Slashdot Mirror
Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists
jurt1235 writes "Mount St. Helens, which started erupting 15 months ago, is still erupting. The weird part is, by now every 3 seconds 10 cubic yards of lava is coming out of the volcano but scientists cannot determine from where it is coming anymore. From the article: 'The volume is greater than anything that could be standing in a narrow 3-mile pipe. That suggests resupply from greater depths, which normally would generate certain gases and deep earthquakes. Neither is being detected.'"
In other news, Slashdot readers have yet to determine where the "comment eruption" of useless information by Anonymous Coward comes from.
Also, the Earth is a flat plate supported on the backs of myriad tortoises.
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
Sinner, I ain't singling out Joliet's school system. It's just that, as a Chicagoan, it's extremely noticable that as you cross Joliet's lattitude the radio suddenly and permanently offers country music, all-christian all-the-time hellfire-laden sermonizing, and Rush-is-too-liberal-for-us talk radio, where Bush is seen as suspiciously soft on satan's people.
Infernal Leakage will PLAY down there. Makes as much sense as anything else.
Have you actually seen plate moving against plate? A fault line slip in progress? Theories, all theories.
It's HAAAAYYYYLLLLLLL! About a mile down, and hook a sharp right angle turn against all the other three spatial dimensions.
I might not actually be joking about Infernal Leakage. I just had a slight shiver. I'm afraid to Google for anti-Geologism websites.
They might be out there. And there might be more IL adherents in the U.S. than Geologists.
Carl Sagan was right... the Age of Enlightenment is kept alive by damned few Candles in the Dark. Isaac Asimov knew it, and spent his life fighting to keep the candles lit. Heinlein, who grew up in the Bible Belt in Missouri, knew the U.S. was on a tightrope, fighting a century-old battle against fundamentalist takeover. Pity he (and everyone else) was obsessed with commies. The real enemy was always with us, growing by one baby at a time.
The plain fact is, fundies all over the world have one, insurmountable superpower that the rationalists don't use (being rational) -- they're having huge numbers of babies. They're outnumbering us the old fashioned way, one giant family at a time.
Democracies, if you are listening, Mr. Bush, can be as totalitarian and violent as any dictatorship. They are no guarantee against tyranny. If enough people are fundamentalist and unbending, they will inevitable take power. They can't not take power. They see it as their duty.
They have it overseas, and we call it Islamofascism. In the US, they have a name for themselves:
Dominionists.
This is not about the bible and what some beleive. If we ran science by the bible we would still be living in huts and preists would be living with sheep and children.
:)
We have more than five volcano's in Washington and Oregon and most are active in one form or another. Scientist though havnt been able to watch Ranier, St. Helens, Adams Blow so this is all new.
Behave Children Im watching!
I can't use my sig - my computer can't read my handwriting.
Mt. St. Helens has been touched by His Noodly Appendage.