Simplicius wrote:Once a sinkhole like this stabilizes, is it left to become part of the terrain or does it get filled back in?
In an important area it might be filled in, some random area of Texas isn’t going to warrant that kind of earth moving. You’re talking about thousands of truckloads of earth and rock to even make a dent in a hole this big, along with lots of other machinery to pack it down. Piping in dredge waste would be the best way to deal with it, but I don’t think this place is near any major waterways.
I have a feeling this is going to become a sort of cheap tourist attraction.
If it weren't full of Oil, I'd say it make a fine swimming hole
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Simplicius wrote:Once a sinkhole like this stabilizes, is it left to become part of the terrain or does it get filled back in?
In an important area it might be filled in, some random area of Texas isn’t going to warrant that kind of earth moving. You’re talking about thousands of truckloads of earth and rock to even make a dent in a hole this big, along with lots of other machinery to pack it down. Piping in dredge waste would be the best way to deal with it, but I don’t think this place is near any major waterways.
I have a feeling this is going to become a sort of cheap tourist attraction.
Wanderer wrote:If it weren't full of Oil, I'd say it make a fine swimming hole
So we'll call it a health spa.
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That wont sell, not unless you make it radioactive too… and Yucca mountain is sound so 1990s.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:
In an important area it might be filled in, some random area of Texas isn’t going to warrant that kind of earth moving. You’re talking about thousands of truckloads of earth and rock to even make a dent in a hole this big, along with lots of other machinery to pack it down. Piping in dredge waste would be the best way to deal with it, but I don’t think this place is near any major waterways.
I have a feeling this is going to become a sort of cheap tourist attraction.
If it weren't full of Oil, I'd say it make a fine swimming hole
I had been wondering that. Would it be possible to make a lake out of it? The hole in the ground would be useful for something then.
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Can we get a sinkhole to swallow all of Texas? (Maybe we'll evacuate Austin by helicopter first...)
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Wrong! It's clearly the result of large-scale tunneling from Mexico to smuggle people in.
What do you mean? No human technology can make something this regular! It must be an NWO test of an alien quantum antimatter plasma projector!
(As scary as it sounds, that's actually a real line somebody wrote about the hole in Bolivia or Botswana or wherever)
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