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Japan Probes Mysterious Vapor Eruption
Saeed al-Sahaf writes "From the BBC, Japan's Coast Guard dispatched aircraft Sunday to survey a 3,300-foot-high column of steam rising from the Pacific Ocean off the island of Iwo Jima. MSNBC has a nice picture. The vapor was reported Saturday after Japanese troops stationed on the small island observed the massive cloudy plume rise from the sea about 30 miles southeast of the island. 'It's highly likely that it's caused by an eruption of an underwater volcano,' Japanese officials said. But others are not so sure, and are speculating that Godzilla has awoken from its nap. Tokyo remains calm at this hour."
welcome our new steam-spewing Godzilla overlords.
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Isn't this the one where Mothra shows up and kicks Godzilla's butt? Can you imagine going over that in a ship? That would be a heck of an ocean ride. Everybody's suits would be wrinkle-free.
Nothing to see here, I was swimming there and..uh... well.. I had beans last night.
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I'm worried. Tokyo might be destroyed by the impending eruption.
At least the Japanese have experience. I mean, Tokyo's been destroyed at *least* 500 times before hasn't it?
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Steam clouds rising from the Pacific? The Coast Guard better be careful or else some guy in an inflatable raft will make them listen to Reason.
Time to get a very large teabag...
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One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Oh no, there goes tokyo, go go Godzilla.
dead fish, seeweed, coral, or whatever might be on the ocean floor doesn't turn into smoke. Instead, it dissolves into the water and turns it some nasty foul color, in this case reddish.
So basically what you're saying is, when an underwater volcano goes off, coral and seeweed all leave the surface and rush down to the bottom of the ocean to watch the event, as well as countless schools of fish passing by, only they get too close and promptly die, thereby creating a giant fruit de mer soup?
Interesting theory...
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Yes, we are. The slightly overclocked Intel Pentium 4 chips we are using are speculated to cause enough smoke to trigger a mass extinction. We are testing our chips under water. We hope Japan doesn't get pissed off and raise the fees on memory manufacture for our machines, so we are giving Japan the first machine off the line free.
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man, they are going to go back to the site on monday. Dont they know it's july 4th? Gosh, don't they get off for holidays?
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That plume is 3300 Miles high?
Wow, that's several times higher than the space station.
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Why is it uninhabited?
Because nobody live there. D'oh!
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Come on people...you don't have to be a scientist to figure out that steam + discolored water = underwater volcano.
They're scientists. They can't be 100% sure of anything, really.
Unless it's a methane lake on Titan. Or evidence of life on Mars. Or a new planet that "weighs" x metric tons orbiting a red giant.
Well, crap. It must be Godzilla, and I'm 100% sure of it.
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What else could look like such a huge steaming pile of sh*t?
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