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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/02/2009 : 01:09:30
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This city has a hole in it.
1. What's the city's name?
2. Where is it?
3. For an extra point, what is the main thing that's supposed to come out of, or go into, that hole?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/02/2009 01:10:31
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 08/02/2009 : 02:06:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
This city has a hole in it.
1. What's the city's name?
2. Where is it?
3. For an extra point, what is the main thing that's supposed to come out of, or go into, that hole?
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1. Heaven
2. In the sky
3. Trick question; it's not a hole but one of God's tits. 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2009 : 02:15:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
1. Heaven
2. In the sky
3. Trick question; it's not a hole but one of God's tits.
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How about God's crapper?
Sorry, no points awarded, though laughs enjoyed.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2009 : 02:36:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by filthy
1. Heaven
2. In the sky
3. Trick question; it's not a hole but one of God's tits.
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How about God's crapper?
Sorry, no points awarded, though laughs enjoyed.
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Which is really the point of the whole thing, eh?  Especially when one has no idea of the what & where of the thing, but is glad it's not in his back yard.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2009 : 17:53:30 [Permalink]
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Hint # 1: This "Holey City" is on the Eurasian continent.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 03:07:11 [Permalink]
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Hint # 2: This city is in a remote region of Asia.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 07:46:59 [Permalink]
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1. Mirny
2. Eastern Siberia
3. Diamonds
Try the more remote regions of the distaff side of the Moon, Mooner. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 12:42:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
1. Mirny
2. Eastern Siberia
3. Diamonds
Try the more remote regions of the distaff side of the Moon, Mooner.
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Dang, but are you sharp, Bill! Correct, for all three points!
Also, this is the second deepest hole on earth.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 14:17:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by bngbuck
1. Mirny
2. Eastern Siberia
3. Diamonds
Try the more remote regions of the distaff side of the Moon, Mooner.
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Dang, but are you sharp, Bill! Correct, for all three points!
Also, this is the second deepest hole on earth. |
Who is the first one? Limbaugh? |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 15:51:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Who is the first one? Limbaugh? |
He's probably the widest.
I'm not sure about the deepest hole IN the earth, however. It might be the Chuquicamata copper mine, in Chile, which is "3 km wide and over 850 m deep." Of course, I'm somewhat arbitrarily excluding bore holes, which have often gone much deeper.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 16:11:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
The Kennecott Mine is over 1,200 meters deep and 4 km wide.
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Dang, that sucker must be the biggest!
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 17:27:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Dang, that sucker must be the biggest! |
The mining company claims it is, and it sure seems that way when you're standing at the visitor's center looking down into the pit, and the three-story-tall trucks look like matchbox cars.
Here's the satellite view. Scroll north until you find route 80. Then follow 80 to the east until you see that Salt Lake City International Airport. Compare the airport to the mine for some sense of scale.
(If you zoom way in, you can see some of those trucks I mentioned. Some laden with ore, some empty. The tires for those things cost $20K each and last only nine months.)
This may be how it looks from orbit (without the green arrow, of course). |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 19:06:49 [Permalink]
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Dah-yamn! That's mind-boggling.
I noticed it's almost impossible for me to "see" the excavation in your first link as a hole instead of as a mountain. That's due to the lighting. We're wired to see positive shapes as lighted on top, shaded on the bottom. When I took th eimage to Photoshop and rotated it 180 degrees, it looked "right."
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 19:15:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Dah-yamn! That's mind-boggling.
I noticed it's almost impossible for me to "see" the excavation in your first link as a hole instead of as a mountain. That's due to the lighting. We're wired to see positive shapes as lighted on top, shaded on the bottom. When I took th eimage to Photoshop and rotated it 180 degrees, it looked "right."
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Thanks for the info. I was having the same problem. Knowing it was a hole, but seeing a hill. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 20:01:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
I noticed it's almost impossible for me to "see" the excavation in your first link as a hole instead of as a mountain. That's due to the lighting. We're wired to see positive shapes as lighted on top, shaded on the bottom. When I took th eimage to Photoshop and rotated it 180 degrees, it looked "right." |
The hole in Chile, being in the Southern Hemisphere, probably looks like a hole if North is at top-of-page.
Kennicutt, being in the Northern Hemisphere, is naturally lit "from the South." |
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What on Earth?: Holey Crap!
