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Door to hell starting to close after 54 years (newatlas.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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/

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We still got time to toss some politicians in there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How multinational CEO's instead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not instead, additionally.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

haven't at least some of them been elected? If so, who should be punished? Asking for a friend, obviously ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Shipping all 70 million of them to Turkmenistan might be a logistical challenge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Tell 'em there's profitable AI down there and the bow ties itself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Challenge accepted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Scrap them all and start over.

[–] harrys_balzac 3 points 1 month ago

Hell has had enough of our BS.