Grumpysrb
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Watching Larry the Cable Guy. He's in a cave used by locals, Indians, outlaws and soldiers for hundred years or more. I was wondering if anyone had ever MDed in a cave like that and if anything was found?
As a former spelunker there are a few things that come to mind here. First, caves have an AMAZING ability to preserve what has been lost in them...a visit to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky attests to this.Many caves in the Carolinas and Virginia were used in the Civil War to mine salt peter ( extracted from the bat guano ) to produce gunpowder for the cause and still retain some of the artifacts within. This leads me to my second point, many caves are "living" or still forming. They have water flowing through them and continuing the erosive process and building process of stalagmites and stalagtites (among other formations). The mineralized water in this process is deposited through the cave AND on any relics that may have been left behind, in essence adhering them to the cave. Unlike dry, or dead, caves; removing relics from a living cave would require breaking them out of the living rock and could have the adverse effect of "killing" the cave and causing it to cease to form.
If we dig a bad plug, the grass will eventually grow back. Sadly, if we damage a living cave we may kill it.
Just a thought.
Watching Larry the Cable Guy. He's in a cave used by locals, Indians, outlaws and soldiers for hundred years or more. I was wondering if anyone had ever MDed in a cave like that and if anything was found?
Two of my friends years ago bought a cheap detector. To go in a cave. They didn't know what they were doing and had a few beers. They kept getting signals. They dug and dug. But didn't find anything. Then the one swinging. It dawned on him that he was wearing steel toed boots. That is were there signal was coming from! LOL True story!