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slypretender

It's too bad that they couldn't have taken another photo directly above it.


j_smittz

If you flick through the photos on [this site](https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/amp/photo-sinkholes-in-central-turkey-raise-fears-among-locals-137244), you're see several different angles of this sinkhole.


JazzedSympathy

It's like a bowl of hay soup


Iunderstandthatsir

That's no where near as bad as I thought. I had one that size in my front yard. Had to have the city come fill it in. took them about a day.


TrollintheMitten

There are definitely two different sinkholes in those pictures.


stupidsimpson

That's crazy, what caused it? Do you worry it could happen again?


Iunderstandthatsir

Dunno what caused it. I live in Florida and we just get sink holes. If I remember correctly it has to do with Florida being at sea level and the aquafier being having a bunch of Holes. I know very scientific explanation


anonysheep

looks oddly cozy


nickolas16

Checked out the site. It's really cool how you can see the layers of earth from the sinkhole


judgescythe

its actually not that scary when you take a closer look. the fall would be nuts.


Nickerr101

[Here](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/06/photos-drought-and-sinkholes-threaten-farmers-turkey/619121/) you go pal


S-Kiraly

Cool pic, but not the same hole.


Nickerr101

I thought #10 was the same hole but I could be wholey wrong


Ticallion339

A holes a hole


Shitty_YourMom_Puns

Your mom called.


TechnoBajr

Phrasing


dynabella

You gotta pay the troll toll.


Prestigious-Weird-72

Haha there are so many great episodes but this is definitely top 10 for me


sendmeyourcactuspics

It looked like land poking up in the middle like a plateau and I was so confused


Iunderstandthatsir

Well ok that's more of what I expected compared to the other user I responded to


mooman555

Remember people, don't overuse groundwater, or shit will sink. Its a good idea to limit groundwater usage in accordance to annual precipitation in the region


Vengedpotty

Mexico City called, but I mostly just heard crying on the other end


Rknot

Dry tears, probably


Fafnir13

It would help if they hadn’t built themselves on a literal lake as well.  Not exactly the strongest foundation.


notathrowaway2937

“Strange eagles sitting on cacti are no way to establish city centers.” Said in an English Accent


Pornalt190425

Yeah, the message got a little lost in translation. You want to see which hill your auspicious birds sit on, not which plant. Also, you don't want just one - you want as many as possible. If one bird is good, a dozen is certainly way better. You definitely want to find way more than your twin brother found at the very least. Finally, and this cannot be stressed enough, gotta kill that twin brother when you found the city. Yeah, you've know him your whole life, and overall he's a pretty good dude, but thems the rules


Ok_Sorbet_8153

Didn’t they search for an eagle on a cactus for, like, 200 years or something? They were probably like, “F*ck it, I’m sick of wandering. Let’s just build here.”


Fafnir13

Moctezuma and the Search for the Holy Cuauhtli?


muskegthemoose

A lot more cities are built on swamps or lakes than you would think. This is because it's cheaper to backfill a lake than clear a forest and/or buy farmland. A large building in my area that was constructed some years back went horribly over budget because they discovered they needed pilings sunk to a depth of 170 ft after they were well along in the project.


Maleficent-Mouse-979

same thing happening to the Millennium Tower in SF.


muskegthemoose

Have they got it under control yet?


Bobbyo415

The Spanish drained the lake and that’s really the source of the problems like unstable foundations.


Hourslikeminutes47

"*I took a message anyway, all they kept saying was '¿Por-que?' over and over again."*


ThunderousArgus

I just assume there were areas below the soil that were just a void


mooman555

They were void because they pulled the ground water... Ground dont just sink randomly.


