Getting the shaft

I read/post on the Noiseboard during the days at work. Often exasperating and annoying, it is however the only consistent timekiller I have, since I can't check my email from my desk and don't have enough to say to blog all the time.

At any rate, today's little bit of "oh my God I'm a nerd" humor. Someone posted a thread called "Pics of my shaft". Of course you're supposed to think it's a penis reference, and of course, before opening it, I knew it would be about mine shafts. And sure enough, a picture of a mine shaft. Well, I though, I can one up that. I hopped on Google to find a picture I had read about a few weeks back of the largest mine shaft in the world, in Russia. (Note: there seems to be some debate as to if this really is the largest, but that's what I heard.) I type in "russian mine shaft" and...it doesn't come up. What the hell? It was on page one of Google images the last time I looked. And then I realized it's not the world's largest mine "shaft", it's an open pit mine. Here's the nerdy part: I was actively disappointed that I could no longer post it in the thread because it wasn't a shaft mine.

But I can post it here. It's a giant fucking hole: