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Post by gipsy on May 19, 2021 13:57:25 GMT -6
Seems like another volcano is acting up. Hope none of ours decide to start.
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Post by 9idrr on May 19, 2021 17:47:54 GMT -6
Seems like another volcano is acting up. Hope none of ours decide to start. Got a link?
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Post by gipsy on May 19, 2021 18:10:27 GMT -6
Seems like another volcano is acting up. Hope none of ours decide to start. Got a link?Just put volcano in YT search.
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Post by gipsy on May 20, 2021 16:51:32 GMT -6
New one in Italy about 6 hours ago. Iceland and Guatemala are ongoing, but Hawaii is pretty calm.
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Post by 9idrr on May 20, 2021 18:42:30 GMT -6
New one in Italy about 6 hours ago. Iceland and Guatemala are ongoing, but Hawaii is pretty calm. Thanks.
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Post by gipsy on May 21, 2021 10:58:17 GMT -6
Mount Etna is at it again also. That is in Sicily.
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Post by 9idrr on May 22, 2021 18:03:26 GMT -6
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Post by willc453 on May 22, 2021 23:38:20 GMT -6
Notice how the tree huggers aren't blaming global warming in any way on these volcano's, along with polluting the air? It's all because of cow farts and humans.
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Post by gipsy on May 24, 2021 15:30:58 GMT -6
Another one attacking a village in the Congo. It really is going nuts.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 1, 2021 17:03:37 GMT -6
Iceland is really staying active. The lava field is huge, and still growing. It seems to erupt almost on schedule.
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 1, 2021 19:00:14 GMT -6
Iceland is really staying active. The lava field is huge, and still growing. It seems to erupt almost on schedule. So does Old Faithful at Yellowstone - but most people don;t seem to understand that it's a HUGE volcano which erupts about every 600,000 years. The most recent eruption is estimated at 660,000 years ago. Care to place a bet?
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Post by gipsy on Jun 3, 2021 15:14:19 GMT -6
If Yellowstone was burping like Iceland, we would be in trouble.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 5, 2021 16:09:14 GMT -6
Iceland tried to direct the lava flow away from their road by building two earthen walls. The one on the east side was overflowed last week and the west one was topped by a large flow today.
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 5, 2021 16:34:10 GMT -6
However big the most pessimistic scientist says the wall should be - at least double that as it will take a lot to slow/redirect/stop melted rock flowing downhill. About like the ton or so of liquid aluminum a foundry dumped on the floor when the carrier tipped too soon - video on Youtube - just think of it as white lava ;-)
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Post by gipsy on Jun 6, 2021 20:13:38 GMT -6
Things just got more interesting in Iceland. They had to move people out of the area due to "dangerous gasses".
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 6, 2021 22:04:31 GMT -6
Probably fun stuff such as hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide and other "goodies". Yellowstone has had several wildlife kills where the animals just "fell down" where they were standing when whatever gas the volcano released caught a group in a low spot. Excellent reasons for evacuating.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 7, 2021 16:21:33 GMT -6
Ok now it is getting serious. The lava is headed towards the internet cables. Hope everyone has their Sat dish ready.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 7, 2021 21:06:02 GMT -6
Watched a time lapse with a clock and this thing acts like it is on a timer. It goes off around ever 10 min +_ 2 min.
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 8, 2021 17:10:44 GMT -6
Some of the volcanic action is a very simple cycle - heat increases, pressure increases, it lets off gasses/steam/lava/whatever, pressure is reduced and the cycle repeats. Best viewed from 500-1000 miles away ;-)
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Post by gipsy on Jun 8, 2021 18:35:21 GMT -6
They are walking within feet of flowing lava, until the observers detect gas.
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 8, 2021 20:40:02 GMT -6
Does that get stuupid or stoopid?
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Post by gipsy on Jun 9, 2021 6:27:07 GMT -6
Yep
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Post by gipsy on Jun 10, 2021 17:01:36 GMT -6
It is weird the way people get close so they can take pictures till their cellphones fail due to overheating. Better them then me.
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Post by papaof2 on Jun 10, 2021 17:22:23 GMT -6
Guess the only zoom lens those folks have ever heard of is the one on a free conference call ;-)
When the youngest daughter was in high school, I followed the band with a 35mm Nikon and a big flash (adequate to get pictures in the stands at football games) - and that boat anchor was sometimes in one hand (to be that young and durable again ;-) In some ways, I'm glad the grands are too far away to ask for that as these old hands are no longer up to it.
However, I did get the broken 1/4" copper line in the little Harbor Freight air compressor replaced today so I can use the Harbor Freight nail/staple gun tomorrow to put the quarter round back in place on the edges of the tile I put down the day before I had hand surgery. Two hours of disassembly, cutting tubing to length (twice the original length because the compressor sits on rubber mounts but there's no vibration relief in the 7" piece of tubing that went from compressor to tank, so the new tubing has a 360 degree loop in it), getting the tubing seated so the compression fittings can be smoothly compressed for leak-free connections and then putting it all back together for testing. It worked! Compressor ran 'til the tank gauge hit around 90PSI and the pressure switch cut it off. I think my hands will be complaining even more strongly than they are now in the next hour or so :-( However, I was holding the tubing in the surgery hand and turning the cutter with the other hand so that is great progress.
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Post by gipsy on Jun 13, 2021 13:54:56 GMT -6
Some numbers coming from Iceland. 30 million cubic meters of coverage so far. 30 cubic meter flow rate at this time which is double what it was two days ago, and the time between eruptions is in the 2 to 3 min. rate. There are now three cones spewing lava.
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