These folks seem to be having a good time, despite the risk and all.

(October 12, 2021 at 11:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(October 12, 2021 at 10:49 am)Brian37 Wrote: Death is nothing to worry about for sure. I wasn't posting this to scare anyone. I simply find the universe powerful and amazing, both on it's constructive side, and destructive side. 

It remains a fact that if you like breathing, just like not want to be a citizen of Pompeii in 79ce, you also would not want to be a dinosaur 65 million years ago. That is what I was talking about with gamma rays.

I would LOVE to have been a Pompeiian 79CE!! Seriously - eyewitness to one of the great events of the classical world and a 90% chance of living through it. Who wouldn’t want that?

Boru

I can’t disput your desire to witness it, but I wonder how many classical events must be considered great for the eruption of Visuvius and burial of pompei and herculaneum can rank amongst them.  

It is a little like considering the death of pharaoh Tutankhamen as one of the great events in the history of new kingdom egypt merely because his tomb survived unlimited to be discovered intact.

(October 12, 2021 at 1:30 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(October 12, 2021 at 11:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I would LOVE to have been a Pompeiian 79CE!! Seriously - eyewitness to one of the great events of the classical world and a 90% chance of living through it. Who wouldn’t want that?

Boru

I can’t disput your desire to witness it, but I wonder how many classical events must be considered great for the eruption of Visuvius and burial of pompei and herculaneum can rank amongst them.  

It is a little like considering the death of pharaoh Tutankhamen being regarded as one of the great events in the history of new kingdom egypt merely because his tomb survived unlimited to be discovered intact.

Clearly, the eruption of Vesuvius isn’t ‘great’ in the sense of being a seminal event. I admit to a poor choice of word.

Boru

(October 12, 2021 at 1:16 pm)Angrboda Wrote: These folks seem to be having a good time, despite the risk and all.

A service friend of mine was so enthralled by the slow, organic, seemingly innocuous movement of viscous lava in Hawaii that he failed to notice the molten rock had executed a perfect double envelopment that would have made Hannibal proud.   surrounded on all all sides by bristling phalanx of volcanic heat he had to summon a emergency service helicopter for an aerial Dunkirk.