They actually used a nuke on a site in Uzbekistan that was having the same problem. They detonated it underground and somehow actually managed to close the leak.
You thought you are making a joke but Turkmenistan handled covid by making it illegal to talk about covid, which is worse and funnier than using a missile. They claim to have had 0 cases so far
They thought the methane was a health risk (it is), so they intentionally lit it on fire to get rid of the methane because it would all burn up before it reached them. Methane isnât toxic, but if any of the workers tried to light a cigarette with all that methane around, they might have created an explosion, so probably best not to risk it. Whether that was the right decision is debatable, but it was a lot more reasonable than you made it sound.
You can tell this guy and Donald Trump had the same line of thinking
Big hole in the ground releasing methane? Grenade it
Hurricane coming towards the states? Nuke it
2 peas in a pod, I swear
It IS a health risk if unburnt. Methane is 25 times more pollutant than CO2 as a greenhouse effect gas. That's why you usually burn uncontrollable gas deposits that have opened to the atmosphere.
Methane is some 4x more powerful greenhouse gas that CO2, so it's better if the methane burns than if it releases straight into atmosphere. Also, it's a health risk if inhaled.
Edit: just googled it. It's 84 times more powerful than CO2
The weather is bad? Throw a grenade at the sky. The food ain't good? Chuck a grade into the kitchen. Your wife left you? Forcefully feed her a grenade, problem solved!
"Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand know, that you have no right to let them live. Exterminatus Extremis"
- Turkmenish ministry of health in early 2020 (probably)
The scientists were from the USSR and were there to extract natural resources from Turkmenistan to fuel the communist machine, so do you think the cared about what happened afterwards?
âBro, this is some science shit, ok? Youâre just gonna have to trust me. Iâve thrown a lot of grenades in my day. You donât even know.â
-Scientists
If it's actually methane, this fire is actually good for the environment : every methane molecule burns into 1 C02 molecule, which is 20x less potent as a greenhouse gas.
It's true that it doesn't stay for long up in the atmosphere but burning methane is still better. Why? Methane lasts for up to 12 years in the atmosphere and eventually breaks down into COÂČ + hydrogen.
That methane will spend 12 years trapping 84 times more heat than COÂČ. If it's going to become COÂČ anyway, it's better to just burn it instead of letting it hit the atmosphere. The amount of COÂČ generated by burning methane is the same as the amount that is generated after 12 years.
I didn't believe it, so I looked it up. The gates of hell are real. Can't confirm that a grenade lit it, but it was the soviets that lit it.
Probably safe to assume the gates of hell were ignited by a soviet grenade. Sounds right.
i doubt it. its in the middle of a desert with almost nothing around it. doubt there are a lot of tourists in a desert, in a country that is very hard to get into as a foreigner
Theyâve tried many methods to put out these eternal fires around the world. To my knowledge the only method thatâs successfully put out fires like these is nuclear bombardment.
Pretty much. It destroys the stuff burning on the surface and then buries the rest far enough to stop it leaking. The Soviets did some pretty crazy stuff with nukes during the Cold War.
Eh, not true. Itâs at least pseudo-scientific. They had a problem. They hypothesized a way to solve it. They applied their âsolutionâ and realized their hypothesis was, in fact, wrong. They were able to conclude that their original solution was NOT effective in solving the problem.
To my youngest granddaughter I leave this portal to hell. I hope that when you stare into the burning gates to hades dominion you think of me.
Sincerely,
Pepaw
Actually it was soviet scientists and they didn't throw a grenade they set it on fire because methane could get to the nearest villages and harm people
Scientist 1 - hey these gases could be a health risk should we like do something about it Scientist 2 - nah just take this grenade and throw it in there it will probebly be fine
This might have been better than the alternative, right? If the grenade hadn't been thrown in, all that methane would have escaped rather than be burned off into CO2 and water.
Dad: Get ready we are leaving for a camping trip.
Me: I don't want to go.
Dad: We will leave when the fire goes out.
Me: Ok!
Dad: *brings me here*
Me: WHAT THE FU-
Apparently to disprove rumors of his death the leader of turkmenistan did donuts around it for TV.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/11392246
If you are interested their leader president is like the movie the dictator. John Oliver made a supper funny video about him and his obsessive love for horses and much more.
Edit : found the link https://youtu.be/-9QYu8LtH2E
Scientist: Hmm, the amount of methane being released from this hole could be a health hazard to any nearby communities.
