Posted on 10/24/2011 11:16:06 AM PDT by bgill
Really not as big as a deal as the kook sites desperate for a supervolcanic eruption would have it.
Iwo Jima lies within a decent size caldera, and it’s risen 130 feet in the last 200 years or so, with a smattering of tiny eruptions, nothing large.
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0804-12=
The ‘over five miles’ high is particularly helpful. Even knowing the 8000-+ refers to ‘meters’ doesn’t help me all that much because I’m not good at converting meters into something I can understand. :(
Excellent! Gosh, I didn’t realize you had four altogether. I’ve heard of dog crates. I used to feed my youngest when she was just learning to eat solid food while she sat in a plastic milk crate on the floor. It contained her and she thought it a fine way to eat.
:-D
What an adorable image—the little one in the plastic milk crate. I hope you got some pics.
Ebay auctions for dog crates are very competitive because they are much cheaper even w shipping than what you get retail. I was very thankful to win the auction, which saved a nice chunk of change. I’m planning to ask a minimal rehoming fee, to recoup part of it.
On the other hand, I have five fingers.
I posted the global finger thingy. There have been articles about increased activity at (Anak) Krakatau and I picked up my globe and noticed how close to either side of the equater both possible eruptions were. Also on opposite sides of the globe.
If they both blow ash into the atmosphere at the equater at near the same time there will be big problems. In fact when the Icelandic eruptions were recently taking place my 5yo grandson told me that “Iceland had big problems” This could be a whole lot bigger. I will post my grandson’s comments here on the Equatorial eruptions when they occur:) If we still have internet that is.
You know Al Gore is going to blame on CO2 in some twisted fashion or form.
Yeppers! Cataclysm city here we come! Don’t the Christians say the world is going to be destroyed by fire? Here ya go!
Maybe this is the change the Leftists are looking for. I bet if we threw them into all of the volcanoes Pele or Vulcan will be satisfied with the sacrifice we made and we’ll get in return is a burp or two just to let us know they were good eating.
I hope all the FReepers are stocked up.
We now live in the post-modern era where all the answers are right except the correct one!
Sounds like one of them darn volcanoes I keep hearing tell tale about.
Probably this one!
http://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/earthquakes-increase-in-end-times/
I noticed that, also, about a year or so ago. The 9.0 in Sumatra and the one in Chile are about 180 degrees apart. Maybe the Earth is growing according to this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfBSc6e7QQ
I noticed the equator thing and thought of cracking an egg. Not a good thing if within the next few hundred years.
Please do.
Yeah, it’s due to those freaks for whom metrics is everything.
Lol. Still have no idea how you get 5+ miles out of 8,000+ meters. How do people calculate that type of thing? I used to be married to a wiz from MIT. He could do in his head stuff most people couldn’t do w a pile of calculators and three assistants. Pity none of it rubbed off onto me. ;)
I know, it took me awhile to get the equivalent’s right myself! Just when you thought you had math down, they go and change it, Lol!
Just google 8000 meters in miles.
Ain’t much of a looker, is she?
I’m not a big google fan, but your link was interesting. It took me to a list of all fourteen 8,000+ peaks. I knew they were all in the Himalayas, but I never read the complete list all in one place before.
One interesting fact I came across in reading about Everest—namely, it’s not even close to being the most deadly mountain on earth. I’ve read different statistics, some citing a one-in-ten chance of dying in the process of summiting it, and some saying one-in-sixteen.
Annapurna has that beat to a pulp: summiters face a 41 percent chance of dying:
“The world deadliest mountain, Annapurna, is actually three separate peaks grouped together. The three Annapurna peaks are as follows; Annapurna 1, Annapurna 2 and Annapurna 3. The tallest of these individual peaks, Annapurna 1, rises 26,545 feet off the Earth’s crust. Although all three peaks have been climbed successfully, each has taken its share of lives in the process. Violent and unpredictable weather make the slopes prone to massive avalanches, making it perilous for all who attempt the challenge. Only 130 people have ever reached the summit, the first coming in the late 50s on Annapurna 1. Despite this, another 53 have died trying to climb the sister-peaks of Annapurna; 41 percent of all those who try to ascend the mountain will not survive, by the far the worst mortality rate for any mountain in the world.”
LOL! I didn't even scan the results list. I just looked for the arithmetic answer.
I remembered that some Google engineer had the bright idea of screening each query to see if it's an arithmetic expression, broadly construed, and, if so, to add the evaluation at the top of the results. For instance, you can also do $8000 in £ (or, easier to type, 8000 USD in GBP), and Google will tell you that eight grand is about five thousand pounds.
Google aims to organize the world's information (and get well paid for intermixing ads judiciously). They seem to be good at it.
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