There are so many things I like about this article: the poor translation, the flagrant disregard for environmental impact, and that you know in the first year or two some guy kept trying to figure out where he could get a big enough bucket of water. Good stuff.
Darvaz: The Door to Hell
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I think we’ve finally found the true cause of global warming.
Adding more links to the phenomenon
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza
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