'Wind' from Earth's middle layer blows through a secret passage beneath Panama

Live Science ^ | published 15 days ago | Stephanie Pappas

[SunkenCiv]

A hot spring in Panama where researchers collected fluids and gases to trace the movement of materials from the mantle.

Image credit: Peter Barry/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

[SunkenCiv]

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[taxcontrol]

My theory - when the impact the Chicxulub crater was created, the shockwave created millions of smaller fractures in the earth’s crust in that region. This allows smaller volumes of fluids and gasses to escape on a regular basis.

[pas]

I think it is probably graboids.

[Honest Nigerian]

Hmmmmm.....
They need to do an MRI and a CT-scan of the earth?
Maybe a PET scan, too?
I am guessing the data is available sort of for the taking.
Nikolai Tesla could probably have answered the researcher’s questions.

[BipolarBob]

I always thought it was the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull that was the entry/exit point.

[CatHerd]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting.

[markman46]

You are probably closer to the real cause.

[SunkenCiv]

At one end the passage there’s a giant statue of a guy, and the inscription translates as, “pull my finger”.

[SunkenCiv]

The PET scan was already done on that monkey.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Earth, Wind, & Fire!

[higgmeister]

This never-before-discovered form of transport may also help explain why Panama has very few active volcanoes.

Or not I suppose.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[CatHerd]

ROFL! I couldn’t help but think of when they did Jeopardy! from Philly and Alex Trebek pulled the finger of one of the statues in Signers Hall with this wicked little grin on his face. Who knew Alex could be so mischievous?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Journey to the Center of the Earth Part II: The Canal Entry

[al baby]

I hate when my cat walks across my keyboard too

[Fai Mao]

The floor of the Gulf of Mexico is covered in Methyl-Hydrate, thousands of feet deep from gas that escapes from cracks in the ocean floor. I have wondered if that is a by-product of that impact.

I have forgotten is the statistic I read claimed there was enough to power the world, or just the US for 300 years just laying there, but it is very deep and nobody has figured a way to extract it.

[drSteve78]

The Earth is just a wadded up ball of chewed gum that God spit out, after he was done with it.

[drSteve78]

after He was done with it.

[CPT Clay]

Very Plausible