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Old 08-05-2014, 02:37 PM
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Siberian Blowholes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...ews-isnt-good/

It's methane.

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Old 08-05-2014, 02:43 PM
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A gigantic terrafart? Whoda thunk the oit's arshole was in Siberia.

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Old 08-05-2014, 02:48 PM
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LOL!

Amazing and terrifying.

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There doesn't appear to be enough ejecta to explain the size of the hole there. Anybody care to expound on that?
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Old 08-05-2014, 04:25 PM
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There doesn't appear to be enough ejecta to explain the size of the hole there. Anybody care to expound on that?
To quote some righty congress critters of late, "I'm no scientist but..."
There looks to be a lot of material around that hole in this pic from Nature. I suspect the process is more a sinkhole than a meteor strike. A shart, if you will.


http://www.nature.com/news/mysteriou...ethane-1.15649 More here.
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I think there are at least three mutant worms on the loose in Siberia.
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A gigantic terrafart? Whoda thunk the oit's arshole was in Siberia.

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witty...very witty.....
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witty...very witty.....
And you thot that it would be somewhere in Kansas.

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LOL... we be the armpit....
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Old 08-05-2014, 04:56 PM
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Siberia/Texas, same difference.
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