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Photographer Stephen Alvarez took this amazing photo of a man going into the Majlis al Jinn, the 9th largest cave chamber in the world. Looks like a nice place to explore.
Jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
May 26, 2009 @ 9:31 am
Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is back again with another magnificent video of sea creatures (previously, they shot a video of the fish with a transparent head). This time it features a bunch of different kind of jelly fish which normally tend to scare me a bit, but I can stand them here because I’m watching them through a monitor through a glass enclosing. Nice.
Robert Shone photographs 3100-foot shaft in China
October 30, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
The Daily Mail has some fantastic (and big!) pictures of one of the world’s deepest underground shafts. This particular shaft is located in China and measures an incredible 3100 feet in depth. An international team of explorers climbed down the shaft during a one-month period and stayed about 4-5 days at a time at the bottom.
Robert Shone of Manchester went with the team and photographed the expedition using the camera set up seen below.
As deep as this shaft appears, this is not actually the world’s deepest known shaft. The deepest shaft, located in Georgia (not the state), measures a length more than twice that of this shaft in China. I’d love to climb down one of these someday. Looks exciting to explore!
James Earl Jones recites the alphabet
October 9, 2008 @ 12:58 am
Sesame Street had some truly weird programming back in the day. Check out a young James Earl Jones here reciting the entire alphabet as slowly and clearly as possible. [via]
This sorta creeps me out.
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