40-year old burning crater

I just learned about this thing today, had to share.  Evidently there's a 200ft wide crater in Trukmenistan that's been on fire for 40 years.

more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell#cite_note-dailytimes.com.pk2012-1

gotta love some of the stuff that goes on our crazy little planet.

Satan? Is that you?

Old news. Not very exciting.

Old news. Not very exciting.

CecilChups

That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanJML897

Probably the only awesome thing...

[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in Turkmenistanairshocker

Probably the only awesome thing...

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[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanNengo_Flow

Probably the only awesome thing...

Centralia Pennsylvania>Turkmenistan :P

That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanJML897

[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanShottayouth13-

[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"][QUOTE="airshocker"]

Probably the only awesome thing...

JML897

why do people (especially americans) always have to make these types of comments when talking about foreign counties? Nengo_Flow

Because I don't consider places to be awesome when their HDI is substantially lower than my country's.

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[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanNengo_Flow

Probably the only awesome thing...

It's a third world muslim country nobody has ever heard of. 80% of it is extremely dry desert. It's a single-party state.

So yeah, a burning hole in the ground is probably the only interesting thing about it.

... probably the only interesting thing about it.Jebus213

[QUOTE="Jebus213"]... probably the only interesting thing about it.MudoSkills

Well I mean visiting the country and seeing things and not losing most of my freedom of everything.

Kill it with fire.

I just read about this burning crater in a top list at listverse.com

I love reading about weird and interesting places like that along with crystal caves and stuff. Makes me want to go see these places with my own eyes

Looks like Satans vagina.

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[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanNengo_Flow

Probably the only awesome thing...

Because America has everything.

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[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanNengo_Flow

Probably the only awesome thing...

that is an extremely ignorant statement. You can't even tell who's from where for you to be claiming that. Given i live in the U.S and i've only traveled to my native country but the amount of ignorance world wide about almost everything here is mind blowing and compelling at the same time considering we have bad education the rest of the world is incredibly gullible to everything they hear about us. We wake up in the morning to go to work btw... most people don't go to work. July 4th is a day to enjoy a BBQ and fire works for the most of us. Most of us aren't even saything this is the best country in the world. If we take population and provide percentages rather than numbers i'm pretty sure U.S.A isn't as patriotic as a lot of other modern countries... it is a huge country with a huge population so taking 1 million persons from here is easy as cake as comparing to let's say chile who's population is less than 20m.

Because America has everything.GummiRaccoon

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[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanNengo_Flow

Probably the only awesome thing...

Third world countries are usually sh*t. That's why they're called third world countries.

I am sure you could earn a lot of money by opening up a stall that sells scrambled eggs made from the heat of that thing.

why'd they light this in the first place and let it keep burning?lamprey263

Centralia Pennsylvania>Turkmenistan :P

LostProphetFLCL

[QUOTE="CecilChups"]

Old news. Not very exciting.

JustSignedUp

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[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanNengo_Flow

Probably the only awesome thing...

Because most of them have never seen a passport in their lives, they've never been to another country.

Because most of them have never seen a passport in their lives, they've never been to another country.

ThisIsTwoFace

Any country where I have a higher degree of being kidnapped and murdered than if I was walking down the streets of NYC at night is a place I don't EVER want to visit.

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[QUOTE="JML897"]That has to be the most awesome thing in TurkmenistanNengo_Flow

Probably the only awesome thing...

ROFL

[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"]why do people (especially americans) always have to make these types of comments when talking about foreign counties? airshocker

Because I don't consider places to be awesome when their HDI is substantially lower than my country's.

[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"]why do people (especially americans) always have to make these types of comments when talking about foreign counties? airshocker

Because I don't consider places to be awesome when their HDI is substantially lower than my country's.

[QUOTE="ThisIsTwoFace"]

Because most of them have never seen a passport in their lives, they've never been to another country.

airshocker

Any country where I have a higher degree of being kidnapped and murdered than if I was walking down the streets of NYC at night is a place I don't EVER want to visit.

[QUOTE="airshocker"]

[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"]why do people (especially americans) always have to make these types of comments when talking about foreign counties? dramaybaz

Because I don't consider places to be awesome when their HDI is substantially lower than my country's.

Broken windows, man.

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[QUOTE="ThisIsTwoFace"]

Because most of them have never seen a passport in their lives, they've never been to another country.

gamerguru100

Any country where I have a higher degree of being kidnapped and murdered than if I was walking down the streets of NYC at night is a place I don't EVER want to visit.

How does a burning crater help the HDI then?dramaybaz

My point -----

Your head -----

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Any country where I have a higher degree of being kidnapped and murdered than if I was walking down the streets of NYC at night is a place I don't EVER want to visit.

dramaybaz