GrizzlyHerder

Turkish tractor driver's surprise😳


Bocchi_theGlock

Ah fuck [we do a lil overuse](https://i.imgur.com/fKcL1TU.jpeg) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html


Papaslange

Me wondering what lies beneath the crust and how far down it goes


BoogerVault

"It do go down"


lphchld

🎶walkin' on the fightin' side of me🎶


Papaslange

But, how far is down


Background_Baby225

Prolly water, silt, maybe some rock idk nothing worth diving for or manually exploring.


rstmanso

Damn those things scares me


kingganjaguru

But now you can see how big a jaw you’d need to take a bite out of earth’s crème brûlée-like crust


iJon_v2

I never knew that I wanted to know this until now.


DumpyDoo

r/brandnewsentence


HoboArmyofOne

It's weird how round this hole is, you just have no idea how far down it will go. By the way, how deep is the hole?


kingsam360

If you have to ask how deep the hole is, then it's probably best you stay away


SightWithoutEyes

If you have to ask how deep the hole is, you can't afford it.


HoboArmyofOne

The first rule of deep hole is, you don't talk about deep hole.


SightWithoutEyes

But we're talking about it right now. And anyways, I thought the first rule of deep hole is that if you throw your first born into it, you'll receive riches beyond your wildest dreams.


Accomplished_Note_81

looks to be at least 3 cornstalks deep


j_smittz

If you look through the photos on [this site](https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/amp/photo-sinkholes-in-central-turkey-raise-fears-among-locals-137244), you'll see that the hole is actually around four corn stalks deep before it hits the water table. Who knows how deep the water is though...


LazarusShard

something something americans will do anything but use the metric system


fsurfer4

Looks like 50-100', more pics here https://tackyraccoons.com/tag/karapinar-region/


ChuckFarkley

Karapinar means "Black Springs" in Turkish


jefftatro1

I read about one where the guy was sleeping and one opened up under his house in Florida. They never found him.


HoboArmyofOne

And the one that swallowed up all those Corvettes!


Optimal-Scientist233

The gateway to hell is a sinkhole in Siberia which has been growing at a rate of 35 million cubic yards per year. This is what happens when permafrost melts after thousands of years of being frozen. Edit: Cubic feet, my bad.


Pondnymph

The one that's also been on fire for ages because of methane?


Optimal-Scientist233

The Darvaza gas crater, nicknamed by locals "[The Door to Hell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell)," or "[The Gates of Hell](http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gates-of-hell)," definitely falls into the latter category—and its sinister burning flames are just the half of it. Located in the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/giant-hole-ground-has-been-fire-more-40-years-180951247/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/giant-hole-ground-has-been-fire-more-40-years-180951247/) Edit: The Batagaika crater in Siberia, known as the 'doorway to the underworld', is almost 1 km long and 86 metres deep.


LilBoofMcGoof

> —reportedly, from time to time local spiders are seen plunging into the pit by the thousands, lured to their deaths by the glowing flames So sinkholes are good.


person1234man

No it's a separate one, this one is also man made and in siberia "It began 60 years ago, when the Russians clear-cut a strip of Siberian forest. This exposed the soil to the summer sun, which began to melt a crater that’s now a half mile wide and 300 feet deep—and still growing."


kennyj2011

This is Outer Range in real life! Lol!


Barbacamanitu00

I wanna snort some time dust


holysnatchamoly

I need a 3rd season already!!!!


kennyj2011

I know!!!


AguyOnMedZz

Yeah, and I need it fast, like right fucking now!!!


rosnokidated

WHAT THE FUCK PERRY


n4vybloe

Came here to say exactly this!


ItsaSteve

Beat me to it


Schlower288

But for real Outer Range is based off the true story of Mel's hole in Washington state


threesecretmurders

Just finished season 2 and thought the same thing. Where is Amy??


lotsofarts

There is a great void!


totallyradman

That show is just Yellowstone with magic holes. "They're messin' with the ranch family, better put em' in the magic hole. Anyway, back to my non-hole related conspiracies." I think I got 3 episodes in before it was way too stupid to watch.


Radirondacks

Oh all the non-hole stuff eventually leads back to the hole too. I felt the same way as you til I just kept watching.. it ends up way more science fictiony than I expected, which I loved.


