१५ मार्च, २०१२

Chalkfall.

Massive collapse at the White Cliffs of Dover.

३० टिप्पण्या:

john म्हणाले...

Great sense of humor in the comments, esp. "One small landfall will not change anything about England. Just a bit more beach to fight them on...

Revenant म्हणाले...

I blame global warming.

edutcher म्हणाले...

Love the headline:

Now France is even further away

Just what many Englishmen have wanted for centuries.

WV (no kidding) "onCons" Battle cry that strikes fear into what PB&J uses for a heart.

Tim म्हणाले...

Revenant said...

"I blame global warming."

Why not?

Al Gore surely will...

David Blaska म्हणाले...

No blood for chalk.

Crimso म्हणाले...

"Now France is even further away"

Still smarting from 1066.

Michael म्हणाले...

Will the landowner get his property taxes cut? This is the UK so the answer is no. In fact rhey might well sue him to put the cliff back where it was.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

First the Old Man of the Mountain, and now this.

Curious George म्हणाले...

France actually got closer.

Synova म्हणाले...

Wow.

"I blame global warming."

;-)

I blame gravity.

Rusty म्हणाले...

I found the photograph of the Supermarine Spitfire much more interesting.

Indigo Red म्हणाले...

This is how continents get smaller without rising seas.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

The culprit is the two very real winters of record freezing weather from global cooling in Europe.

Water seeping into cracks freezes, expands and spalls off the rock.

chickelit म्हणाले...

I applaud this. It freshed up up the look. The older facade was looking grungy.

kcom म्हणाले...

It might be "massive" but if you look at the pictures it's about 0.0000001% of the volume of just that section of the cliffs. I don't think they'll be disappearing any time soon.

Curious George म्हणाले...

Hey finally a post were the "Collapse comments" link makes sense...

Methadras म्हणाले...

I blame mass sheer forces and possibly plate tectonics, but then again, I live in the real world.

SteveR म्हणाले...

The Law of Uniformitarianism is a real bitch

Christy म्हणाले...

Sentimentalist I am. Sorry to see a millions-upon-millions of year old graveyard for small sea creatures fall to ruin.

Synova म्हणाले...

I thought that uniformitarianism was (not a law) the assumption that a process observed now is the same as the process that can not be observed that left the same sort of remnant... petrified ancient wave ripples are wave ripples, etc.

But I could well be wrong.

In any case, the cliff face reached the place where it had the lowest potential energy.

SteveR म्हणाले...

Synova, you are correct about the definition and it was called a Law back when I had to learn it. In any case it plays hell for Algore who wants everything to reflect of man's influence.

Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) म्हणाले...

If you look, you'll see there's another collapse -- equally large -- beginning just to the east of the one featured.

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

Comment at the link:

Do you suppose we might have a few more pictures of this chalkfall from a few different vantage points? I'm not sure I've quite got the full impact yet.

Heh.

FleetUSA म्हणाले...

The Daily Mail is always on the spot with great photographs. I guess they are becoming the "Life" magazine of the web.

rcommal म्हणाले...

As long as there are still bluebirds... .

Mary Beth म्हणाले...

As long as there are still bluebirds... .

I looked at all of the photos and couldn't find any bluebirds. I was disappointed.

अनामित म्हणाले...

There'll always be an England. No one said anything about how much of it there'd be.

kcom म्हणाले...

"I looked at all of the photos and couldn't find any bluebirds. I was disappointed."

Can Chip be far behind with a challenge like that...

Wally Kalbacken म्हणाले...

That's a shitload of chalk right there.

AlanKH म्हणाले...

It's Bush's fault.