When I was a child I thought my adult life would consist of avoiding quicksand, people offering me free drugs, and that at some point I would need to stop, drop, and roll.
As an adult instead I’ve developed the healthier fear that the earth would open up and swallow me into a crushing wet abyss. I know it’s only reported to have happened to that one guy who was sleeping and his bedroom disappeared, but that it happened once is confirmation that I could be next! 🫣
You fear something that happened once, but the things that happen to hundreds of millions every year don’t overpower that dramatically?
More that quicksand exists in known areas, people haven’t randomly offered me drugs, and thankfully I’ve managed to not have an accident involving fire.
But sink holes? Those fuckers open up wherever the hell they damn please and when they feel like it. Do I dwell on it daily? Of course not, but living in the Midwest my level of concern over sink holes is less than tornadoes, but definitely greater than quicksand.
This is so strange it looks photoshopped - kinda wild imo
It’s pretty cool! Especially the way the astroturf more or less looks like grass but then tears off in the sinkhole - it gives it that uncanny look
Why did it tear though? The ground didn’t expand, it just dropped out below it. I would think it would hang like a sheet over a hole.
True! That’s kind of strange. I guess it’s quite wide so the center was heavy enough to rip it all out? Maybe it was wet or something too.
I don’t think it tore, all the lines are straight. Looks like it was just made of separate sheets that weren’t connected, so nothing had to tear, the ones above the hole just fell in.
It just couldn’t take being called a soccer field no more.
Oh hey, this is pretty close to me, I’m gonna go throw stuff in it to see what happens then pop on over to fast eddies bon air for some cheap food, cold beer, and live entertainment 7 nights a week! If you’re 21 and in the mood, come on over to Fast Eddie’s Bon Air in Alton IL!
I’m close enough that I have that advert fucking memorized… food is good and cheap though…
And now they have a golf course where everyone can sink the shot. Trophies for everyone.
That image is not AI generated? What are all these lines and multiple goals for?
These fields seem to be usable as two small fields with the yellow lines or one normal sized one with the white lines.
A standard football pitch is quite large so it’s common for schools to subdivide it to save on space or make it bearable for younger students.
There’s no standard size for a soccer field…
So it’s not unheard of for complexes to have multiple set ups like this.
Like how a HS gymnasium can have one major basketball court for games, but has like 6 more baskets that can be lowered for practice
The rules are pretty loose (the width can be anywhere between 46 and 91 metres wide), but in practice real pitches are almost always between 64 and 69m wide and between 102 to 106m long. Even with the loosest possible interpretation of the rules, if you had the biggest legal pitch, you could fit at most 2 legal pitches on it if you subdivided it.
It would actually be really interesting for a team looking for an edge to use an extremely unusual pitch shape to make it hard for visiting teams to adapt.