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Where Does Your Hole End? Posted: 1 year ago by gnikgnok
Stop it.
Find out where you'd come out if you dug a hole from your neighborhood on down to the other side of the earth.
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Astronomers puzzled by cosmic black hole Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.
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Fla. man, 90, gets his first hole in one Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
It took 78 years of golfing, but a 90-year-old man finally got his first hole in one. On Thursday morning, Howard Tanner aced the 123-yard ninth hole of the Wynmoor Community Council Golf Course in Coconut Creek. He first took up the game as a teenager in Long Island, N.Y., while working as a caddie.
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Inmates Cover Hole With Pancake Batter Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
Police said inmates used pancake batter and toothpaste to cover a hole they made to allow a female inmate to slide into the next cell and join a male inmate. Now steel plates are being added to the Missouri jail's interior walls.
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Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.
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Dive the Blue Hole in Belize Posted: 1 year ago by kxmk
The Blue Hole is a geological oddity, so much so that in March of 1996 it was declared a World Heritage Site and later declared a National Monument in February of 1999.
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Ozone Hole Watch Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
This is the Ozone Hole Watch web site, where you can check on the latest status of the ozone layer over the South Pole. Satellite instruments monitor the ozone layer, and data is used to create the images that depict the amount of ozone.
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Milky Way's black hole probed closer than ever before Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
We are close to seeing the true blackness of a black hole. Astronomers have detected radio emission coming from within 30 million kilometres of the dark object, thought to be a colossal black hole, that lies at the centre of the galaxy. Includes video.
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Ozone hole is 'biggest on record' Posted: 2 years ago by robfouryqr
This year's Antarctic ozone hole is the largest on record, according to US government scientists.
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Mysterious Dark Hole On Mars Posted: 1 year ago by ogri2003
DUPE!
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Hole Punch Art Posted: 1 year ago by gnikgnok
Now this is some serious office supply talent!
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Street falls into hole in Zagreb, dozens homeless Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
A small street in a residential district of the Croatian capital collapsed into an underground building site, turning dozens of shocked citizens into homeless refugees.
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Hole in Qantas jet forces emergency landing Posted: 1 month ago by KAkanA
Something like this could ruin your whole day.
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Scientists probe mysterious "hole" in Earth's Surface Posted: 2 years ago by Browntrout
Dr Chris MacLeod, from Cardiff University, said the Earth's crust appeared to be completely missing in an area thousands of kilometres across. He said it was an "open wound on the surface of the Earth", where the oceanic crust, usually 6-7km thick (3.7-4.3 miles), was simply not there.
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Antarctic ozone hole shrinking because of mild weather, not recovery Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Although the ozone layer over the Antarctic this year is relatively small, this is due to mild temperatures in the region’s stratosphere this winter and is not a sign of recovery, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today.
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Deep Hole Found on Mars Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
The geological oddity measures some 330 feet (100 meters) across and is located on an otherwise bright dusty lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons, one of the four giant Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet.
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Sink hole swallows woman in Brooklyn. Posted: 2 years ago by tomphoolry
You can't even walk in your neighborhood anymore.
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The Richat Structure Posted: 12 months ago by pocksucket
Some may say that it's a bloody big hole in the ground. And it is. But it's more as well. There's a hotel in it. And a mine.
Here's some more info in slightly more wordy form.
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The Deepest Hole Posted: 2 years ago by Phildo
I once worked on a drill rig for a gold mining company and I remember at times we had difficulty getting down a mere 2,500 feet for samples. I can't even imagine going down 7 miles!
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CD Hole Art Posted: 1 year ago by gnikgnok
The new medium for artistic expression - empty space. Pretty cute idea, actually.
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