[Texascavers] Caves in video games

2018-05-12 Thread David
Cave imagery is becoming popular in video games. Please skip the first 19 seconds of the video in the link below. https://youtu.be/Vkhoczu6Rd0 At the end of the cave passage, the character pulls out a pick-axe and digs a narrow tunnel leading to a mysterious virgin room. Unfortunately, the

Re: [Texascavers] 700 foot pit ?

2018-05-12 Thread Barb
Don says the depth of Na One was measured at 935' from the lip of the pit. The difference is in the sag of the line in the center of the tyrolean. The pit is owned by Bishop Estates and they gave permission specifically stating that nothing be published. Halliday essentially ended access when

Re: [Texascavers] calderas

2018-05-12 Thread David
Bill, That was fascinating. I met Dr. Halliday once. However, I was proposing something sort of similar to the classic deep-thought movies like Arnold Schwarzeneggar's, "Running Man," or "The Hunger Games." My idea is nowhere as crazy as Elon Musk's "Big Fricken Rocketship."Did you all

Re: [Texascavers] 700 foot pit ?

2018-05-12 Thread Mixon Bill
My guess is that David was conjecturing about a rappel down the wall of a caldera. There are actually two real pits in Hawaii that are the two deepest pits in the US, per http://www.caverbob.com/pitdome.htm (If the NSS web site was working right, you could get to caverbob's long and deep lists