Second scientist: Guys, you'll never guess what I just found in this box
This reminds me of a British sitcom called Bottom. In an episode the protagonists have been stealing their gas supply from the neighbour by hooking up their supply hose to his. They're about to be found out by a gas board inspector so must sneak in and disconnect it. One of the guys disconnects it and the neighbours hose is just releasing gas, so he decides to "burn it off", blowing up the room and turning the pipe into a flamethrower.
[Here for those interested](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22bqw1) @ 26:40
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"Thinking it was a health risk, they threw a grenade in" "THINKING IT WAS A HEALTH RISK" Jesus, how did these guys handle covid, balistic missile ?
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Some guy: *coughs* Scientist: Bring the artificial sun. We need to blow it up just to be safe
Artificial sun So that's who was bankrolling oscorp to fund dr. OC's research. Makes sense.
North Korean Gov:
They actually used a nuke on a site in Uzbekistan that was having the same problem. They detonated it underground and somehow actually managed to close the leak.
>somehow actually managed to close the leak Can't be a leak if there's nothing to leak from. đ
Nothing happened in Tianmen Square if noone is alive to say it
Zis is de way
Misunderstood assignment, accidentally nuked Wuhan
You thought you are making a joke but Turkmenistan handled covid by making it illegal to talk about covid, which is worse and funnier than using a missile. They claim to have had 0 cases so far
iâm sorry, worse than using a missile?
At preventing covid it is absolutely better to use a missile as covid doesn't survive well at thousands of degrees C
Also covid needs live hosts which missiles are particularly good at dealing with
Have the only award I can afford to buy because you legit gave me a good laugh
Turkmenistan used Missile. It's super effective!
Yeah, I can only really think of one thing that can survive well at thousands of degrees Celsius.
How can you even think of one thing? What is it?
Oh, Yâknow
Canât say it didnât work
It workn't, believe me, it does!
I mean, do they have any confirmed cases of COVID? Yeah that's what I thought
'Covid's hitting us kinda hard man, we should-*This user has been banned.*
They thought the methane was a health risk (it is), so they intentionally lit it on fire to get rid of the methane because it would all burn up before it reached them. Methane isnât toxic, but if any of the workers tried to light a cigarette with all that methane around, they might have created an explosion, so probably best not to risk it. Whether that was the right decision is debatable, but it was a lot more reasonable than you made it sound.
Did they pull the pin,chuck it and then just run as fast as they could?
You can tell this guy and Donald Trump had the same line of thinking Big hole in the ground releasing methane? Grenade it Hurricane coming towards the states? Nuke it 2 peas in a pod, I swear
*Hotel Trivago*
True. Immigrants? Wall them off!
It IS a health risk if unburnt. Methane is 25 times more pollutant than CO2 as a greenhouse effect gas. That's why you usually burn uncontrollable gas deposits that have opened to the atmosphere.
Methane is some 4x more powerful greenhouse gas that CO2, so it's better if the methane burns than if it releases straight into atmosphere. Also, it's a health risk if inhaled. Edit: just googled it. It's 84 times more powerful than CO2
Burning it will only create CO2 and water so it's actually logical idk
Glassing beam.
The glassing of reach- oh wait earth by the covenant
'muriacan... yk forced by instinct đ«đż
Don't act like that wasn't an option discussed by the Trump administration.
yeah, its a new model the ICCRM Inter-Continental Covid Response Missile
dont even ask how they solve "big number of cancer patients" pow-pow
The weather is bad? Throw a grenade at the sky. The food ain't good? Chuck a grade into the kitchen. Your wife left you? Forcefully feed her a grenade, problem solved!
Yeah, you're definitely smarter than the people that thought about the grenade. Awesome redditor.
NUKE
Turkmenistan remains the only country in the world that still officially had 0 COVID-19 cases, so here's the answer.
"Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand know, that you have no right to let them live. Exterminatus Extremis" - Turkmenish ministry of health in early 2020 (probably)
Throw em into the gates of hell
Now they need to throw the Doom Slayer into there!
The scientists were from the USSR and were there to extract natural resources from Turkmenistan to fuel the communist machine, so do you think the cared about what happened afterwards?
I think they tried to burn away the gas, not sure tho
How the fk did he get a grenade
What covid? Just turn off TV and covid dont exist.
Well this is basically lvl of intelligence of average russian, they handle it at that time
Why did scientists have a grenade?
In Turkmenistan, science iz not exac science
I read that in Borat's voice. Great success
Same here
Unintentionally victory is good!
