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9 Of the Deepest Holes In The World
MSN.com ^ | 09 November 2014

Posted on 11/09/2014 2:44:51 PM PST by zeestephen

This ominous hole in Earth’s surface has been burning since 1971. Dubbed the Door to Hell, it sits above natural gas deposits in the Karakum Desert near Derweze, Turkmenistan. The hole is 230 feet wide and 66 feet deep and has been boiling continuously since Soviet geologists first ignited it while drilling for gas.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 1971; derweze; doortohell; gatesofhell; karakumdesert; methane; russia; turkmenistan
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To: Albion Wilde

I’ve heard of ‘having your ass in a sling’ but never in a sewer.


21 posted on 11/09/2014 3:04:04 PM PST by lee martell
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To: zeestephen

Don’t let Nik Wallenda see this!


22 posted on 11/09/2014 3:07:38 PM PST by Ken H
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To: zeestephen

How cute.

What’s that, like 1/10000000000th the national debt hole?


23 posted on 11/09/2014 3:08:51 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: humblegunner

24 posted on 11/09/2014 3:09:10 PM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: zeestephen

The author forgot to mention our National Debt hole.


25 posted on 11/09/2014 3:12:19 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: zeestephen

Democrats’ brains?


26 posted on 11/09/2014 3:16:04 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: zeestephen

how is 66 feet even close to the deepest hole?


27 posted on 11/09/2014 3:17:26 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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There was this girl I knew in the sixties that even an 8’ 2X4 didn’t help.


28 posted on 11/09/2014 3:20:26 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: humblegunner

29 posted on 11/09/2014 3:23:01 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch

“Bitch, tell me how you’re not The Hobbit, again?”


30 posted on 11/09/2014 3:23:55 PM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: GeronL

Yeah, disappointing list.

The salt mine under Detroit doesn’t even start till about 1000 feet down and that’s a relatively shallow mine.


31 posted on 11/09/2014 3:25:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Bratch

The distraught naked woman, covering her nether parts
with her boyfriends shoe, was trying to explain to the
country bumpkin about losing her clothes when he fell
in the lake, when the old geezer took one look at the
shoe and declared, “Honey, when they’re in that deep,
there IS no help.”


32 posted on 11/09/2014 3:29:00 PM PST 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: MAD-AS-HELL

More like which one did they crawl out of.


33 posted on 11/09/2014 3:29:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: humblegunner
Deepest. Not widest.
34 posted on 11/09/2014 3:31:40 PM PST by FredZarguna (Jean à de longues moustaches. Je répète: Jean à de longues moustaches.)
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It was nice to see that the Kimberley hole was on the list.

http://www.thebighole.co.za/

This was also interesting, turned up in a search for that “bottomless” hole in Mexico (that’s only 1200 feet deep).

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/21/in-deep-2


35 posted on 11/09/2014 3:40:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: zeestephen

I hate seeing that waste of energy.

Truly, a part of the Soviet Hell.


36 posted on 11/09/2014 3:41:08 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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After more than 50 years of speleological work in Mexico, more than 50 caves have been found with depths greater than 500 meters (1,640 ft). Around the world, there are only 89 caves with depths greater than 1000 meters (3,280 ft), nine of which are located in Mexico.

http://www.riosecreto.com/mexico_caves/deep_caves_mexico.asp


37 posted on 11/09/2014 3:41:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: zeestephen

Takes a real Journ-o-list type to come up with these things.... and some real smart editors to let such idiotic titles slip by.. I’ve been in mines three times as deep as the deepest hole they list, and there are drilled well holes 23 times deeper than they list.

Now if the author had titled it 9 very interesting holes, he might be right.


38 posted on 11/09/2014 3:44:15 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: luvbach1

Mel’s hole...was elected President in 2008


39 posted on 11/09/2014 3:45:34 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: cripplecreek

There was a salt mine in eastern Europe that was like an underground city and a WW2 shelter


40 posted on 11/09/2014 3:48:41 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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