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- andrewcsayer, on 01/13/2008, -3/+58***** site suspended. Is the damn site hosted on a cell phone?
- shaka776, on 01/13/2008, -9/+62Buried as inaccurate... it's just a mirage.
- Lixie, on 01/13/2008, -4/+51The photo is misleading. That oasis is only 2 minutes drive from civilization. Had they taken the picture from the other side you'd see farms, vegetation, and buildings in the background.
- nymphetamine, on 01/13/2008, -0/+30Upclose pic of the lake: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Peru ...
- seks03, on 01/13/2008, -1/+26http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&tim ...
- jmpeagle, on 01/13/2008, -3/+23being 5 miles from a lush river valley isn't exactly in the middle of the desert
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&tim ...
zoom out a little - kru1e, on 01/13/2008, -1/+19middle of the desert as in 2 miles from the grocery store.
- Pilot85, on 01/13/2008, -1/+18Ruined the magic. i was like "oh, an oasis! far from everything, a remote but beautiful escape from the surrounding barren landscape. Then I was like, oh wait, it's right next to a city. :
- gnews, on 01/13/2008, -2/+12A sand storm will be hard core!
- misterjangles, on 01/13/2008, -1/+11that's interesting - if you zoom out of the map you can see this oasis isn't quite in the middle of the desert all by itself. It's not even a mile from what looks to be a fairly major city. still, a cool looking place.
- undersky, on 01/13/2008, -2/+10oh please are you retarded? LOOK AT THE GOOGLE MAP! it's literally ONE MILE away from civilization. i do see vegetation, farm, house, road, city, literally few miles to the East. I don't care where you been to, and by all means, what you seen might be a mirage yourself. I trust my eyes on Google Map, look at it yourself!
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fbbs.keyho ... - chililili, on 01/13/2008, -5/+13Really 2 minutes drive? I have actually been down there in order to reach that town you have to take a 30 minute bus drive from Ica through nothing but amazing mountains of sand and to reach Ica you need a 1 hour and 30 mins flight from the capital. It was a very nice but there is not much to do, there is a merchant center around the water and you can drive a dune buggy/jeep through the sand. Also from there you can take a plane flight to see the Nazca lines which are in the same desert.
But really your farms, vegetation and building are quite a long distance from there. - evilpig, on 01/13/2008, -7/+14Digg effect only with 70 diggs?
- f8pc, on 01/13/2008, -0/+7http://www.mtw.at/fotos/peru2006/20061223/DCIM/101 ...
http://www.mtw.at/fotos/peru2006/20061223/DCIM/101 ...
http://www.mtw.at/fotos/peru2006/20061223/DCIM/101 ...
http://www.mtw.at/fotos/peru2006/20061223/DCIM/101 ...
http://www.mtw.at/fotos/peru2006/20061223/DCIM/101 ... - smek2, on 01/13/2008, -2/+8Wow, "posted 5 minutes ago" and already down.
- anselm83, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5Believe it or not, some people on the internet are not from the US.
- Elijha, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5I was their a few months ago while on holiday, this oasis is a pure tourist mecca, all the buildings are hotels or restaurants or dune buggy shops (associated with a hotel and restaurant). Literally a few days after my visit an earthquake struck the area (the city you can see closely behind is Ica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Peru_earthquake) I was told a lot of the Adobe (mud brick) housing in the oasis area collapsed and it would have been devastating for the locals to try and recover.
If you want to see a more realistic (non photoshoped) image try this one of mine ... you can see people literally dragging boards up the dunes next to the town.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamieaust/1322747994/ ...
Awesome town, excellent people, great fun. I'd recommend going their if you are in Peru. - DephexTwin, on 01/13/2008, -1/+6Wow, you really do type like a retard.
- pennpaper, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4it's your total lack of punctuation that we digg you down. you don't make any sense.
- HigherLogic, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4Close, it's on BlueHost. Most of the sites that I see suspended that are linked from here tend to be on BH.
- Pirate45, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4I believe this oasis was featured in the original version of Flight of The Phoenix.
- DigitAl56K, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4Actually they do. It'll be a shared hosting server, and that account will have been negatively impacting other accounts hosted on the same box. Imagine 20 accounts on that box and suddenly one lands front page on Digg. If you plan to do high traffic pay for proper hosting.
- GreenAlien, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3Woosh.
- Unreal595, on 01/13/2008, -3/+6Man, we need a mirror already?? :(
- rdog99, on 01/13/2008, -2/+5At this place you can go sandboarding, aka, strap a piece of wood to your feet and board down these massive sand dunes similar to snowboarding. The cool thing was the locals had rigged up a lift that they used to get up the hill.
- DYNAMICENTRYYY, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3I've always wondered what it would be like to live in a place like that. What would you do all day? Oh hey lets go to the lake again! Sounds good!
- warrenterr, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3Reminds me of Diablo II act II. I can hear the drums already..
- darkstar949, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3Read what others are talking about - the CPU Quota is not referring to the bandwidth, it's referring to the CPU time it takes to serve the page. You can host a couple hundred sites on the same server as long as they aren't getting many hits - once one site get a bunch of hits it starts to consume more CPU time, thus decreasing the response time of the other sites, even if the bandwidth is available.
- rkzda, on 01/13/2008, -1/+3Think about how many people looked at it without digging...
- delfin1, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2yeah i remember trying this using a cardbox as board, it doesn't work.
- delfin1, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2the sandsurfing on the video looks fun.
- mahoutie, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
- Scott.Lyles, on 01/13/2008, -1/+3The place is five minutes from Ica, Peru. It's nice.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_lyles/103291587 ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_lyles/103291586 ... - HappyScrappy, on 01/13/2008, -3/+5What do you mean "in the middle of the desert"? You can see a non-desert city walking distance away IN THE PHOTOGRAPH.
- LanEvo, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2do they not have sandstorms?
- Goodanswer, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Dugg for the " single paddle boat"
wonder if he charges for rides? - jcsw, on 01/13/2008, -1/+3Cameras are not immune to mirages, mirages are not hallucinations but tricks of the light.
- Elijha, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Nope. It's quite dirty water and I saw only birds feeding in it when I was their recently ... though you can hire a row-boat and paddle about if you wish.
- gropo, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2I've been there too, and that photo is in fact facing back towards Ica. You can actually see a little bit of farm there in the crotch between the two dunes.
- Thex1138, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1Well it doesn't appear to be an oasis per say...there's a main road to the place for about 1 mile to the city of Ica...where these people can get all there supplies as needed...even water if the oasis dries up..
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http://ehcsib.org/ - NihilFist, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1Or HostGator
- themastersb, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1I thought it was going to show Vegas
- krebcycle, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1nice spam
- inactive, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1That's right. I work for a hosting company that puts around 1000 accounts per box. They're running Xeon Clovertown procs but still, too many in my book.
- zunkus, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1I've seen pictures of similar settlements...the water will eventually run out and then it will become a ghost town...it's been going on for 1000s of years. As for the above comment, that's not true...the deserts worldwide are growing..pretty fast actually.
- inactive, on 01/13/2008, -1/+2*****, this is photoshop. I was trained by warner bros and hanna barberas cartoons this is an alucination.
- stevenb486, on 01/13/2008, -3/+4fail...
- delfin1, on 01/13/2008, -0/+1yeah plus in the US you can't go sand boarding and 20 mins later go surf at the beach
- KingGorilla, on 01/13/2008, -1/+2Over that sand dune is another town
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