"It just looks like a giant crack in the ground."
October 7, 2010 1:59 PM Subscribe
Large crevice confuses residents by Beth Jones.
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"It's like I had a vibrating chair... which I don't have!"
posted by fatbird at 2:04 PM on October 7, 2010
posted by fatbird at 2:04 PM on October 7, 2010
Earthquakes, how the fuck do they work?
Sorry
posted by wcfields at 2:07 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
Sorry
posted by wcfields at 2:07 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
Ugh, I'm sorry guys. I was tunneling under my claim looking for spawners, and I hit of bunch of gravel stacks. I'll put some dirt down when I finish my nerdpole.
posted by lholladay at 2:09 PM on October 7, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by lholladay at 2:09 PM on October 7, 2010 [2 favorites]
That's when she felt her house...
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...start to shake.
posted by katillathehun at 2:10 PM on October 7, 2010
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...start to shake.
posted by katillathehun at 2:10 PM on October 7, 2010
It think, perhaps, this man had something to do with it. Needed somewhere larger to hide things.
posted by LD Feral at 2:11 PM on October 7, 2010
posted by LD Feral at 2:11 PM on October 7, 2010
Alternatively, it could be two parts of space and time that never should have touched...
posted by lholladay at 2:12 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by lholladay at 2:12 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
MetaFilter: finish my nerdpole.
posted by loquacious at 2:12 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by loquacious at 2:12 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
It was Martians, I tells ya!
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 2:12 PM on October 7, 2010
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 2:12 PM on October 7, 2010
I've been reading a lot of Saramago lately, and if that's any indication, in about a month the upper peninsula will break completely free of the mainland and begin floating aimlessly across Lake Superior.
posted by jackflaps at 2:14 PM on October 7, 2010
posted by jackflaps at 2:14 PM on October 7, 2010
Hellmouth.
posted by Artw at 2:15 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 2:15 PM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]
It's hard for city-dwellers like myself to really understand that more rural areas have earth-shattering crack problems.
posted by jtron at 2:17 PM on October 7, 2010
posted by jtron at 2:17 PM on October 7, 2010
Clearly a graboid made it too close to the surface. But what is it doing that far north?!?!?
posted by .kobayashi. at 2:17 PM on October 7, 2010
posted by .kobayashi. at 2:17 PM on October 7, 2010
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posted by 2bucksplus at 2:03 PM on October 7, 2010