Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
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Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Trip to Kentucky is cancelled!
As a car guy and corvette owner that was painful to watch. The only consolation is none of the affected cars were on loan from individuals.
I too am a car guy and do own a c5, I was actually thinking of doing a road trip to the museum, hopefully repairs will not include raising the structure, hopefully the undermining cause doesn’t endanger the rest of it!
What is the geology of these cave systems, were they coal mines or were they remnants from lost water in the aquifer?
I’d bet it was Karst topography, rather than coal mines.
BSJ is correct. The museum is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, only a short drive southwest from the world’s longest cave, Mammoth Cave. And Mammoth was formed in limestone. Though I don’t know for certain, I strongly suspect that the sinkhole occurred in limestone.
There is an old joke from the Kentucky hills: A big city dude comes by to visit. When he arrives, he can’t help but look with dismay at the ramshackle backwoods one-room shack that the Kentucky farmer calls home. The farmer laughs. “It ain’t much of a house, but you should see the basement.”
mostly there exists limestone that can erode into cavernous areas .
I am very familiar with the area. Although I am not a corvette fan, the black ’62 that met it’s Fate in the collapse, has indeed touched me in a soulful loss.
The black 62 is largely repairable if they do the recovery properly , many of the other cars are a complete loss, however, GM has vowed to help in the restoration of these fine automobiles.