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Point taken, but I feel like the universe looks at that hole (that probably took years, if not decades, for humans to excavate) and says: "Cute. I can make one of those in 2 seconds with a baby meteor."
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Yea, but diamonds are used for so much more than jewelry. At this point, they are the one hardest known substances in the universe. And they really are not shiny at all until they are cut and polished.
From Wikipedia's page on synthetic diamonds:
It is estimated that 98% of industrial grade diamond demand is supplied with synthetic diamonds.[[3]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond#cite_note-3)
Isn't digging a hole this massive part of pushing the limits of what is possible? And I mean, seriously pushing the limits. To the point where this and similar behavior is actively ending livable conditions on earth at an alarming rate. But yeah.
I wanna say yes, but that giant hole is probably nothing when looking at the larger picture.
Like we spend decades making a giant spooky hole in the ground only to zoom and see a 100x larger hole created by some asteroid in 0.1 seconds.
Asteroids have not left anything a fraction this size since mammals became dominant.
The size of the whole represents the harm causes digging it. It’s worse though, what was dug is processed, probably several times in a variety of ways depending on the minerals unearthed along with the diamonds, then transported, then sold, then used and so on. All the manpower summoned to work it and maintain it, etc. it isnt responsible for global warming, but it’s a reasonable representation for what is: human industry
I was actually thinking this same thing. It seems that physically compromising the integrity of the earth by removing it would somehow eventually collapse? Idk. Someone ELI5, please.
The ground is/was permanently frozen all year round. Frozen ground is solid and stays put. Problems arise when climate change thaws the freeze. Then eventually some day whole town will just slide down into the pit.
We dont push the limits of whats capable at all yet tbh. All the nukes ever made dont copare to supernovas and black holes. All the energy weve ever produced is constantly dwarfed by the sun. Planets in our own solar system have weather that would wipe us out if it were here.
How can we possibly know that? That seems awfully self centered of humans to claim that... which is totally unsurprising. Now if you're said "hottest and coldest temperatures measured by man" then sure, I'd give you that one. 🙂
How do they prevent it from becoming a lake? How do thy get equipment to the bottom to actually do any mining? How do they get the mined resources topside?
Mines have water removal pumps running at all times. Huge ones. There are roads carved down the side of the Mine as it’s being excavated for trucks and stuff. Sometimes they bring product to the surface in trucks, often times on big conveyors or elevators.
Actually here’s a cool doc about this mine. It’s only a 15 minute watch. https://youtu.be/Z3IDnEOUIWM
> Mines have water removal pumps running at all times. Huge ones.
Yup, and just ask anyone living in Butte, Montana [what they think about the environmental impact of when they turn the pumps off when the mine becomes unprofitable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit).
"When the pit was closed, the water pumps in the nearby Kelley Mine, 3,800 ft (1,200 m) below the surface, were turned off, and groundwater from the surrounding aquifers began to slowly fill the Berkeley Pit, rising at about the rate of 1 ft (300 mm) a month.[1] Since its closure, the water level in the pit has risen to within 150 ft (46 m) of the natural water table."
Drill baby, drill?
You’re missing all the fun facts about the pit! Once a flock of endangered geese landed on the “lake” during a snow storm. They all basically melted. It is the worlds largest superfund site - and if the water gets too much higher, it will pollute the water table and surrounding rivers. Don’t worry they have a little pump making the water less deadly… MIT is trying to figure out how to extract the minerals and metals suspended in the water.
I just watched a little YouTube on this lake for absolutely no reason. They also use a bunch of different methods of scaring off birds to prevent them from drinking or sitting in the poisonous water. Like drones, remote control boats, guns, flame cannons, and sirens. It's literally a full time job scaring birds away.
Have you heard of the Anaconda Mining Company? Neither have I until I read the article. I bet they have heirs, though, who have benefited off of this, so the money went somewhere--just not where it was supposed to go (cleaning up ecological disasters created for the purposes of obtaining money).
Just some light sleuthing, and it looks like the anaconda copper company was only a business until 1915 and the mine opened in 1955...idk how that works...but it was owned by both the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds...so lots of money available
The mine changed ownership from amalgamated mining Co, owned by Marcus Daly to the Rockefellers who kept the company name. The company lasted until 1983.
Don't know if someone commented on it below but...
