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03/29/2007 08:05:11 PM · #1 |
I got this via email with some photos attached from my dad, a retired university professor of geology. He wanted my opinion on whether or not the photos were fake. I searched and found some similar photos here on the web:
//www.canyonsworldwide.org/crystals/index.html
//giantcrystals.strahlen.org/america/naica.htm
//www.crystalinks.com/mexicocrystals.html
Smithsonian Mag... credible??? No photos with the article, though
Youtoob hosted video, a little hokey.
It's entirely possible he already knows the answer, and is doing this to test me, in which case if I anwer wrong I'll never hear the end of it. It just seems kind of web-viral to me.
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This is the crystal cave of giants found in the Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico. These are Selenite crystals (gypsum) and are the largest crystals ever discovered.
They are 1000 feet down in a limestone host rock where they are
mining for lead, zinc and silver.
These crystals were formed by hydrothermal fluids emanating from the
magma chambers below.The miners had to drill through the Naica fault, which they were worried would flood the mine, and this is what they discovered |
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03/29/2007 08:07:31 PM · #2 |
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naica_Mine Seems true enough.
Message edited by author 2007-03-29 20:07:49. |
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03/29/2007 08:10:28 PM · #3 |
| Yep, they are real. I read an article about them a while back - something about needing the military to protect them from thieves and vandals. |
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03/29/2007 08:13:15 PM · #4 |
Those can't be stolen... they weigh an obscene amount... there was a huge story about a guy who tried and died!!!!
but yes, they are real :)
Message edited by author 2007-03-29 20:13:36. |
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03/29/2007 08:14:42 PM · #5 |
better page of what was actually down there from the wiki page
Message edited by author 2007-03-29 20:15:04.
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03/29/2007 10:03:35 PM · #6 |
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03/29/2007 10:20:32 PM · #7 |
| I don't know if they're real or not, but the real issue on my mind is your profile picture, Slip. Man... you GOTTA change that sucker -- it's making me scared! |
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03/29/2007 10:39:24 PM · #8 |
| they are real, that's where they shot those scenes from Superman (his little ice cave)...actually I don't know, seems real enough to me. |
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03/30/2007 12:49:26 AM · #9 |
| I was also thinking I had seen this place before. |
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03/30/2007 07:07:00 AM · #10 |
kind of weird, when I got home from work tonight there was a movie on...didn't catch the name...but the military had cause the earth's core to stop and they had to travel to the center of the earth (probably the name of the movie right there) and it one part they end up in a cavern that looks JUST like this place.
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03/30/2007 07:49:39 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
kind of weird, when I got home from work tonight there was a movie on...didn't catch the name...but the military had cause the earth's core to stop and they had to travel to the center of the earth (probably the name of the movie right there) and it one part they end up in a cavern that looks JUST like this place. |
Hahaha, that was a hilarious movie. They were in a geode with a shell made of Cobalt. The cobalt helped to hold back the mantle. *snickers*
"The Core" |
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03/30/2007 07:54:26 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
... real issue on my mind is your profile picture, Slip. Man... you GOTTA change that sucker -- it's making me scared! |
Hehe, that's my favourite character from Little Britain!
"Ya, I know." |
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