Lost World: Schieks Cave (2009)

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20 points·kyledrake··7 comments

Both of us had been waiting to see Schieks Cave for so many years that we experienced a sort of “rapture of the deeps” upon our arrival at the cave. Perhaps tiny bubbles of sewer gas had lodged in our brains. We gazed up the 75-foot shaft to the street, the entry point for official tours in the past. It was like looking up from the bottom of a deep well-hole, light streaming through ventilation ports in the hexagonal lid far above us. Lid fragments lie scattered about our feet, lids that had tumbled down the shaft and smashed like cookies when someone got careless.

So when they ask you in an interview, "Why are manhole covers round?", now you know.

Recommend not R'ing TFA while eating dinner, as I just did.

When I was in high school, there was a discussion in either a science or math class about why manhole covers were round. One kid just didn't get it. He even made a paper model. I took his model, and then inserted the lid into the hole diagonally. He facepalmed, and fully understood.

What I don't understand is this article though. I gave up on it shortly after talking about ingesting raw sewage.

I gave up on it shortly after talking about ingesting raw sewage

Good call.

Greg Brick is notorious for lying about his field trips, often going as far as passing other people's adventures as his own. You can find many of the stories from the original sources on the Action Squad website.

> In 1939, Minneapolis Journal photographer David Dornberg went on a “Camera Safari,” as he called it

And only a single photo in the entire article...

He wants us to buy the book!

This reminds me the old Therion debian package... a gem hidden deep in apt

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