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WTF Video Of The Day: Giant Russian Hole Edition
Ripped from the screen of the latest Marvel movie, Reuters reports that researchers are to investigate a giant mysterious hole that has appeared in one of Russia's most isolated northernmost regions. It was unclear what had caused the gaping crater, about 100 meters in diameter, filmed from the air in Yamal, which means "the end of the Earth" in the local Nenets language, where temperatures plummet to -58 degrees Fahrenheit and the sun barely rises in winter. Yamal, inhabited by indigenous reindeer herders, is one of Russia's richest regions in natural gas. The hole was found near the Bovanentsky gas field, leading to speculation that it could have been caused by an underground explosion. No Thor's Hammer found as yet (or Superman flight vessel).
As if we needed one more crazy video today...
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C'mon Tyler this is 3 day old news. Very unlike ZH....
not for everyone
pingo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingo
Aliens vs Predators.
The new corporate headqurters of Malaysian Airlines.
Holes happen.
Before #!$@ happens, of course! (and after which it hits the fan)
You will never escape the fortress of the moles.
We should fill the hole with money. It will stimulate economic activity.
Finally, Tremors IS real!
It's those aliens that landed in Tunguska. Minus 58 degrees was too cold. Headed to Southrn , FL. sinkholes.
The world's butthole. And to think I always thought it was in Washington DC.
Good place to drop off a bunch of politicians.
Not very good at geology but I think everything is a zero sum game so how can the earth keep shooting lava up? How can there be an infinite supply of lava enclosed in a sphere of a specific dimension?
Subduction.
As long as the tectonic plates are moving the Earth will make more magma. This isn't an issue anyone on this board or any future generations for sometime to come will have to worry about. If anything humans will wish there was no such thing as magma at some point in time lol. Much bigger things to worry about than running out. On a geological timeline our existence doesn't even qualify as a blip and if something major did happen take a positive stance and consider yourself lucky to have witnessed it lol--if you're still alive afterwards that is.
Yup, closer on the event time line is the next glacial period.
You want a one-word answer?
MOON
Our moon is huge in relation to the planet.
There you have it.
Put a tennis ball on a string and swing it around you. You affect it a lot. It doesn't affect you a lot.
Now a Bowling Ball. Your hand is going to get hot from all the force of holding onto the string. Moon is the same thing. Except the string is gravity attached to the center of mass - the core.
The same forces that make the tide keep the core molten and put a wobble in the orbit. Okay, it is not all the moon. There are mulitple forces involved. But the moon seems to be a keystone in the interaction between them.
The core being molten means the surface is just a thin skin on the top which can (and does) move around.
It would be interesting if we could measure the deflection of the crust in response to the moon's pull...
If you want an alternative explantion you should read "The Electric Universe".
It's all numbers my friend. What looks like a seriously impressive lava flow to us puny humans is a trivial pinprick to the total volume of the Earth's mantle and core, "infinite" doesn't begin to come into it. The entire mountainous surface of the Earth plus the trenches in the ocean is like the skin of an apple compared to the Earth's volume, call it twenty miles out of a diameter of four thousand.
"How can there be an infinite supply of lava enclosed in a sphere of a specific dimension?"
Because we HAVE to start with the assumption that everything is finite, don't you know? That's how humankind operates (economics is predicated on it).
Just think Skittles and Unicorns... (or "abiotic oil")
Perhaps just dusting off some very advanced weapons.
About 30 years ago that was spewing a natgas fireplume without any chance of being plugged because Soviet Russian petrotech was SO advanced.
Now it's exhausted. Wow.
Tyler Durden, is this the best mis-dis-information that you can fake up? Or is that Black Box being examined by independant verified authorities in Maskva?
Any Moochelle Obama jokes yet, if not...please indulge me. :)
I vote gas explosion. What does the almighty NSA say?
Politician depository?
The burm around the top indicates a blow out of some type, the errosion in the wall lndicate it hs been there for some time. AMy best guess is a natural gas accumulated in a cavern, found some sort of igntion and blew!
So is this more, or less strange than the Crimean pyramids (complete with alien body)? I somehow seemed to have fallen through a dimensional portal into the Twilight zone. Possibly whilst high. Anyway, this timeline really sucks, can I have a different one please?
The portal of Hell.
Create 17 more just like it and Obama will spend the rest of his life there.
And still shoot 10 over par.
Well, looks like Rodan or the MUTO from the new Godzilla fim could be wandering out of that hole at any time now.
Maybe we'll luck out and it'll head to Martha's Vineyard this week to take care of business.
I wonder if it's some kind of underground bunker that collapsed? The hole seems too "round" and perfect to be a natural phenomenon.
I think there is a Kim Kardashian joke in this somewhere
Did anyone see a Silver Man riding on a Silver Surfboard in the Air nearby?