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Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash
Wynken de Word writes "Months after the preliminary signs starting showing, Washington State's Mount St. Helens is sending a plume of steam and ash 7,600 metres into the air as of Tuesday, 17:25 PST. See the U.S. Geological Survey site for more updates and, come daylight, check out the Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam."
This story is just a bunch of hot air.
Well, some people would say steam deserves it, but shooting Ash is just wrong.
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waiterbot.
I live less than 50 miles from St Helens, and I heard about this on Slashdot first.
Woo hoo! I'm watching it right now from my back door! Wait, no I'm not, it's dark here in Seattle.
What use is it if the thing blows at 5:30pm? The local news needs footage, man!
Kip Hawley is an idiot.
How close is Mount St. Helens to Redmond?
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Our volcano is blasting stuff 25000 feet up.
(it sounds more impressive if you use feet)
Damn Global Warming
You're both wrong. He hates you both. Individually. :|
You're right. Now excuse me while I go off and cry.
Now, if they get consumed by a volcano, I'm just going to say it was random.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
it's blowing red, blue, green and black ash EVERYWHERE!!!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Maybe Allah really DOES hate the Americans!
Allah: So help me me, I hate Americans. I know, I'm going to show my displeasure by giving them an exciting but not too dangerous display of my might.
If that doesn't work, I'll send another tsunami to Asia and make them give charity!
No worries, here's an artist's rendition
Strangely enough, night time in Washington looks exactly like a color bar test signal.
It's tragic. Laugh.
This was reported 24 years ago!
Does this mean that Mr. Gates has finally created the One Ring?
If so, I sure hope penguins have furry feet. Fedora Baggins and Samwise Gentoo can save us.
In the wake of the disastrous 1980 eruption, the government has been stockpiling hundreds of thousands of tons of baking soda in depots all along the Cascade Range.
The plan to combat future eruptions is to utilize a fleet of C-130 transports to bombard the volcanoes with massive quantities of baking soda. When the blanket of baking soda combines with the acidic volcanic gasses and melting snowcaps, it will expand into a thick layer of foam that will absorb any lava, ash or debris before it can cause problems for the areas below.
Our government was very careless in 1980 when they didn't do anything to stop the eruption. They've learned their lesson, and this time around they're not going to be caught off guard.
Enquiring minds want to know: where were the psychics? Did any of "them" see this coming?
About 6 feet underground ought to do it :-)
:p
Yeah, and we are all scheduled to move there someday.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
I do believe that is the first time I've seen a South Park screen capture modded up as informative.
/. never ceases to amaze me!
Without a proper flamewar, Anonymous was undecided on what shell to run.
Ok, so for others, not so near... If you stare at the web cam shot long enough -- and try to look sort of past your screen -- you can see it in 3D.
No? Just keep staring...
Quick, cut off some heads to appease him!!!!!
I wonder if anybody lives at the top of a cliff near by a commonly flooding river(waterfall perhaps) With an active volcano nearby...
Personally, I live in a flood plane but we're relatively well protected by a massive "floodway" that routes floodwater around the city (visible from space actually. =) Other than the remote possibility of the floodway failing, we are relatively safe. No tornados, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos.
No. In North Dakota you have to worry about sheep STDs. I think it fits the wording of "natural disaster".
Hell yah they are! They will kick your ass!! I saw this one dude got stuck in the lavas and he just fucking melted...
What?
Oh. Nevermind.
this email guy sure gets around... we've logged his Ip from all over the world... perhaps Santa should enlist him as a helper
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Best joke/cartoon about it was during the 1980s eruptive sequence. A guy is standing in a ticket booth with a steaming volcano behind him and what's supposed to be a ski lift running up one side. The sign says "Mt. St. Helens Ski Area". The caption reads, "Sure we know how to make it stop but did you ever try to find a female virgin at a ski area?"
Oh well, I guess you had to be there.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
When you hear the eruption, duck and cover.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
I used to live in Texas... we saw things like this after every Chili cookoff!
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"This is a static image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory." (my emphasis.)
Very funny - now turn the lights back on so we can see the volcano...
Apart from the infrared glow from the lava flows last year, I've only even seen static from the camera in my timezone.
I prefer the White Island Crater VolcanoCam - despite predictions of an acidic death, Dino lives!
I'm glad to hear that Steam got shot. It's a crappy palladium-lite as far as I'm concerned. Maybe now that it'd dead I'll get around to buying Half-Life 2.
But Ash getting shot was great loss. You'd think that if he could survive the army of darkness, he could survive a volcano!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.