Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Siberia Has Installed Its First 'Exploding Pingo Detector'

quote [ The sensor will warn scientists about exploding methane-filled hills on the tundra. ]
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+6 Interesting]
[by arrowhen@5:38pmGMT]

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rndmnmbr said @ 9:36pm GMT on 11th Apr [Score:1 Funny]
"Pingo" is an inherently funny word.

Pingo. Pingo. Pingo pingo pingo pingo pingo.
midden said @ 9:48pm GMT on 11th Apr
Pingo. Pingo the Clowno.
Bleb said @ 5:44pm GMT on 11th Apr
Does it do what my dad used to? A quick "uh-oh", followed by "INCOMING" and a lean to the left?
arrowhen said @ 5:47pm GMT on 11th Apr
I usually just blame the dog.
cb361 said @ 5:51pm GMT on 11th Apr
If only Nixon had thought of that.
cb361 said @ 6:06pm GMT on 11th Apr
I spent time looking at the thumb picture, trying to guage its size. The fractal nature of (well) nature meant that without somrthing to provide scale, it could be anything from the size of a beachball, to the Mirna open pit diamond mine.

I guessed smaller that the video showed it to be.
midden said[1] @ 6:22pm GMT on 11th Apr [Score:1 Informative]
Here's a shot of the same crater from another POV. Notice the people standing on the far edge. This shot is from a year earlier, before the crater had filled with water.
crater

According to this article, that particular blow-out is 37 meters across.

http://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2015/12/gas-blowouts-on-the-yamal-and-gydan-peninsulas
lilmookieesquire said @ 7:33pm GMT on 11th Apr
Wut is pingo?
midden said @ 7:37pm GMT on 11th Apr [Score:1 WTF]
papango said[1] @ 6:11am GMT on 12th Apr
endopol said @ 8:56pm GMT on 11th Apr
Too late for a collapsing hrung detector :(
SnappyNipples said @ 2:28am GMT on 12th Apr
What happens when that permafrost isn't permanent anymore? This is what happens.
buckaroo50 said @ 9:36pm GMT on 12th Apr

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