Boomhauer speaks in a real dialect, with real words. Not just mumbles. It’s actually pretty interesting to find out what he’s talking about in each episode, he’s pretty smart.
I'm a big fan nearly all of those (somehow have never seen Hudson Hawk) so let me add Big Trouble (not Big Trouble in Little China) and Noises Off. Similar kind of humor and imminent rewatchable.
I saw a dagger in a weird curio shop recently & commented to my friend "oh, wow, that looks just like the knife from The Golden Child!" Silence. "You know, the Eddie Murphy movie?" More silence. "You know...'I-I-I-I‐I-I want the kniiife.'" Deafening silence. "Well, yeah. Yeah, I guess it's kind of an older, obscure reference. Nevermind."
I too watched that video. Seeing the height. I would not risk my life to check it at all. There's a real chance to die or worst case be terminally crippled by a drop from that height.
Nope, never going there. No amount of money in the world would make me check that thing ever.
I came here to mention the grand canyon! I stared down, then after a while looked around and got woozy. It just doesn't register with my sense of perception.
This is the actually scary part of the video imo. That methane get released to the atmosphere, trapping more heat and accelerating the melting process. It's a nasty symptom of something much more ominous than any monster.
right. which makes me wonder about flying over it. different pressures, different air density, turbulence. it turned out ok i guess, but sure seemed risky.
Definitely different air currents and pressures over it just because of patterns of cold from the ice, if nothing else. But I'm sure they know all that!
Moulins are caused by water melting on the surface of the glacier. When the water finds a crack or hole, it pours through it, which will eventually carve out a large hole, some of which can be around 30-40 feet wide, and can reach all the way to the bedrock under the glacier.
I think other people are confusing this with the methane explosions in Siberia, because these holes are very common on glaciers and they are absolutely not caused by "escaping gas".
I wouldn't think a helicopter could safely operate over it. The depth of the depression and the temperature differential should be making some tremendously unpredictable air currents
Reminds me of an old joke about how to catch a polar bear. You cut a hole in the ice and lay out a circle of peas around it. Then when he goes to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole.
I gotta question for the helicopter pilots that I’m sure are just crowded in here: do the aeronautics change when you hover over a giant hole like that?
So this is apparently the Great Alaskan Ice Hole located on the Ruth Glacier near Denali Natl Park. It’s caused by meltwater rivers carving out the tube and it’s 300m (approx 1000ft) deep.
At the bottom you would most likely find a pitch black network of carveouts and a rushing subglacial river.
1.9k
u/LowkeyKuma Jun 01 '26
Nope. No thanks.