What Do You Think Dry Wet Soft Hard Mud

I second this. The one I saw wasn't squishy, just dry and cracked. But god damn there were spiders EVERYWHERE living in those cracks. Can anyone explain why they take over these types of areas?Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. He covers WW1 in a series called Blueprint for Armageddon.Caveat: He's not perfect by any means. But he does give an excellent overview of what all went into it, and how soldiers lived in the trenches.

The soldier stuck in the mud that no one could save and they all had to walk past him and then he was dead when they came back... what a fucking terrible time.You end up making time. I used to bitch about the 45 minute commute and then I found myself bitching about how short it was.Same, but my leg actually went in like a foot deep. I was caving too, so it was dark and far from civilization. I never really thought about it at the time, but looking back on it I'm damn lucky I managed to get out.

Basically, imagine if tomorrow we discovered weapons of mass de-atomization and then lit the Geneva conventions on fire. So we decided to throw a bunch of them at the army and then throw that at our enemies. WWI in a nutshell. They had gases, fragmentation grenades, Gatling guns, aircraft bombers, trenches out the ass, and barbed wire. It generally sucked.

Sinkholes usually form in limestone formations. In this case I would reckon that bedrock (or other impermeable surface) is fairly shallow and a large volume of water recently entered the area fast enough to not be absorbed by the surface. The water sits on the bedrock and is absorbed by the fine grained soils immediately above, acting like the wet sand at the waters edge at the beach. This allows the still dry soil at the top to move and flow!

The Hollywood version of quicksand isn't really what is dangerous about quicksand in reality. Quicksand doesn't kill you by sucking you in and drowning you, quicksand kills you by keeping you stuck in it for days while you slowly die of thirst/exposure. You are absolutely correct about how far you would sink in it, but don't think simply getting stuck up to your waist can't kill you eventually.