Burning crater in Turkemenistan


	Burning crater in Turkemenistan
hitchhiker08
3-26-2008 4:41 AM
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turkmenistan, soviets, desert
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f51e53ef-4bde-4d3d-ad5a-9d9b22c7fde3/4EFC2317-2032-4FE4-B4C4-362D47E3F312/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/burning-crater-of-darvaza.html" href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/burning-crater-of-darvaza.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.odditycentral.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/burning-crater-of-darvaza.html"><H1 id="post-1488"><A title="Permanent Link: Burning crater of Darvaza" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/burning-crater-of-darvaza.html">Burning crater of Darvaza</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/burning-crater-of-darvaza.html"><P>Located in desert of Turkmenistan is one of the most amazing landscapes in the world.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/burning-crater-of-darvaza.html"><P>I know it looks like a lava-filled whole but it’s really nothing like that, it’s a man made crater dating back to the 1950s when the soviets were prospecting for natural gas. The strangest thing about it is it’s been burning ever since, that’s 58 years of continuous burn. Locals say animals are mesmerized by the flames as well, groups of thousands of spiders have been spotted plunging into the flames, as well as moths and birds. 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