What's up thread

[Morrolan]

I'd like to see it close up.

ditto. i guess however, that that webcam is as close as i'm gonna get for now.

very active again today with many pyroclastic flows.

[Rommie]

Damn. So many crazy volcanoes in that part of the world.

I confess I wanna go see one someday, as I've been fascinated by volcanoes for years. I think I'll be fine just visiting one of the ones that's super predictable like in Hawaii though, doesn't have to be a crazy pyroclastic flow one.

I also want to be in an earthquake someday, but that's harder to predict obviously, and most my friends who have been in one tell me I don't really want to. So I guess to clarify, I'd like to be in an earthquake where I knew how long it would last and that I wasn't going to get hurt.

[geonuc]

I also want to be in an earthquake someday, but that's harder to predict obviously, and most my friends who have been in one tell me I don't really want to. So I guess to clarify, I'd like to be in an earthquake where I knew how long it would last and that I wasn't going to get hurt.

Well, this friend, who has experienced many earthquakes, will say they can be quite exhilarating.

[Thumper]

I also want to be in an earthquake someday, but that's harder to predict obviously, and most my friends who have been in one tell me I don't really want to. So I guess to clarify, I'd like to be in an earthquake where I knew how long it would last and that I wasn't going to get hurt.

Well, this friend, who has experienced many earthquakes, will say they can be quite exhilarating.

I've been through at least 2 and missed them both.

[FZR1KG]

I also want to be in an earthquake someday, but that's harder to predict obviously, and most my friends who have been in one tell me I don't really want to. So I guess to clarify, I'd like to be in an earthquake where I knew how long it would last and that I wasn't going to get hurt.

Well, this friend, who has experienced many earthquakes, will say they can be quite exhilarating.

I've been through at least 2 and missed them both.

I'm the same. Been through a few and felt nothing. Guess they weren't big enough.

I'm pretty sure I'll get to experience one though. Between SFC and myself natural disasters seem to follow us. I've been through floods, two bushfires and a cyclone (tail end of one anyway), she's been through earthquakes, a bushfire, tornado and a hurricane. We at this point figure we'll get hit by a rogue wave on our way to oz just because they exist.

[Morrolan]

Or an undersea volcano...

[FZR1KG]

We'll probably have an island form around us land locking us in the Pacific. Then the volcano will erupt and create a tsunami during an ash induced lightning storm.

Reminds me. There was a yacht that was cruising along ans saw an island being formed.
Need to find the video of that. Pretty cool stuff.

[Morrolan]

wow, another big pyroclastic flow from Sinabung.

[Morrolan]

and another one rolling off the mountain right now!

(i'm excited, can you tell?)

[Rommie]

I'm really amused somehow that a volcanic eruption has given more life to this thread than almost anything else lately. Not complaining mind, I have the page open myself and was upset it was still dark there when I went to bed last night!

On another note, interesting night as Dan Brown was in town giving a lecture and two friends and I went to go see him. We had a great night (showed them a good Belgian place around the corner they weren't familiar with so that never hurts), but damn Dan Brown is an arrogant fellow- he reminded me of a certain arrogant professor I crossed paths with years ago. We spent a little time analyzing later if he was always like that or if it was just in the last 10 years when magazines were literally headlining with saying he was going to destroy religion or what not.

Also should be noted that he went on a diatribe at one point for a minute or two on how science was finally going to answer these various questions in religion because "we now know that things like this podium are just a form of energy" and what not. Guess that's not terribly surprising. The organizers also tho started and ended the program by having some young virtuosos playing piano/violin pieces inspired by Dante's Inferno tho, so they were well worth it.

[Swift]

Awesome photos

[FZR1KG]

I'm really amused somehow that a volcanic eruption has given more life to this thread than almost anything else lately.

So you could say, this thread has erupted? lol

[Swift]

I'm really amused somehow that a volcanic eruption has given more life to this thread than almost anything else lately.

So you could say, this thread has erupted? lol

It is a hot topic.

[FZR1KG]

Quite explosive really.

[Sigma_Orionis]

indeed, with volcanic intensity

[Swift]

It got me so excited that I felt the earth move. But I'm just going to go with the flow.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Flow, Flow, Flow your boat, gently down the stream......

[Morrolan]

lava it to us...

[cid]

...I also want to be in an earthquake someday, but that's harder to predict obviously, and most my friends who have been in one tell me I don't really want to. So I guess to clarify, I'd like to be in an earthquake where I knew how long it would last and that I wasn't going to get hurt.

Been through 3 of them here (yes, southwest Ohio), two that were strong enough to wake me up, contrary to popular opinion...

[FZR1KG]

Here we go: birth of an island. Pictures as well!
Happened in 2006 near Tonga. We'll be heading that way as well.

[pumpkinpi]

I heard "Cats in the Cradle" for the first time since having my son and yup, it made me cry!

In case you aren't familiar with it, here are links to the lyrics and a performance of it.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/harrycha ... radle.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c

[Thumper]

Tough song for me to hear these days.

[SciFi Chick]

I'm really amused somehow that a volcanic eruption has given more life to this thread than almost anything else lately. Not complaining mind, I have the page open myself and was upset it was still dark there when I went to bed last night!

On another note, interesting night as Dan Brown was in town giving a lecture and two friends and I went to go see him. We had a great night (showed them a good Belgian place around the corner they weren't familiar with so that never hurts), but damn Dan Brown is an arrogant fellow- he reminded me of a certain arrogant professor I crossed paths with years ago. We spent a little time analyzing later if he was always like that or if it was just in the last 10 years when magazines were literally headlining with saying he was going to destroy religion or what not.

Also should be noted that he went on a diatribe at one point for a minute or two on how science was finally going to answer these various questions in religion because "we now know that things like this podium are just a form of energy" and what not. Guess that's not terribly surprising. The organizers also tho started and ended the program by having some young virtuosos playing piano/violin pieces inspired by Dante's Inferno tho, so they were well worth it.

I don't know if he's always been arrogant, but his last book was so tiresome that I won't be reading any more of his books.

[FZR1KG]

I can't believe you all know my former maths and physics teacher.

[squ1d]

Think I doubled my post count in the last two days.

HI EVERYONE.

Now ... back to the void