If Ziegler disappears, you are left with the most expensive hole in the ground this side of the Mississippi. Better Call Saul s4e10: Winner, Mike to Gus, AMC 2018
If I could dig a hole and hide from everyone, I’d do it. A Bout De Souffle [Breathless] 1960 starring Jean-Paul Belmondo & Jean Seberg & Daniel Boulanger & Henri-Jacques Huet & Roger Hanin & Van Doude & Liliane David Michel Fabre & Claude Mansard et al, director Jean-Luc Godard, her to him
The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass. Sculpture in air is possible, where the stone contains only the hole, which is the intended and considered form. The mystery of the hole – the mysterious fascination of caves in hill sides and cliffs. Henry Moore, The Sculpture Speaks, 1937
What happens what a frozen world locked away for millennia starts to thaw? In 2014, a helicopter flying over Siberia discovers something mysterious: a crater more than 80 feet wide and deeper than a 15-storey building. Sinkholes are nothing new but this is no ordinary sinkhole. More Siberian craters have since been discovered. There’s even evidence they may be appearing in Alaska. And they show no sign of stopping. Nova: Arctic Sinkholes, PBS 2022
Are the craters warning shots for our climate future? ibid.
Across the world gaping sinkholes have appeared due to water or erosion weakening the ground beneath, swallowing cars whole.
‘So this is a huge bomb. Methane bomb.’ ibid. expert
But the Arctic is warming faster. It’s currently heating up around twice as fast. ibid.
In some regions, the permafrost has started to thaw. ibid.