Adam speculated on the last No Agenda that the sink hole was caused by a beam weapon in space. If true, it must be a truly remarkable weapon since it left the corner of a building untouched and hanging over the hole. It is odd, however, how round the hole is. Here’s a tad more reasonable explanation:
A sinkhole, 65 feet across and 100 feet deep, swallowed up a small factory and some telephone poles in Guatemala City last weekend. Police have been stationed around the hole to prevent bystanders from falling in, and those who live nearby are staying elsewhere for the time being. How do you fill a massive sinkhole in the middle of a major urban area?
With cement or rocks. Sinkholes develop when water flows through pores in bedrock and gradually enlarges them. When these subterranean cavities get big enough, the ground above collapses and fills them in. [...] A 6,500-cubic-foot wad of concrete may serve to concentrate water runoff in other areas, leading to more sinkholes. Many engineers prefer the graded-filter technique, in which the hole is filled with a layer of boulders, then a layer of smaller rocks, and, finally, a layer of gravel. This fills the hole, more or less, while permitting water to drain through the area.
No matter what is used to fill the crater, more sinkholes are on the way. Guatemala City’s location and leaky sewage system make it particularly prone to these events. The capital lies downhill from seven major volcanoes, two of which are active members of the Pacific Ring of Fire. For hundreds of thousands of years, the gargantuan Amatitlan Caldera dumped volcanic ash on the ground where the city now sits. As a result, the local bedrock consists mostly of loose volcanic pumice. (Many cities sit atop volcanic deposits, but the ash from Amatitlan has not had the time or the appropriate pressure and temperature conditions to compress into a solid, reliable foundation.)
The correct answer as to who really caused this is either Obama or Bush, depending on your political proclivity.
What about Karst Topography as well?
In the newest “War of the Worlds”, alien spacecraft buried for decades under city streets launched after a rainless thunderstorm.
Have any of the population gone missing leaving only their ash-laden clothes blowing about?
We need one of these at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
It WAS the weapon in space. I have seen it! And you cn see it too!
Just rent the first installment of Alien vs Predator.
Since the building are at the bottom, then the beam weapons wasnt used.
Sink hole was created over TIME..a long time.
And it should have been location Very easily..
Get a few people wondering around with Hard wooden sticks..Listen for hollow sounds.. There probably are at LEAST a few more.
Sounds and looks like the NWO New World Order to me – or at the least Henry Kissinger with the Bildebergs
I wonder if people are going to blame Obama and wonder where the heck FEMA is ?
I read that it was 300 ft deep.
Gonzo: the area is sitting on volcanic ash, not karst (topography that is seen in limestone areas, if someone wants to know). That’s quite a drop, and the walls are probably unstable ash. I wouldn’t go down there unless someone is alive at the bottom of the hole.
With a little wider opening they can bury Rush Limbaugh in it. Just a thought.
Did his fat ass leave the US yet like he said he would?
#4 – or the Borg.
Adam is right, in a sense. There is a war in space going on right now. It is between Motorola and Scientific Atlanta (Cisco).
Video encryption in the analog days was an industry accepted standard called Video Cypher II. It actually only scrambled the video, the (digital) audio was encrypted. Now that video has gone digital as well, we have 2 different encryption methods. Motorola uses theirs and Sci-Atlanta uses theirs. They are not compatible. The cable networks must get better deals as the war progresses, because I’ve been spending a good amount of my time changing out receivers over the past year, with no end in sight.
They all follow the same pattern:
1) request an audit (hey, didn’t you authorize the receiver to begin with?)
2) Ask for a shipping address (which will be ignored… UPS won’t deliver to a shack at the end of a muddy road)
3) Set a deadline of the end of the month, but don’t get the new signal up on the bird until the last minute.
4) Farm out authorization to someone who speaks with some sort of bad accent with a tin-can phone.
5) Complete the project, have lunch with your vendor who tells you of a great new system that will save you a lot of money.
6) repeat.
If it had gone pole to pole we would had the ultimate solution in birth control.
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Hey wouldn’t it be great if something like this were to form right under congress, in session. I’d believe in God after that.
HEY! That Beam Weapon from Space thing was MY rumor. Get your own dang rumor…
Perhaps the real conspiracy is that the sink hole was caused by the weight of Adam Curry’s huge ego?
This is actually the second one of these they have had and as noted they can expect more. Technically it isn’t a sink hole caused by limestone dissolving and the roof of a cave falling in.
As noted this is in unconsolidated pumice best called glass reduced to jagged sand. One picture showed several broken water/sewer mains in the edge of the hole. Water flowing through the grit washed away enough grit the roof fell into the hole.
The best thing to fill it with might be rocks and gravel. There are probably a lot of really big voids under this city.
From the way the building looks, I think this was a Fringe event. Just get Walter to close this latest doorway.
I roughly estimate 9,391 cubic metres of fill, if it is indeed only 30.5 metres deep. A city that size should generate that amount of inorganic waste in a month.
the a**hole of Central America.
just kidding, folks
that distinction belongs to San Pedro Sula
That’s not from a beam weapon in space.. That’s from a beam weapon underground in China… Which is why there’s some over hang…