# 8 Corvettes fall in a hole **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169 "2014-02-12T18:14:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/21 "2014-02-13T00:06:06Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Seriously, what is it with sinkholes lately? One opened up in the central reservation of a [motorway](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m2-sinkhole-video-motorway-remains-3134481) in England just the other day. And before that one appeared overnight and swallowed a [car](http://www.davidlidington.com/news/walters-ash-sinkhole-update) in the driveway of a house. Obviously Mother Nature doesn’t like what cars do to her. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/22 "2014-02-13T00:09:29Z")
Yes, **Sunspace** , of course there’s an average. Quite a few parts of the country have sinkhole-prone geological configurations and a lot of the world does. I will guess the report of it being “massive” may mean relative to those in region, or at least to what the newsman in question experienced. Back in the summer a 100-ft. wide sinkhole in Clermont, FL took down a block of timeshare apartments. According to reports, museum employees were allowed to push away from the immediate danger area a one-of-a-kind-in-the-world model, but otherwise as is to be expected the scene is off limits until the geologists and engineers can figure out the stability situation. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/23 "2014-02-13T00:13:41Z")
But they saved the last remaining 1983 Corvette. All the other’s had been crushed by GM. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/24 "2014-02-13T00:21:47Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > _Smaller than average?!!_ This happens often enough that there’s an _average?!!_ Don’t you only need two to have an average? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/25 "2014-02-13T01:35:46Z")
If there was nobody there to hear, did they make a noise? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/26 "2014-02-13T01:54:42Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > If there was nobody there to hear, did they make a noise? Depends on how loudly the Earth belched. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/27 "2014-02-13T02:38:00Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > If there was nobody there to hear, did they make a noise? Yes, most definatly! They rattled all the way down the hole! ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/28 "2014-02-13T05:54:28Z")
I’m still baffled by these things. I live in a tropical country where you have a lot of limestone formations. Underground caves and solution channels continuously expand due to the solubility of limestone, until their ceilings collapse and one sees daylight. That’s the sinkhole I know. But erosion holes are completely different. A strong rain or a drastic change in the fluvial/drainange pattern apparently causes some soil layer underground to liquify, move laterally, and cause the soil above to also liquify as well. A limestone cave about to collapse should be detected before hand (assuming you do your homework re: foundation drilling and testing.) But an erosion hole is a lot trickier. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/29 "2014-02-13T07:48:43Z")
The Mole Men are pulling off one of their most ambitious heists. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/30 "2014-02-13T15:35:01Z")
Sigh. I was making a joke about Corvettes and compensation. If you have to explain the joke, it’s not very good. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/31 "2014-02-13T15:55:54Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Sigh. > > I was making a joke about Corvettes and compensation. > > If you have to explain the joke, it’s not very good. Yeah, with Corvettes, it’s hard to know where the joke ends. 😃 (I am a huge admirer of the recent pavement-rippers… that such astounding performance can be pulled out of a factory vehicle at quite reasonable price can only tickle an old-school big-block lover.) (Heh… heh… heh… _big-block_ lover.) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/32 "2014-02-13T18:37:34Z")
Well, it’s a good _start_. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/33 "2014-02-13T19:11:36Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Sigh. > > I was making a joke about Corvettes and compensation. > > If you have to explain the joke, it’s not very good. hey, I got it. And I did laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/34 "2014-02-13T19:38:03Z")
The Devil is coming for your 'vettes! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/35 "2014-02-13T20:07:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The Devil is coming for your 'vettes! Well, Niven&Pournelle did put Corvettes in [their version of hell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_%28Niven_and_Pournelle_novel%29). Blew one up, too. Hey, there was a _sequel_? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/36 "2014-02-13T20:15:45Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > Sigh. > > I was making a joke about Corvettes and compensation. > > If you have to explain the joke, it’s not very good. It would have been really funny if I’d understood it at first. :o ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/37 "2014-02-13T20:30:36Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Bowling Green is near cave country; Mammoth Cave is not very far away. What a shock to have a sinkhole form right at the museum! “and over here you see a formation that looks like Corvettes”. I like car museums but I’m really not interested in the 1 millionth anything. or the 1.5 millionth. Or the first red one built on a Tuesday that didn’t need brake work. I will, if anybody is giving one away, take a 63 split window 4 speed with a fuelie motor. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/38 "2014-02-13T20:35:24Z")
Right. The weirdest part about this story to me is that there’s a whole fucking museum full of _Corvettes_. Not cars, not GM vehicles, not even Chevrolets; just Corvettes. I love cars, and I can’t imaging wanting to see a whole building of Corvettes. Hell, I’m not even sure I want to visit the Porsche Museum. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/39 "2014-02-13T20:38:48Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The weirdest part about this story to me is that there’s a whole fucking museum full of _Corvettes_. Right across the street from the factory where they have been built since 1953. Where else would you put something as niche-y as the one-millionth one? Or an essentially current but very exotic model? This was an adjunct part of the museum for minor items. Most of the main museum has much more significant vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169/40 "2014-02-13T20:46:27Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Where else would you put something as niche-y as the one-millionth one? eBay, of course. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-corvettes-fall-in-a-hole/681169.md?page=3)