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submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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] 2 points 19 hours ago

Hell has had enough of our BS.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

We still got time to toss some politicians in there.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

How multinational CEO's instead?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Not instead, additionally.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Scrap them all and start over.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Challenge accepted.

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