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Volcano Erupts In Iceland
Reports are coming in that a volcano in Iceland called Grimsvotn has erupted, sending plumes of smoke 15km into the air. It was accompanied by a series of earthquakes, but all of them have been minor so far, and scientists don't believe the eruption will cause problems for air travel like 2010's Eyjafjallajokull event. Local coverage in Icelandic is available, as well as early pictures of the eruption.
We're all doomed! Repent! Then end is here! ... I still have time for the doomsday stuff right?
Om, nomnomnom...
Even though this is purely coincidentally, all the believers of the May 21 "rapture" are going to cite this as evidence.
Fail.
Or isn't it a little early for this? I thought I was in the clear seeing people with Christian bumper stickers still driving their cars after 6:30.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
with H-bombs
That is the rapture folks. Maybe this is the start of the worldwide hell we're suppose to have and the rapture folks got the calculations slightly wrong due to human error. Or maybe the book says we won't know when it is coming so he off'd it slightly! lol
Just trying to come up with what excuses they could give to make what didn't happen happen.
Great. Nibiru fodder. Quick, someone tell my brother so he can start linking those videos on YouTube again. SOB!
...sending plumes of smoke 15km into the air.
15 km is nearly two times the height of Mt. Everest.
Which is very, very high up.
Hopefully it will cause more of my countrymen to make the news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9vkc
The one good thing, that can never be disupted about these volcanoes, is that they expose us to the wonderful names the slavic folks give such frighteningly powerful systems.
Not only those people give asylum to known subversive people (such as Bobby Fischer) but with their volcano eruptions they are speeding up glaciers melting, causing people to believe in global warming. And whenever they run out of money because they can't do proper banking they make deals with the communists.
If they could send the fumes over Libya it could cripple the army and help the revolution - but no, they prefer bothering the good people who are planning a trip to Europe.
(Days like this one, I feel like I could do a pretty decent job at Fox news).
lucm, indeed.
Why is this on /. ???
with her good looks
I have been a captive in America my entire life. Everybody and everything uses customary units instead of metric.
So, I don't get it, is /this/ the end of the world?
Not the Christian Rapture, but Ragnarok! Right date, wrong set of Gods. Oops.
They probably just saw the movie Thor, causing Odin to blow mead thru his nose. Keep an eye on the sun, and any wolves you meet.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
EVE pilots beware! The Jovians are coming to collect the good capsuleers!
Thankfully "Grimsvotn" is pronounceable. The last Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, was just a little difficult to talk about.
If by Slavic you mean North Germanic,[ 1] then yes.
Every time there's a volcanic eruption we are reminded by anti-volcanics just how dangerous volcanos are, that even with really thick gloves lava is simply too hot to handle, and no amount of safety regulations will mitigate the mortal danger they pose. When will society wise up and realize volcanos are far too unpredictable? Even if there weren't eruptions, no amount of science or development is going to make them economically viable.
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Has there or has there not been an increase in weather and seismic events on the planet of late? Starting as early as hurricane katrina, the frequency and severity of such events seem to be increasing. Of course it could be that the news is making a much bigger deal than ever before and I never noticed before and now take more notice of these things. So I wonder if there isn't some sort of data which could be made into a larger overall picture of what has been happening and how severe the events have been over the past 30 or so years.
For now, it just seems like there is a strong uptake in these events and, as I'm sure we all know, Yellowstone's super-volcano is still pushing upwards so I fear the worst is yet to come.
After the eruption of Eyajawhatever people were theorizing that it would be followed by an eruption of Katla based on records of past eruptions. But instead of Katla, Grimsvotn lit off instead. I wonder if there's any relation between the two, and if so if this means that the pressure has been relieved and Katla isn't going to do anything, or if we're building up to a spectacularly huge Katla eruption,
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More great taste. Much less filling! *And* you don't have to listen to those annoying proselytizers.
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
On an unrelated note: English names are stupid. Really.
Come on, why 'Colbert' is pronounced as 'Col-bear'? Or what about this 'th' sound in general? It's ridiculous!
Names starting 'w' ('William', 'Watson') are laughable and ambiguous - the first sound can not be adequately transcribed in Russian, it's either hard 'w' (as in 'water') or clear 'u'. Wouldn't it better if everyone just used perfectly serviceable Russian names like Tatyana or Fyodor?
And don't get me started on differences between 'wh' and 'th'.
you said erupt..
heheheheheheh
I bet the atheists are feeling pretty silly right about now.
Keep an eye out later for empty clothing. If you're reading this, you weren't chosen. Sorry.
Cheers, DH.
Brilliant!
by time zones. Camping never did say whether that was 6pm standard time, daylight time or sun time. So let the eruptions and volcanic fun commence!
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
are going to cite this as evidence.
Evidence of what exactly?
