4mo ago

"Door to Hell" starting to close after 54 years

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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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!
- Oh yeah, extremophiles are pretty metal. Like, some of them can survive being in space.
Which side of the door are we on?
Are we inside hell? Or outside hell?
- “Hell is other people”, so I’m guessing we’re on the inside.
- If the door is open, does it matter?
  
  it will matter when it's gone...
It’s too late! The bowels of hell have already been emptied, the demons walk among us…
HELL IS FULL
BLOOD IS FUEL
BABA IS YOU
- EDITED BY MAX0R
You know things are shit in the world when even hell wants nothing to do with it...
Only because it’s now empty and all the devils are here
So I guess they want it to close. They’re draining the methane from elsewhere
- Hope so. Burning the methane to CO2 is a lot better than releasing it as is for the climate.
maybe things will start to get better 🤷
- No, this is Hell trying to keep us out.
I don't know, it really feels like it's starting to open faster.

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