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Excerpt: "The Gates of Hell crater was created in 1971 when a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive underground natural gas cavern, causing th
by joak 5y ago
Excerpt: "The Gates of Hell crater was created in 1971 when a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse and the entire drilling rig to fall in. Having punctured a pocket of gas, poisonous fumes began leaking at an alarming rate.
To head off a potential environmental catastrophe, the Soviets set the hole alight, figuring it would stop burning within a few weeks."
- roywiggins 5y agoMaybe they could try nuking it? https://interestingengineering.com/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire https://interestingengineering.com/soviet-engineers-detonate...
- Victerius 5y agoNukes. The cause of, and solution to, all of the world's problems.
- csdvrx 5y agoWhen force is not the solution to a problem, it just means you didn't apply enough of it!
- jeffreygoesto 5y agoLike it worked well with that whale (now more than) 50 years ago? https://politicalbombshow.com/2020/12/12/funniest-thing-that-ever-happened-oregons-exploding-whale/ https://politicalbombshow.com/2020/12/12/funniest-thing-that...
- adolph 5y agoReminds me of the time a drilling rig emptied a lake into a salt mine: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-peigneur https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lake-peigneur