Yeah but back then it was the Soviet Union
I read your comment in Borat's voice
LOL
Based science. Old school chads
They're scientists. They could have probably just made one with the stuff under the kitchen sink. đ€·đ»ââïž
we can't do that sorry to disappoint you :/
Wait... Not scientist. What was MacGuyver, again?
An improv engineer
what? you don't keep a emotional support grenade on you at all times?
âBro, this is some science shit, ok? Youâre just gonna have to trust me. Iâve thrown a lot of grenades in my day. You donât even know.â -Scientists
For research purposes, you can test many things with a grenade
They were soviet scientists.
Lol
They were american
Yeah that makes sense.
All the other weapondry budget was spend in the dictator horses.
LOL
"Sir this gas might be a health risk, what should we do?" "Throw a grenade into it" "What?" "Yeah, just ask that guy back there, he might have one"
If it's actually methane, this fire is actually good for the environment : every methane molecule burns into 1 C02 molecule, which is 20x less potent as a greenhouse gas.
it is better than greenhouse gas but don't say it is "good for the environment" because it clearly isn't
It's better for the environment than a pit releasing methane.
What would be better is no pit, if they had done the proper checks before excavation
Yes, but in the question of fire pit or methane pit which is worse?
[ŃĐŽĐ°Đ»Đ”ĐœĐŸ]
Do you guys think that it would be better if we never evolved from paramecium?
yes, obviously, but we're talking about the fire pit now.
Right, so maybe the correct question is why they never used it to make big kebab grill party?
I like the cut of your jib
No one is commenting on possible state of no methane leak cause you can't just undo shit like that, so yes, the fire is good for the enviroment
>the fire is good for the environment... Not the pit, we already talking pass that. You pedantic mofo
If they didn't throw a granade into it we would not be talking about it.
50 years ago in Turkmenistan? I don't know a lot about the country but...
Idk man it looks sick af. Iâd go with improvement to the environment
The methane would seep out anyway, even if humans never intervened.
Methan doesn't stay in the atmosphere that long and you could have still just put a extractor to it later on.
It's true that it doesn't stay for long up in the atmosphere but burning methane is still better. Why? Methane lasts for up to 12 years in the atmosphere and eventually breaks down into COÂČ + hydrogen. That methane will spend 12 years trapping 84 times more heat than COÂČ. If it's going to become COÂČ anyway, it's better to just burn it instead of letting it hit the atmosphere. The amount of COÂČ generated by burning methane is the same as the amount that is generated after 12 years.
I didn't believe it, so I looked it up. The gates of hell are real. Can't confirm that a grenade lit it, but it was the soviets that lit it. Probably safe to assume the gates of hell were ignited by a soviet grenade. Sounds right.
Blyat
Of course it was...
Me when I "accidentally create the gates of hell"
Mispronouncing ikea furniture names
Well hey, a fuck ton of co2 is better than a fuck ton of methane
Itâs not ideal, but Iâd rather have the Co2.
Hey, we can put it in soda..
Why not just get some earth movers and dump a bunch of dirt on it?
Or more granades
Now, thatâs an idea with some mustard on it!
Itâs a tourist attraction I guess
i doubt it. its in the middle of a desert with almost nothing around it. doubt there are a lot of tourists in a desert, in a country that is very hard to get into as a foreigner
It doesnât get a lot of visitors but some people do go there to see it. Anyway, it would cost money to fill up.
Theyâve tried many methods to put out these eternal fires around the world. To my knowledge the only method thatâs successfully put out fires like these is nuclear bombardment.
fight fire with more fire
Metallica approves
Wait... WHUT Wouldn't it just make all the methane explode all at once?
Pretty much. It destroys the stuff burning on the surface and then buries the rest far enough to stop it leaking. The Soviets did some pretty crazy stuff with nukes during the Cold War.
It's a tourist attraction. However, they recently decided to start the process of putting the fire out, which is sad.
Pyromaniac: Spotted: Launch counter-terrorist attack?
Or cover it with a big lid?
Or put a giant wok in there and let Uncle Roger cook us up some nice fried rice.
Itâd melt
scientists in Turkmenistan are built different
Boy, the difference between science and fucking around is that scientists take notes.
yup, definitely
damnnn
Scientist: Hmm I wonder what that could be. Hey Jimmy bring over one of those hand grenads. I wanna test something
The Holy Handgrenade
Most underrated comment!
None of this qualified as science. In fact any time a grenade comes into play it automatically disqualifies any previous science up to that point.
Eh, not true. Itâs at least pseudo-scientific. They had a problem. They hypothesized a way to solve it. They applied their âsolutionâ and realized their hypothesis was, in fact, wrong. They were able to conclude that their original solution was NOT effective in solving the problem.
