Showing posts with label Water-cooler. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The 8 Most Terrifying Holes on Earth


Dave W. sent this one in.

Kimberley Big Hole - South Africa: Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1097 meter deep mine yielded over 3 tons of diamonds before being closed in 1914.

Glory Hole - Monticello Dam, California: This is the 'Glory Hole' at Monticello dam, and it's the largest in the world of this type of spillway, its size enabling it to consume 14,400 cubic feet of water every second (note: a glory hole is used when a dam is at full capacity and water needs to be drained from the reservoir).

Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah: This is supposedly the largest man-made excavation on earth. Extraction began in 1863 and still continues today, the pit increasing in size constantly. In its current state the hole is 0.75 miles deep and 2.5 miles wide and covering 1,900 acres.

Great Blue Hole, Belize: This incredible geographical phenomenon known as a blue hole is situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize. There are numerous blue holes around the world, but none as stunning as this one.

Mirny Diamond Mine, Serbia: I'm pretty sure most people have seen this one. It's an absolute beast and holds the title of largest open diamond mines in the world. At 525 meters deep, with a top diameter of 1200 meters, there's even a no-fly zone above the hole due to a few helicopters having been sucked in.

Diavik Mine, Canada: The mine is so huge and the area so remote that it has its own airport with a runway large enough to accommodate a Boeing 737. It looks equally cool when the surrounding water is frozen.

Sinkhole in Guatemala: These photos are of a sinkhole that occurred in Guatemala. The hole swallowed a dozen homes and killed at least three people.

The most terrifying hole of all: This is the famous 'Rat Hole' that you've read so much about lately. It is capable of swallowing trillions upon trillions of U.S. dollars from the real economy each and every year. Most of that money is never seen again.

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From: Usioumo
To: Doug Ross
Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:59 AM

Ho Hum. I Ran across your blog for the first time (and last) this morning. Apparently, you're just another run of the mill brainless right-wing ██████████████ who's convinced the Republidolts have the one solution for everything ......tax cuts.

Usi Oumo

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Star Trek: The Stimulus Doomsday Machine




A badly garbled distress call was just received.


Captain, computer scanning recognized the name United States... then we lost the signal...


Our sensors show this entire region has been destroyed.


Nothing left but rubble and asteroids.


That's incredible...


Nonetheless, Captain, sensors show nothing but debris where we charted a vibrant and healthy society just a few years ago.


Continue search pattern, Mr. Sulu.


Every solar system... blasted into rubble, sir.


Last time we were here, George W. Bush was in command. What could have happened to them?


Sir, I'm picking up a faint disaster beacon...


It's another starship... it appears heavily damaged...


On-screen -- it's the USS Republican...


...disabled by whatever destroyed the United States...


He was attacked! Red alert! Man your battle stations.


...


Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.


Its five-year mission to understand liberalism. Or progressivism. Or whatever it's called these days.


To seek out intelligence among the left.


To boldly go... where no sane person has gone before!


...


...Mr. Sulu...


Initiate a full scan of the area for any ships in the vicinity.


I can't raise anyone on the Rebublican.


Readings are difficult due to subspace interference, but the bridge has taken heavy damage and may be uninhabitable. The rest of the ship does seem capable of sustaining life.


All scanners show clear, Captain.


Sir... sensors indicate there is one person aboard... barely clinging to life...


Transporter room: beam him up... Dr. McCoy, meet him in the transporter room and be prepared for a trauma victim.


Sulu, stand down, let's go to yellow alert.


...


Jim, you better get down to sickbay... he's conscious, but still in shock.


On my way. See if you can find out what happened to the United States.


I'm a doctor, not a mind-reader... just get down here...


George W. Bush... what happened to the Republican? Where is the United States?


Jim? Jim Kirk?


George, it's me. What happened?


I... I...


Horrible... Dodd... Frank... Pelosi...


They say there's no devil, Jim... but there is...


Right out of hell... I saw it...


What? Dodd, Frank, Pelosi? They're imbeciles... they posed no threat to the United States the last time we came through...


New one... change... new one... change...


Snap out of it, George!! Tell me --


Jim, he's in shock!


If you'd seen it, you'd know... the whole thing's a weapon, designed to subvert entire societies... straight out of Marx...


It started with promises of "hope and change"... then a "stimulus"... largest spending increase in history... bankrupted the entire country...


Then it shut down all of our communications systems... radio... everything...


It destroys entire societies... chops it into rubble...


But what is it??


Captain! Bridge here! There's... there's...


On my way...


Captain... it's some kind of Marxist doomsday machine... spending as far as the eye can see... bankrupting entire countries with worthless programs that don't work...


It's opening hailing frequencies...


On screen.


USS Enterprise: embrace the hope and change. My name is Barack Obama.


Resistance is -- you guessed it -- futile.


I can destroy any society using the Alinsky playbook. Create class envy. Preach change and transparency. Pretend to embrace mainstream values.


And all the while, lie through your teeth. I read Alinsky.


Ah, a worthy adversary at last.


Unfortunately, Kirk, that sentence will be your last...


Captain! He's increased his spending to maximum... sucking us into his next "stimulus" bill...


To be continued...

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