• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Obviously a quarry. How else could you explain the huge depth markers visible in the top photograph?

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      4 months ago

      Qarries are the same as trenches apparently. Sea floor spreading and layers of basalt rock and centuries of expansion… clearly that’s the conspiracy.

      Apparently the deepest quarry is 1.2 km (1200m) while the deepest trench, the Mariana trench, is 200 km deep (200,000 m). Totally the same in scale /s

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      4 months ago

      Notice they never said what the rock that was quarried was used for.

      Because nothing comes to mind with the vast amount of rock that would have been removed for it to be an actual quarry that looked like that.

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      I just had the mental image of a scaled up front end loader about the size of Rhode Island pushing an ungodly amount of material around. So thanks for that

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      I’unno, man, I’ve had people debate the validity of topographical maps because “mountains aren’t shelf-shaped”