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

submitted 1 day 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 104 points 1 day 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 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours 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"

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

HELL IS FULL

BLOOD IS FUEL

BABA IS YOU

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

EDITED BY MAX0R

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

How many billionaires do you think can fit down there?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

We won't know until we try

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Which side of the door are we on?

Are we inside hell? Or outside hell?

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 day ago

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

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If the door is open, does it matter?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 day ago

it will matter when it's gone...

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

ඞ

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

I had no idea ඞ existed

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 day ago

it's unrelated burmese script

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

[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 1 day ago

Rip and tear

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I needs to get me a BFG9000!

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

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 20 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Buffy has entered the chat.

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

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

[–] troed@fedia.io 4 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

isn't this like stranger things season 5 spoilers

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

maybe things will start to get better 🤷

[–] MummifiedClient5000 18 points 1 day ago

No, this is Hell trying to keep us out.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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