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martinuzz

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Nice crater
« on: July 18, 2014, 03:57:42 am »

This was discovered a few days ago in Siberia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2kMs05VaOfE

Speculation so far assumes it was created when an underground natural gas pocket exploded.

It's a .... big, eerie looking hole...

Speculate away folks!

EDIT: okay I'll kick off. The near perfect round shape makes it hard for me to believe that this was caused by a natural explosion from below the ground. Perhaps they goofed the depth estimates for their latest nuclear test? Then again, I'm not sure if I'd want to fly a helicopter that close if that were the case. :P
« Last Edit: July 18, 2014, 04:07:54 am by martinuzz »
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2014, 03:59:35 am »

this is how you get cthulhu
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2014, 05:46:05 am »

Didn't watch the video, but I have a theory.

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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2014, 07:27:29 am »

So are there more of these random dirt explosions to come if the earth keeps heating up?
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2014, 10:38:12 am »

Only one way to find out, which 7 of us volunteer to go down there?
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2014, 10:43:56 am »

I'm not a geologist, although sometimes I wish I was because rocks are awesome, but it looks like something went down, not up.
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2014, 04:47:41 pm »

Am I the only one who immediately though of the sarlacc?
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2014, 05:00:47 pm »

I'm not a geologist, although sometimes I wish I was because rocks are awesome, but it looks like something went down, not up.
Then why is there debris all around the hole?

Its shape seems to indicate something weird- It's almost cylindrical, but then it goes outwards once it reaches the surface, as if someone drilled a hole then blew up the top part.
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2014, 06:51:20 am »

I'm not a geologist, although sometimes I wish I was because rocks are awesome, but it looks like something went down, not up.
Then why is there debris all around the hole?

Its shape seems to indicate something weird- It's almost cylindrical, but then it goes outwards once it reaches the surface, as if someone drilled a hole then blew up the top part.

...because the material being bored through had to go somewhere? Dug holes tend to have debris around the mouth.
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2014, 07:44:08 am »

Maybe the dwarfs of ol' heard about DF 2014 coming out and dig there away out of the earth to see the changed world of it's !FUN!
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2014, 09:35:48 am »

The statement that it seemed like something went down, rather than up, i.e that something bored, dug, whatever, through the ground.

I have no evidence of any sort as to what caused the hole, just - if something /had/ gone down through the ground to make it, they would have left debris like that.

Whereas what you said implied that that would not be the case.
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2014, 09:49:07 am »

Maybe something did bore a hole in the ground, and the slanted bit is the debris. *shrug*
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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2014, 09:50:30 am »

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Re: Nice crater
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2014, 10:27:21 am »

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Of course, that's what someone kidnapped and replaced by the Deep Ones inside would say.
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« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2014, 01:26:33 pm »

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