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The Russian City With Its Own Portal to Hell
Slava Stepanov
That's not an ancient meteor strike, an optical illusion, or another one of those recent Earth farts -- it's Mir, the largest diamond mine in the world. The now-abandoned mine is located in the otherwise unremarkable town of Mirny in the Siberian region of Russia, as any astronaut could tell you ... because, yep, it's viewable from space. Thousands of years from now, people are gonna look at that hole and seriously wonder what the hell we were doing.
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"And this, kids, is where the moon tried to fuck the earth."
Diamond deposits were discovered there in the 1950s, at which point the USSR proceeded to thaw open the frozen ground using a combination of jet engines, explosives, and presumably high-volume Russian vodka. And then they just kept digging and shoveling out shiny rocks for the next 40 years. The hole is so big, in fact, that it's said that helicopters can't fly over it because they'd be sucked in by the force of the downdraft. We don't wanna know how they determined that.
Slava Stepanov
There's at least 30 UFOs stuck down there.
So, in case you were wondering who the hell digs a giant hole next to a town, it was the other way around: the town was built around the hole during its excavation to provide a place for the workers to get drunk without risking falling into the Earth's core. The diamonds extracted were then taken to Moscow and used to construct a giant la- uh, sold. They were sold. Yes. No lasers here.
Slava Stepanov
The laser floats above us and turns towns into craters.
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