The article below appeared this week in several news sources, all of which
had so many advertisements that
it was difficult to read the article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5148001/
Creepy-Bronze-Age-cave-brought-life-3D-model.html
https://www.livescience.com/61099-cave-of-the-dead-revealed.html
Obituaries:
The guy that allegedly found and named the Chinese blind cave beetle,
*Pilosaphaenops
whitteni*, was killed in a
bicycling accident. He was a contributor to the bat article below:
( may download slowly )
https://www.rufford.org/files/Laumanns%20(ed.)%20(2016).pdf
Here is a story from New Zealand with a video of virtual lava tube
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/12/auckland-
s-underground-lava-tunnels-unveiled-in-3d-exhibition.html
It appears that cave-divers routinely publish photos to the web. There
are dozens just from this week.
I guess this is one:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/a4/df/08a4dfbf48adfd129d9caf549891982d.jpg
I believe this is a cave-diver from Galveston that many of you know:
https://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2017/12/1052076_2_1206%20caves%20diver_standard.jpg?alias=standard_600x400
For you gamers:
Here is some kind of weird game where a knight riding a horse on an island
is looking for stuff
and discovers a cave. He does not explore it, in this video. ( Please
skip to 6:52 in the video )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE4ohOkdeFk
Here is a bizarre video game scene underground by ( Crash & Friend ?? )
featuring a
cool piezo-electric kerosene lantern ( please skip to about 12:30 in the
video )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsl5kRX6xVQ
Here is a spooky cave in a video game with lots of graphics
( warning: the motion in the video gave me motion-sickness )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18inwhpJJQ
There is probably a ton of new stuff on YouTube, but that should
be enough for one night.
Someone will someday need to make a karst portal to handle the
wealth of all the digital info on the web related to caves. There will
probably need to be some kind of national organization created to help them
maintain it.
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