Does the footage look slo-mo to anyone else? Is that really how lava (magma, idk what its called) actually move through the air?
To help discern scale, scrub to 23:22:00, when a helicopter flies over
Grindavik [video]
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#32My home town made it to the front page of HN. I don’t live there any more but my family does. I visited last November during the major seismic activity and the town was evacuated. My family found a safe harbor at our extended family in a nearby town ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225019 ). One local “correction” from most media (including the Icelandic media). The mountain (or hill rather) closest to the er…
Takk fyrir!
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#33Multi-cam view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
It's so interesting to see things like this and imagine what peoples of times past would have thought about when first discovering such sights and sites! Or even imagine yourself seeing this thousands of years past with no idea of what or why it was happening.
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#34My wife and family were there only a few months ago. Good timing.
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#35Sean Willsey’s (geology professor) live commentary was worth following for some deeper insights as he’s trying to analyse the situation https://www.youtube.com/live/iqF5YQRdhtw
His cohost (I might be wrong about that) just finished a live drone flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJsNTX0nGkk
It almost looks like a still image.
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#36Interesting there are a Lots of Iceland posts on hacker news. Im guessing tons of tech people from all over the world have visited and fell in love with Iceland too!
Though heads up going there to see the northern lights is all about luck unless you stay for weeks to months. Be cool see the lights and this active volcano in the opposite direction of each other :)
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#37Did this happen right underneath the town? Is the town okay?
IIRC, I remember news some weeks back that a fissure was opening in the town roads and steam was billowing up from it. Did the volcano literally sprout from the town center?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you scrub the live stream you can watch the fissure expand.
Starts at around 22:55 for fifteen or so minutes. Pretty terrifying, but they seem to have it all under control. It’s difficult to get any sense of scale, but there’s some good panning shots where you see how close the power station is.
> but they seem to have it all under control.
they have the people under control... there is no way they have any semblance of controls over the fissure or the magma/lava.
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#39Multi-cam view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
It's so interesting to see things like this and imagine what peoples of times past would have thought about when first discovering such sights and sites! Or even imagine yourself seeing this thousands of years past with no idea of what or why it was happening.
This needs a comedy sketch
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#40Did this happen right underneath the town? Is the town okay? IIRC, I remember news some weeks back that a fissure was opening in the town roads and steam was billowing up from it. Did the volcano literally sprout from the town center?
The currently erupting fissures are something like 2.5 to 6 km north of the town. The town is fine*, so far, but there's obvious concern about where the lava is going to travel.
* Evacuated, and some structural damage from pre-eruption earthquakes and earth movements like the fissure you mention