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[Zantan]

Just read this article, and I believe that it is some of the best evidence of why flammable gasses should be included in Dwarf Fortress.

It describes a crater in a desert in Turkmenistan which exposed a massive deposit of natural gas which has been on fire for decades.
There is no official documentation of the creation of the crater, and the article states that by some accounts, it has been burning for over 200 years.  The article focuses on the story in which Soviet geologists accidentally caved the crater in, and realized it was full of poisonous gas.  They lit it on fire to burn the gas away so they could retrieve their equipment, but the crater never stopped burning...

Including rock layers which seep flammable gas when exposed has all kinds of potential for Fun.

[sweitx]

So it's like aquifer, except more FUN.

[andrea]

I need to see that place...

added to my "to do before I die" list.

[Dwarf]

That's old and's been suggested multiple times.

But yeah, that thing is awesome.
Even though they appearantly weren't the most professional geologists, lighting it up was the only sensible thing to do - Natural gas is notorious for kill entire villages in their sleep.

[derekiv]

I believe someone did something like this. They set a stones boiling point to below normal temp and made them appear in clusters and look exactly the same as the stone their in. Results in stone vapor. And fun.

[Intelligent Shade of Blue]

There's an anthracite coal mine in Pennsylvania that's been burning since 1962... It'd be neat if you could strike the earth and discover abandoned mines, especially if they're on fire 

Link about Centralia, Penn.

Edit: I think this kinda belongs in the suggestion forum, though.

[Organum]

it has been burning for over 200 years.

Soviet geologists...They lit it on fire

Wait, were they the first ones to light it on fire or did they light it on fire, after it had already been on fire?

[bombcar]

They have time machines, duh.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

flammable miasma would be hilarious.

magma powered butchers shops.

[HatfieldCW]

That would be a truly novel challenge.

[inteuniso]

There's an anthracite coal mine in Pennsylvania that's been burning since 1962... It'd be neat if you could strike the earth and discover abandoned mines, especially if they're on fire 

Yeah, I've gone by Centralia before. It's kind of eerie. There were people living there, but just recently the government moved out everybody who was still there. It's entirely abandoned now.

[Cruxador]

There's an anthracite coal mine in Pennsylvania that's been burning since 1962... It'd be neat if you could strike the earth and discover abandoned mines, especially if they're on fire 

Yeah, I've gone by Centralia before. It's kind of eerie. There were people living there, but just recently the government moved out everybody who was still there. It's entirely abandoned now.

Really? I thought the folks still living there were the sort of diehards who ain't never gonna leave their land, and there ain't a gawdarned thing the gubmint can do about it.

So, how did the gubmint get them to move?

[monk12]

There's an anthracite coal mine in Pennsylvania that's been burning since 1962... It'd be neat if you could strike the earth and discover abandoned mines, especially if they're on fire 

Yeah, I've gone by Centralia before. It's kind of eerie. There were people living there, but just recently the government moved out everybody who was still there. It's entirely abandoned now.

Really? I thought the folks still living there were the sort of diehards who ain't never gonna leave their land, and there ain't a gawdarned thing the gubmint can do about it.

So, how did the gubmint get them to move?

The Hammerer specializes in moving those who defy the nobility

[Doomshifter]

Hey, can someone link me to the news article thing with that crater? I'm sure I saw it before, but I can't find it anymore.

[JavelinD]

i wonder how many dwarves would be lost trying to recover pig tail socks...