If you fell in this hole, would you be able to climb out?

[NomDeSpite 452]

invisible text does not count towards the limit.

Edited February 17, 2014 by NomDeSpite

[Sunbro 4 Lyfe 939]

yes.

[Shift 4,272]

Doesn't look too difficult.

[CawsOfDestruction 26]

I'll need only a grappling hook.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Well seeing as it's a pit mine, I could simply walk out the excavation ramp. It may not look it, but it's probably about the width of a house.

[NomDeSpite 452]

Well seeing as it's a pit mine, I could simply walk out the excavation ramp. It may not look it, but it's probably about the width of a house.

That hole is 40,000 ft. deep. The Soviets dug it not to mine, but for the explicit purpose of making the world's deepest hole.

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

That hole is 40,000 ft. deep. The Soviets dug it not to mine, but for the explicit purpose of making the world's deepest hole.

By a basic understanding of trigonometry, one could then estimate that hole would be about 30 miles in diameter. I don't know about you, but those buildings in the surrounding area don't exactly look like the sort of scale that would resemble an area twelve times the size of Manhattan.

 

This is what you're thinking of. The Kola Super-Deep Borehole: a scientific drilling experiment using techniques not dissimilar from extreme-depth oil drilling. The hole may be 40 miles deep, but it's only a few inches wide at the widest point. It also only goes a few miles below sea level, because of where ground-zero is where the drilling started. There are mineshafts in the world which go farther below sea level, but are not as deep vertically from the surface. The hole itself was capped and the cap then sheltered when the project shut down in the 1980s.

Edited February 20, 2014 by Blue

[NomDeSpite 452]

Hmmm...you're right I think. Looks like I made a mistake.

This leaves one question: where in blazes is the hole I posted located and how deep is it?

[DubWolf 17,262]

I liked the 4th option. "You haven't seen the last of me!!"

 

If you can't get out of the hole going up, you can always keep digging and reach the other side of the world!

 

Also, I don't think there is a character minimum in the Cloudsdale Colosseum forum. After all, our post count won't increase in this forum.

 

Also (again), I could probably escape the hole if I didn't have to start from the bottom of the hole, but rather close to the edge where it levels out .

Edited February 24, 2014 by Wingin'Wolf

[I used to be a stranger 7,993]

Hmmm...you're right I think. Looks like I made a mistake.

 

This leaves one question: where in blazes is the hole I posted located and how deep is it?

it's Mirny Open Pit Mine, located in eastern Siberia, a kimberlite diamond mine. It's 400 meters deep and 1200 meters across. Airspace near it is restricted because its shape causes dangerous and unpredictable turbulence.

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[Frith is Magick 1,471]

Well if we ignore Blue's comment about the ramp and assume that isn't an option, I probably could. I'm by no means an experienced climber, but the slope isn't that steep, and I can be a stubborn son of a gun sometimes (I'm more of an AJ than I thought). I wouldn't want to do it without a water bottle, but looking at it, it almost seems like a fun challenge.

 

Edit: If I fell into the hole, I'd more than likely have a few broken bones, in which case no, climbing out would be a wee bit difficult. 

Edited April 15, 2014 by Frith is Magick

[N.W. 3,619]

By a basic understanding of trigonometry, one could then estimate that hole would be about 30 miles in diameter. I don't know about you, but those buildings in the surrounding area don't exactly look like the sort of scale that would resemble an area twelve times the size of Manhattan.

 

 

This is what you're thinking of. The Kola Super-Deep Borehole: a scientific drilling experiment using techniques not dissimilar from extreme-depth oil drilling. The hole may be 40 miles deep, but it's only a few inches wide at the widest point. It also only goes a few miles below sea level, because of where ground-zero is where the drilling started. There are mineshafts in the world which go farther below sea level, but are not as deep vertically from the surface. The hole itself was capped and the cap then sheltered when the project shut down in the 1980s.

Pity it dried up due to lack of funding.

[Legacy Dash 438]

Easily, if you get a ruler and put it on the side of the hole, you'll see it's about 4 centimeters deep.

[SnipSnap 432]

Of course, silly

 

I looked at it, and it looks like there's a trail that leads down and up the hole.