In other words. Just because you don't side with those bozos doesn't mean your aren't being daft.
Ok, so there is no secret rapture, we knew that. So back to the Great Tribulation that all Christians must go through before Jesus Christ really returns. And there will be nothing secret about it because "every eye shall see!" For those who want to know how to stand firm during the Great Tribulation then find my book, Final Warning, because the hour of His Judgment has come. Posted by Rev. Daniel W. Blair
I recommend Erik Klemetti's blog Eruptions to anyone who wants to follow Grimsvotn in detail. He has two posts on it already: http://bigthink.com/ideas/38526 and http://bigthink.com/ideas/38530, and they include links to webcams and other information sources.
There just wern't any true believers to take to heaven.
zzzZZZZzzz.......
It's also about 2500 tall giraffes high, or 1/25000th of the distance to the moon, on average. Get used to metric so you won't need comparison figures that make no sense. Or did you climb Mt Everest yourself?
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Iceland's longest waterfall is a puny 196 meters, Norway has one that's about 600 meters (over half a kilometer) and I have no idea if that's the longest one.
Iceland < Norway :D
Hey wait now I do: :)
Vinnufossen in Norway is the tallest in Europe 860 meters high and with a free drop of 420 meters that's a free fall of water over twice the total height of the largest Icelandic one
http://world-waterfalls.com/database.php?s=N&t=H&orderby=height&sortLimit=300
Heia Norge! *Peker nese til islendingene* ;)
View the eruption from an airplane:
http://visir.is/section/MEDIA99&fileid=CLP4238
Actually Icelanders are Norwegians, peeved butthurt Norwegians that fled a fight with other Norwegians and who don't like being called Norwegians and who haven't kept up with changes in language but still Norwegians none the less :D
And it's good fun to tease Icelanders, watch them sputter (if there's any argument to be made that they're not Norwegians it's their sputtering) and try to fight back and then we solve it all with alcohol and hugs: in some ways they're almost the same to Norway as the US is to the UK :) (except they're tiny).
<3 from a Norwegian XD (yes yes yes I AM joking lol but Icelanders also know it's pretty much true)
P.S. there's no Inuit or any other "natives" in Iceland and never were: ethnic Norwegians/Scandinavians/Nordics don't all look like some stereotypical blonds from Hitler's wet dreams.
Because Icelandic giraffes are kinda low and small (happens naturally on islands), but fierce, very very fierce ice giraffes.
You don't spot an Icelandic ice giraffe*, it spots you (you might get a glimpse of it before you go to Valhall if you're lucky).
And that is the true reason one should learn metric: the knowledge, it protects.
* So how do we know they exist? The dying cries of anguish from their prey that's how.
with spellbound Icelandic ice giraffes
... For banning strip clubs.
of loads of Happy Campers?
That would be more use than using them to murder people.
I have never seen a volcano smoke. Ash, rocks, mud, steam, noxious gases yes, but no smoke.
You want smoke you gotta burn something.
(maybe the volcano came up thru a coal bed???) (no coal that I know of in Iceland).
NB: Maybe trolls are surreptitiously feeding it peat.
Eyjafjallajokull ???
...you made that up by slamming your forehead into the keyboard.
who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
Written from the inside the ash cloud, Reykjavik For those of you who are interested there are a few streams online of the volcano and surroundings. These are being set up so they are not all functional at this moment. Also dont expect to see much in all the webcams when the wind is blowing from certain directions. The ash cloud actually reached Reykjavík 26 hours after the start of the eruption, which is much fast than last summer during the eruption in Eyjafjöll. I will have to give you a few pointers in icelandic since the english version does not have a direct link to the webcams. Webpage: http://live.mila.is/ "Vefmyndavélar" means webcams so click that link. Currently the bottom three streams are of the volcanoe. "Grímsvötn" is the volcanic system "Hvannadalshnjúkur" is the mountain not far from Grímsvötn. And finally a little extra treat, a time vs richter map of the eartquakes in the area Again "Vatnajökull" is the glacier that Grímsvötn are in so you can click that for a more detailed map. Have fun.
Even though this is purely coincidentally, all the believers of the May 21 "rapture" are going to cite this as evidence.
Umm, if they're still 'here' after May 21st, all the evidence in the world isn't going to be very persuasive.|
And as a side note, what's with these weird Icelandic names? "Vatnajokull" sounds like something only a Scrabble fanatic would come up with.
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At least they found one to erupt that looks quite pronounceable. I still haven't gotten the other one's pronunciation right.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
These volcano eruptions that has been happening of late, are just a sign that the world is coming to an end. What do you think of California sinking? scientist say its hanging on like honey cob. How true is that? We will find out sooner or later.
God's answer to killing government bureaucracies aimed at torturing industry in the name of a cure for global warming...
Don't you think...? Or don't you?