[ARCHIVED THREAD] - A lake is missing(?) in Chile (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/20/2007 7:30:22 PM EDT
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. The lake was situated in the Magallanes region in Patagonia and was fed by water, mostly from melting glaciers. It had a surface area of between 4 and 5 hectares (10-12 acres) -- about the size of 10 soccer pitches. "In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal ... we went again in May and to our surprise we found the lake had completely disappeared," said Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile's National Forestry Corporation CONAF. "The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters. CONAF is investigating the disappearance. One theory is that the area was hit by an earth tremor that opened a crack in the ground which acted like a drain. Southern Chile has been shaken by thousands of minor earth tremors this year. Go figure.  |
The machine you mention was developed after the succesful utilization of the Dick Cheney Haliburton Hurricane Katrina Machine on Louisiana and the "Chocolate City.". HS1 |
Besides the polar ice caps, where else do you think they're gettin the water to run the hurricane machine. I'm thinkin someones fixin to get it!  Any guesses who it will be? Wasn't there a lake in the US a few years ago that did the same thing? I remember seeing a pic of a boat sitting high and dry in the middle of it. |
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That happened to the lake just outside my house. A sinkhole opened up and drained it. Link. |
First I've heard of a "soccer pitch" as well. Of course, I don't follow "soccer" either. |
I am positive Haliburton are doing the finishing touches on 4 new machines capable of terror the world has never seen. The machines have been prophesied as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. 
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Shit itd be scary if a sink whole opend under you. Have any of you ever been where the ocean drops off? The DEEP ocean. I cant remeber where it was but it was scary as hell. Your just swimming along VERY shallow water and then the sea floor just DROPS down HUNDREDS of miles. I mean you cant see ANYTHING. Its where all the weird fish are. Its so far down that its PITCH BLACK. I cant explain how dark it is. And its so deep that no submarine can go all the way down (unmanned or not). |
Er, the deepest recorded ocean depth is something like 35K feet. And that's only 7 miles. |
Never said it was a fact. Anyway it looked like a hundred+ miles. |
The Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench is 35,838 ft to be exact, water pressure is ~16,000 psi. 
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For some reason, the part in red really cracks me up. |
haha that happened to a school I went to. |
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| Could be a sign that a big earthquake is about to hit, in my opinion. World's most powerful earthquake hit that country about 30 years ago. A whole stretch of the west South American coastline dropped five feet or so. I think the Richter scale rating was around 9. |
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I think Gloftoe has been spending too much time on Arfcom--might be that whole mod deal . Is he chained to the desk? Get out, see the world. Spend 30 seconds in a train station or airport in Europe or Asia. Go on vacation. Just don't talk about all the stuff I don't know. FWIW I agree with BA  . As far as the lake--where did all the fish go? I bet the birds were happy. |