I was wondering the exact same thing about pumping sea water onto it.
I'm pretty sure this was successfully done before...
http://i57.tinypic.com/2vlw9hi.jpg
:D
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I was wondering the exact same thing about pumping sea water onto it.
I'm pretty sure this was successfully done before...
http://i57.tinypic.com/2vlw9hi.jpg
:D
/snort!
Chile's Calbuco Volcano Erupts For First Time In More Than 40 Years
April 23, 2015
Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted twice in 24 hours, the country's National Geology and Mining Service said early Thursday.
The agency said it was evaluating the spectacular nighttime eruption, but indicated it was "stronger than the first one."
AHORA: en estos momentos, erupción en volcán #Calbuco pic.twitter.com/6O4sePKVbJ
— BioBioChile (@biobio) April 23, 2015
About 23½ inches (60 centimeters) of ash fell in some places, according to the Ministry of Interior and Public Safety.
Authorities issued a red alert for the towns of Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas in southern Chile. Both are popular tourist destinations.
A 12-mile (20 kilometer) exclusion zone was established around the crater. Military and police forces were assisting with the evacuations of more than 4,400 residents, the Interior Ministry said.
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American Helen Rodgers witnessed the volcano erupt from the Hotel Patagonico in Puerto Varas, a popular tourist destination.
The first eruption on Wednesday set off a bit of a panic in the region.
"At the beginning, it was small, and later, the cloud grew and later there was a huge cloud over you and true terror starts," said one Puerto Montt resident.
Another person said: "It was impressive to see an enormous mushroom cloud, with the immense force of the volcano, and to see the ashes. At that point, there was a lot of panic, lots of chaos, traffic jams, people going to supermarkets, everyone looking for water, trying to take out money from the ATMs."
The eruption is a first for many in the region. The last major eruption was 1962. There was a minor eruption in 1972.
Calbuco also belched out a bit of gas and smoke in 1996.
Alejandro Verges, regional director at the Ministry of Interior and Public Safety, said Thursday afternoon that officials are concerned there might be a third eruption.
"The situation is relatively calm right now, although people are understandably anxious about what could happen tonight," he said.
Wonder what will blow up next?
Well, not blow up but have a good shake...
Nepal
Northern Idaho
CCTV footage of a swimming pool in Nepal during the quake:
Some rather scary footage of the Mt. Everest base camp getting hit by an avalanche because of the quake!
NSFW: Language!
It's amazing what an earthquake can do to tents.
That said, they need to shut Everest down. The whole place is human shit and garbage. The climbers just shit everywhere, figuring the mountain will consume it...it doesn't. It all ends up at basecamp in about 5 years. It's to the point that people bring rugs to put tents on because the moment any snow gets slushy, it turns into a shitslide.
People also thought they could just flip their turds into a crevasse...that's like putting it on a speed elevator to the bottom. The turds freeze, get encapsulated, flow with the glacier to the bottom, and give the people at base camp a nice brown surprise a few years later.
It's really foul.
Did you see the other pics that trashed some very famous temples? Really great stuff, lost forever.
http://www.outsideonline.com/1965696...needs-solution
Mal, I love how you find the best in people.
hehehehe
On Nepal, Katmandu got splattered. Almost 4000 dead so far. Most of town is gone from what I am hearing.
Pretty terrible for them.
Hadn't seen pics of the destroyed temples. :(
I have heard about the persistent trash problem up there though. There's not only piles of spent oxygen tanks, there's dead bodies all over as well. Hell, some of them are used as land marks! Look up "green boots". Guy has been there almost 20 years.
When I was there I remember some vague stories about "green boots" but I didn't know they were still attached to someone! Sheesh.
I went up part way to one of the base camps, but I think the "base camp" is about 16k feet or something. Didn't go that high. lol
We turned around and went back down after walking the first part of it. Jimmy Carter was going up and I was there about two weeks setting up HF equipment, flew back into China and then ran a trip in Chengdu....
Green Boots died in 1996, so it's not the same guy.
I just can't believe they leave bodies up there. I mean, I realize how hard it would be to get them down, but it seems to me that the priority should be at least getting the nearby corpses off the mountain. This particular one is right by the trail.
Tow him out a bit and gravity will do most of the work.
Either that or perhaps a remotely controlled balloon that could loft him out of there and get guided down to the bottom.
Then I've got the stories I heard confused from there.
I don't know, was a long damned time ago.
I thought when someone died, they brought them down though.
I think I probably heard the green boots story later and they were talking about people having died up there and being left (and I DO remember something about people being used as landmarks though) so probably heard the green boots story later and thought they were referring to someone else then.
Either way, it's wrong to leave dead guys up there. I mean they did that to the poor guy with the bow and spear and shit and now he's an archeological artifact (LOL)
Someone will find Green Boots thousands of years from now, see that '90s attire, and wonder WTF we were thinking. :D
Hey, you can't climb a mountain in comfort!
What are you thinking?
Why, that's just insane! InSANE!
lol