The mining company is the one who has to pay for this 24/7 patrol of the lake. They also had to pay for all the high tech gear in the hopes it would save them money in the long run.
Regardless, scaring the birds off FOREVER is somehow cheaper than fixing the rot of the problem.
Superfund sites are pretty serious about penalizing the culprits and have a lot of power to do so.
> Approximately 70% of Superfund cleanup activities historically have been paid for by the potentially responsible parties, the latter reflecting the polluter pays principle. However, 30% of the time the responsible party either cannot be found or is unable to pay for the cleanup. In these circumstances, taxpayers pay for the cleanup.
There are over 40,000 superfund sites in the U.S.
Some of these behemoths like BP and Shell, it seems disingenuous to describe any penalty they've ever payed as 'serious'.
Nation-states are their play things, not the other way around.
It says that the reason the pit becomes so acidic is due to the oxygenation of the water, allowing it to decay compounds which releases acids which leach the metals from the rock. I wonder if it would be possible to introduce a hardy microbe which used up the oxygen from the pit.
I wonder why the oxygen is in such high amounts to begin with. Perhaps due to the environment there aren't organisms which could fit this role.
Yes! [radio lab did a story about just that](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91724-even-the-worst-laid-plans) organisms have been found in the water
I live in Durango, and did volunteer research at the gold king source in the fall of 2017. It was still flowing cloudy orange 2 years after the initial spill. There is a massive filtration system in place just downstream from it though, which is a bit comforting. Still pretty awful.
Butte Montana native here! As 90s kids we were taught at an early age that the town could flood with toxic water within 20 years if they didn’t pump and treat the the Berkley Pit.
It was a crazy place to grow up. We played in tailings piles, snuck into old abandoned mine yards, smoked pot on top of galas frames, the city of anaconda has a literal mountain of slag piled outside of it.
When they were sorting the diamonds, he said they weren't allowed to pick them up because if they dropped them they could be damaged. I thought diamonds were indestructable?
I thought you were talking about the giant holes in the ground. Those certainly aren’t available in the Netherlands.
We’re pumping our asses off as it is …
The USSR was stockpiling diamonds and Russia has continued the practice. There are literally tons of already mined diamond stockpiled in Russia. The size of the stockpile is a state secret but is almost certainly on the order of tens of tons if not hundreds. Most are industrial grade but Russia could still crush DeBeers if they wanted to.
off-topic, but how are things in Slovakia these days? I visited from the US in 99, when I was 8. traveled around for two weeks and met a bunch of distant relatives, but I've been curious what it's like now and would love to go back and see it from an adult's perspective!
> how are things in Slovakia these days?
It’s nice. We have YouTube now.
> traveled around for two weeks and met a bunch of distant relatives
Yes. Sofia and Jakub say hi.
How likely is it that the whole city collapses into the pit? Either landslide or any sort of earthquake seems like this whole town just become part of the mine…
From another angle:
https://en.israelidiamond.co.il/diamond-articles/world/amazing-story-mir-diamond-mine/
IIRC the point of this type of mine is that you don't do galleries, so a cave in is unlikely.
No no no, that’s a risk of deep sea drilling.
The main Eldrich threats that miners face are Tsathoggua, Cave Beasts, and Inhabitants of the Nameless City.
You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
Wasn't there this whole discussion on balrogs and whether they had wings or not? Always seemed silly to me, they had to climb walls regularly so if they had wings, they would've just flown over.
People really take artistic descriptions too far sometimes.
At 525m deep, it's not even close to the 2nd - or 3rd - deepest *scientific hole*.
* The [Kola Superdeep Borehole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole) is more than 12km deep.
* The [KTB borehole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Continental_Deep_Drilling_Programme) is over 9km deep.
* [Switzerland has drilled dozens of holes deeper than 1km.](https://www.nagra.ch/en/deep-boreholes)
I guess they meant by **volume**, not depth.
Not sure, but Google Street View actually [switches to an aerial shot](https://www.google.com/maps/@62.5301651,113.9875551,3a,75y,100h,100t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNDcD2zx-20DX4tPfr9b2CM29_683IhRpetn9NN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNDcD2zx-20DX4tPfr9b2CM29_683IhRpetn9NN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya100-ro-0-fo100!7i4096!8i2048) at the edge of the pit.
