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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Admin and the Engineer
Has there or has there not been an increase in weather and seismic events on the planet of late?
No.
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.
Yes.
Spelling was deregulated until roughly Coleridge's time. Thus Shakespeare spelt his name quite a few different ways.
Eventually, there was a big move to standardize English spelling. Rather than adopt a simple phonetic system, the academics chose to use the phonetic system of the root word. If the word is Germanic, in origin, you use a Germanic inspired phonetics. If it's French, in origin, you use a French inspired phonetic system. Greek? Latin? Guess what, there's more systems. Sucks, doesn't it?
Oh, and Dutch printers were some of the first big printers of English books, so sometimes a bit of Dutch crept in.
Grímsvötn has been erupting semi-regularly for decades; in the last twenty years there have been eruptions in 1996, 1998, 2004, and now 2011. While long-term volcano prediction is more of an art than a science, there's no particular reason to believe that this eruption is related to either the Eyjafjallajökull eruption or to the still-apparently-quiescent (keep your fingers crossed) Katla. Grímsvötn is actually quite a distance from Katla: roughly 150 km. Eyjafjallajökull is much closer to Katla (just 30 km) and the initial smaller eruption last year (on Fimmvörðuháls) was nearer still.
~Idarubicin
Has there or has there not been an increase in weather
We've always had a constant amount of weather; it's just the quality that changes.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
There just wern't any true believers to take to heaven.
As the world's population increases, it becomes more and more likely that a natural disaster will strike a populated area. Corollary to that, as technology advances, it becomes more and more likely that there will be video of a natural disaster for news services to splash all over the TV/website.
View the eruption from an airplane:
http://visir.is/section/MEDIA99&fileid=CLP4238
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!
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For extra credit, look up Gerard Nolst Trenité.
I assume you mean tallest, not longest ;) And is Vinnufossen a waterfall or did someone leave a tap dripping? ;)
In terms of sheer power, Iceland's easily got you beat. You have no Dettifoss, for example.
You're not made of Tuesday!
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.