(October 17, 2021 at 12:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ve visited several volcanoes. Your other question depends on what you mean by ‘live near’. NZ has about 100 volcanoes and we’re a small country. You’re never very far from one.
Boru
I get that humans adapt, but still, the power of such nature is scary to me. I guess when it is a slow leak, lava flow, it is more a pain in the ass than sudden bomb explosion. I cannot imagine, or comprehend what the people of Pompeii went through in 79 CE.
Pyroclastic flow is a monster. But the common slow moving lava flows we see on the news, I get that people can deal with it.
But I could not believe how massive the base of Fuji was. It went from left to right, or right to left, however you want to look at it, and it seemed forever. Since the cloud cover prevented me from seeing the peak I could only imagine how tall it was.
Looking at Fuji and how massive it was, reminded me, looking back now, as a kid, when my mom took me to an NFL scrimmage, not even a preseason game, but a pre preseason game, a scrimmage, and at the time, I was tiny, millimeters tall compared to the players, and to me, at the time, the players looked like Jupiter compared to my size when I was adopted.
Fuji may be quiet now, but like any volcano, or for that matter, any star in the universe, nature always has the advantage. Nature may sleep for a while, but it always wakes up, and not always to our species advantage.
