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Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-just-keeps-going-and-going dept.

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.'"

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  1. It's Obvious by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Troll


    All the hot air from George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice and Don Rumsfeld is being secretly redirected into the magma to push up more material.

    The government hopes causing a major eruption will divert news attention from the war in Iraq, spying on US citizens, the Katrina failures, the economy, global warming, the Republican Congressional bribe scandals, the outing of CIA agents for the benefit of Russian-Israeli Mafia nuclear black marketeers, the coming war with Iran, the...

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  2. Re:First "Intelligent Erupting" Post by Ziviyr · · Score: 1, Troll

    In this case its not lava, its spaghetti sauce that just looks it.

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