"Theres a jungle inside Vietnams mammoth cavern."
ngon master
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography
I'm always amazed when people find something this massive and untouched on Earth, Really awesome reference material, thought it deserved a post of its own, its like those journey into the center of the earth movies... but real.
I'm always amazed when people find something this massive and untouched on Earth, Really awesome reference material, thought it deserved a post of its own, its like those journey into the center of the earth movies... but real.
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I want to go...
Thanks for sharing. Great reference!
Though not nearly as good, here's an article with pics from the first expedition.
http://www.dancewithshadows.com/travel/hang-son-doong-photos.asp
joking aside though. thats some really alien landscapes there. the last picture on the website looks like a still shot from an alien remake movie.
But in all seriousness, that is amazing. Beautiful! I want to see it in person.
It reminds me of the giant crystal caves down in Mexico.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/into-the-lost-crystal-caves-4636#tab-Overview
Nat Geo just has so much amazing mind blowing stuff its awesome to get a taste of it every day.
I cant wait till we cut down that forest inside there to make something useful like toothpicks.
This isn't the middle-ages. There's such a thing as Tree Farms. In reality there isn't much deforestation happening in order to produce lumber-goods. You have tree farms which have crop rotation (of sorts) that are constantly replenished on purpose. It also has a nice side-effect of sucking in more CO2 from the atmosphere than a pre-existing forest, since growing trees soak up more CO2 than old trees, and on tree-farms, trees are constantly growing.
That said, hells yeah I'd love to go see that cave. It looks like something you'd see on an alien planet.
something something... 28% of the world's oxygen turn over...
something something slash a burn...
something varried and unique being destroyed and replaced with single crop palm oil... so fat humans can keep stuffing their faces with fatty palm oil laden treats...
something something... no one in that part of the world cares and people who do are tree huggin idiots who want to shut down highly profitable operations to save nats and snails.
Who the hell cares that a lot of plants and animals are going extinct. So what if those plants could provide all kinds of cures and revolutionary treatments for things that try to kills us some of which we haven't even discovered yet...
One thing to keep in mind is that trees also store carbon, when the tree dies or is harvested carbon gets released. So you get to pull it out of circulation for a while but its just a matter of time before it gets released again. Now imagine a forest fire... oh well all that carbon we stored well... there it goes. Now imagine pine beetles or any number of other tree killing insects, mosses, fungus or viruses. You can't bank on being able to keep creating more and more carbon and keeping it contained. Especially with countries that don't give a rats ass about long term sustainability.
Amazing stuff. Thanks for posting.
That place just requires photos to be posted in forum:
Yeah that, isn't most deforestation due to farmland?
So even if the rest of the earth is fucked, atleast this cave will stay beautiful ;_;
watched the programme about this on the National Geographic channel today, they found fuck all in the jungly bits, and the nearest they got to anything 'new' was an overly pale woodlouse. The sense of dissapointment all round was palpable. Booo.
let's go razzle up some polar bears!
pretty awesome stuff. thanks for posting ZacD!