Mar 7, 2009: Down a Well

xoxoxoBruce · 03-07-2009, 02:45 AM

This is a very cool picture, with a very strange caption, from the English Russia website.

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Anton Chekalin has visited Russian Antarctic station and has shot there some interesting places.
For example, what you see on the photo above is the Russian water well. The have made a 16 feet (5 meters) deep hole in the ice and there they can get fresh water from somewhere, so when person gets in there he can see sun trying to penetrate through this many feet thick ice.

Apparently in Antarctica they made a hole in the ice, down to an ice cave, where they can get fresh water... somewhere.

But looking at the angle between the stepladder legs, the size of the light spot below the ladder, and the angle of the shadow of the ladder, it's hard for me to believe it goes up another 16 feet.

Oh well, I like the picture.

spudcon · 03-07-2009, 04:16 AM

That ladder isn't going thru ice, it's going up thru clouds. The Russians are trying to get to the land of Jack and the Beanstalk.

spudcon · 03-07-2009, 04:26 AM

Or maybe they're tunneling into Chernobyl.

Thunder.gryphoN · 03-07-2009, 11:00 AM

The citadel is unstable! You must evacuate the area at once!

Shawnee123 · 03-07-2009, 11:07 AM

spudcon · 03-07-2009, 09:12 PM

I'm touched. Sniff.

Sundae · 03-08-2009, 07:33 AM

Ewwww, Spud.
Tint that slightly differently and we'd be tunneling into G----e.

spudcon · 03-08-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Ewwww, Spud.
Tint that slightly differently and we'd be tunneling into G----e.

G----e? Grape?

TheMercenary · 03-09-2009, 07:42 AM

Heh, Chernobyl.

Sheldonrs · 03-09-2009, 08:50 AM

icehole.

Sundae · 03-09-2009, 10:11 AM

My friend's Dad used to call me Chernobyl (my given name if you remove the nob) because of the mess I left in the bathroom. He said it looked like a disaster area, and wondered how such a tiny creature - as I was in my teens - could displace that amount of water.

Sheldonrs · 03-09-2009, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

My friend's Dad used to call me Chernobyl (my given name if you remove the nob) because of the mess I left in the bathroom. He said it looked like a disaster area, and wondered how such a tiny creature - as I was in my teens - could displace that amount of water.

Everything is changed when you remove the nob.

Sundae · 03-09-2009, 10:40 AM

Trust me, I'd never even seen one in those days!
Except the one or two glimpses of my Dad's - in a completely non-paedo-bad-timing-towel-slipping way.

narcuul · 03-13-2009, 06:52 PM

Or, it could be the entrance the underground lair of Hans Moleman. You know, where he keeps his earthquake machine and stuff.

03-07-2009, 04:16 AM	#2
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	That ladder isn't going thru ice, it's going up thru clouds. The Russians are trying to get to the land of Jack and the Beanstalk. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

03-07-2009, 04:26 AM	#3
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	Or maybe they're tunneling into Chernobyl. Attached Images __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

03-07-2009, 11:07 AM	#5
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	__________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

03-07-2009, 09:12 PM	#6
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	I'm touched. Sniff. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

03-08-2009, 07:33 AM	#7
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Ewwww, Spud. Tint that slightly differently and we'd be tunneling into G----e. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-07-2009, 11:00 AM	#4
Thunder.gryphoN Non-Newbie Sort Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 6	The citadel is unstable! You must evacuate the area at once!

03-09-2009, 07:42 AM	#9
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Heh, Chernobyl. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

03-09-2009, 08:50 AM	#10
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	icehole. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

03-09-2009, 10:11 AM	#11
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	My friend's Dad used to call me Chernobyl (my given name if you remove the nob) because of the mess I left in the bathroom. He said it looked like a disaster area, and wondered how such a tiny creature - as I was in my teens - could displace that amount of water. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-09-2009, 10:40 AM	#13
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Trust me, I'd never even seen one in those days! Except the one or two glimpses of my Dad's - in a completely non-paedo-bad-timing-towel-slipping way. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-13-2009, 06:52 PM	#14
narcuul Aggregate Aggravator Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 17	Or, it could be the entrance the underground lair of Hans Moleman. You know, where he keeps his earthquake machine and stuff.

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