Ovanon on Earth
DarkGlobe, a regular poster at the long gone A Distant Soil Message Board posted this incredible link. In the year 2000, an enormous crystal cave was discovered in Mexico, with huge pillars 20 feet high, extraordinary walls of shimmering rock, and the largest formations found on Earth. It looks exactly how I envisioned the crystal caves on Ovanon. I didn’t realize crystals could get that big on this planet.
Apparently, the subterranean formations grew in a high temperature, water laden environment, so steamy one poor explorer was baked alive. Ew.
It does sort of tie in with my idea that Ovanon was originally a hot planet, but I don’t know how big crystals like this would survive after the world cooled.
Click the link to see the pics. They really are the most amazing cave photos.
Over at SpaceWeather.com, check out these gorgeous pics of light columns. I have never seen such a thing, have you? That really must go into A Distant Soil at some point. It looks exactly like the sort of thing one ought to see in the skies of Ovanon.
Originally posted on the old blog.
6 Comments
JoanaFreitas
Wow! That’s impressive indeed Colleen! Would love to see something like that live. Although i have to say the hot temperatures would stop me from doing that. Hate heat!
Book fair in Funchal has passed already. Can’t believe it’s been one year since you were here Colleen! You’ve been missed!
Colleen
Joana!!! I am absolutely delighted to hear from you. How are you? How’d the job hunt go?
And was the Festival a good time this year? You had a great guest!
Laurie Sutton
Those crystal columns made a brief appearance on “Inside Planet Earth” (Discovery Channel, June 7, 2009) and made my jaw drop. Now I want to know more more more.
Arlnee
wow, those are awesome! And yeah, I’m working on a story with BMF crystals in it… (bookmarks for reference) Thanks!
And I don’t know what to make of that second pic. It’s just… wow. I have to find where that happens and go there.
JoanaFreitas
Everything’s okay. I’m working at the post offices now. The schedules leave me drained, and the money going through my hands is nerve wrecking. Almost 30.000€ a day during some weeks… That’s huge for our standards, but i’m getting used to it.
I have sad new about that embroidery factory i worked for. It has gone bankrupt and closed. We did some beautiful things, but the clients weren’t paying the asked products. That’s why i was let go, also. She couldn’t afford a couple of us there. She eventually had to file for bankrupcy.
David Lloyd. He is a great guy. Really down to earth, although he is not as talkative as you were, … really observant, also easy to talk to, but really introspective. I felt he was studying us as a group, when we were with a bigger group at dinner or coffee. The way we interacted. But still really interesting conversations and company.
He says he’s coming back to visit! *L* Another Madeira fan.
I have to ask Rafaela the pictures of us last year. Still don’t have them.
Hope all is going really well with you Colleen.
Torsten Adair
I saw this on Italian television last week while on vacation near Vesuvius. The audio was overdubbed, so all I could do was look at the video… AMAZING!