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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. 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.

  3. 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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