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2022-08-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Chile sinkhole DOUBLES in size to 160ft wide and more than 650ft deep - large enough to engulf France's Arc de Triomphe - days after it appeared near small town

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-09 07:49|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 there are a lot of large sinkholes in the world but this one is already in the top 10 or so in depth

the biggest in area is the Qattara Depression in Egypt which is over 7k sq miles in area and one in China is over 2k feet deep.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-08-09 15:37|| 2022-08-09 15:37|| Front Page Top

#2 What stuns me is the 'cleanly sheared' sides. I would think a collapse would form something of a cascade like funnel with debris at the bottom.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-09 15:41|| 2022-08-09 15:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Need Frank to tutor us in soil composition and shear forces.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-09 15:42|| 2022-08-09 15:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Vertical instead of sloping walls is curious. I suspect an alien core sample.

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-09 16:38|| 2022-08-09 16:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Should be safe and consider it a hole in time, until something enters and comes back out.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-09 19:31|| 2022-08-09 19:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Black hole or earthly rectal inversion ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-09 19:36|| 2022-08-09 19:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Sloping indicates somewhat uniform soil with cohesion (clay/sedimentary, etc.). A vertical shear indicates differential soils with no vertical support below IMHO

Posted by Frank G 2022-08-09 20:00|| 2022-08-09 20:00|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 alien core sample

[Earth-shattering methane emission] "The planet has gaaaaa-yuss!"

Posted by Lonzo Mussolini8538 2022-08-09 20:06|| 2022-08-09 20:06|| Front Page Top

#9 sloping walls only possible if there is support at bottom. of wall. The less support, the more vertical the sides.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-08-09 20:17|| 2022-08-09 20:17|| Front Page Top

#10 sloping walls only possible if there is support at bottom.

So you're saying it's bottomless.

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-09 21:18|| 2022-08-09 21:18|| Front Page Top

#11 A vertical shear indicates differential soils with no vertical support below IMHO

So you're saying it's aliens.

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-09 21:19|| 2022-08-09 21:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Well...not out loud

Posted by Frank G 2022-08-09 21:31|| 2022-08-09 21:31|| Front Page Top

#13
High hopes, from Chinese slopes,
engulfing the Arc de triomphe!
Vertical shears, faulty gears,
and nothing to support the oomph.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-09 21:36|| 2022-08-09 21:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Mum's the word!

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-09 21:39|| 2022-08-09 21:39|| Front Page Top

#15 *giggle* Y’all are delightfully silly.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-09 22:10|| 2022-08-09 22:10|| Front Page Top

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