VOLCANOES! So hot they're hellacool!

Anyway, volcanoes... Have you seen one blow? Did it a. suck, or b. not? How close would you go? What's the downside (apart from the obvious)?

Don't fuck with Billy the Mountain! (hee hee)

...thoroughly with Foil...

I don t like volcanoes

I LOVE volcanoes, I would LOVE to go and watch Mount Etna erupt. Obviously if you live near one they are not so great but they are totally brilliant. I was very disappointed when I went to Iceland and did not see a volcano erupting. However I was given a bit of lava in a test tube which went a teeny way to making up for this.

Do people who live near volcanoes have very smooth feet?

come to kamchatka in russia. that is mad as fuck: totally on the edge of the world (about 30 mins away from the last time zone between russia and america:cross it and you go back 21 hours!!!!!) very hard to get there though. michael palin went there in that 'full circle' program. although i dont know how activer the volcanos are there. petropavolsk kamchatku is built just underneath 2 volcanoes...

I used to have horrible fears of volcanoes when I was about 9. Terrified of them, I used to make emergency plans for what I'd do if one ever errupted in London.

I was never really impressed with volcanoes.

How can you not be impressed by huge fountains of boiling middle of the earth exploding all over the shop and volcanic ash and sulphrous smells and all that!

compared to Tsumanis or Earthquakes or Tornados, they always struck me as the Drag Queens of disaster, not really deadly but kind of pretty and bitchy.
Tornadoes scare the life out of me though .

"Drag Queens of Disaster" = title of my soon-to-be long-awaited book abt volcanoes (anthony you will get a free signed copy and credit)

i expect at least 1 % of the gross.

I think I can safely promise that w/o anyone being in the slightest out of pocket!!

Auckland is built on slopes of 35 volcanoes. (That's a Use Other Facts if you live here.) Boiling mud pools, geysers, & sulphuric ponds in Rotorua = kewl. The smell = du..[coughwretch]..d.

1st time I was in argentina, about 2 wks after arrival, with still little spanish, woke up looked out the window and saw lots of dust flying around - through use of tele, paper etc realised it was volcanic ash from an eruption in chile.

doc abt volcano on the island of santorini GRATE for several reasons viz:
i) Volcano is in sea so when blew caused tidal wave cue much rubbish CGI tidal wave action
ii) shots of pyroclastic flow
iii) Minoan girlies as depicted on famous wall-painting wore dresses w.tits out: in documentary re-enactment no lady is seen to dissent from stated fashion trend (men all dressed as bull jumpers = muscly in loincloths, so win-win, except everyone was choed, buried or fricasseed chiz chiz)
iv) Atlantis connection

v) 40 cubic kilometers of magma = largest eruption in recorded history

I am sorry: my brane is a crack whore for this stuff. The doc in question = meretricious times a million but I am gripped.

I live in Washington -- the Volcano state!

Personally, I'm more worried about a big earthquake here in Seattle, but if Mt. Rainier decides to blow, I'm sure I'll have to get the fuck outta dodge for a small while... though I wouldn't fear for my life. That's for the people in Tacoma.

KRAKATOA!

i dont live in a country where any o' that crap comes from i live in england. so what wuld i know dont ask meee!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

mark s, don't you have a TEE VEE?

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tracer yes of course i do: i was watching it when i posted this thread and described in detail the doc in question abt the explosion of santorini and minoan ladeez w.no bras

Then no reason to be sad. If volcanoes are a dish at the feast of life, then let them come to you; do not reach and grab. TEE VEE is an ariel before whom time and space evaporate. It is bettah to order in!

Dang, that made no since, sense I left out a few sensinces. Volcanoes are like American football is what I meant to say. Harsh and confusing in person; somewhat orderly and hilarious on tee vee. Then I threw some stoic philosophy in there. How predictable.

"Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution:? What is its causal nature?"

isn't there a massive calderon several miles across under yellowstone just waiting to blow up with plumes of ash and destruction that will reach denver or detroit or somewhere?

ie scale of "it did for the dinosaurs/minoan civ/atlantis?"

volcanoes are super, especially when they're SUPERVOLCANOES.

'It is little known that lying underneath one of The United States largest and most picturesque National Parks - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world.

The term "supervolcano" has no specifically defined scientific meaning. It was used by the producers of The BBC TV show Horizion in 2000 to refer to volcanoes that have generated Earth's largest volcanic eruptions. As such, a supervolcano would be one that has produced an exceedingly large, catastrophic explosive eruption and a giant caldera.

Scientists have revealed that Yellowstone Park has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago…so the next is overdue. The next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

...

Such an eruption would disrupt global climate by injecting millions of tons of ash into the atmosphere. Some of the ash would remain in the atmosphere for years, reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet, significantly affecting life. In addition, a blanket of ash over a meter thick would be deposited in nearby regions and effectively smother life there...'

+I've been to yellowstone and I climbed vesuvius.

I have seen many vents and emissions but no lava.

Mauna Loa may erupt soon. (Just as my parents are getting set to go to the Big Island.)

uh oh?

I lived in Alaska for several years, and more than once our home got dusted with volcanic ash.

It's nasty and no fun. And not beautiful either.

On some version of Windows, if you select the 3D Text screensaver and enter 'Volcano' as the text, you'll get a list of active volcanoes displayed instead.

There was a neat show on PBS yesterday afternoon about KRAKATOA.

i saw part of that.

Krakatoa sounds like a name of a brutal prog band.

i was on mt ruapehu a few days ago. it last erupted in 95/96..

Awesome. Lots of pics here.

the blog post this tweet links to is interesting!

I'll start: volcanic ash is not fluffy, or smoke. It is pulverized rock/glass/crystals with VERY different hazards. More: https://t.co/T2JCs99zDN pic.twitter.com/iG5EGztZI7

— Dr Janine Krippner (@janinekrippner) July 30, 2019