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    Today I got a chain-mail from someone at work... and it had this image:

    It empties some of the dam's water.

    Kinda cool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aeronox View Post
    Today I got a chain-mail from someone at work... and it had this image:
    WOW thats scary ! I had to see if this was a photoshop but no its real...

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...13089&t=h&z=17

    http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/10262321.jpg

    Just cant believe that they have this without some kind of safety net over it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Redrobes View Post
    Just cant believe that they have this without some kind of safety net over it.
    Think of it as evolution in action!

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    That's dam cool!
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    I suppose it would likely depend on the era of the map for me. Especially in the case of Charybdis, I think the symbol would likely appear to warn of that area's particular frequency of whirlpools. Given the speeds of sailing vessels and danger of running aground back then, it could be considered a danger enough to mark with a whirl pool. Modern maps would more likely have some sort of line indicating a hazard area with the label "WHIRLPOOL ZONE" or some such. With more ancient maps, it may well have been penned by a culture - or just even just the explorer - who mistakenly thought the whirl pools were common because they saw 3 of them in the 4 days they were in the area.

    And in looking on Wikipedia, I found this 16th Century map depicting the Moskstraumen (Maelstrom) in Norway. It shows a ship caught in a whirlpool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redrobes View Post
    Hmm perhaps I am more psychopathic than you then... I was not thinking that somebody might accidentally fall / swim into it as opposed to somebody throwing or chucking people into it.
    Hmmm .... it does seem to be close enough to the road to use to dispose of a body. Bit far to throw unless you're extremely strong. Now, maybe if you chopped the body up a bit. Or is that too much information?
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    When I dispose of my bodies, I want them *gone*. Not just wet...

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    Quote Originally Posted by loydb View Post
    When I dispose of my bodies, I want them *gone*. Not just wet...

    /evil
    So volcanoes then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by RPMiller View Post
    So volcanoes then?
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    Yeah, feed 'em te the piggies Turkish.

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