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there's no disputing a ~100-foot-deep (~30-m), 226-foot-wide (69-m) pit of relentless fiery fury that's been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

How many billionaires do you think can fit down there?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

We won't know until we try

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

HELL IS FULL

BLOOD IS FUEL

BABA IS YOU

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

EDITED BY MAX0R

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 89 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In 2013, the crater's flame intensity and temperatures were at its recorded peak. At the same time, renowned Canadian explorer, George Kourounis, became the first – and only – person to enter the crater wearing a full heat-reflective Kevlar/Nomex suit and a firefighter's Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) to provide oxygen. He descended to the 752 °F (400 °C) crater floor and retrieved soil samples. Scientists later found extremophile bacteria living in the scorched earth samples Kourounis provided.

Wtf that's the craziest part of this story!

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 26 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, extremophiles are pretty metal. Like, some of them can survive being in space.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Some are literally metal. See: Chrysomallon squamiferum: a deep-sea extremophile mollusk that lives on volcanic vents in the Indian Ocean. They have a shell made of iron sulphide and aragonite. Their lower body also has an armor coat of sclerites (fancy word for "hardened body part of invertebrates", like pieces of an exoskeleton) made of mineralized iron, giving them their colloquial name "Scaly-Foot Snail"

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Buffy has entered the chat.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 42 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Which side of the door are we on?

Are we inside hell? Or outside hell?

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

“Hell is other people”, so I’m guessing we’re on the inside.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 15 hours ago

“Hell is other people”, so I’m guessing we’re on the inside.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If the door is open, does it matter?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 14 hours ago

it will matter when it's gone...

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 points 14 hours ago

There is no door, wait, no,... there might be.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

“Hell is other people”, so I’m guessing we’re on the inside.

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 43 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

It’s too late! The bowels of hell have already been emptied, the demons walk among us…

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 11 hours ago

it's unrelated burmese script

the character represented by chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not())))))) is way cooler

[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 15 hours ago

Rip and tear

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I needs to get me a BFG9000!

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What's the power level of them big fuckin' guns, anyway..?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

They need 4 D cell batteries, so big power levels.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You know things are shit in the world when even hell wants nothing to do with it...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 11 hours ago

Davoth: "Pack it up boys. Unleashing our full fury would actually be an improvement."

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 15 hours ago

Only because it’s now empty and all the devils are here

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 9 points 16 hours ago

isn't this like stranger things season 5 spoilers

[–] moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyz 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So I guess they want it to close. They’re draining the methane from elsewhere

[–] troed@fedia.io 4 points 15 hours ago

Hope so. Burning the methane to CO2 is a lot better than releasing it as is for the climate.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

maybe things will start to get better 🤷

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 18 points 17 hours ago

No, this is Hell trying to keep us out.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I don't know, it really feels like it's starting to open faster.