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is this waht a black hole would do.. suck in everything only to spit it out somehwere else?
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Whirlpool Video: Vortex In Latvian River Devours All That Enters
The Huffington Post  |  By Ryan Grenoble Posted: 04/24/2013 12:57 pm EDT  |  Updated: 04/24/2013 2:23 pm EDT


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqROBTVgL6A



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TermsIn 1841, Edgar Allen Poe referred to a maelstrom, or powerful whirlpool in the ocean, as a "whole sea ... lashed into ungovernable fury."

Now 172 years later, a YouTube video titled "Amazing monstrous whirlpool" gives gravity to Poe's words, though (likely) on a slightly smaller scale. Set in Dviete, Latvia, near the banks of the Daugava River, the video depicts a mysterious whirlpool churning -- and destroying -- all that enters.

Huge chunks of ice? Gone. Floating islands of debris? Annihilated.

"Swallowing everything dragged towards its direction," reads the description by J?nis Asti?s, "this monstrous whirlpool looks as if a plug has been pulled from the ground beneath."

Asti?s isn't too far off in his analysis, actually. While most whirlpools in nature occur as a result of fast moving currents meeting one another in opposite directions (often caused by ocean tides), the phenomenon in the video shares a lot in common with a draining bathtub.

Indeed, a longer version of the same video shows the mysterious "monstrous whirlpool" in Latvia has been formed by water from the swollen river flowing into an inlet on the upstream side of a bridge. All of the debris is funneled under the road on which spectators are standing and flows downstream.

According to the European Federation for Rural Tourism, Latvia's Dviete river valley, where this video was filmed, is home to a massive wetland during flooding season. The marsh serves as a critical area for birds, both for nesting and migration


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/whirlpool-video-latvia-river_n_3147329.html

wow, even the outer edges are being effected. that must have some powerful gravitational pull.

Gee that's one hell of a flow of water down a hole...   :)

I wonder where it is all going, and where it ends up ?

So is it a deep, narrow Sink Hole ?

according to the article, it goes under the land the filmers are standing on, and exits the debris and ice, etc, from its vortex, into the continuation of the river on the other side. so they are standing like on a land bridge

I think this is what Thor's hydroelectric setup will look like when the shtf. :P

And, remember, the very inside skin of the vortex is travelling at infinite velocity... 8)

Well Thor, lets just say a little dolphin told me all about it!  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHyTOcfF99o

Cheers!

Frankly, I wouldn't stand that close even on dry land. Who knows how badly that bank is undermined.

Hi thorfourwinds & Le

Quote from: Littleenki on April 27, 2013, 10:02:14 PM
Well Thor, lets just say a little dolphin told me all about it!  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHyTOcfF99o

Cheers!

I Love that Video, and have watched many times before, never get tired of watching it.

Just shows the "human" animal is not the only one, able to perform delicate tricks...   :)

Funny How they make Toroid's of air....   :o   :)

Ultra cool 8)
Love it.

Quote from: VillageIdiot on April 27, 2013, 11:20:24 PM
Frankly, I wouldn't stand that close even on dry land. Who knows how badly that bank is undermined.

with the power that thing has sucking in those huge ice flows, yeah standing on that bank wasn't the brightest idea...

Maybe they are trying to usurp your position as Village idiot :P

Here is what a small 12 inch diameter whirlpool can do...  Its actually almost unbelievable but this is live footage :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmh2Ydm2dW4

Now that is what I call a descent flow of water...   :)

Marvellous what a little salt can do.... Z, and a bit of human ignorance...  :)

I guess the "human species", has yet a little more to learn about this environment ?