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The ignition can only take place after the mound has been ripped apart and a lot of gas has escaped and mixed with oxygen. There's no oxygen in the underground
by ovi256 6y ago
The ignition can only take place after the mound has been ripped apart and a lot of gas has escaped and mixed with oxygen. There's no oxygen in the underground gas pocket.
- simonh 6y agoSo what? You don't need to have detonation in order to have an explosion. However once this thing breaches the surface it does detonate.
- airhead969 6y agoSnark is unnecessary. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Is there any proof of detonation? I can't find any references to that occurring. It seems to be an entirely mechanical process.
- simonh 6y agoSure, we have eyewitness accounts. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201130-climate-change-the-mystery-of-siberias-explosive-craters https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201130-climate-change-t... "Local reindeer herders reported seeing flames and smoke after one crater explosion in June 2017" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8705517/430-gas-bombs-discovered-Arctic-risk-exploding-creating-huge-craters.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8705517/430-gas-bom... "Only three of the 17 known eruptions so far were seen by witnesses, and in each case there was an explosion with fire, said the professor."