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deleted
· 10 years ago
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A helicopter flying at a safe distance from the mine and the picture taken with a telephoto lens.
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thatnerdygoodness
· 10 years ago
Is that Kimberley?
vlekkie
· 10 years ago
Nope, it has to be somewhere else, Kimberly looks different.
angelus333
· 10 years ago
Kimberley hole is covered by trees and has water in it
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vlekkie
· 10 years ago
Why the bloody hell do people dislike that? And yes I know lol, you live in the region?
angelus333
· 10 years ago
I'm South African, how wouldn't I know! I visited it once but I'm not close to it
vlekkie
· 10 years ago
Me too! But I'm also not close to it, anyway goodnight.
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mrsarcasm
· 10 years ago
I'm doubtful that would be big enough to have that big an air current
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guest
· 10 years ago
Maybe not an air current, but maybe the gravity (or, if we want to get technical: the gravitational potential) it's different in that particular point, and thus it pulls the helicopter down since there is a force acting on it to which the helicopter was not built to withstand. But hey, don't trust me here, my knowledge in anything that has wings, or can fly it's null.
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guest
· 10 years ago
It's not extra gravity, but is air currents. Air moves around the sides of the mine creating turbulence, kind of like the swirling of waters in a stream, lowering air pressure. If a helicopter flies over it, the edges will have air moving around them causing unsafe winds making the flight dangerous. If the barely stable copter moves over the middle, the sudden loss of air pressure caused by the swirling will result in the helicopter to be seemingly sucked in. It really falls from not being able to create enough force to lift itself, but the huge mine is directly responsible.
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guest
· 10 years ago
I'm pretty much sure some of this is explained by the Bernoulli's principle. It's the shape of the mine the one responsible. But yeah, you are right, it's the pressure. Sorry, got some words and facts mixed up.
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pervymonkey
· 10 years ago
couldn't this be taken by satellite?
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guest
· 10 years ago
Not from that low of an angle.
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vlekkie
· 10 years ago
Maybe even from a shitty (non wing) seat of a plane?
guest
· 10 years ago
I seen this before it's in LAS VEGAS.
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deleted
· 10 years ago
Actually this is the 'Mir' mine in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia.
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