Other possible theories: UFOs are drilling for uranium to power their spaceships. Or maybe it’s a wormhole in the time/space continuum. Or the Hellmouth from Buffy. WHO THE HELL KNOWS?
What we DO know so far is this: A mysterious giant hole has suddenly appeared in Yamal, on the far north of Siberia. Nobody has many details right now, but the pics and video captured from a helicopter show a weird configuration with debris and signs of combustion around it. Was it an explosion, an impact, or some violent drilling? Scientists are baffled.
From The Daily Mail: There has been web speculation about the crater indicating ‘the arrival of a UFO craft’. But one Russian expert says the cause is more likely to be global warming releasing gases under the surface, which then explode like a champagne cork. Experts say that the darkening around the inner rim of the crater indicates ‘severe burning’ which scorched its edges.
But according to The Siberian Times, it might be something as boring as an explosion caused water, salt and gas.
Anna Kurchatova from Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre thinks the crater was formed by a water, salt and gas mixture igniting an underground explosion, the result of global warming. She postulates that gas accumulated in ice mixed with sand beneath the surface, and that this was mixed with salt – some 10,000 years ago this area was a sea.
Or maybe it’s a geological phenomenon called a pingo—a block of ice that’s grown into a small hill in the frozen arctic ground. Says polar scientist Chris Fogwill:
The permafrost [frozen earth] can be hundreds of metres thick, allowing for large ice features.
This is obviously a very extreme version of that, and if there’s been any interaction with the gas in the area, that is a question that could only be answered by going there.
We’re seeing much more activity in permafrost areas than we’ve seen in the historical past. A lot of this relates to this high degree of warming around these high arctic areas which are experiencing some of the highest rates of warming on earth.
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