A general view of a dried lake in Magallanes, south of Santiago, June 20, 2007. The lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. REUTERS/CONAF/Handout
Posted on 06/20/2007 10:27:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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... 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.
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A general view of a dried lake in Magallanes, south of Santiago, June 20, 2007. The lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared, prompting speculation the ground has simply opened up and swallowed it whole. REUTERS/CONAF/Handout
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I don’t care who you are, that’s creepy.
I hope my ponds don’t disappear... I get all weirded out when the front itty bitty pond goest dry and you can see all the way down to the bottom to where the guy who used to live there 40 years ago left a box blade where it got stuck when he tried to get it out but he died and it’s been there all these years and no one can get it out...
... and I wonder if he ever tries to come back and get it out of that pond behind that grove of pecan trees when the moon is just right...
Hey, that’s a little creepy too...
;’)
That photo also serves as a metaphor for Arab politics.
Heh heh!
Were Michael Moore or Rosie O’Donnell in Chile filming a movie? Maybe they thought that’s where chile comes from. There has been a shortage of saltine crackers recently....
I imagine it was.
Didn’t Simon Bar Sinister or one of Underdog’s enemies go around stealing lakes?
the Earth sucks.
Rosie & Mikie did cannonballs?
So do straws.
Or...maybe the "hollow Earth" crowd isn't a bunch of wackos.
A book I had when I was a kid had Simon Bar Sinister (an antisemitic caricature) stole all the water and kept it in his fenced yard.
Ummm.... don’t know about the actual slope but that looks like a gully in the mid-ground of the photo.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/21/missing.lake.ap/index.html
“One theory is the water disappeared through cracks in the lake bottom into underground fissures. But experts do not know why the cracks would have appeared because there have been no earthquakes reported in the area recently...”
(the cracks appear to be clearly visible in the image.)
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