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"The largest waterfall in Ecuador has seemingly vanished after a sinkhole swallowed part of its water source."

"San Rafael Waterfall on the Coca River was a prominent tourist attraction for the country, and according to NASA, drew tens of thousands of people every year. The water dropped 150 feet into a crater-like opening on the other side Now, the iconic waterfall is gone, replaced by three streams, NASA said. All tourism to the site has been closed and it no longer appears on the country's travel website."

CNN reports. Before and after image at the link.

৩১টি মন্তব্য:

Nonapod বলেছেন...

Kinda odd that NASA is reporting this.

I heard that NASA was asking for 35 billion to get back to the Moon by 2024. I imagine that's pretty much off the table thanks to a certain virus.

Achilles বলেছেন...

The waterfall didn't disappear as such.

It is still falling.

It just moved a little.

DKWalser বলেছেন...

This will make it easier for people to practice social distancing. If this hadn't happened, crowds of people would be flocking to see the waterfall.

Freeman Hunt বলেছেন...

Looks pretty good now.

Achilles বলেছেন...

Nonapod said...
Kinda odd that NASA is reporting this.

I heard that NASA was asking for 35 billion to get back to the Moon by 2024. I imagine that's pretty much off the table thanks to a certain virus.


I find it interesting that we can accept spending 5-6 trillion dollars shutting the economy down for a severe flu season.

IMHE just revised their numbers again.

Guess which way.

Oh and those sky is falling reports about hospitals being overwhelmed turned out to be wrong too.

hmm.

Dave Begley বলেছেন...

Maybe the world-wide resources of CNN can give us an accurate report on how many people disappeared in China and Iran.

CNN is only good for covering car wrecks and fires. That's it.

Big Mike বলেছেন...

The Ministry of Tourism does not plan to reconstruct the falls

Nor should they.

Original Mike বলেছেন...

Hasn't NASA got better things to do? How's that heavy lift rocket coming along?

rhhardin বলেছেন...

It's the cliff that's large, not the waterfall. The waterfall is nothing but dropping something off the top.

TheDopeFromHope বলেছেন...

Trump stole it and had it shipped to one of his golf courses.

Iman বলেছেন...

Take me to teh river
Drop me in teh water

exhelodrvr1 বলেছেন...

Covid-19 or global warming? SHould we extend the quarantine to save our waterfalls?

Fernandinande বলেছেন...

Just like a river flowing through time, I'm attracted to gravity.

Earnest Prole বলেছেন...

So the End Times then.

MadisonMan বলেছেন...

@DKWalser, no it would be Huge Number of people flocking!

So in a couple million years there'll be a natural bridge there. Cool!

Magson বলেছেন...

NASA had this as their "Earth Observatory Pic of the Day" back on March 27th.

Bob Boyd বলেছেন...

Large numbers of people stopped flocking...

Yancey Ward বলেছেন...

Yes, the water is still falling to the river below, just underground, now.

Dust Bunny Queen বলেছেন...

Nothing lasts or stays the same forever. Waterfalls, streams, mountains, climate, humans.

The delusion that we can stop Mother Nature from proceeding on, or that we have any control over the ultimate and inevitable is just that....delusion. We learn. We adapt. Or not.

Automatic_Wing বলেছেন...

This is why they told us not to go chasing waterfalls.

Bob Smith বলেছেন...

I blame Trump.

Floris Pennywise বলেছেন...

I was pretty much assured that all environmental changes are due to humans pumping out greenhouse gases. Yet this article mentions nothing about climate change. What gives?

Spiros বলেছেন...

Some people claim that the mythical city of Atlantis disappeared into a sinkhole. I didn't realize that sinkholes can get that big.

Josephbleau বলেছেন...

The geological name is a “swallow hole”, doesn’t that sound bad? An example is the Lost River in Indiana that disappears underground for 23 miles in a karst plain but spills to the surface in the White River of Martin Co.

Josephbleau বলেছেন...

Indiana counties are mostly named after military officers who were at the Battle of Tippicanoe. But Martin county was so poor that it got named after a Sargent.

Drago বলেছেন...

Anthropogenic Global Dry-ening.

n.n বলেছেন...

Chaos ("evolution").

Maillard Reactionary বলেছেন...

Well, I guess I'll be scratching Ecuador off my bucket list. On the bright side, I won't have to feel bad about no longer being able to afford to go there.

Scott M বলেছেন...

"Remember the other day when you were asking me about the definition of irony?"

Marcus Bressler বলেছেন...

Stop linking to CNN. Surely there is a real news source reporting the same story.

THEOLDMAN

pious agnostic বলেছেন...

Wait, was this predicted by a model?