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

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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there's no disputing a ~100-foot-deep (~30-m), 226-foot-wide (69-m) pit of relentless fiery fury that's been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In 2013, the crater's flame intensity and temperatures were at its recorded peak. At the same time, renowned Canadian explorer, George Kourounis, became the first – and only – person to enter the crater wearing a full heat-reflective Kevlar/Nomex suit and a firefighter's Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) to provide oxygen. He descended to the 752 °F (400 °C) crater floor and retrieved soil samples. Scientists later found extremophile bacteria living in the scorched earth samples Kourounis provided.

Wtf that's the craziest part of this story!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, extremophiles are pretty metal. Like, some of them can survive being in space.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Some are literally metal. See: Chrysomallon squamiferum: a deep-sea extremophile mollusk that lives on volcanic vents in the Indian Ocean. They have a shell made of iron sulphide and aragonite. Their lower body also has an armor coat of sclerites (fancy word for "hardened body part of invertebrates", like pieces of an exoskeleton) made of mineralized iron, giving them their colloquial name "Scaly-Foot Snail"

[–] ininewcrow 50 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Which side of the door are we on?

Are we inside hell? Or outside hell?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“Hell is other people”, so I’m guessing we’re on the inside.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

“Hell is other people”, so I’m guessing we’re on the inside.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If the door is open, does it matter?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

it will matter when it's gone...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

There is no door, wait, no,... there might be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

“Hell is other people”, so I’m guessing we’re on the inside.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It’s too late! The bowels of hell have already been emptied, the demons walk among us…

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

ඞ

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had no idea ඞ existed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

it's unrelated burmese script

the character represented by chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not())))))) is way cooler

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Rip and tear

[–] YurkshireLad 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I needs to get me a BFG9000!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's the power level of them big fuckin' guns, anyway..?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They need 4 D cell batteries, so big power levels.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

HELL IS FULL

BLOOD IS FUEL

BABA IS YOU

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

EDITED BY MAX0R

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How many billionaires do you think can fit down there?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

We won't know until we try

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You know things are shit in the world when even hell wants nothing to do with it...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Davoth: "Pack it up boys. Unleashing our full fury would actually be an improvement."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Only because it’s now empty and all the devils are here

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So I guess they want it to close. They’re draining the methane from elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Hope so. Burning the methane to CO2 is a lot better than releasing it as is for the climate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

isn't this like stranger things season 5 spoilers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

maybe things will start to get better 🤷

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

No, this is Hell trying to keep us out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Buffy has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I don't know, it really feels like it's starting to open faster.