World biggest cave?

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on: January 10, 2011, 12:32:17 AM
While I'm browsing on neogaf I saw this one particular thread.



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When Howard and Deb first saw these enormous spaces, they felt certain they had discovered the largest cave in the world—and they might be right. There are longer caves than Hang Son Doong—the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky, with 367 total miles, holds that record. There are deeper caves too—Krubera-Voronja, the “crow’s cave,” plunges 7,188 feet in the western Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. But for giant passages, there are few caves that can compare. At the time of the Limberts’ discovery of Hang Son Doong, the largest passage was thought to be Deer Cave in Malaysian Borneo’s Gunung Mulu National Park, which was recently surveyed at 1.2 miles long, 500 feet wide, and 400 feet tall. But as the explorers would eventually determine, using precise laser instruments, Hang Son Doong is more than 2.5 miles long with a continuous passage as wide as 300 feet and, in places, over 600 feet high.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/jenkins-text
for the article.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography
for the rest of the photo.


Holy [parasitic bomb].

I'm one of those people who love extreme nature wonder like this. Man that cave is enormous, and they've just found it quite recently too.

I love it that in this age we human can still find a new wonderful place like this.


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Reply #1 on: January 10, 2011, 12:34:16 AM
I can only imagine how many mimigas it holds.



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Reply #2 on: January 10, 2011, 03:26:35 AM
It's like real life minecraft.



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Reply #3 on: January 10, 2011, 07:16:29 AM
I hope this is in Planet Earth 2.



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Reply #4 on: February 01, 2011, 09:45:09 PM
[parasitic bomb]! A BOOMBER!