What lies beneath the Villages?

[Taltarzac725]

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/story/20150306-journey-to-the-centre-of-earth/)

I thought this was a good resource.

[MrGolf]

Deceased Villagers?

[KayakerNC]

Yet to be discovered sinkholes?

[Taltarzac725]

Yet to be discovered sinkholes?

You can get an idea of what is underneath the earth by looking at the BBC Resource I linked. I had not realized that there were such very deep mines in the world. I do wish it were in feet rather meters.

Here's a tool for feet to meter conversions. Meters to Foot Conversion Calculator and Table - Convert Meters to Feet (http://www.teaching-english-in-japan.net/conversion/meters)

100.00 meters = 328.08 feet.

[billethkid]

meters X 3 gets you pretty close in whole numbers.

[Taltarzac725]

"Meters
Foot
10,000.00
32,808.40
20,000.00
65,616.80
30,000.00
98,425.20
40,000.00
131,233.60
50,000.00
164,042.00
60,000.00
196,850.39
70,000.00
229,658.79
80,000.00
262,467.19
90,000.00
295,275.59
100,000.00
328,083.99" From the conversion tool.

[Jima64]

a lot of cow,pasture with lots of sand.

[Carl in Tampa]

a lot of cow,pasture with lots of sand.

Yep. A great deal of the northern part of TV belonged to the uncle of a close friend of mine, who tells me it was cattle grazing land. My friend used to hunt and fish in this area. The uncle sold the land to Harold Schwartz, original developer of TV.

Being sandy, and undergirded with limestone through which the Florida aquifer flows, there are no mines down there.

[manaboutown]

Probably what is known as Karst Terrain. It basically comprises limestone over an aquifer. Sinkholes occur when acid within water penetrating the limestone dissolves it. As the above poster noted most of The Villages was cow pasture although it started as a trailer park in a watermelon patch. Here is an excellent discussion of central Florida geology. http://www.dot.state.fl.us/geotechnical/documents/cfsinkholeevaluation.pdf

[tomwed]

What will our successors think when they excavate the Villages and find millions of golf balls?
Will they think it must be a ritual where people send them into a hole and make a sacrifice?
Or will they get it all wrong?

[Taltarzac725]

What will our successors think when they excavate the Villages and find millions of golf balls?
Will they think it must be a ritual where people send them into a hole and make a sacrifice?
Or will they get it all wrong?

That's an amusing thought. Hopefully there will not be many Alexandria like events where whole records of history are destroyed like with the Library of Alexandria and its sad fate. The destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria | Ancient Origins (http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa-history-important-events/destruction-great-library-alexandria-001644)

[Taltarzac725]

1,000.00
304.80
2,000.00
609.60
3,000.00
914.40
4,000.00
1,219.20
5,000.00
1,524.00
6,000.00
1,828.80
7,000.00
2,133.60
8,000.00
2,438.40
9,000.00
2,743.20
10,000.00
3,048.00

From the conversion tool. Take a Look at the World (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/09/take-a-look-at-the-worlds-deepest-swimming-pool-its-likely-a-lot-deeper-than-youd-expect/) Check out the world's deepest man made pool.

[dewilson58]

What lies beneath the Villages?


Sounds like a title for a good movie.

[justjim]

What lies beneath the Villages?


Sounds like a title for a good movie.

"Love on the Square" might sell more tickets. LOL. The composition of earth under central Florida is what it is and the porous limestone rock makes conditions for sinkholes to form all around Central Florida. Also interesting is the 1.3 billion gallons of water a day estimated to flow through the Florida Aquifer. That is a lot of water.

[Psychohillbilly]

Jimmy Hoffa, maybe.

[outlaw]

What will our successors think when they excavate the Villages and find millions of golf balls?
Will they think it must be a ritual where people send them into a hole and make a sacrifice?
Or will they get it all wrong?

They will probably play them on executive courses, or on water holes.

[tomwed]

They will probably play them on executive courses, or on water holes.
London, England (CNN) -- Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

From 82 Cool Facts [actually it's old news now]
Statistically, there were 5,810,493 golf balls lost in The Villages last year.

At least one out of fifty balls lost in the US last year was lost in The Villages, half of those on Pelican.

[Taltarzac725]

London, England (CNN) -- Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

From 82 Cool Facts [actually it's old news now]
Statistically, there were 5,810,493 golf balls lost in The Villages last year.

At least one out of fifty balls lost in the US last year was lost in The Villages, half of those on Pelican.

What so special about Pelican as far as loss of golf balls is concerned?

[tomwed]

What so special about Pelican as far as loss of golf balls is concerned?
It was a joke. You need to carry 7 out of 9 greens from the black tees. Many golfers avoid that kind of shot.

[logdog]

Takes a lot of balls to play Pelican from the black or gold tees...

[John_W]

There was an interesting story on 60 Minutes a few months ago about the fellow who discovered the Titantic in 1985. He explores about six months of the year and was in the Gulf of Mexico when Lara Logan of 60 minutes made her report. It was neat to see so many sunken ships in the Gulf, even a German U-boat, which they said were prevelant during the war. One neat moment was when they were viewing a ship at 2,000 ft a large Sperm Whale swam across the camera filling the entire screen for quite a few seconds.

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/05/10/e24a3489-4266-45b6-abb0-0f793a33c55d/thumbnail/770x430/abec3f7f2cb8f938806b8b197c8db405/laraboblookingrobertelee.jpg



If you want to see the story, here's a link The Unknown America - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/exploring-america-with-robert-ballard-60-minutes/)

[David Moon]

200+ years a cow poop.

[dbussone]

London, England (CNN) -- Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

From 82 Cool Facts [actually it's old news now]
Statistically, there were 5,810,493 golf balls lost in The Villages last year.

At least one out of fifty balls lost in the US last year was lost in The Villages, half of those on Pelican.

Tom - I have to disagree. 75% of my lost balls are on Pelican. This is after 3 years of play and most of it on the championship courses. I dislike that course intensely.

[murray607]

I believe it is Ponce De Leon's fabled Fountain of Youth. If any Villager bathes in it, they will immediately return with the body and mind of an 18 year old............................awe forget it it's never going to happen