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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 04/06/2009 : 14:28:06
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1. What (the) Hell is this, and how did it get that way?
2. Where is it?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/06/2009 14:31:24
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JustMe
Skeptic Friend
64 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2009 : 14:39:23 [Permalink]
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| 40° 15' 8" N, 58° 26' 23" E |
| Edited by - JustMe on 04/06/2009 14:40:32 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2009 : 15:19:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JustMe
40° 15' 8" N, 58° 26' 23" E
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Congrats, JustMe! Correct location, for 1/2 credit!
The rest should now be fairly easy.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2009 : 15:29:41 [Permalink]
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Found this on Youtube.
Wiki...The Door to Hell.
Nice catch, JustME. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2009 : 15:41:57 [Permalink]
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Congratulations, Randy! I'll credit that link with answering the other half of this quiz.
From the YouTube video's description text: This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals "The Door to Hell". It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas.. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it's burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=1830 |
BTW, TG, how'd you recognize that thing?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Another very odd hole in the ground
