GIBRALTAR AIRPORT

Gibraltar Airport is a very unusual airport. To my knowledge, it is the only one where the runway actually intersects with a major highway. When a plane has to take off or land, traffic is shut down. check this out... :D




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SEARS TOWER SKYDECK

On the 103rd story of the Sears Tower, you will find a balcony 1,353 feet off the street that will wilt even the most stout of hearts - a balcony made completely of glass. Measuring an inch and a half thick, the glass balcony is so strong that it can hold over five tons.




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GREAT BIG HOLE

This is known as The World's Biggest Hole (even though it's really not) and it's located in Russia. It's a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town of Mirna and is 525 meters deep and 1.25 kilometers in diameter.




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This truck is one of the biggest in the world. 13.36 meters in length, 7.78 meters in width, and 6.65 meters tall.

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In this picture below, the truck appears as just a small dot.

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The suction above this hole is so great, that several helicopters crashed as a result of it. Flight above the hole is prohibited now.

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Satellite view:

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THE NEW LAPTOP

What you are looking at here may look like a pen, but is actually the latest computer system that makes today's more bulky laptops obsolete.




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NIAGARA FALLS FROZEN

It's hard to imagine the force of nature that is Niagra Falls ever coming to a dead halt, but as documented in this extraordinary picture, the falls were frozen solid . The picture is reputed to have been taken in 1911, but historically, the last time the falls completely froze was in 1886.




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TREE SCULPTURE

Arboursculpture is the fine art of manipulating young saplings into a variety of shapes. Once the saplings become trees, the shape is maintained. This is a very long and arduous process and few people in the world are masters of this art.




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DUST ART

These are actual works of art created with the dust that settled on old cars.




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MORE GREAT BIG HOLES



The Kimberly Big Hole in South Africa is reputed to be the largest hand-dug excavation on the planet and produced over three tons of diamonds until it was closed in 1914.




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The unfortunately named "Glory Hole" is located at Monticello Dam in California and is used to drain water from the reservoir when the dam reaches full capacity. This is the largest such drain in the world and can drain 14,400 cubic feet of water per second.



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Below is what the Glory Hole looks like when the lake isn't at full capacity. The Glory Hole is at the left side of the picture.


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If you are stupid enough to jump into the Glory Hole, the force of the water is more than sufficient enough to break every bone in your body and pulp your fragile form into something resembling oatmeal which would be spit out into the river below.


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Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah is famous for being the largest man-made excavation on Earth. Digging began in 1863 and continues to this day. Because of this, naturally, the hole is continuing to grow but at the time of this writing it is about .75 of a mile deep and 2.5 miles wide.

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This impressive sight is Diavik Mine in Northern Canada about 300 km from Yellowknife. The mine is so huge and so remote that it has its own airport that can accommodate a Boeing 737.

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Because of its location, the mine is completely surrounded by ice in the wintertime making it appear that this extraordinary hole is on land and not on the sea


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Sixty miles off Belize in the Lighthouse Reef is this natural wonder known as The Great Blue Hole and it is believed to be the largest of its kind.

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The Great Blue Hole was formed when a limestone cave created during the last Ice Age collapsed leaving a hole 1000 feet across and 400 feet deep. Now it's a haven for divers including the late Jacques Cousteau who charted its depths in 1971.


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Finally, the frightening Guatemala Sinkhole which was formed suddenly in 2007 when water saturated the ground causing it to collapse in a terrible calamity which killed three people and destroyed a dozen homes.


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Officials determined that this sinkhole was caused by the rupture of a sewer line.

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FOAMY

This odd ocean phenomenon is said to have taken place in Sydney, Australia where impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed whipped up into a large mass of foam due to ocean waves.


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THE CAVE OF CRYSTALS

Buried a thousand feet under the surface of the earth this amazing cavern was discovered by two miners in 2000.

Resembling Superman's Fortress of Solitude, Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales contains some of the world's largest known natural crystals - translucent beams of gypsum as long as 36 feet .



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THE WORST BUILDING ON EARTH

The 105 story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang North Korea is considered the worst building on the planet. Dominating the skyline, it has been described as a hideous structure, a twisted version of Cinderella's Castle. The building is so ugly, that government propaganda does not even mention the eyesore and it is frequently airbrushed out of shots of the city.

This 3000 room hotel has set unfinished since 1987 when the first shovels broke ground. Ryugyong Hotel is ugly, badly designed, and considered by many to be the worst-built building in the world. It's also said that North Korea spent almost 2 percent of its GNP to build this empty hotel.

Construction of the behemoth stopped in 1992 and there is no hope that it will ever resume mostly due to the fact that North Korea ran out of money for the building and that the tourist industry in Pyongyang is virtually non-existent.

Today and as far as anyone can tell, the Ryugyong will continue to dominate the skyline of the city of Pyongyang. Unfinished, unneeded, and unwanted.



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wow ang ganda po lahat nito ah..

Cool naman neto.. Hehe.Pero parang scary nun mga h0les..Hehehe..

nice thread....very unique...

Nice one McGy............:thumbsup:

Nagkakalat ka nanaman ng mga kagilagilalas na kaalaman....!

Ayos!

THE WORLD'S OLDEST TREE



Looking very unassuming in the Inyo National Forest in the White Mountains east of the Sierra Nevada, you will find a tree named Methuselah. This tree is average-sized and would obviously be dwarfed by the towering and more famous sequoias, but it is over 1,500 years older than they are. This bristlecone pine grows at an elevation of 10,000 feet in poor soil conditions and adds no more than an inch to their width every century.

Methuselah lives in what is known as "the ancient forest" among its brothers and sisters, all at least 4,000 years old, but Methuselah is an astonishing 4,800 years young which means that it started growing roughly at the same time that the Egyptian pyramids were being constructed.

As a side note, and strictly for the sake of accuracy, I should point out that what Methuselah looks like and its location is a guarded secret to protect the old tree from souvenir hunters and general idiots. The pictures below may or may not be the actual tree, but they are the same species in the same general area.





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WEIRD WATERMELONS

Japan has always been a master of WTF-ery, but then again that's just one of the many things we love about that place and her people - they just like to do things a little slanted than the rest of us.

Take watermelons for example. Most of the world knows them as oblong round fruits with yummy goodness inside. The Japanese, however, took one look at them and said, "Why does it always have to be round?"

Then, though trial and error, they did something about it.




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nakakatuwa yung holes... :lol:

Nakakatakot ung mga holes...malululain pa naman ako.