Posted on 09/09/2009 9:42:26 AM PDT by Squidpup
I READ THE ARTICLE...
Actually, they’re wearing air conditioning suits. Those big back packs house A/C units, and the body suit keeps the cool air around them. Even so, they have to leave after 20 minutes or so or they’ll start getting heat stroke.
Gnarly Dude! :)
Holy cow!
There was an article about this in a recent National Geographic magazine.
Sounds like it’s nothing even as fancy as AC units...they’re just suits with cold packs (like the ones you use in a cooler to keep your beer cold) in pouches inside. The respirator blows air over other cold packs to cool it down.
If they were truly sealed suits, they could probably stay in there longer than 30-50 minutes. As it is, they sound like a relatively inexpensive solution to allow short trips into the chamber.
}:-)4
That’s cool——I mean hot——I mean cool pics of a hot place....whatever....
Not sure what list this might come under, if any, but the pictures are amazing.
I was just thinking the photos looked like the set of a low budget science fiction movie.
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I think it was National Geographic that ran a show on this amazing cave. It was stunning.
Photo shopped!! ;-) (just kidding)
This is a geode full of spectacular crystals as tall as pine trees, and in some cases greater in circumference. They have formed beautiful crystals that are a translucent gold and silver in color, and come in many incredible forms and shapes. Some of the largest are essentially columnar in shape and stand thirty to fifty feet high and three to four feet in diameter. Many of the smaller examples are four to six feet in circumference, have many incredible geometrical shapes, and probably weigh in excess of ten tons. The columnar pillars are at first the most striking shape, but later I noticed there were thousands of “sharks teeth” up to three feet high placed row upon row and dispersed at odd angles throughout the caverns. While some of the crystals are attached to the ceiling walls and floors of the cave as might be expected, some exist in great masses of spikes and almost float in air. These crystals seem to defy gravity, as they must weigh several tons. - Richard D. Fisher, Photographer/Explorer
Awesome indeed.
To think we used to crawl hundreds of yards on our
bellies over rimstone dams just to see a little gypsom
flower.
*ping of interest* (not political, just purty)
On the serious side that is one amazing cave.
Alright the guy in your picture doesn’t have a suit on, why is he still alive. The article indicates almost instant death if you don’t have a suit(which beggars the question, how did the first people who discovered it survive to tell the tale?).
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