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New Underwater Volcano

Posted by michael on from the land-rush dept.

fuqqer writes "CNN has a story about a new volcano just a few hundred feet below the ocean's surface. It is just off of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer! Here's a cool link to the Alaska Volcano Observatory with satellite pictures of Alaska Volcanos. Here's a link to the NOAA's underwater features site."

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  1. Geology 101 by rlowe69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer!

    Soon meaning a few thousand years?

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    1. Re:Geology 101 by QuantumFTL · · Score: 2, Funny

      >> Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer!

      Soon meaning a few thousand years?

      Precisely. Geologists have finally started using software development timescales...

      They say LA's about to get the "Big One" Real Soon now (whew!) Hopefully unlike the game, that quake will be vaporware.

  2. Location, location, location... by ivanmarsh · · Score: 3, Funny

    "To me, it's exciting because it's in the United States and not in some remote part of the South Pacific," Reynolds added. No, just the most remote part of the north Pacific. Got to love those silly scientists.

  3. And Geography 101 by core+plexus · · Score: 2, Informative
    I live in central Alaska, and it's about 800 miles from my house to the coast of Russia. Maybe you'd like to walk, but I sure wouldn't. You might want to come up here sometime and try a short walk first, say Fairbanks to Deadhorse via the Dalton Highway.

    A road is being started that will go from Fairbanks and follow the Yukon River, eventually ending in Nome. Until then, you'd have to follow the Iditarod Trail, and cross several major rivers. Best time to walk that trail is the winter.

    -cp-

  4. You already can... by PeteyG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer!

    You already can... just during the winter.

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    no thanks
  5. Ah HA! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'll finally be able to invade via Kamchaka!

    I took a real RISK posting this!

    I'm going to go shoot myself now.

  6. Uhh... by QuantumFTL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quoth the article: "You don't want to sail a ship over an erupting volcano," said Jennifer Reynolds, chief expedition scientist and a University of Alaska marine geologist.

    Is this the same Jennifer Reynolds that works at the Freakin-Obvious department?