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bobabode
08-05-2014, 02:37 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/05/scientists-may-have-cracked-the-giant-siberian-crater-mystery-and-the-news-isnt-good/

It's methane.

http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_908w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2014-07-17/AP/Russia_Siberia_Crater-0d903.jpg

Pio1980
08-05-2014, 02:43 PM
A gigantic terrafart? Whoda thunk the oit's arshole was in Siberia.

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piece-itpete
08-05-2014, 02:48 PM
LOL!

Amazing and terrifying.

Pete

JJIII
08-05-2014, 03:50 PM
There doesn't appear to be enough ejecta to explain the size of the hole there. Anybody care to expound on that?

bobabode
08-05-2014, 04:25 PM
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/polopoly_fs/7.18820.1406825063!/image/1.15649_sinkhole.jpeg_gen/derivatives/landscape_300/1.15649_sinkhole.jpeg
http://www.nature.com/news/mysterious-siberian-crater-attributed-to-methane-1.15649 More here.

nailer
08-05-2014, 04:29 PM
I think there are at least three mutant worms on the loose in Siberia.

MrPots
08-05-2014, 04:46 PM
A gigantic terrafart? Whoda thunk the oit's arshole was in Siberia.

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:D witty...very witty.....

Pio1980
08-05-2014, 04:50 PM
:D witty...very witty.....

And you thot that it would be somewhere in Kansas.

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MrPots
08-05-2014, 04:52 PM
LOL... we be the armpit....

bobabode
08-05-2014, 04:56 PM
Siberia/Texas, same difference.