The Door to Hell
In this episode of SciShow, Hank talks about a crater in Turkmenistan that has been on fire for decades and has earned itself the title of: The Door to Hell!
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I don't want to get too bogged out on the etymology But if you're gonna name a place the door to hell it had better look something like this in this case I think we can all agree the name fits The door to hell otherwise known as the Darvaza gas crater isn't exactly a natural phenomenon nature merely provided the raw materials for what humans managed to turn into a decades-long environmental freak show and while it's origin is somewhat shrouded in mystery the science behind it is not it was nineteen seventy one when a group of Soviet petroleum geologists set out to explore the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan mostly they were looking for oil fields but the region is also rich in natural gas because oil and gas are both the results of the same geologic process the very slow ver...
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I don't want to get too bogged out on the etymology But if you're gonna name a place the door to hell it had better look something like this in this case I think we can all agree the name fits The door to hell otherwise known as the Darvaza gas crater isn't exactly a natural phenomenon nature merely provided the raw materials for what humans managed to turn into a decades-long environmental freak show and while it's origin is somewhat shrouded in mystery the science behind it is not it was nineteen seventy one when a group of Soviet petroleum geologists set out to explore the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan mostly they were looking for oil fields but the region is also rich in natural gas because oil and gas are both the results of the same geologic process the very slow ver...
