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It boggles the mind that something that massive didn't get picked up sometime, especially in this age of broadly accessibly high quality satellite imagery.

unixhero 8y ago
Canada is mind bogglingly big.
- vishnu_ks 8y ago
  Imagine the things that are waiting in the Universe to be discovered.
- johan_larson 8y ago
  Yes it is. My favorite anecdote about it is that the province of Ontario is big enough to have vineyards in the south and polar bears in the north.
  - walrus01 8y ago
    Half of Canada's population lives south of the red line in this map, which is also further south than Seattle. https://imgur.com/CenW9oi https://imgur.com/CenW9oi
    - johan_larson 8y ago
      Yup. That line is just north of Montreal, so the area south of it includes Canada's two largest metropolitan areas. Did you know there's a tiny bit of Canada that is further south than the California-Oregon border?
      - zrail 8y ago
        Detroit is actually north of that tiny bit of Canada too. Blew my mind a little when we moved here.
- jacquesm 8y ago
  No kidding. Just the Wawa-Sault Ste. Marie-Timmins-Sudbury quad is large enough to be lost in for several lifetimes. One tell that you are about to enter uncharted territory is a sign that reads 'last gas station for 400km'. And that is one of the more accessible areas, there are still plenty of lakes where a water plane can land and there are logging trails every 30 km or so.
i_feel_great 8y ago
Maybe the indigenous people knew about it
- contingencies 8y ago
  Quite likely. I have no idea why this was downvoted. It's usually the case native populations had far greater knowledge than they are ever credited for. Perhaps they will find some evidence of humans inside.
  - cthalupa 8y ago
    It's quite possible that the indigenous population knew of the cave, but it's very unlikely they ever purposefully descended into it. There's not much reason to, and it would be a very difficult descent.
    - contingencies 8y ago
      There could be other entrances, collapses, etc.
    - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
      And yet when my acquaintance summited Mt Everest, there was a Tibetan native there in a fur suit and hat. I am almost certain that there will be evidence of native incursion into the cave. Its been there a long time; the natives have been there a long time. Young bloods with nothing to lose are always doing damn-fool things like that.
      - cthalupa 8y ago
        There's no evidence that Sherpas summited Everest prior to Norgay doing it with Hillary's expedition. Into The Silence covers this in more detail, if you care to read the whole book, but there were technological and cultural hurdles to it ever happening. Everest is a pretty clear example of native people not bothering to do stupid things until white people show up and get them tangled up in the mess.

unixhero 8y ago

Canada is mind bogglingly big.

vishnu_ks 8y ago
Imagine the things that are waiting in the Universe to be discovered.
johan_larson 8y ago
Yes it is. My favorite anecdote about it is that the province of Ontario is big enough to have vineyards in the south and polar bears in the north.
- walrus01 8y ago
  Half of Canada's population lives south of the red line in this map, which is also further south than Seattle. https://imgur.com/CenW9oi https://imgur.com/CenW9oi
  - johan_larson 8y ago
    Yup. That line is just north of Montreal, so the area south of it includes Canada's two largest metropolitan areas. Did you know there's a tiny bit of Canada that is further south than the California-Oregon border?
    - zrail 8y ago
      Detroit is actually north of that tiny bit of Canada too. Blew my mind a little when we moved here.
jacquesm 8y ago
No kidding. Just the Wawa-Sault Ste. Marie-Timmins-Sudbury quad is large enough to be lost in for several lifetimes. One tell that you are about to enter uncharted territory is a sign that reads 'last gas station for 400km'. And that is one of the more accessible areas, there are still plenty of lakes where a water plane can land and there are logging trails every 30 km or so.

i_feel_great 8y ago

Maybe the indigenous people knew about it

contingencies 8y ago
Quite likely. I have no idea why this was downvoted. It's usually the case native populations had far greater knowledge than they are ever credited for. Perhaps they will find some evidence of humans inside.
- cthalupa 8y ago
  It's quite possible that the indigenous population knew of the cave, but it's very unlikely they ever purposefully descended into it. There's not much reason to, and it would be a very difficult descent.
  - contingencies 8y ago
    There could be other entrances, collapses, etc.
  - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
    And yet when my acquaintance summited Mt Everest, there was a Tibetan native there in a fur suit and hat. I am almost certain that there will be evidence of native incursion into the cave. Its been there a long time; the natives have been there a long time. Young bloods with nothing to lose are always doing damn-fool things like that.
    - cthalupa 8y ago
      There's no evidence that Sherpas summited Everest prior to Norgay doing it with Hillary's expedition. Into The Silence covers this in more detail, if you care to read the whole book, but there were technological and cultural hurdles to it ever happening. Everest is a pretty clear example of native people not bothering to do stupid things until white people show up and get them tangled up in the mess.