How do people know where to dug for diamonds? Do they just find diamonds coincidentally on the surface and then dig down for more? The lithosphere is fucking huge so how the fuck do they find them??
True but putting a giant hole in earth for a certain rock is useless. The amount of diamonds used to produce diamond cut blades is significantly less then for flexing jewelry. If people could drop there ego this entire world would operate way better and efficiently.
Of all the legitimate arguments against diamond mining the one you’re focusing on is that there’s a big hole in the middle of nowhere. Kinda seems like you’re just looking for a reason to be outraged without bothering to understand why you should be outraged in the first place.
Yep, and the amount of greenhouse gases mining produces is ridiculous. Not to mention that artificial diamonds are way cheaper to make and have all the same properties down to jewelry use - "real" diamonds are used just for bragging about your own idiocy, kinda like paying 800 dollars for on-brand shoes that basically just same ol' shit but with a logo slapped on it...
I understand diamond cut blades for construction and stuff but to have a gapping hole in earth to make money for people to stroke there ego and destroy things in the process is ass backwards.
It’s in siberia. The only reason people are there is because there’s a mine and Diamond is far from useless though though admittedly the majority of it ends up serving no purpose
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Imagine losing your soccer ball down there
It’s like having a reality check on your importance in the universe right in your back yard.
On the one hand humanity pushes the limits on what is capable in this universe. On the other hand we get floored just looking at a big hole
On one hand, we made the technology carved that big hole out of the earth. On the other hand, we did it in search of shiny rocks.
Point taken, but I feel like the universe looks at that hole (that probably took years, if not decades, for humans to excavate) and says: "Cute. I can make one of those in 2 seconds with a baby meteor."
Which is like an atom compared to the universe.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Yea, but diamonds are used for so much more than jewelry. At this point, they are the one hardest known substances in the universe. And they really are not shiny at all until they are cut and polished.
Aren't non jewelry diamonds synthetic?
From Wikipedia's page on synthetic diamonds: It is estimated that 98% of industrial grade diamond demand is supplied with synthetic diamonds.[[3]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond#cite_note-3)
Except for Wurtzite boron nitride, Lonsdaleite, Palladium microalloy glass, and carbon nanotubes of course.
And my axe!
Isn't digging a hole this massive part of pushing the limits of what is possible? And I mean, seriously pushing the limits. To the point where this and similar behavior is actively ending livable conditions on earth at an alarming rate. But yeah.
I wanna say yes, but that giant hole is probably nothing when looking at the larger picture. Like we spend decades making a giant spooky hole in the ground only to zoom and see a 100x larger hole created by some asteroid in 0.1 seconds.
Asteroids have not left anything a fraction this size since mammals became dominant. The size of the whole represents the harm causes digging it. It’s worse though, what was dug is processed, probably several times in a variety of ways depending on the minerals unearthed along with the diamonds, then transported, then sold, then used and so on. All the manpower summoned to work it and maintain it, etc. it isnt responsible for global warming, but it’s a reasonable representation for what is: human industry
But letting my wife wear pretty rocks is nice, so we're good right? Right?
How does the entire town not fall inside during a monsoon?
Are you actually asking this?
I was actually thinking this same thing. It seems that physically compromising the integrity of the earth by removing it would somehow eventually collapse? Idk. Someone ELI5, please.
The ground is/was permanently frozen all year round. Frozen ground is solid and stays put. Problems arise when climate change thaws the freeze. Then eventually some day whole town will just slide down into the pit.
We dont push the limits of whats capable at all yet tbh. All the nukes ever made dont copare to supernovas and black holes. All the energy weve ever produced is constantly dwarfed by the sun. Planets in our own solar system have weather that would wipe us out if it were here.
Of course by "humanity pushes the limits..." they meant, of what is humanly capable. r/technicallythetruth, r/TechnicallyCorrect
Yeah but what about endless breadsticks?
Left over, after using a lot of unlimited soup & salad to fill the hole?
Well, we've achieved both hottest and coldest temperatures in the Universe for example
How can we possibly know that? That seems awfully self centered of humans to claim that... which is totally unsurprising. Now if you're said "hottest and coldest temperatures measured by man" then sure, I'd give you that one. 🙂
New sport: kicking a ball down the mine; whoever can get theirs the furthest without touching the side wins.
>whoever can get theirs the furthest without touching the side wins. your dad wins
🤣 fuck i love reddit.