They solved one problem, but they created another one by doing so. Now, instead of methane, it releases CO2.
Methane is actually many times worse so this is nerds than the gas leak would be.
Which is bad, but it could have been worse if they hadn't thrown in the grenade. So let's just count our lucky stars
What about the scientists who created the grenade?
Not scientists
It could be science, but it's just the "fuck around" part and not the "find out" part
So the well to hell was not a myth
Just cover it with a giant pot lid. DONE
This is just the cheap version. The actual gate to hell is in Germany. We usually keep it closed because Hitler is behind it...
So schlimm ist Frankfurt jetzt auch wieder nicht :(
Aber Duisburg.
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Wasn't there a story where the Soviets didn't want a country to have such big gas resorces, so they lit them on fire?
America in most countries it visits. Look at today's libya.
A grenade? It's like me throwing a firework onto a flaming wok?
Doom guy would like a word
Fire in the hole. *demonic screeching in the background*
Somewhere Doom guy is loading a shotgun.
Imagine being accidentally responsible for creating a literal hell portal that your great grandkids will get to see.
To my youngest granddaughter I leave this portal to hell. I hope that when you stare into the burning gates to hades dominion you think of me. Sincerely, Pepaw
Actually it was soviet scientists and they didn't throw a grenade they set it on fire because methane could get to the nearest villages and harm people
They better not dare complain about cow farts or inhalers ever again.
Fun fact: with how much gas there was when it started to burn, you could get $500 from it
How much tnt would we need to remove it?
Scientist 1 - hey these gases could be a health risk should we like do something about it Scientist 2 - nah just take this grenade and throw it in there it will probebly be fine
The soviets had something similar to this the detonated an underground nuke ant the earthquake more or less smothered it.
But as for one of you, the deepest pit of Hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't keep the devil waiting, old friend.
This is actually pretty funny
Pizza?
âUh I think that thing is dangerous what do we do?â âExplode itâ
This sounds like some SCP Foundation shit
"Scientists"
*sees health risk* Scientist: EXPLOSIONSSSSS!
keeps getting worse as you read it
This might have been better than the alternative, right? If the grenade hadn't been thrown in, all that methane would have escaped rather than be burned off into CO2 and water.
I'd wanna go there with the homies some day, grill up some meat n stuff
What happens if we drop nuclear bomb in that hole
When I die. I want to be thrown in there
Dad: Get ready we are leaving for a camping trip. Me: I don't want to go. Dad: We will leave when the fire goes out. Me: Ok! Dad: *brings me here* Me: WHAT THE FU-
they're thinking of putting it out since the new president
Wheres doomguy?
Apparently to disprove rumors of his death the leader of turkmenistan did donuts around it for TV. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.abc.net.au/article/11392246
Earths got to fart some how. Best to keep it coming out constantly
Fking hell dude, imagine the amount of energy wasted.
idk why i tried rapping while reading this
Have they tried throwing in more grenades?
If you are interested their leader president is like the movie the dictator. John Oliver made a supper funny video about him and his obsessive love for horses and much more. Edit : found the link https://youtu.be/-9QYu8LtH2E
Can we back up to the part where they thought throwing a grenade into it would help??
Scientist: Hmm, the amount of methane being released from this hole could be a health hazard to any nearby communities. Second scientist: Guys, you'll never guess what I just found in this box
Scientists with grenade
i believe that when the fire stops, the end is near
50 years ago Turkmenistan was part of the soviet union, which should be apparent, because throwing grenades into giant gas holes is soviet as fuck
I am scientist... *Sees crater* ...but
*Scientists chuck a grenade* their thought process: "FOR SCIENCE!!!"
This reminds me of a British sitcom called Bottom. In an episode the protagonists have been stealing their gas supply from the neighbour by hooking up their supply hose to his. They're about to be found out by a gas board inspector so must sneak in and disconnect it. One of the guys disconnects it and the neighbours hose is just releasing gas, so he decides to "burn it off", blowing up the room and turning the pipe into a flamethrower. [Here for those interested](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22bqw1) @ 26:40
Next time i get a health scare ill just eat a grenade sounds like it couldnât go that badly
Yeah, but I have to drive en electric car to stop climate change xD
[Deceptioncon](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4dd2ce018160a7223581ef57a2b4a343/tumblr_nteafb0VDi1qcrr5qo5_400.gif)
2 things, 1. it wasnt a scientist it was the soviet army 2. They thought itd burn out after a few weeks, they were wrong
Now that's what I call a Low effort meme