If any have been found, how deep were they?
2007-05-21 11:46:37 · 7 answers · asked by Slifer! 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Ok people. Let me rephrase this:
Remember the pit on 300 (where the persian is thrown in at the beginning) that kind of bottomless pit ok?
I know there is no such thing as a bottomless pit. But to the ancients they were bottomless, get it?
2007-05-21 11:58:00 · update #1
I know that hollywood creates these myths and images on our heads but there are mentions through history (mostly european folklore, mythology and history) of pits so dark and deep that a man would die before ever hitting the bottom. So I just felt curious about this part of history, real or mythical?
2007-05-21 18:32:10 · update #2
The 300 reference is just that, a reference so you know what I really mean a little better
2007-05-21 18:33:16 · update #3
There is a well here in Belgrade, Serbia called The Roman Well that was believed to be bottomless. I think I've heard somewhere that it is about 150 meters deap...
However the well is opened for tourists only one day a year (on the night of the museums) and even then only a portion of it can be seen. I've never been in but the people tell me that is amazing...
The well itself is in a cave inside the Belgrade fortress (called Kalemegdan) and there are many passages and tunnels which are still unexplored...
Hope this sparks your imagination...
2007-05-23 09:32:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Bottomless Pit" is a figure of speech, meaning "a real deep pit where we don't see the bottom, and we're not bothering with exploring it, as maybe there could be demons, and we would certainly loose a good story."
A litteral Bottomless Pit would be a hole trough the centre of the Earth, which due to the pressures at the centre, would be physically impossible. But it's a classic "thought experiment" to speculate about gravity.
Nowadays we call them caves.
"As of 2005, the deepest known cave (measured from its highest entrance to its lowest point) is Voronya Cave (Abkhazia, Georgia), with a depth of 2,140 m. This was the first cave to be explored to a depth of more than 2 km. (The first cave to be descended below 1 km was the famous Gouffre Berger in France). The Gouffre Mirolda - Lucien Bouclier cave in France (1733 m) and the Lamprechtsofen Vogelschacht Weg Schacht in Austria (1632 m) are the current second and third deepest caves. This particular record has changed several times in recent years."
"The deepest individual pitch (vertical drop) within a cave is 603 m in the Vrtoglavica cave in Slovenia, followed by Patkov Gušt (553 m) in the Velebit mountain, Croatia."
"Caves : Distribution and Records" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave#Distribution_and_Records
2007-05-21 12:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By definition, a bottomless pit would be bottomless. Hence it would have infinite depth.
There have been reports of fissures and chasms opening up in South America with depths of over 300 yards. That is very deep, but not quite bottomless.
2007-05-21 11:51:37 · answer #3 · answered by joseph's brain 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its a hollywood fabrication, a "bottomless pit" is nothing more then a well or fissure in the earth
please dotn associate hollwood BS with fact "300" was not fact
2007-05-21 13:12:08 · answer #4 · answered by cav 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no such thing as a "bottomless pit"! And if there were it would be asinine to ask how deep it is cause no one would know due to it not having a bottom, DUH!
2007-05-21 11:51:08 · answer #5 · answered by bender_xr217 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well botomless means no end so no, but some deep trenchs and fissures and/or holes have been found around the globe from all sorts of civilizations and natural forces
2007-05-21 12:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by ~CS~ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, in mexico called the cave of swallows 1200 ft. you can go base jumping from it. its awesome!
http://www.sachawheeler.com/info/extreme-sports/
2007-05-21 11:51:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