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An Enormous Crater Randomly Appeared in Remote Siberia and the World Is Freaking Out
Global Post ^ | July 17, 2014 | Timothy McGrath

Posted on 07/17/2014 3:21:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It's gotta be either a UFO or a giant worm, right?

It's hard to tell from this perspective — ya know, while on the internet — but that's a freakin' gigantic hole in the ground.

It's about 260 feet wide, nobody knows how deep, and it seems to have appeared out of nowhere in a remote corner of northern Siberia called Yamal, which means, appropriately, "the end of the world."

There are plenty of theories already. Could be a UFO crash site, some say. Others, a meteorite.

A researcher with the Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre thinks it might have been caused by a release of subterranean gas trapped for 10,000 years or so. The gas, according to the theory, had been trapped since the area was a sea, and as climate change melted the permafrost, that pressurized gas might have forced its way out of the ground like a corked champagne bottle.

Incidentally, the Yamal Peninsula is one of Russia's richest regions for the production of oil and gas, and the hole appeared 19 miles from Bovanenkovo, a major gas field. So it could have something to do with that...

Thankfully, scientists are ON IT. Experts from the Centre for the Study of the Arctic and from the Cryosphere Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences are on an expedition as we speak.

Check out this video of the mysterious crater, shot from a helicopter.


TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crater; russia; serbia
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61 posted on 07/17/2014 5:21:54 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: AndrewB

You win! Best Post of the thread!


62 posted on 07/17/2014 5:34:42 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: eCSMaster

It’s on my bucket list.


63 posted on 07/17/2014 5:36:30 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: nickcarraway

The next generation of hortas have hatched.


64 posted on 07/17/2014 6:19:10 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: blueunicorn6
Gophers.....really big gophers.

Just check out the documentary films, Tremors.

65 posted on 07/17/2014 7:24:13 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: nickcarraway

66 posted on 07/17/2014 7:28:15 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. Hat)
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To: Mad Dawgg
Finally common sense on the thread, LOL!
67 posted on 07/17/2014 7:31:17 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: Defiant

Art Bell is paging you..


68 posted on 07/17/2014 7:33:19 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: nickcarraway
Oh no! Divide by Zero!


I thought the Russians were smarter than that.



69 posted on 07/17/2014 7:38:58 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
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To: TigersEye

That’s what I was wondering... almost looks like an alien laser or something did it!


70 posted on 07/17/2014 7:39:32 PM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: PLMerite
There needs to be something of known size in the images to gauge the true size. This could almost be a fairly large gopher hole.

262 feet is 87 yards. Think of a football player catching a kickoff on his own goal line and being tackled at his opponent's 12 yard line. Thats a pretty darn big hole they gots there..
71 posted on 07/17/2014 9:45:06 PM PDT by Company Man (Don't call them liberals)
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To: Company Man

“262 feet is 87 yards.”

That’s how big they say it is. There’s still nothing in the images I’ve seen to provide any kind of scale. Not that it matters; there doesn’t seem to be anything sinister about it.


72 posted on 07/17/2014 10:17:52 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: nickcarraway

Some call it a pingo: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/18/new-pictures-of-the-hole-in-yamal-and-pingo-was-its-name-o/


73 posted on 07/18/2014 11:51:27 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: nickcarraway

Hmm? The Atlanteans are obviously working on something down below.


74 posted on 07/19/2014 7:38:13 AM PDT by fso301
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To: ForYourChildren

montecello dam?


75 posted on 07/19/2014 7:43:48 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: nickcarraway

God sees the world is due for an enema and that where he’s going to stick the hose.


76 posted on 07/19/2014 7:46:21 AM PDT by Nachoman (libertyarmstx.com is now open!)
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To: going hot

I don’t know where the dam is located.

A while back I did a google on divide by zero and looked at all the images. Very funny. That one at the dam and the mine were two of my favorites. I think I was at that mine a couple of years ago in s Africa. Hard to tell from the angle.


77 posted on 07/19/2014 9:37:43 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a classical Christian approach to homeschool])
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To: ForYourChildren

Looks like the overflow glory hole at the montecello dam, the one that makes lake berryessa in norcal.


78 posted on 07/19/2014 1:31:50 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: nickcarraway
If we don't jump in the Merkel hole with the Europe, we are not real friends.


79 posted on 05/28/2017 4:40:58 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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