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Geology Picture of the Week, December 17-23, 2006: Merry Christmas, a New Island for Tonga!
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Posted on 12/21/2006 8:08:39 AM PST by cogitator
Aerial photos of the new Home Reef volcanic island in the Tongan archipelago, which produced some massive pumice reefs a few weeks ago (link below images).
Home Reef Tonga Eruption
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: eruption; eruptions; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hungahaapai; hungatonga; new; pumice; tonga; volcano; volcanoes
Y'know, if Tonga gets something this nice for Christmas, all of the other Polynesian archipelagoes will want one, too.
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:08:40 AM PST
by
cogitator
To: 2Trievers; headsonpikes; Pokey78; Lil'freeper; epsjr; sauropod; kayak; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; ...
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:09:27 AM PST
by
cogitator
To: cogitator
Thanks for the pings. Those pumice reeefs from back in August were certainly interesting.
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:12:43 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Merry Christmas! SAY NO TO RUDY!)
To: cogitator
I'm going over there to claim it.I'll set it up as a tax haven.I'll issue my own passports and have my own Internet domain.
Imagine....ME....Gay State Conservative....the Head of State of a sovereign nation......
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:13:49 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: Gay State Conservative
If I owned it, I'd buy a small boat, start a war with some pissant country, and get billions in aid from the USA. :)
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posted on
12/21/2006 8:32:17 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Merry Christmas! SAY NO TO RUDY!)
To: cogitator
Any life yet?
(Other than tax relief seekers, of course.)
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posted on
12/21/2006 10:38:57 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Gay State Conservative
I think that Island has some serious erosion issues (the cliffs) that will have it below sea level by the end of the next major storm that passes by.
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posted on
12/21/2006 10:53:30 AM PST
by
Fraxinus
(My opinion worth what you paid.)
To: cogitator
I'm going to name it. I will name it "NOTHING ATOLL"
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posted on
12/21/2006 11:14:25 AM PST
by
Lokibob
(Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Any life yet? It's probably a tad early (and a bit hot) for that.
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posted on
12/21/2006 12:09:56 PM PST
by
cogitator
To: Lokibob
I'm going to name it. I will name it "NOTHING ATOLL"Thank you for not naming it "Atoll Plaza".
To: cogitator; NicknamedBob; theDentist; neverdem; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Texan5; Gabz
I'm going to name it. I will name it "NOTHING ATOLL"
Thank you for not naming it "Atoll Plaza".
And we could bake Atollhouse Cookies there for the holidays!
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posted on
12/21/2006 12:39:45 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: cogitator
Let's claim it Freeper Island
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posted on
12/21/2006 12:51:23 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
These puns are making my head ring. "For Whom the Bell Atolls", I guess.
To: Lokibob; cogitator
Great stuff! The puns about this volcanic island just get crater and crater.
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posted on
12/23/2006 9:52:17 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(I updated my profile Saturday, December 23, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: cogitator
Wow, trying to top that last one would be atoll order.
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posted on
12/24/2006 2:25:34 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(A living insult to islam since 1959)
To: cogitator
To: SlowBoat407
At least there won't be any ayATOLLahs there for a while.
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posted on
12/24/2006 2:53:08 PM PST
by
NCC-1701
(To boldly go where no FReeper has gone before. Live long and prosper.)
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