January 03, 2011
— Ace Also reportedly "thrilled:" people who make Yo Mama jokes.
rdbrewer posted this in the sidebar on Friday, I think. If you haven't clicked, do so; it's just eight pictures, all of it pretty breathtaking.
This is what we speleologists call "a big fucking cave."
Picture taken from here.
Another good here's-a-human-for-scale-purposes shot:
Hey, let's go fishing:
That from here.
I think a lot of pictures on the internet of caves are now being mislabled as Hang Son Doong/Phong Nha caves, by the way.
Here's a National Geographic article about it. It was discovered 20 years ago, but in May of 2009 an expedition actually explored it. It's in the news now because the last expedition was halted...
In the spring of 2009, Sims was a member of the first expedition to enter Hang Son Doong, or “mountain river cave,” in a remote part of central Vietnam. Hidden in rugged Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park near the border with Laos, the cave is part of a network of 150 or so caves, many still not surveyed, in the Annamite Mountains. During the first expedition, the team explored two and a half miles of Hang Son Doong before a 200-foot wall of muddy calcite stopped them. They named it the Great Wall of Vietnam. Above it they could make out an open space and traces of light, but they had no idea what lay on the other side. A year later, they have returned—seven hard-core British cavers, a few scientists, and a crew of porters—to climb the wall, if they can, measure the passage, and push on, if possible, all the way to the end of the cave.
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Posted by: American Elephant at January 03, 2011 12:06 PM (2+X4m)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnel's Gynecologist at January 03, 2011 12:06 PM (ISHA6)
Posted by: Joe "Spelunker" Biden at January 03, 2011 12:06 PM (UOM48)
The formation of giant caves is just one more ominous harbinger of ecological disaster brought about by Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Change Global Climate Disruption Man-caused Climate Catastrophe.
Posted by: Al Gore (D) Servant of Gaia at January 03, 2011 12:07 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Dick Cheney at January 03, 2011 12:08 PM (ISHA6)
Posted by: Soothsayer the magician at January 03, 2011 12:09 PM (uFokq)
Posted by: laceyunderalls looking at a pic of R. Gibbs & his GINORMOUS forehead at January 03, 2011 12:09 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Michelle O, Food Czar at January 03, 2011 12:10 PM (UOM48)
Who could even afford the furniture to fill up a place like that?
Posted by: Fred Flintstone at January 03, 2011 12:10 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 03, 2011 12:12 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Genghis Kerry at January 03, 2011 12:12 PM (SJ6/3)
Posted by: joncelli© at January 03, 2011 12:13 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at January 03, 2011 12:13 PM (ISHA6)
Posted by: Barry "The Prez" Obama at January 03, 2011 12:13 PM (1fB+3)
Posted by: Soothsayer the magician at January 03, 2011 12:14 PM (uFokq)
It is seared, seared into my memory making trips into that cave in '68 to meet with CIA operatives to plan the bombing of Cambodia.
Posted by: Sen. Jean-Clod Kerry (D) Reporting 4 Dooty at January 03, 2011 12:14 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 03, 2011 12:14 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: sillyme at January 03, 2011 12:15 PM (T8h7U)
if they can, measure the passage, and push on, if possible, all the way to the end of the cave.
Outstanding! keep humping and if you find my keys we can drive out of here.
Posted by: robtr at January 03, 2011 12:16 PM (hVDig)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 03, 2011 12:17 PM (SJ6/3)
Posted by: Goatse at January 03, 2011 12:18 PM (IoUF1)
Posted by: wilma union organizer at January 03, 2011 12:18 PM (h+qn8)
We have caves in the U.S. that have never been fully explored.
Too bad it's not baseball season, because that is a big ole hanging curve right there.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 03, 2011 12:19 PM (B+qrE)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at January 03, 2011 12:19 PM (SJ6/3)
Posted by: caveman hiding behind mud wall at January 03, 2011 12:20 PM (h+qn8)
Posted by: Charon at January 03, 2011 12:20 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 03, 2011 12:21 PM (qygnQ)
Don't forget the man in the boat when entering a cave.
Damn, your nimble fingers.
For that, I keep on my sock.
Posted by: Michelle Obama at January 03, 2011 12:21 PM (ISHA6)
Posted by: kevin jennings at January 03, 2011 12:21 PM (PMLMw)
Oh, and one of the scientists in the group found a new species of something or other. I don't remember what it was. The whole thing was rather boring, but the footage was pretty amazing.
