Good News Everyone

957 readers

35 users here now

A place to post good news and prevent doom scrolling!

Rules for now:

posts must link from a reliable news source
no reposts
paywalled articles must be made available
avoid politics & schadenfreude

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Door to hell starting to close after 54 years (newatlas.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it intentionally – but there's no disputing a ~100-foot (~30-m) deep, 226-foot (69-m) wide pit of relentless fiery fury that's been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://newatlas.com/environment/darvaza-gas-crater-door-to-hell-closing/

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

We still got time to toss some politicians in there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Hell already tossed them here. That’s why it’s trying to close the door.

load more comments (7 replies)