On 06/01/2010 04:47 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > Jed sez: > > >> See: >> >> http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/01/central.america.storm.deaths/ >> >> This is mind-blowing. I do not see how such a giant hole could form with >> this shape: >> >> a giant, deep, round shaft, big enough to swallow up a 3-story building. >> > When I first saw the image on CNN.com yesterday, I was waiting for them to > make a retraction. I thought it might have been something over from the > film: 2012. > > It's so perfectly round, and huge! I was convinced it had to have been > photoshoped. >
And the bottom is just featureless black, as though it opens into the void. But the ground level view in photo #2 does indeed match the aerial view, though it takes a bit of staring to see how the bits and pieces line up. And the ground level view looks pretty real.