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11-21-2017, 01:32 PM
There's a town in Germany that is literally physically splitting apart
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No, this isn't some weird idea for a Pixar movie — this is actually happening.
SEE ALSO: Here's why California's musical road sounds so darn weird (http://mashable.com/2017/10/17/california-weird-musical-road/)
In the clip above, Youtuber Tom Scott visits the town of Staufen in south-west Germany. Staufen has a very unique problem: it is splitting apart. Huge cracks run up buildings, and Scott finds out why.*
It turns out that the government bored in the area for geothermic energy, but unfortunately the groundwater combined with a layer of anhydrite to form gypsum, which expanded causing the ground to bulge and the buildings to form these huge cracks. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/21/staufen-im-breisgau-video/)
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No, this isn't some weird idea for a Pixar movie — this is actually happening.
SEE ALSO: Here's why California's musical road sounds so darn weird (http://mashable.com/2017/10/17/california-weird-musical-road/)
In the clip above, Youtuber Tom Scott visits the town of Staufen in south-west Germany. Staufen has a very unique problem: it is splitting apart. Huge cracks run up buildings, and Scott finds out why.*
It turns out that the government bored in the area for geothermic energy, but unfortunately the groundwater combined with a layer of anhydrite to form gypsum, which expanded causing the ground to bulge and the buildings to form these huge cracks. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/21/staufen-im-breisgau-video/)
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