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who digs better - man or nature? - the auroran sunset

Humans may use their hands or machines, but nature just uses erosion, volcanic explosions, or even tectonic shifts! A couple of examples from a top ten holes list.

Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah. Source: Tim Jarrett

The world’s largest man-made excavation - a copper mine in the USA. It’s 0.75 miles/1.2 km deep and 2.5 miles/4 km wide.

Blue Hole, Lighthouse Reef, Belize. Source: neatorama.com

Once an opening to a cave system during the Ice Age, the Blue Hole, Belize reef is 1,000 feet/305 m across and 400 feet/123 m wide deep.

“For all the practical purposes the over 400-foot depth makes the Blue Hole a bottomless pit. The walls are sheer from the surface until a depth of approximately 110 feet where you will begin to encounter stalactite formtions which actually angle back, allowing you to dive underneath monstrous overhangs.” [Quoted from neatorama.com]

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how therapy should be done from the auroran sunset

6:16 minutes

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thin houses - the auroran sunset, xavier

In Japan, space is at a premium. Thus, thin houses are built. In other places of prime real estate, thin houses and even skyscrapers are squeezed into skinny gaps and scraps of land.

Thin buildings in Japan. Source: darkroastedblend.com
Left: Ramen shop in Sangenjaya, Tokyo
Top right: at Kochi - width from 10 cm to 1,500cm
Bottom right: in Tokyo

Fuller building, also known as the Flat Iron Building, New York. Opened in 1902.

Several people have collected images of skinny buildings. These include:

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now that the us government is controlling the us motor industry...

1:00 mins

[Link lead from the auroran sunset]

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lights out - earth hour, paris style

Before and during Earth Hour 2009, according to Viewsurf.com webcam

“Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming.”

Before and during Earth Hour 2009, according to Paris-Live.com webcam

[Note: abelard.org has placed this news item under fun because the event does not make a real or permanent direct effect on world ecology. It appears unintegrated, rather like a vegetarian who wears leather shoes.]

spotted on the streets of london

abelard's yaks' bus advert. Source: ruletheweb.co.uk

Go to the linked page to create your very own bus-side advert.

“Atheists have started advertising on buses in the UK. Do you want to see your own message on the side of a bus? Well now's your chance.”

[Link heads up from DVH]

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https://www.abelard.org/news/fun012009.php#bus_advertising_190309

all the fun of the fair - mad humans

mad Japanese! [Original site in Japanese]

View of cycle rollercoaster in Japan, with normal rollercoaster on the left. Note the cycle with pale blue roof shade and two passengers. [Image: drkssk2.fc2web.com]