VOLCANOES! So hot they're hellacool!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/how_to_say_eyjafjallajoekull.shtml

Is there no way of putting a cloth like filter on one of these engines?
What I mean to say is, technology CAN save us if we bring in hindsight to the equation.
Most likely my idea with the cloth filter is a
major fail, but I refuse to read that mother nature has stopped us in our tracks of progress.
Surly there is going to be an article written with regards to this on what technology can offer.
Because that would be an interesting read.

- John, UK, 16/4/2010 2:35
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Let's hope mother earth wipes the human race out altogether in some way.
Can you imagine how wonderful the planet was before we arrived?..How contented the animals were...how everything was unpolluted, natural and in perfect balance and harmony?
We are just gross.

- Tony, Essex, 16/4/2010 10:53
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Be thankful it was not a nuclear explosion.

- Ray Lucas, Oxon, 16/4/2010 11:05
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^ Comments from the Daily Mail's Awesome power of the fires of hell: How all the technology in the world can't save us from Mother Earth's fury, which I won't link to cos it's shit.

In a shockingly unironic British-tabloidy-xenophobia imitation, Belgian "quality paper" De Standaard has managed to publish an opinion piece claiming that this ash isn't the worst thing that Iceland has sent our way, turning this into a full blown attack on everything Icelandic by dragging up totally irrelevant things like Björk's singing, Sigur Rós' invented language, the Icelandic banking crisis, some rotten fish recipe and finally Nordic style knitted jumpers.

are you sure it was completely unironic?

i think the daily mail readers must be under the influence of the icp, it's not like them to show such a lack of positivist enquiry

fuckin volcanos

Is this the same WHO who told us millions would die from swine flu? It's a bit of ash, it's not Pompeii!
- Liz, London, 16/4/2010 13:18

Brilliant!

these people actually deserve to be killed by a volcano

Man, I hate this opinionitis. (the public thinking they're supposed to have an opinion about every article on every site just because there's a Have Your Say type text box beneath it)

In this case: people don't know shit about how airplane engines work and that there's a difference between volcanic ash and desert sand, but still they have An Angry Opinion (based on nothing the fuck at all) about these disgraceful airport closures.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee69/sbdnate/lolcano-1.gif

damn volcano ruined my weekend. oh well kind of amazing really i guess

loved the 6-page feature on the bbc website yesterday

VOLCANIC ASH TRAVEL CHAOS: WHO KNOWS WHEN IT WILL END?!?!

rolling out the template 'who to contact if your travel plans are disrupted' articles'

i mean travel annoyances aside..this is really incredible!

Times infographic that actually contains useful information:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00708/Graphic__an_unstabl_708308a.jpg

I've got four flights booked this week, not feeling too hopeful, judging by weather graphics I don't know how to read.

bit of a gamble living on Iceland.

I've been in Denmark the last few days for a work meeting (made it out just before all the flights stopped from the UK).

Was supposed to be flying back tomorrow night, but now it looks like I'll probably be getting the train across northern Europe to get back to London. I guess at least it means I'm getting an extra day off, because there's no way I can make it back early on Monday!

StanM that infographic should win an award or something!

SO...should I go through the hell of repeatedly trying to get through to Aer Lingus to ask why they're charging me 35 euro to change my return flight (changing the outward flight was free)

their website says "The change booking fee and any fare difference will be waived (where appropriate) from the 'Price' page of the 'Change Booking' process."

WHERE APPROPRIATE indeed...

do i dare to try and find out why they want to charge me 35 euro or just pay the 35 and revel in the fact it's raining in malaga right now and sunny in london and more of my friends can now come with me for the new dates...

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/volcano_sm/volcano04.jpg

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/volcano_sm/volcano10.jpg

Damage to Finnish air force jet engines

http://www.ilmavoimat.fi/filebank/5350-kuva23.jpg

http://www.ilmavoimat.fi/index.php?id=1149

http://s3.amazonaws.com/infobeautiful/planes_volcanos.png

oh no we're going to run out of kenyan roses.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/16/flight-ban-shortages-uk-supermarkets

I'm presuming small planes are not affected by all this, being as I have just seen three fly over.

That article should be in the Is the Guardian Worse...? thread - comparing headline with contents it's like something the DM might dream up.

I wonder what happens if this just keeps erupting, like some non-DM types are saying it might. Wind should keep it away from us 70% of the time, but the other 30% is enough to make air freight unreliable.

That could really change how we import food, probably for the better. Pre-sliced apples coming in on planes seems ludicrously decadent.

Or it might rain tomorrow.

Also: what's this about cats going mental?

this volcano is a jackass

Also: what's this about cats going mental?

― stet, Saturday, April 17, 2010 4:02 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

every1 knows that cats are mental 2 begin with

Here, in a small Norwegian hotel North of the arctic circle, we find a camera crew and a Sir, trapped.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/1041367/volcano-traps-attenborough-in-frozen-arctic

When Mt. St. Helens was spewing ash clouds on a regular basis circa 1981, the clouds used to blow over Portland every few weeks. That damn ash was just the most depressing stuff in the world. It turned everything grey, blew into every crevice, and had the whole city under a psychological pall. Nobody laughed about it. Too fucked up to laugh about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jq-sMZtSww

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Britain’s national broadcaster reportedly holds fears Attenborough and his small team will run out of food if the crisis continues much longer.

...

A spokesman for the BBC said Attenborough was currently holed up in a hotel. "They were unharmed and their schedule has not been affected,"

Either the helicopters a miniature, or Iceland's got problems.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iriya/4526241556/

xpost: Typical of today's online media. Overblown/wrong/scandalous title = more clicks = all that counts.

WOW! (xpost)

so jealous of people getting shots of real volcano action :(

fuckin daft punk clean up this volcano asap or else

http://media.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/images/2010/apr10/volcano_sm/volcano04.jpg

dudes are never going to finish if they just use that piece of paper

foolish robots

i haven't flown in fuckin two years, have a flight planned for monday, heading iceland-wards. have to take the motherfucking boat.

but the thing is, it's such a weird and fucked up thing that i don't even mind, kind of reminds you of yr place in the world n shit

'yr' meaning humanity, man

you're taking a boat to iceland? doesn't that take like 3 days?

http://www.reuk.co.uk/OtherImages/earthrace-biodiesel-powerboat.jpg

Boat to iceland, via the shetland and faroes, something I really want to do sometime.

That's like The Stig with a popped up collar and wings. Xpost

My holiday in Berlin looks doubtful (supposed to be flying tomorrow). The city of Momus will have to remain a mystery.

I'm presuming small planes are not affected by all this, being as I have just seen three fly over.

― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, April 17, 2010 2:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Guessing the ash is an issue with jet engines and the speeds jet aircraft travel at that causes the grit to sandblast windshields. So if the industry stuck to turboprops we could all be flying still...

I'm meant to be flying to Paris on Friday...

i think it's more that the ash cloud is higher than small planes fly

Lightning!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skarpi/