Posted by: Jaynie59 at January 03, 2011 12:23 PM (YjQWV)
Oh, and one of the scientists in the group found a new species of something or other Jaynie59 at January 03, 2011 04:23 PM (YjQWV
dooooomed!
Posted by: old cavewives tale at January 03, 2011 12:24 PM (h+qn8)
The last expedition managed to climb it and there is nothing at the top of it. It ends there
so the journey to the center of the earth was rather a shallow tale.
Posted by: old cavewives tale at January 03, 2011 12:26 PM (h+qn8)
They must mean largest in total area, because I don't think it has anything on this cave in Venezueala.
Look closely. You can see two helecopters at the base of the waterfall by the pool.
Posted by: rdbrewer at January 03, 2011 12:26 PM (qygnQ)
I'll be if you started from the other direction, it would lead to India.
Posted by: Meth-Addled Christopher Columbus at January 03, 2011 12:26 PM (B+qrE)
Posted by: The fat guy in the cave at January 03, 2011 12:27 PM (Q1lie)
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Posted by: old cavewives tale at January 03, 2011 12:35 PM (h+qn8)
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Snooki's Cooter
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Posted by: Kemp at January 03, 2011 12:39 PM (JpFM9)
Posted by: Kemp at January 03, 2011 12:41 PM (JpFM9)
WAIT! are those Illegal Mexican immigrants I see in the background?
Someone see where this thing comes out at!
Posted by: Sherif Joe Arpaio at January 03, 2011 12:42 PM (AdK6a)
We do a different kind of "spelunking", though (IYKWIMAITYD).
Posted by: Robin at January 03, 2011 12:42 PM (IoUF1)
There's one in Arkansas that had a nightclub built inside it. I don't remember exactly where it is.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at January 03, 2011 12:43 PM (IoUF1)
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Posted by: Kemp, now agentman at January 03, 2011 12:46 PM (JpFM9)
Posted by: old cavewives tale at January 03, 2011 12:47 PM (h+qn8)
"to climb the wall, if they can, measure the passage, and push on, if possible, all the way to the end of the cave."
I think I've seen this movie.
Posted by: MlR at January 03, 2011 12:47 PM (vuHIt)
Kemp, it's not Monmouth.
It's MAMMOTH. Cause it's big like a mammoth.Yeah, I knew that, sometime ago. I went to it 20 years ago. Hard to remember everything. Thanks
Posted by: Kemp, now agentman at January 03, 2011 12:48 PM (JpFM9)
Lazy commie scum.
Posted by: Dang at January 03, 2011 01:00 PM (TXKVh)
Posted by: Noted Vietnamese Scholar Joe Biden at January 03, 2011 01:02 PM (le5qc)
We even took a boat tour up one. You just cannot imagine...
Wolf
BTW- VN is TEH BEST vacay I've ever been on- and no, I wasn't there back in '69...
Posted by: Mr Wolf at January 03, 2011 01:12 PM (hbv0S)
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Posted by: BJ Clintoon at January 03, 2011 01:20 PM (RSfE/)
Now gas price too high, takes too much to fill club, always conk out halfway up big wall. Unga bunga, gotta move soon, but how me sell in this market.
Posted by: Captain Caaaaavemaaaaaaaaaan at January 03, 2011 01:25 PM (ZV1rk)
Imagine how many bodies we could hide in there - just like I used to use Olduvai Gorge for. Oh, did you think those were fossils?
Posted by: Keith Arnold at January 03, 2011 01:26 PM (Jdtsu)
20
Journey to the Center of the Cambodian Hellhole
There is a WV cave called Hellhole, which IIRC is now off limits, but which I spent several days in once, when a new section was just opened. Spectacular stuff but on a much smaller scale. Is that why you chose this name?
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Posted by: Col. Kurtz at January 03, 2011 04:01 PM (3ueax)
I've got like a thousand file boxes here, I have NO idea where anything is.
And, from the sound of it, one of them is moving in there somewhere.
Damned inconvenient if you ask me, we had to put our world domination plans back by MONTHS, all because of National Geographic.
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Posted by: China-store at January 03, 2011 05:49 PM (t24Na)
The "main" entrance to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky doesn't look like much until you enter it. But at least they are honest and point out there that "Native Americans" used the cave long before the white, European descendants found out about it.
Howbout "First expedition with modern cameras and non-locals in tow?"
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