It’s not really a lake, it’s more like an artificial lake. In fact, it’s the Berkeley Pit, a former open pit copper mine located in Butte, Montana, USA. It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet (270 m) with water that is heavily acidic. The pit is laden with heavy metals and dangerous chemicals, including arsenic, cadmium, zinc, and sulfuric acid. When the pit was closed, the water pumps at the bottom were removed, and groundwater from the surrounding aquifers began to slowly fill the pit. Since the pit closure in 1982, the level has risen to within 150 feet of the natural groundwater level.
In 1995, a large flock of migrating snow geese landed in the Berkeley Pit water and died, with 342 carcasses recovered.
Well, another masterpiece of man… :(
I never imagined that one could make art with dead flies… Despite the fact that it’s pretty weird, I must say it’s very creative and quite funny.
You should take a look.
The secret has been revealed. You will see who’s responsible for all those crop circles after the jump…
One thing is sure, before you hire a photographer for your wedding, be sure to check his professional qualities.
Marc and Sylvia Day paid the photographer £ 1,450 for the pictures and video that you will see after jump. It’s just a disaster.
They have won £ 1,500 in compensation, but alas, the wedding album is spoiled forever.
In Russia, there is often a lane in the middle of the road which is reserved to police or government officials. You have to possess a pass to drive on that lane. And you can buy a pass like this, but a fake one, anywhere in Russia…
That’s what’s happening here. The guy has a pass, which is quite convenient to avoid the traffic jams…
Rishi Baveja, a Cambridge graduate, was in Phuket on holiday to celebrate his degree in engineering. He paid £50 to make the jump at the Jungle Bungy centre in Kathu, whose website claimed it had a 100 per cent safety record… well I guess it’s no longer 100%.
What he thought would be a normal but scary experience revealed to be what you can exactly fear about those services…
Here is what happened in a Chinese street. It was quick and the girl could do nothing…
A 47 year-old Ukrainian guy accidentally dropped a 200 hryvnia bill ($24) in a squat toilet in a train station.
He tried to take the money back but his arm got stuck in the hole. The rescuers spent three hours to free the unlucky guy.
Look at the pics and the video inside the post.
Here is a compilation of those steel monsters of the seas. You will see submarines on the surface of the water, in the port or being constructed… and other interesting pics.
Look at the selection after the jump.
China is the largest coal producer in the world. More than 1 billion tons of raw coal is extracted there in a year.
But this is all given at a price, about 5,000 people die each year in the mines and this figure may be understated especially by the Chinese government.
Well, let's see in what miserable conditions these brave people work.
Here’s a big collection of billboard advertising.
Advertisment can actually be interesting and arresting.
If you think that not to give money to a beggar in China is that easy, well, you’re wrong.
They are quite brazen and they tend to choose young girls as their victims, it is easier to get money from them ;)
Let's take a look at photos.
A quick note about Ig Nobel Prizes for those who have no idea what it is: The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".