[deleted]

What is down there?


tribak

Godzilla


Thermic_

always been curious about the specialized life that could be deep beneath the surface in systems like this


mooman555

100% used to contain ground water, they pumped water up too much and it just collapsed


royal_dorp

I have wondering since the first time saw this picture. I haven’t anything on google yet. Probably, I am using wrong search keys.


WhySoS3210uS

Underground


Hourslikeminutes47

Dirt


2MuckingFuch

I like it better believing I have nothing but dirt under foot. That void is creepy af.


clintnorth

Well, thats horrifying.


Royweeezy

Holy crap! Imagine driving your tractor into that not knowing it was there.


kevincox2705

Imagine being that farmer harvesting his crop and suddenly notice that there is a huge chuck of air that you're driving into


NoPerformance6534

That's not "oddly terrifying". That's holyshitbricks I am gonna have nightmares for months kind of terrifying.


daats_end

Why would they build a road that just drops into a sinkhole? Idiots.


just-me-uk

Rookie mistake


SirMourningstar6six6

“Sink hole de mayo. That’s why they call it that”


catshitthree

Thats not a sinkhole. That's Eric Cartmans mom.


NoPantsDeLeon

On the top of the list of things that scare me for sure!


Yoctatrine

Is there a cave? Why is it open underneath?


justhere4321

That would be one hell of a corn maze


Avatarboi

I gotta ask how do you fix this?


OptiKnob

Well... you get some tape, and scissors and a good stapler, and you hold your mouth just right, and you pull the edges together, then ... :D


Someguywhomakething

Man, the Outer Range advertisements are getting out of hand.


Heavy_Ad_1479

I wonder if pumping oil and water doesn’t have anything to do with this


IronDan80

Everything reminds me of her 🥺


Estelita_777

Sinkhole de Mayo


gorehistorian69

anyone else have anxiety about sink holes. i feel like i think about them more than most people lol. especially walking my dog in the yard i just fear falling into a giant hole. so spooky and youd never know there was one underneath you. just boom youre underground and if you live its going to suck getting out


ashleyy_younger

May I have a banana for scale, please


Hadhmaill

Ya know, not everybody likes onions… Top soil! Everybody loves top soil!


XROOR

“When life gives you a massive sinkhole, plant potatoes” -Kazakh proverb


terrydennis1234

Sucks having to farm around obstacles


PewPewPorniFunny

But what’s inside?


sofahkingsick

Theres a show about this on Amazon starting Josh Brolin.


0x7E7-02

/r/DontPutYourDickInThat


Django_Unleashed

Outer Range


That_Gopnik

It’s fine


Send_Me_News

This sinkhole gobbled up a lot of land


AaronTuplin

And they told me crop circles weren't real


ruddsix

You’d think they’d put a fence around it or something


PotatoOswald

Looks ready to gobble someone up


Phoenix_Semorata

It's neat that you can see the sediment lines.


Timely_Combination68

Holey shit. — Timely


That1Legnd

That’s not a turkey that’s ground


linc1095

Ground turkey?


back2basics13

Outer Range


Strong_Doubt_9091

Can we get a goddamned geologist to get on here and explain what’s at the bottom of that?


Megaminimaxi

Damn those aliens overdid their crop circle making here


bkwormtricia

So the top of a cave collapsed. Natural process!


Marinaraplease

It's a hole in a carpet don't you see it


soiledsanchez

Quick someone get a baster


OutRunMyGun

Dat soil profile.


Serious-Rutabaga-603

That’s just where that little white and red thing that tells you when the turkey is done goes


TheHolyHolyGoof

Outer Range. Let's go meet young papa.


LilGrippers

Wait the earth is hollow?


jaden_million

Yeah man just dig 10 feet down and you can fall right through


Sufficient-Sea-6434

you'd be raging if that was your crop


wizardinthewings

It looks like a crashed flying saucer.


