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Explorers discover spectacular caves in Vietnam (world's largest?)
Yahoo! News ^
| Jan. 3, 2010
| Brett Michael Dykes
Posted on 01/03/2011 2:37:01 PM PST by americanophile
For decades, geologists have known that Vietnam is home to some of the world's most spectacular caves, many of them largely unexplored. Now husband-and-wife cavers have documented perhaps the world's largest: Hang Son Doong, big enough in places to accommodate a New York City block of skyscrapers.
The cave in the Annamite Mountains contains a river and jungle (its name translates to "mountain river cave") and even its own thin clouds, and its end remains out of sight. It's part of a network of about 150 caves in central Vietnam near the Laotian border.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: annamite; cave; largest; vietnam
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"A half-mile block of 40-story buildings could fit inside this lit stretch of Hang Son Doong, which may be the world's biggest subterranean passage."Now, that's one big cave. Check out these amazing photos: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:38:29 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: americanophile
Also found in the caves, American POW’s and MIA’s?
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:38:43 PM PST
by
TexasPatriot1
("Tyranny is defined as that which legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry" Jefferson)
To: americanophile
(its name translates to "mountain river cave") ?????...they just recently discovered it.....the people around there knew about it
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:42:25 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: americanophile
Charley had 250 miles of tunnels under where I was in Viet Nam so if you look real close you will probably find some war materials there.
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:45:12 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: Doogle
I’m guessing it’s sort of like discovering north America.
To: Doogle
Yeah. I’m not sure but History underground did a show about an enormous cave in Vietnam that was used by pretty much everyone during the war.
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:47:17 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:50:10 PM PST
by
I see my hands
(How's that ballot box working out for you?)
To: americanophile
That’s no cave, it’s Nancy Pelosi on a good day!
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:51:06 PM PST
by
equaviator
("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:52:44 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: americanophile
I'm going to build a little overnight place with a bar there. It's called the Cave Inn.
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posted on
01/03/2011 2:55:04 PM PST
by
fish hawk
(reporter to old Indian: you lived here on the reservation all your life? Old Indian, "not yet".)
To: americanophile
There was also an immense cave recently discovered here in Tennessee called Rumbling Falls. You have to rappel into the main chamber from the center of the roof which is over 200ft high. I talked to someone that has been in it and they described it as like being in outer space. The walls are too far away for your lights to reflect off of so you are sliding down a rope in pitch blackness for what seems like forever!
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01/03/2011 3:02:52 PM PST
by
Boiling point
(Beck / Palin 2012)
To: americanophile
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posted on
01/03/2011 3:02:52 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: americanophile
“It’s part of a network of about 150 caves in central Vietnam near the Laotian border”
Meh. John F’n Kerry was there on Christmas Eve in ‘68.
(Sorry. Laotian border reference)
Seriously, very cool pics.
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posted on
01/03/2011 3:03:34 PM PST
by
rickb308
(Nothing good ever came from someone yelling Allah Snackbar)
To: TexasPatriot1
“Follow the Ho Chi Minh Trail...”
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posted on
01/03/2011 3:05:15 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Doogle
thank you...
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posted on
01/03/2011 3:29:34 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: americanophile
To: Diogenesis
Just Wow! I would like to see that in person. Also would like to hear the local’s stories about it.
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posted on
01/03/2011 3:39:11 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: Boiling point
Perhaps the Social Security lock box will be located.
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01/03/2011 3:43:22 PM PST
by
verity
To: americanophile
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01/03/2011 3:48:49 PM PST
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Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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