Giant hole appears in Siberia...

[sukumvit boy]

Look familiar?:p
Mysterious Giant Hole Opens Up In Siberia - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMlSJlWcJ7k)

[maxpower]

I guess Galactus is on his way then.

[Tapatio]

I saw this from Russia Today this morning, but I dismissed it until I could find another (read: a reputable) news source.

Still no real facts.

Who knows? Burroughs, Poe, and Verne may have been onto something.

[Tapatio]

Can someone make a TV Kim joke, please?

[skybuddha]

would be messed up if it was a UFO landing and if the aliens actually preferred Russia and China, BRICS etc to America .... what are the chance of that happening ? At the very least the aliens might be engaging in the same type of operations which the west engaged in for hundreds of years around the Black Sea etc.. playing sides against each other ...lol. Maybe they feel they have a stronger hand to negotiate with against the likes of Russia .... ok Ill go take my meds now lol

[Pelheckitt]

Yep that's a big hole, most likely made by pissed off albino unicorns.

Of course then again we are talking about Russia could have been some drunken teenagers bored that dug it for no reason at all.

[NightmareX0666]

Damn gophers.....http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/1065721/caddyshack-gopher-o.gif

[gimmeurblood]

something better fuck it or the hole's just going to waste...

[LilyRox]

something better fuck it or the hole's just going to waste...

Yeah, I was thinking it should win gape of the year.

[lifeisfiction]

Simple explanation, Kaiju. We must build our own monsters to fight these monsters. I mean when is the last time you saw a giant creature who was friendly.

[lordworm]

Creepy, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions.

[gimmeurblood]

Yeah, I was thinking it should win gape of the year.

if it starts emitting natural gasses i dont think ill be able to stop laughing over earth sized farts because my sense of humor never graduated 5th grade

[SexSlave1972]

Putin was there and farted !

[jonnie64]

This is some seriously crazy shit!!! I can't wait to see what the survey team comes up with if the fucking Russians actually release it.

[trish]

Russia is full of holes.

http://io9.com/former-soviet-mines-are-like-artificially-constructed-p-1605848757

[sukumvit boy]

I'd hit it!:banana:

[Michelle.]

Sinkhole?

[Tapatio]

Was it Trish who posted the mine picture?

Take a look around 0:27 on the video.

Obvious tunnels are obvious.

[crystalsopen]

Sinkhole?
It looks like permafrost was pushed out of the hole in some kind of eruption so def not a sink whole.

[crystalsopen]

Creepy, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions.
The most seemingly reasonable and consistent explanation I have heard is a chemical reaction due to melting per-ma frost and a natural gas pocket. There is a natural gas field 20 miles away, and the area is supposedly permafrost but looks pretty muddy in the pictures. Probably not creepy at all.

[trish]

Was it Trish who posted the mine picture?

Take a look around 0:27 on the video.

Obvious tunnels are obvious.'Twas I. Yeah, I took a second look. A large tunnel or cave branches off from the hole. I was thinking the hole is probably just one of the many mines that pocket the face of Russia. But that's not consistent with the mound of debris circling the hole's rim. Could be the permafrost warmed, released natural gas and a pocket of the accumulated gas ignited. ???


I'd hit it!:banana:Whatever makes Godzilla happy.

[Tapatio]

And now

[bimale69]

World's biggest bunghole? (Does Beavis & Butthead imitation)hehehehe

[maaarc]

that's not hole this is a giant hole. sorry, couldn't resist

[blueeyeboy]

Worrying times in Siberia.

[giovanni_hotel]

Fracking for natural gas = sinkholes.

In this case a really big one.

[Falling]

It's obviously Cthulu's return... jeez read ah book!

[trish]

Still other possibilities

http://nyti.ms/1nnq2uN

http://www.smh.com.au/world/opinions-divided-over-mysterious-80metre-wide-crater-in-northern-siberia-20140716-ztqvi.html

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 says the permafrost [frozen earth] can be hundreds of metres thick, allowing for large ice features.

[NightmareX0666]

Looks like there are a couple of more holes found in Siberia...
http://news.yahoo.com/more-mysterious-craters-found-russias-remote-siberia-region-170903778.html

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two more craters of unknown origin have been spotted in Russia's Siberia region, weeks after a similar-looking hole was found in the isolated northernmost area, a local paper reported.

The Siberian Times, an English-language newspaper, published pictures of two new giant holes discovered by reindeer herders, one located in the Yamal and the other in the Taymyr peninsula, both above the Arctic circle.

The paper said that theories of their origin range from meteorites or stray missiles to aliens or an underground gas explosion. The report could not be confirmed independently.

Russian state TV reported earlier this month that a giant hole had appeared in the gas-rich Yamal peninsula where temperatures plummet below -50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) and the sun barely rises in winter.

A Russian scientific expedition arrived at the site to inspect the first crater, nicknamed the "Yamal black hole", earlier this month, according to a recent report by state-run Vesti.ru website.

Yamal, inhabited by indigenous reindeer herders, is one of Russia's richest regions in natural gas.

A meteorite, which weighed about 10 metric tonnes, hit central Russia last year, injuring more than 1,000 people.

Experts drew comparisons with an incident in 1908, when a meteorite is thought to have devastated an area of more than 2,000 sq km (772 square miles) in Siberia, breaking windows as far as 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the point of impact.

(This version of the story corrects conversion in paragraph 8 of 2,000 sq km to 772 square miles (not 1,250 miles))

(Reporting By Alexei Anishchuk; Editing by Susan Fenton)

[jamesedwards]

who's asshole is that? :dead: