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Remote New Zealand Volcano Sees Dinosaur Alert?
Thanks to BoingBoing for pointing to a ChannelNewsAsia story discussing a 'dinosaur' sighting in webcam pictures of a remote New Zealand volcano. The latest live webcam picture shows the offending creature, with Geonet spokesperson John Callan saying: "Some wag has glued a [toy] pink dinosaur in front of our digital camera", even though "...most people do not go ashore on the uninhabited, rumbling" White Island, east of Auckland, where the webcam is located. Apparently, the dinosaur will stay for now, since authorities "are not planning on removing it, counting on the sulphur and high acid environment to deal to the creature."
Why is that funny? "Hey look, there's Dino from the flintstones on my webcam..." Seems stupid to me and a waste of a slashdot article. I would rather read more about SCO.....wait...I take that back.
You'll have that sometimes...
You can propably get there without any safety equipment. You can locate the web cam by looking at the pictures...
If the dino appered suddenly (as the article suggest), then it propably was by some outsider.
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That's great except that it's not Barney, that's Dino from Flintstones.
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White Island's not that far from shore - certainly within reach of any of the local sea-going pleasure boats - from memory people actually used to mine sulphur there in years gone by - but it's also somewhere that's particularly expected to let loose one day soon so it's not reccomended
http://www.whiteisland.co.nz/photos/photogallery/p hotos131103/craterfloorgroup.jpg
http://www.whiteisland.co.nz/
Yeah...it's really REALLY hard to get there and put the toy on the rocks. Hell, the guide probably even points to the cameras and talks about the science going on...geez.
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The island's only about a mile and a half across; using this picture and the webcam image, it's pretty obvious where the camera has to be to within about a quarter-mile.
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yet another fool who reads the headlines, but doesnt follow the links.
The plastic dino is in every hourly shot with the lighting perfect.
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Are you trying to tell me that someone would/could carefully manipulate a series of webcam shots and hack the web servers rather than simply climb up there, where anyone can go? It's not like the cam is on the moon you know...
Judging from these photos (please mirror), it looks like the plastic dinosour is on site. I base this on the varying lighting on the thing, and the shadow on the rock.
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Fuck that. If there was a large response to its arrival that shows a big enough number of enthusiasts are checking the camera often. Some Wag could easily locate this particular crater even with the map used to navigate the archives.
Once in the crater it's gonna be pretty easy to see that BIG WHITE BOX made out of metal and built to resist VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS. This isn't some hibernating i-book with a webcam doing wifi updates form some rock. It's a fuckin bomb shelter.
It's probably the most noticeable (and thusly find...able) feature in the crater.
Why would the want to avoid getting caught? It's not like they're hurting anyone, even the scientists who own the cam seem amused.