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FogerRox

(13,211 posts)
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 01:16 PM Jul 2014

3rd Siberian Crater Found

According to residents in Yamal the first crater was formed in Sept of 2013, and is 90 ft wide, the second crater is also in Yamal and is 49 ft wide, while the 3rd crater is 13 ft wide, found on the Taymyr Peninsula in the Kransoyark region:






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2708345/Mystery-Siberian-crater-deepens-Scientists-left-baffled-two-NEW-holes-appear-Russias-icy-wilderness.html

Coupled with reports like this:


Vast methane plumes have been discovered boiling up from the seafloor of the Arctic ocean on the continental slope of the Laptev Sea by a dream team of international scientists. Over the last decade a warming tongue of Atlantic ocean water has been flowing along the Siberian Arctic ocean's continental slope destabilizing methane ice, hypothesize the team of Swedish, Russian and American scientists.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/28/1317252/--Vast-methane-plumes-escaping-from-the-seafloor-discovered-in-Siberian-Arctic-Sea
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3rd Siberian Crater Found (Original Post) FogerRox Jul 2014 OP
Well that's bad news villager Jul 2014 #1
I wouldn't be surprised if it was 4 or 5 by the weekend. FogerRox Jul 2014 #2
Scary R3druM Jul 2014 #3
Well, we've known the earth is hollow for many years. zappaman Jul 2014 #4
Someone's perfecting the focus on their missile silo destroyer beam dickthegrouch Jul 2014 #5
This frightens me a little. dawg Jul 2014 #6
Worse still, methane is highly flammable lunatica Jul 2014 #7
Massive release of methane from arctic permafrost? Spider Jerusalem Jul 2014 #8
Not game over, but shit hit the fan. joshcryer Jul 2014 #15
You're a glass half empty kind of person! Kaleva Jul 2014 #19
Maybe it's these guys. A HERETIC I AM Jul 2014 #9
We're an intergallactic bowling ball trying to pick up the 7-10 split NightWatcher Jul 2014 #10
While Putin is busy with the Ukraine ...the Mole People will move in and take over! L0oniX Jul 2014 #11
This is very serious. Enthusiast Jul 2014 #12
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #13
Someone get Fox Mulder on the line, quick! nt Zorra Jul 2014 #14
LOL, I miss Mulder and Scully! They'd be right on it. nt Hekate Jul 2014 #26
all those resources, energy flowing into the sky. Always found it amazing how the sea beds in those Sunlei Jul 2014 #16
Told Ya... AnnieBW Jul 2014 #17
Damn Chimera. NuclearDem Jul 2014 #18
I thought they had determined that these Ilsa Jul 2014 #20
That's one of the possibilities that has been raised. No firm answer yet. GliderGuider Jul 2014 #21
Not Pingos FogerRox Jul 2014 #22
Could it be the work of extraterrestrials? ecstatic Jul 2014 #23
Low power setting... greytdemocrat Jul 2014 #24
What's happening in Alaska and the rest of the Circumpolar region? nt Hekate Jul 2014 #25
Couldnt they just be like sink holes? davidn3600 Jul 2014 #27
Ancient alien technology. Rex Jul 2014 #28

dickthegrouch

(3,151 posts)
5. Someone's perfecting the focus on their missile silo destroyer beam
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 04:28 PM
Jul 2014

First one was 60 meters, now they're down to 4 meters. Far more acceptable as "focussed" weapon.

dawg

(10,610 posts)
6. This frightens me a little.
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 04:31 PM
Jul 2014

If we have a large scale release of trapped methane, it could lead to a greenhouse effect that is substantially outside the upper range of most climate models. It would be bad.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
7. Worse still, methane is highly flammable
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 04:37 PM
Jul 2014

A huge amount of methane could easily burst into flame with lightning.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
8. Massive release of methane from arctic permafrost?
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 04:38 PM
Jul 2014

That's pretty much game over. Next stop, mass extinction event.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
10. We're an intergallactic bowling ball trying to pick up the 7-10 split
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 04:42 PM
Jul 2014


I'll give you that the aliens have some weird finger placement, but damn....

We are the fungus that grows in the finger holes.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
16. all those resources, energy flowing into the sky. Always found it amazing how the sea beds in those
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 08:44 PM
Jul 2014

areas are covered with mammoth, horse, and other ice age animal bones. Must have been quite a vibrant place over the past 200 million years.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
20. I thought they had determined that these
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 10:31 PM
Jul 2014

are pingoes (singular: pingo), not melting with methane release. I guess we'll know soon.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
21. That's one of the possibilities that has been raised. No firm answer yet.
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 10:43 PM
Jul 2014

Pingoes are one, methane blowouts are another. I think the meteorite theory is now off the table.

ecstatic

(32,567 posts)
23. Could it be the work of extraterrestrials?
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 09:06 PM
Jul 2014

From the article:

Geologists, ecologists, and historians have not come to a consensus about the origin of the Taymyr hole (pictured), say reports in the region. 'It is not like this is the work of men, but also doesn't look like natural formation,' said one account expressing puzzlement at its creation
 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
27. Couldnt they just be like sink holes?
Tue Jul 29, 2014, 09:26 PM
Jul 2014

These open up in Florida and a few other parts of the world all the time. The bedrock develops cavities and erodes over time. Eventually the surface collapses.

Perhaps there was ice stuck under the surface that melted and drained leaving a cavity.

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