World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

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World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Postby Batgirl » Apr 20, 2010 9:30 am

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Re: World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Postby Chads93GT » Apr 20, 2010 9:36 am

Shouldn't they change the article title and "largest cave" claim to "largest cave passage". Afterall...........mammoth cave?......

im just sayin........
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Re: World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Postby Phil Winkler » Apr 20, 2010 10:40 am

After reading the article it's pretty clear something was lost in the translation and could be the translator simply didn't know about cave terminology. A room/passage 200m high and 150m wide is big. How big is that Mulu cave room?
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Re: World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Postby Batgirl » Apr 20, 2010 10:47 am

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Re: World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Postby Phil Winkler » Apr 20, 2010 12:15 pm

Our own Bob Gulden is right on top of things here. This cave in Vietnam is now listed as having the Largest Passage/borehole in the world.

Defining "largest" is what it's all about. Area? Volume? etc.
http://www.caverbob.com/room.htm
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Re: World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Postby LukeM » Apr 20, 2010 1:54 pm

http://forums.caves.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8361&p=71325&hilit=son+doong#p71325

I thought this sounded familiar. But still interesting!
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Re: World's Biggest Cave Discovered in Vietnam

Postby Larry E. Matthews » Apr 22, 2010 9:25 am

That photo that accompanies the article does not even come close to a passage 200 meters high and 150 meters wide, based on the people in there for scale.

Maybe they couldn't photograph the BIG part?

Makes you wonder.

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