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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 8:48 am
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(March 17, 2017 at 8:47 am)Brian37 Wrote: (March 17, 2017 at 8:44 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I got the nick "Godzilla" while I was in Japan. A house fell on me and I didn't get a scratch. Living on fault lines has its faults.
Ba dum cha! Crap, my mom would roll her eyes at that joke and smile too.
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 10:21 am
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Mt. Etna is beautiful, snow covered peaks, the mountain chugging ash and smoke constantly. I remember the glowing red, flowing rivers of lava at night when I lived there. Never seen anything like it since.
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 10:28 am
(March 17, 2017 at 10:21 am)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Mt. Etna is beautiful, snow covered peaks, the mountain chugging ash and smoke constantly. I remember the glowing red, flowing rivers of lava at night when I lived there. Never seen anything like it since.
I am not saying it isn't beautiful, I am saying it is a volcano. The moon and stars in a calm night time sky are awesome to look at, but space is no place humans can live. You can't go up in orbit and take your helmet off, that would kill you. I simply don't want to be near certain parts of nature, volcanos are very beautiful to look at, so are tigers and sharks, but again, doesn't mean I want to be close to them.
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 12:22 pm
(March 17, 2017 at 10:21 am)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Mt. Etna is beautiful, snow covered peaks, the mountain chugging ash and smoke constantly. I remember the glowing red, flowing rivers of lava at night when I lived there. Never seen anything like it since.
Yep, awesome sight. We sent volunteers up to help fight the forest fires that broke out when the lava was flowing. Bit futile but a way to do something.
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 2:27 pm
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Had someone telling that this is the year of the fire rooster and so volcanoes and earthquakes would be a thing. Sort of dreading the inevitable tide of woo (Wu?) thats about to hit me...
And the sun shall rise in the east... Really you don't say....
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 6:10 pm
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When I was in college long, long ago, there was a gunman in a high rise apartment building near the student union. THOUSANDS of people crowded the street surrounding the building, apparently to see what was going on. Had there been any shooting from the building into the crowd, the shooter could have scarcely missed. And any shooting like that could have stampeded the crowd, and probably killed a large number more.
Situation was resolved peacefully, but the responding law enforcement folks were stroking out over the danger to the crowd.
Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress had picnickers crowding the sites were the lunar freedom fighters were aiming their 100 ton projectiles. Seems plausible enough to me . . . .
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 6:41 pm
Quote:A house fell on me and I didn't get a scratch.
Were you wearing ruby slippers?
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 6:49 pm
(March 17, 2017 at 6:41 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:A house fell on me and I didn't get a scratch.
Were you wearing ruby slippers?
Nope, Japanese house builders have experience with quakes.
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RE: Hello, it is a volcano people! Mt Etna
March 17, 2017 at 8:56 pm
If I ever encounter a bear on one of my back-country hikes, I hope that cameraman is with me...
I won't need to trip him. 
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