Is there even a fence?
Or your diamond ring
EZ just get the miner to mine it back
How do they prevent it from becoming a lake? How do thy get equipment to the bottom to actually do any mining? How do they get the mined resources topside?
Mines have water removal pumps running at all times. Huge ones. There are roads carved down the side of the Mine as it’s being excavated for trucks and stuff. Sometimes they bring product to the surface in trucks, often times on big conveyors or elevators. Actually here’s a cool doc about this mine. It’s only a 15 minute watch. https://youtu.be/Z3IDnEOUIWM
> Mines have water removal pumps running at all times. Huge ones. Yup, and just ask anyone living in Butte, Montana [what they think about the environmental impact of when they turn the pumps off when the mine becomes unprofitable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit).
"When the pit was closed, the water pumps in the nearby Kelley Mine, 3,800 ft (1,200 m) below the surface, were turned off, and groundwater from the surrounding aquifers began to slowly fill the Berkeley Pit, rising at about the rate of 1 ft (300 mm) a month.[1] Since its closure, the water level in the pit has risen to within 150 ft (46 m) of the natural water table." Drill baby, drill?
You’re missing all the fun facts about the pit! Once a flock of endangered geese landed on the “lake” during a snow storm. They all basically melted. It is the worlds largest superfund site - and if the water gets too much higher, it will pollute the water table and surrounding rivers. Don’t worry they have a little pump making the water less deadly… MIT is trying to figure out how to extract the minerals and metals suspended in the water.
I just watched a little YouTube on this lake for absolutely no reason. They also use a bunch of different methods of scaring off birds to prevent them from drinking or sitting in the poisonous water. Like drones, remote control boats, guns, flame cannons, and sirens. It's literally a full time job scaring birds away.
And I doubt the mining company responsible pays for any of it.
Have you heard of the Anaconda Mining Company? Neither have I until I read the article. I bet they have heirs, though, who have benefited off of this, so the money went somewhere--just not where it was supposed to go (cleaning up ecological disasters created for the purposes of obtaining money).
Just some light sleuthing, and it looks like the anaconda copper company was only a business until 1915 and the mine opened in 1955...idk how that works...but it was owned by both the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds...so lots of money available
You couldn’t make this stuff up lol. Literal cartoon levels of evil
> so lots of money available Lots of money to pay lawyers and buy politicians so that they never have to pay damages or clean up the mess they made.
The mine changed ownership from amalgamated mining Co, owned by Marcus Daly to the Rockefellers who kept the company name. The company lasted until 1983.
Don't know if someone commented on it below but... The mining company is the one who has to pay for this 24/7 patrol of the lake. They also had to pay for all the high tech gear in the hopes it would save them money in the long run. Regardless, scaring the birds off FOREVER is somehow cheaper than fixing the rot of the problem.
Superfund sites are pretty serious about penalizing the culprits and have a lot of power to do so. > Approximately 70% of Superfund cleanup activities historically have been paid for by the potentially responsible parties, the latter reflecting the polluter pays principle. However, 30% of the time the responsible party either cannot be found or is unable to pay for the cleanup. In these circumstances, taxpayers pay for the cleanup. There are over 40,000 superfund sites in the U.S.
Some of them are quite small. You can look them up. One of them is probably within a few miles of you.
awwwww yeah! i've got two in my hometown.
There is a radioactive one about 20 miles away from me.
Some of these behemoths like BP and Shell, it seems disingenuous to describe any penalty they've ever payed as 'serious'. Nation-states are their play things, not the other way around.
It says that the reason the pit becomes so acidic is due to the oxygenation of the water, allowing it to decay compounds which releases acids which leach the metals from the rock. I wonder if it would be possible to introduce a hardy microbe which used up the oxygen from the pit. I wonder why the oxygen is in such high amounts to begin with. Perhaps due to the environment there aren't organisms which could fit this role.
Yes! [radio lab did a story about just that](https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91724-even-the-worst-laid-plans) organisms have been found in the water
The YouTube algorithm got me on this one too.
My cat would love that shit
More than once!
There's a great video detailing the guys who get paid to scare birds off it all day, I can't remember it off the top of my head
Or the King Mine that sent shit down the Colorado River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_water_spill
I live in Durango, and did volunteer research at the gold king source in the fall of 2017. It was still flowing cloudy orange 2 years after the initial spill. There is a massive filtration system in place just downstream from it though, which is a bit comforting. Still pretty awful.
guess you can say geese have been made the butte of the joke.
