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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."
The F-2 is the new Japanese frontline fighter and employs stealth technology developed by Japanese engineers. The F-2 is distinctly inferior to the American F-22 but is a source of pride for the Japanese military.
In about 5 years, Tokyo will deploy the new F-2 Super Kai, an improved version of the F-2. The Japanese military has already released pictures of a preliminary model. It should be quite effective an slaying Godzilla or the Chinese military.
The pictures of the F-2 Super Kai are awesome. What's this? I'm salivating.
Someone explain why the water in the picture looks red/brown?
Probably hematite, sulfur compounds and ashes coming from the volcano. They must be mixing with the water on the ocean floor and rising with the columns of hot water.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Because volcanos usually send up a lot of smoke and ash and crap (that's the technical term for it). The crap would usually put a lot of smoke in the air, especially from anything that burned. Since this is under water, any minerals such as iron and sulfer that might react due to the heat of the volcano, along with organic matter from 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.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Come on people...you don't have to be a scientist to figure out that steam + discolored water = underwater volcano. I was in Hawaii a few weeks ago at Hawaii Volcanos National Park and I was lucky enough to see magma going into the ocean...that stuff puts out a buncha steam probably thousands of feet in the air and makes the water look discolored.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
I for one welcome our new... what have I become? :-/
A troll. Thanks for playing.
Probably because Iwo Jima is a Japanese Naval Base, and you need special permission to go there, there are organizations you can pay to take you there but thats only once a year. Not to mention there is still live ordinance
The article... even the summary... states that it's 3300 feet high.
3300 ft. You ninny.
well if the pacific ocean was downloading movies or music the US would have already thrown it in jail.
WA Post has an "enlargeable image" showing the plume from the side. I haven't found a bigger one yet. What I really want is video.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Modern torpedos detonate at a significant distance from the keel of a surface target, as the initial expansion wave carries a significant portion, but not all of the potential energy the torpedo can generate. By detonating the torpedo at a deeper depth, the explosion can evacuate the water from under the keel, using the ships own weight against its (explosively) weakened structure. This effect can be seen in most of the SINKEX videos floating around the net. The ship disintegrating would be from the explosive force, not rising gases.
While I'd agree in principle with the "no more accidents than expected given the shipping traffic" it seems odd that your librarian claims the Marie Celeste (or Mary Celeste, as it was before Conan Doyle got his hands on it) never existed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste
Wikipedia seems to give an identifiable history with a lot of detail for both the ship and captain.