by letmevoteplease
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- The story of the hand-dug well:
https://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/places/utilities/woodin...
- Hover text is "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do."
- Was missing the Iranian nuclear sites and other underground bases in this.
Also, I knew Baikal lake was deep, but not how deep its sediment layer is! That looks like something out of a Lovecraft story...
by WithinReason
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- Lake Baikal sediment layer almost as deep as the Mariana Trench:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal#Geography_and_hydr...
[...] and below this lies some 7 km (4.3 mi) of sediment, placing the rift floor some 8–11 km (5.0–6.8 mi) below the surface, the deepest continental rift on Earth.
- Explain xkcd has links to the Wikipedia articles for each hole.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3266:_Holes
- I forget how cool Lake Baikal is until it shows up randomly and I'm reminded to go look it up again.
by halamadrid
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- What are all those oops for?
by sheepybloke
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- It's funny this came out today! Just at lunch we were googling the highest and lowest capitals of the world. Lowest is Baku in Azerbaijan, at -28m!
by ozyschmozy
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- Funny that he misspelled one (derinku_y_u, literally meaning deep well), given all the effort that clearly went into it.
by lambdaone
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- I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.
- What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
by thunderbong
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- XKCD always has a mobile version. You need add a m. prefix -
https://m.xkcd.com/3266/
Helps to see the alt-text if you're on a phone.
by underlipton
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- You cannot convince me that something ridiculous wasn't covered up wrt Deepwater Horizon.
- Can we update the link to https://xkcd.com/3266/
Anyone who wants the large image can click/tap the image, but the revere is harder to do.
In the other direction, Mt. Everest is 8,848.86 meters above sea level. I guess we don't include Lake Tahoe and/or Crater Lake because even though they're deep(ish), their bottoms are above way sea level?
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