VOLCANOES! So hot they're hellacool!

2 months pass...
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!

― patel, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (8 years ago) Bookmark

you do now dude; all UK airports now shut down

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9vkc

2nd volcano eruption in Iceland for year 2010. 14.04.2010. Day 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy4P51xmQF4

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yahooeditorspicks/galleries/72157623855495574

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7096/bildep.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQBL_f_D3U

^^^ gonna be like this in northern Europe a little later today, abandon all hope etc.

^ so awesome

love this one:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4483234864_1dd7fefa8b_b.jpg

Eyjafjallajoekslulz

The plume is so high that it will neither be visible nor pose a threat to humans on the ground, although Dr Rothery added that we may have a "spectacularly red sunset" on Thursday evening.

Dr Rothery = a Pliny the Elder of our time

we are doomed

Just, wow:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2727/4497761488_529eed7dda.jpg

that michael lewis piece did a lot to dampen my affection for our crazy cousinz in the north atlantic but this renews it

"spectacularly red sunset"
i like a good sunset :)

hopefully!

thanks for the volcanic ash Iceland. all is forgiven.

http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files.361/4300.radar-view-of-uk.jpg_2D00_550x0.jpg

from radarvirtual.com

Dr Rothery added that we may have a "spectacularly red sunset" on Thursday evening.

last night's was pretty awesome as it was

one bike ride up to the hills for 8:10pm with camera me thinks!

^^yup

Found on another board:

Dear Iceland,

We said, "Send CASH."

Thank you,

The United Kingdom

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/icelands_disruptive_volcano.html

don't panic, but..

"When Eyjafjallajokull last erupted in 1821, it remained active for an entire year. Worse, the event could trigger the eruption of nearby Mt. Katla, which is even more powerful. If Katla were to explode, North Atlantic airspace could be affected for months. It could even impact the climate: the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines threw so much ash into the atmosphere that it reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the planet, cooling the world by about 0.5°C over the next two years. And that's something everyone would notice, even on a clear day

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1982328,00.html#ixzz0lC5e9CpZ

the event could

if Katla were to explode

airspace could be

it could even

there goes my weekend in spain

Dr Rothery added that we may have a "spectacularly red sunset" on Thursday evening.
hmmmm, not sure a bout the spectacular, but it was red.
cycled 12 miles, froze on a hill for half an hour for this!
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4524302720_78537eb49e.jpg

I was so tied up in the debate I totally forgot to look out the window :-(

wonder if my parents got home from Rome.

I was so engrossed wit Hot Tub Time Machine I forgot to look out the window (also buildings outside my window blocking my view but whatevs).

that doesn't look too bad xp? supposedly the ash cloud will linger for a few days, not sure if it had reached the south by sunset today but it was becoming overcast anyway

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/04/15/iceland.flights/index.html

key bit:

Jens Stoltenberg, who was in the United States for President Obama's nuclear summit, is running the Norwegian government from the U.S. via his new iPad, press secretary Sindre Fossum Beyer said.

cycled miles up hill with my camera only to find out, after trying to take a test picture of a sheep, that i'd forgot to bring my memory card.

watched sunset anyway, didn't look any different from normal. but still nice.

ouch ste!

I've seen better sunsets too, at least we both got a bike rode out of it.

Hjordis Gudmondsdottir, a spokesperson for Isavia, Iceland's air traffic authority, said: "The ash is going out to the ocean and to Europe so our airports aren't really affected. It's almost funny, except it isn't, obviously."

"YOU SAY LOOOOOOOOO"

"omg i'm crying"

― dipster purpies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Dr Rothery added that what he means is Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9vkc

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!

in official ilx colors, btw.

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

i am watching dante's peak for like the 30th time