roof shingles, so they moved the buildings into the nearby cave to keep the kids out of the elements. Very resourceful. As a teacher, I'd love to teach there.
    • caketank, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4Ah, that would explain why the buildings are framed for pitched roofs. I was wondering about that. Good call.
  • MeThePeople, on 11/17/2007, -1/+24this is how batman begins should have started
    • amcmillan, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1It would have been 10x more interesting if he had gone to school in China as a boy as a result of some strange plot twist.
  • Iravan, on 11/17/2007, -0/+80seismic shifts were a factor in creating the cave - That sounds safe
    • SilverStandard, on 11/17/2007, -0/+7The greatest threat to this school is not seismic shifts, but a beast that is half man, half bear, and half pig.
  • bingo000, on 11/17/2007, -7/+2I wonder what are education are they getting in there? Survival for dummies.
  • Treshnell, on 11/17/2007, -1/+7Crab people, crab people.
  • TDot1980, on 11/17/2007, -1/+42Hanger: something that hangs; a wire or plastic form to hang clothes on
    Hangar: a large building where aircraft are stored.

    That is all.
    • gmiley, on 11/17/2007, -1/+15Regardless, the cave would still have to be fairly large to fit a hanger for an aircraft no?
  • futebollounge, on 11/17/2007, -0/+13the ceiling scares the ***** out of me to be honest. i would be wearing a helmet at all times.
  • JoaoPe, on 11/17/2007, -1/+13They have houses inside... but I like the fact they don't care about roofs!
  • Invalice, on 11/17/2007, -3/+3i would freeze in there
    • MacBandit, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Temp for most caves hold at a nearly constant 60 degrees.
      • drachemorder, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1True, but not when they're mainly exposed to the outside. You can see in one of the pictures that this cave has a very large mouth. I doubt it's very well isolated from the outside temperature.
  • benroy, on 11/17/2007, -7/+1Probably sells awful. Because of all the guano not the kids.
    Just kidding, kids totally stink.
    And the cave would only serve to magnify the stench of the bat-***** covered children.
    • jklikesnews, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2Seriously. I imagine almost anything with batt crap all over it would sell horribly.
  • ImYourRealDad, on 11/17/2007, -4/+1Probably getting a better education in that cave than I am in some multi-million dollar building.

    Which I pay too much to go to, anyway. >:|
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1It's not the building, it's the people in it.
  • jjalsop, on 11/17/2007, -1/+9Wow.
    And I thought MY primary school was a dump.
  • petershultz, on 11/17/2007, -6/+1WHY?!?
  • zachseaman, on 11/17/2007, -3/+1concentration = 0
  • claphands22, on 11/17/2007, -2/+3China must have some crazy growth spurts to be holding the Olympics and an elementary school in a cave.
  • darwiniandemon, on 11/17/2007, -1/+6Batman now needs a new home. :(
  • fosspathei, on 11/17/2007, -0/+4i looked at the other pictures on the page, like the basketball court and break area, that is pretty cool. it sort of looks like a moon landscape.
  • kakwakas, on 11/17/2007, -1/+4"The school is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and _seismic shifts_. "
    The collapsing coal mines in China don't make enough news, so they want a school to collapse?
    • kittenman, on 11/17/2007, -0/+2u can see how poor China's kids are, they dont have facilities like ours~!
  • 3210, on 11/17/2007, -2/+2It looks pretty nice but, I wouldn't like to attend that school day after day with so little light.
  • guruofinfo, on 11/17/2007, -10/+3Must of been where Osoma Bin Laden used to go to class.
    http://wwwgamecopyingguide.com
  • ukthom, on 11/17/2007, -1/+9Course offerings: Spelunking, Mining 101, Stone Masonry
    Mandatory Reading: Clan of the Cave Bear
    PE Course: Rope skills, how to survive a mine-shaft cave in
  • MadN, on 11/17/2007, -2/+2"As a matter of fact I was taught by cave men"
    I also wonder if they have the "Duck and Cover" Cold War drills here?
    They would only need a really massive school door to block any possibility of radiation just like the Air Force bunkers.
  • kirashira, on 11/17/2007, -2/+2Now this is ghetto.
  • Prototek, on 11/17/2007, -2/+1Reminds me of the Myst novels... except not as cool.
  • PachiKo, on 11/17/2007, -2/+1What do they do in case of an earthquake?

    My answer, Die.
    • kittenman, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1the cave has been around for thousand years as stated, and do u think all the sudden an earthquake to break it down?
    • oniangie, on 11/18/2007, -0/+0u isn't a word :(
  • zatyp, on 11/17/2007, -0/+0Don't they know it's very unhealthy to live in a cave. With all the moist and molds...
    • kittenman, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1but they have to , u can tell, the dirt on the kids faces and the poor facilities.
  • Ignitedude, on 11/17/2007, -0/+5That's gotta be cold...
  • VicVega, on 11/17/2007, -1/+2They will all grow up to be Batmen and Batwomen..
  • danmat06, on 11/17/2007, -3/+2Those aren't children, they're midgets, Filthy Drug Peddling Midgets...
  • grexeo, on 11/17/2007, -0/+3What's the bet they all grow up to be shut-ins?
  • xquizit, on 11/17/2007, -0/+6first lesson: make fire
  • KingBunny, on 11/17/2007, -2/+1Hmm, the title has the word "cave" in it. If this was a video on LiveLeak.com I guarantee that one of the first 5 comments would include the words "towel head".
  • unangst, on 11/17/2007, -3/+1Community Moves School to Cave When Contractor Forgets Roof [PIC]
  • SopMan99, on 11/17/2007, -1/+3Since this is in China, I bet the kids that are educated in this place are probably going to have higher grades and come out "smarter" than American kids.
  • smurfeh, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1See, if this cave was in America, we would have bulldozed it and created the school from the ground up using 100x the effort and materials x)
    • Chaoticfist, on 11/17/2007, -0/+1Yes and we also would not need to worry about the cave collapsing on our kids.......
  • pdp11, on 11/17/2007, -4/+0
    "Solid Education" lol

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  • drizzlelicious, on 11/17/2007, -0/+6洞里 (Dong Li) = in cave
    洞中 (Dong Zhong) = middle of the cave

    I speak Chinese, so I get to be a prick about it.
  • SWmania, on 11/17/2007, -1/+1Are these bat children...having to learn in a cave?
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