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поржать над проблемой американцев

Автор: Vladimir A. Maltsev
Дата: 14 May 1999

Тут один мой знакомый набрел на телеконференцию "cool facts" ("только
факты"), в которой на полном серьезе утверждается, что глубочайшая
пещера мира - Lechuguilla с ее четыреста пятидесятью метрами. А
заодно - предлагаются коммерческие туры в эту дыру, которая, как
считают ее хозяева-американцы, законсервирована полностью (да даже и
до консервации имела законодательный запрет на коммерческое
использование):

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> The Learning Kingdom's Cool Fact of the Day for May 11, 1999
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> What's the deepest known cave?
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>Lechuguilla Cave, near Carlsbad, New Mexico, goes down at least 1,571
>feet (479 meters), making it the deepest known cave on Earth. It is
>only partially explored, but already more than 97 miles (156
>kilometers) of passages have been mapped.
>
>The immense maze of rooms and passages that forms the Lechuguilla
>system was discovered in 1986. A group of spelunkers (cave explorers)
>decided to investigate a desert pit called Misery Hole. When they
>reached the bottom, they dug down and found a chamber from which a
>howling wind emerged, a sign of a large cave system.
>
>Unlike most limestone caves that were formed by water dissolving the
>rock from above, Lechuguilla was formed by hydrogen sulfide gas coming
>up from underneath. The gas was released from an underground oil
>pocket because of geological shifts.
>
>Take a tour of Lechuguilla:
>http://www.extremescience.com/LechuguillaCave.htm
>
>More Cool Facts about caves:
>http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1997/07/29.html
>http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1997/08/18.html
>http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1997/08/20.html
>http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1997/08/28.html
>http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1998/09/03.html



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