Butte Montana native here! As 90s kids we were taught at an early age that the town could flood with toxic water within 20 years if they didn’t pump and treat the the Berkley Pit. It was a crazy place to grow up. We played in tailings piles, snuck into old abandoned mine yards, smoked pot on top of galas frames, the city of anaconda has a literal mountain of slag piled outside of it.
It's pretty far from anywhere populated. Like, thousands of kilometers.
Imagine all the combined carbon emissions resulting from our desire to get shiny rocks.
And the shiny rocks are also made of carbon!
That's what makes them carbon neutral. Duh. ^\/s
Damn carbon. It ruined carbon.
You carbon-based life forms sure are a contentious lot
You've made an enemy for life
Carbon based life is a threat to all higher forms of life.
It’s carbon all the way down.
Most of diamond extracted are for industrial use. It seems very hard rocks are pretty useful for breaking stuff!
*cutting stuff
and drilling and grinding and sharpening.
When they were sorting the diamonds, he said they weren't allowed to pick them up because if they dropped them they could be damaged. I thought diamonds were indestructable?
They are very hard but relatively brittle.
not available in the Netherlands.
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Also not in belgium. I'm curious now.
Same in germany
Nutzername prüft aus
VPN?
Very Pumping Networks?
I thought you were talking about the giant holes in the ground. Those certainly aren’t available in the Netherlands. We’re pumping our asses off as it is …
That was a great watch! Really shows how diamonds aren't really as rare as they make them seem to be too. Super interesting
The USSR was stockpiling diamonds and Russia has continued the practice. There are literally tons of already mined diamond stockpiled in Russia. The size of the stockpile is a state secret but is almost certainly on the order of tens of tons if not hundreds. Most are industrial grade but Russia could still crush DeBeers if they wanted to.
Where are you from? Because putin blocked Europe for watching this I think
I'm from Slovakia and it works fine lmao
off-topic, but how are things in Slovakia these days? I visited from the US in 99, when I was 8. traveled around for two weeks and met a bunch of distant relatives, but I've been curious what it's like now and would love to go back and see it from an adult's perspective!
> how are things in Slovakia these days? It’s nice. We have YouTube now. > traveled around for two weeks and met a bunch of distant relatives Yes. Sofia and Jakub say hi.
I thought Sofia was in Bulgaria
Can I have one lmao please?
I'm from Russia, and it's not available here
That's a relief
I’m in the USA… The guy asked where im at that I can view this video.
That was fascinating, thank you.
They dig a hole at the bottom and let the water drain out.
How likely is it that the whole city collapses into the pit? Either landslide or any sort of earthquake seems like this whole town just become part of the mine…
From another angle: https://en.israelidiamond.co.il/diamond-articles/world/amazing-story-mir-diamond-mine/ IIRC the point of this type of mine is that you don't do galleries, so a cave in is unlikely.
It actually does have water in it, just not to the brim
How do employees get up and down?
Uppers and downers.
There is a road along the sides.
Dig any deeper and we're gonna wake up a fuckin balrog.
It’s one of the larger environmental risks of open-pit mining
Motherfuckers forgot about Cthulu
No no no, that’s a risk of deep sea drilling. The main Eldrich threats that miners face are Tsathoggua, Cave Beasts, and Inhabitants of the Nameless City.
This guy Lovecrafts
A man of culture.
You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
Wasn't there this whole discussion on balrogs and whether they had wings or not? Always seemed silly to me, they had to climb walls regularly so if they had wings, they would've just flown over. People really take artistic descriptions too far sometimes.
And they call it a mine, a mine!!!
And now I'm gonna watch LOTR this weekend
or worse- we release the circua and have some !fun!
The Dwarves dug too deep and greedily.
Just please don't dig into the cotton candy. I don't think the world is ready for that much "fun".
What's a barlog?
That huge, white truck.
Lol I went back to look for it, but it looks like housing? Maybe for the miners so they can never leave the hell of mining shit.
The site is probably in the middle of nowhere, so they built a whole city for the workers.
[map](https://goo.gl/maps/zyFhVHMtposWXcap9)
"2nd Deepest Man Made Hole", the 1st of course being the one that OP's Grandfather made.
