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World's Deepest Cave Explored Further

Posted by Hemos on from the hardcore-spelunking dept.

DiniZuli writes "Australian Alan Warild led a 25-strong team of cavers from Russia and Ukraine on a world-record 1830-metre descent into the Krubera-Voronia cave in Abkhazia, Georgia. Read about it here (sacrifice of goat might be required). Here's a nice map of the cave."

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  1. New Species by EvilGoodGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find this to be pretty interesting. There are so many terrains on our earth that we have yet to explore. And I think there are deffinite chances of there being some extremely unique creatures at these depths of a cave. People go nuts over exploring Mars. But I think we should put some effort into Earth as well.

    1. Re:New Species by arose · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Welcome to "Evolution", we are not a museum.

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      Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
  2. This is truly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    news for nerds. I salute these brave people who have the balls to go places where no human being has ever been before. Plus it's just cool to get a world record.

  3. Re:Deep caves and goat? by Cowboy_Jed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cavemen in the deep caves would think that a goat is a gift from god(s) for them.

  4. Re:Impossible to read the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I read the sister/mirror of this paper www.theage.com.au (same paper, different city, different city based content) daily and the bugmenots do work.... It's just the problem is they won't let you use one that's already in use.

    So as it's slashdotted, those bugmenots are all logged in that's why you can't get to it.

  5. Re:no goat sacrifice needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It actually serves a useful purpose, as the SMH requires registration (though the site will ocassionally give one a 'freebie').

  6. Interesting! by Underholdning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All the goatse jokes aside, I find this very interesting. I still remember the impact Jules Vernes "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" had on me when I was a kid. I so wanted them to find som eerie remains of some unknown creature at the bottom of the cave.
    When I read stories like this, I get an urge in my stomach to give up life as a geek and become an explorer. I reckon I'm not the only one, since the story was posted on slashdot?
    /me walks out of the office "So long suckers!"

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