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

submitted 2 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 109 points 2 months 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!

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months 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@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Which side of the door are we on?

Are we inside hell? Or outside hell?

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 months ago

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

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If the door is open, does it matter?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 months ago

it will matter when it's gone...

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ඞ

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea ඞ existed

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 months ago

it's unrelated burmese script

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

[–] Damage@feddit.it 11 points 2 months ago

Rip and tear

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I needs to get me a BFG9000!

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

HELL IS FULL

BLOOD IS FUEL

BABA IS YOU

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

EDITED BY MAX0R

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How many billionaires do you think can fit down there?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

We won't know until we try

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] troed@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

isn't this like stranger things season 5 spoilers

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe things will start to get better 🤷

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 18 points 2 months ago

No, this is Hell trying to keep us out.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Buffy has entered the chat.