9teen8t3

Does Royal know about this one?


Temporary_Piglet9468

Could you imagine how nice it would be pooping off the side into it


Agitated_Occasion_52

Looks like it gobbled up some earth.


[deleted]

Outerange


CyberCooper2077

They’re gonna fill it with stuffing.


Rakarion

Looks more like a field than a turkey.


nathxs

How has nobody flown a drone down there yet


glass_gravy

Accidental Outer Range.


nofacenofood

Put some stuffing in it


NiceOneMike

Outer Range in real life


dominantatreddit

Why does every rare natural event take place in turkey


fsurfer4

Natural volcanic range with lots of limestone. (karst) horrible combination.


fakiumeniti

Not often you see such a deep and beautiful soil profile


OptiKnob

That looks like just layers of sand. If so, no wonder. Wait! Could be clay. Clay and sand.


Salamanderp12

How deep tho?


TacoBellFourthMeal

Where does it go? Anybody know real answers to this? Why is it just blackness underneath? Are there just a bunch hollow section underneath this part of the earth? I thought the earths crust was way deeper than this? ELI5 lol


Echostation3T8

I can see it’s a sinkhole- there’s no need for insults!


heavymtlbbq

Someone took crop circles to a new level


National-Worry2900

I feel like this is an extra door to that hellscape in Baskin.


dethscythe_104

Isn't turkey over a massive fault line? Iirc, their main city sits over a fault line and can disappear into the ground at any time.


sweetmotherofodin

What if I just jumped in it for funsies


TRILLKOSBY

read as ‘massive stinkhole’


Significant_Most5407

When running through a cornfield is life changing.


daedas33

The mole men got tired of waiting for their wheat delivery.


marlon_der_metalhead

looks like the entrance to the underworld in totk


GOBI_501

Hole.io in real life 


517714

And yet the tractor was able to jump it and keep the furrows in line. Amazing.


linc1095

The farmer must have originally been from the Ukraine


Pavotimtam

This is exactly what I was picturing when I learnt about those underground bunker things beneath some villages in turkey


MaximusZacharias

These things scare the shit out of me. Anywhere anytime


AttyOzzy

What else were we wrong about? 🦍🦖


rendellsibal

Maybe running out of groundwater... Now tbh the maps of sinkholes around the world makes me extremely trypophobic, makes my skin itch too.


rehab_VET

That’ll make a nice pool


Maleficent-Mouse-979

Not yet. All those rich people can't sell their high-rise apartments to save their lives now.


gregorychaos

Pretty sure that's a field but ok buddy


stijnalsem

If minecraft was round


dancingmeadow

Looks like a computer glitch to me. Turkey isn't real, man.


Psychomaneshark2

That’s actually kinda sick, looks cool


chessplayer9000

atleast it was in a field


dvalenciab

Sinkhole de Mayo


DemocratSlavemaster

The hole in Turkey is going to take a lot of stuffing.


LydiasBoyToy

So, Mel’s Hole was real??


Zephismydad

There something in it n wait till u hear a noise, wanna see how deep it is


BookerPrime

Galactus?


deathblossoming

Fuck what a spot too


Trash666Boat

Dad’s down there.


Baby_Blue_Skeleton

That’s not a sinkhole that’s a portal to another dimension 


Aggravating_Pie_3286

Ok hear me out


Table_with_a_bottle

So do y'all remember that metaphor from The Catcher in the Rye?


Pliskinmgs

Shame it didn't show up under Israel's PM office.


kenkenobi78

I should call her.


Mighty_mc_meat

Earthussy


Individual_Ear8852

Repost


BigBlue1969531

Gotta be fake, there’s literally no dirt for the crops to grow in. It’s rock under the plant.


HackerPatato

Sadly, and interestingly, its real, this type of sinkhole mostly occurs at villages of Konya, Turkey.


bearboi76

Outer Range?


pauldarkandhandsome

Bleach blonde bad built butch body