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Their FAQ is also pretty good. Q: Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity? A: Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.
by Hurtak 10y ago
Their FAQ is also pretty good.
Q: Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?
A: Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.
- gkafkg8y8 10y agoHopefully they will at least let people in need use the hole.
- return0 10y agowho needs a hole in the ground?
- Lagged2Death 10y agoIf you trust in free markets, then you really must let the needy themselves decide what they need.
- fredoliveira 10y agoeveryone eventually does.
- lake99 10y agoOver here, cremation is customary. The ashes are sent down a river.
- fillskills 10y ago"What if you dig so deep you hit hot magma? At least then we’d feel something." Touche.
- josephjrobison 10y agoI wish they would go deeper though, they're kinda just digging a wide hole. Unlikely they'll hit magma.
- pilom 10y agoDigging holes requires a lot of horizontal space. Generally 2:1 width to depth is needed for standard topsoil. Go to deep too fast and you won't be able to get your digger and dump truck back out of the hole.
- k__ 10y agoIf they'd use a drill, wouldnt they get deeper faster?
- jballanc 10y agoThen they'd be "drilling" a hole, not digging one. (Educational tangent: the deepest hole in the ground is the Kola Superdeep Borehole - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole )
- djsumdog 10y agooh the nostalgia! I remember learning about this as a kid. Sad that it's all abandoned now.
- gambiting 10y agoYeah, but it's not as impressive. With a drill, the only visual part is the machine at the top. With a conventional digger, you can have a youtube stream of the hole getting visibly larger every minute.
- Donzo 10y agoMinecraft 101: Don't dig straight down.
- amelius 10y agoOne question is missing though: what if they find gold or other precious materials? Will the backers receive part of the returns?
- johan_larson 10y agoI wonder what will happen if someone enters their land, falls into the hole, gets hurt, and sues for damages. US liability law is a funny thing. Is a big-ass hole shown in video on the internet an attractive nuisance?
- thesagan 10y agoWouldn't they be trespassing if it's without permission?
- johan_larson 10y agoOh, yes. But US liability law is a funny thing and its reach is vast. That's why US swimming pools tend to be surrounded with serious fencing with locked gates: to avoid liability for the kids and drunks and $OUT_GROUP members who would otherwise wander in and drown.
- vl 10y agoYou can't insure a property if pool (or entire property) is not fenced.
- cakeface 10y agoSure you can. You just cannot use standard cheap home policies. I have learned that someone somewhere will always write a policy. It may be crazy expensive. But they will write it.
- brianwawok 10y agoMany places are fine with a retractable cover that you can't fall through. They are like a flat thing on wheels, let you walk on it when closed.
- grkvlt 10y agoYes, but 'attractive nuisance' laws are there to stop you escaping liability this way. If you make a super-dangerous thing, which is likely to attract idiots or small children, and then kill them, you can't just say 'it was their own fault, your honour, they shouldn't ought to have been there on my land...', rather you must erect a fence and post warnings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine