http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/17-07-2014/128068-giant_sinkhole-0/
This thing is just plain scary. Looks really freaking deep too. The video of the fly over gets a good shot inside the hole and the pictures have good views from the edge.
Dem crazy russians…
I wanna see something large, scaly, multi-tentacled, and prehistoric crawl out of it now…no, not Hillary Clinton, but you know what I mean.
To me that looks like something came out as opposed to earth falling in. The edges of the hole are raised up higher than the surrounding land and their is a ton of earth pushed out around the outside of the hole. Google sinkholes and look at the images, none that I could find have the characteristics of this one.
I see that they are already suggesting that something was ejected (gases) from this hole unlike your standard sinkhole. I guess this happened too early or we would have know the location of Howard Stern when we decided to shoot down the Malaysian Airliner.
Most likely an eruption from a shallow biogenic natural gas reservoir. Not that uncommon.
Giant sink holes like that are not all that uncommon?
Geologically speaking, no. The Yamal peninsula is an area with massive natural gas reserves (hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of methane), much of it in relatively shallow reservoirs, overlain by arctic tundra and permafrost. Weird shit happens. And with some of the most isolated areas on the planet now being observed by anybody with an internet connection, we get a bird’s eye view of the weirdness more often.
And, for those wishing to bone up on their glacial geomorphology, how about a pingo?
[video]http://media.smh.com.au/news/world-news/the-hole-at-the-end-of-the-world-5600293.html[/video]
[i]"A pingo is a block of ice that’s grown into a small hill in the frozen arctic ground. The ice can eventually push through the earth and when it melts away it leaves an exposed crater. Dr Fogwill, University of New South Wales polar scientist, says the permafrost [frozen earth] can be hundreds of metres thick, allowing for large ice features.
‘It’s just a remarkable land form. This is obviously a very extreme version of that, and if there’s been any interaction with the gas in the area, that is a question that could only be answered by going there,’ Dr Fogwill said.[/i] http://www.smh.com.au/world/opinions-divided-over-mysterious-80metre-wide-crater-in-northern-siberia-20140716-ztqvi.html
Additional info on pingos here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/18/new-pictures-of-the-hole-in-yamal-and-pingo-was-its-name-o/
And a buttload of photos and commentary from the Siberian Times: http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/first-pictures-from-inside-the-crater-at-the-end-of-the-world/
Global warming caused it, I knew it! :sarcastic:
This would explain how the “pools” located about the area effected by the Tunguska event got there as it was first believed they might be small impact crators.
You guys and all your silly scientific theories… Bah.
It was aliens. Just accept it.
Well that or thermonuclear boring machines.
Still not big enough to bury Putin AND his ego.
Sink Hole de Mayo
soon to have a missing rocket launcher somewhere down that hole
Post of the week.
I’ll second that.
I knew it…the predators are real!! Game over man! Game over!!
There’s something out there waitin for us and it ain’t no man…
We should probably just go ahead and nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Honestly when I first saw the picture of the “sink hole”, especially the beveled edges and perfect circular circumference I thought of the scene from Predator Vs. Aliens (2004) where the Predators fire a laser from their ship in orbit into the ice to melt a path down to the pyramid for their safari.
Minor point but . . . (
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The “game over” quote is actually from Aliens (1986) spoken by Bill Paxton’s character Pvt. Hudson when he looses his shit after their rescue craft crashes due to a Xenomorph slaughtering the pilot.