[LMB] OT: March issue Popular Mechanics

Tzivia Adler tadler at yeshivanet.com
Wed Mar 12 15:23:00 GMT 2008


From: "anmar mirza" <anmar.mirza at gmail.com>
> On 3/11/08, Tzivia Adler <tadler at yeshivanet.com> wrote:
>> whats a technical cave?
>... low airspace (think having your lips pressed
> against the ceiling for a short distance to breath), or it has some
> extremely psychologically difficult problems (15 hours,
> most spent chest to back on rock with no way to
> turn around for large chunks of time),...
>
ok, i'm thinking about that.  now i'd like to -stop- thinking about that, 
yikes!

>
> and, what's the difference between a cave, a cavern, and rooms in a cave?
>>
>> A cave is a simple cave comprised of a single type of
>> way it formed.  A cave system is one where several geologically
>> seperate caves joined at some point after each developed. A cavern is
>> either a commercial cave , or it is a very large cave.  Except in fiction 
>> :).  <snippety snip>
>>
thanks for all this information!  i am actually writing a fic with caves and 
would like to sound not completely ignorant...

ziviya
wisting after beta readers, my usual bookworms are head down in tests and 
work :( 



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