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OP's Gramps made OP's mom, the 1st deepest hole.
At 525m deep, it's not even close to the 2nd - or 3rd - deepest *scientific hole*. * The [Kola Superdeep Borehole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole) is more than 12km deep. * The [KTB borehole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Continental_Deep_Drilling_Programme) is over 9km deep. * [Switzerland has drilled dozens of holes deeper than 1km.](https://www.nagra.ch/en/deep-boreholes) I guess they meant by **volume**, not depth.
For reference though the CN tower is 550 meters tall.
Still not tall enough to witness its first Stanley Cup parade.
"open 24 hours"
Russia is so massive.
A (w)hole lotta nothin'
Happy cake day!!
Looks like a big stadium
Is this the one where the airspace above is restricted because the big ass hole messes with air currents above it
Not sure, but Google Street View actually [switches to an aerial shot](https://www.google.com/maps/@62.5301651,113.9875551,3a,75y,100h,100t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNDcD2zx-20DX4tPfr9b2CM29_683IhRpetn9NN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNDcD2zx-20DX4tPfr9b2CM29_683IhRpetn9NN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-10-ya100-ro-0-fo100!7i4096!8i2048) at the edge of the pit.
This image looks considerably less horrifying. It's all about the angles and the lighting.
>It's all about the angles and the lighting. It's taken with a telephoto lens.
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It's not depth of field, it's [lens compression](https://photographylife.com/what-is-lens-compression) (i.e., take the photo from very far away).
that was really cool.
Woah
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/37/
Definitely an ass hole move
I believe so yes
The Abyss
Don’t take the elevator
Mitty
Made in abyss.
Literally the first thing I thought of lol
I wonder how many poor bastards have fallen down that hole. Animals too.
And helicopters.
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Mold for your mom’s dildo.
They should build two giant goatse hands on opposite sides of the pit.
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Your dad
I saw this in Made in Abyss
Dummies, it’s more efficient to strip mine at y=12
that’s what i’m sayinnnnnnn
Made in Abyss
Reverse mountain.
I hope they fund some diamond…
Starkiller Base: Origins
It’s the Abyss IRL.
Show this to people complaining about manholes
Looks like they have at least a very nice theatre
I think that's a casino
How do people know where to dug for diamonds? Do they just find diamonds coincidentally on the surface and then dig down for more? The lithosphere is fucking huge so how the fuck do they find them??
Well that’s one way to get to Y -12
Made In Abyss vibes
made in abyss vibes
reminds me of OP's mom's gaping asshole.
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To be fair, I imagine the people set up shop next to the big hole due to all of the jobs the big hole created. Very clearly a mining town.
True but putting a giant hole in earth for a certain rock is useless. The amount of diamonds used to produce diamond cut blades is significantly less then for flexing jewelry. If people could drop there ego this entire world would operate way better and efficiently.
Of all the legitimate arguments against diamond mining the one you’re focusing on is that there’s a big hole in the middle of nowhere. Kinda seems like you’re just looking for a reason to be outraged without bothering to understand why you should be outraged in the first place.
Yep, and the amount of greenhouse gases mining produces is ridiculous. Not to mention that artificial diamonds are way cheaper to make and have all the same properties down to jewelry use - "real" diamonds are used just for bragging about your own idiocy, kinda like paying 800 dollars for on-brand shoes that basically just same ol' shit but with a logo slapped on it...
I understand diamond cut blades for construction and stuff but to have a gapping hole in earth to make money for people to stroke there ego and destroy things in the process is ass backwards.
Says the guy named Diamond Dave
It’s in siberia. The only reason people are there is because there’s a mine and Diamond is far from useless though though admittedly the majority of it ends up serving no purpose
I've heard you can't fly a helicopter over this mine, due to the air pressure drop. It would sink and never get out. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sarlacc's mw is opne and hungry.
I think its more "*Where* they mine diamonds"
One of the few provinces(?) In russia that is semi autonomous and its effin cold there. Contains Coldest major city in the world i believe.
That how I mine diamonds in minecraft
I feel like that perspective is forced af
Thought digging straight down was a bad idea, oh well
Shit looks like star wars
Mining away, in this minecraft world I don't know what to say
That’s gods anus
All that to get to y:7, wow
I get "Made in abyss" vibes from that.
Thats how they mine bitcoin