[image] Boolean action in Guatemala

[littlerocketstudios]

Wauw:

http://www.nrcnext.nl/blog/2010/06/01/apocalyptische-beelden-uit-guatemala/

The post is in Dutch but just click on the picture...

After heavy rain and mudshifting apparently these holes in the ground can happen...

[Kadri]

I would pack anything that i have and would go somewhere very far away!
This is creepy ! The bad thing is , it can happen maybe everywhere!

Thanks for the link I think this is a new one ?

[Seth]

Oo'

scary

[cyphyr]

Fake!!
Don't like the lighting ... .. .

Richard

[Zairyn Arsyn]

scary.. a hole leading into blackness.. darkness

[latego]

The Daily Mail has bigger photos http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1283066/Guatemala-sink-hole-Tropical-storm-Agatha-blows-200ft-hole-city.html

[inkydigit]

mole people cometh....eek!
more shots here:

http://colt-rane.com/the-gates-of-hell-have-officially-opened/

[Henry Blewer]

Bizarre. Perhaps a micro singularity? Hopefully it dissipated.

[cyphyr]

Wow !! Ok I take it back,its not fake..
But how on earhrth does this happen? Weird indeed!!
Richard

[nikita]

There's an article on wikipedia describing such phenomena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole

Aparently, if there's a sufficiently large and instable cavern in the ground, its ceiling can collapse and leave such huge sinkholes. I guess it's round because center parts of the ceiling are more likely to fall off than parts at the edges.

[Rhalph]

Just found this image when searching for the sinkhole that also formed in Guatemala in 2007...

[Zairyn Arsyn]

sinkholes have opened up multiple times in my home town, once at a car lot, and another at a high school school, for all i know.

Florida has a high concentration of sinkholes, especially in Wakulla county.

[latego]

It is not a sinkhole, it is something much worse: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/04/1159221/Giant-Guatemalan-Sinkhole-Is-Worse-Than-We-Thought.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

yikes! that does sound worse, i would definitely not want to be there very long...

It is not a sinkhole, it is something much worse: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06/04/1159221/Giant-Guatemalan-Sinkhole-Is-Worse-Than-We-Thought.

[TheBlackHole]

OK, who divided by 0?