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Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]

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Post by Ifkaluva »

sejje wrote: post #16
ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #3

Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dol…

How does the rain avoid the desert areas?

Probably rain shadow due to the mountains

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Post by heohk »

jasonthorsness wrote: post #5

Can’t predict the volcano, but I highly recommend a helicopter trip over Kilauea if you have a chance to go. Even if it is not currently erupting, from the air you can see the cooled lava flow paths and it’s clear the massive volume that occasionally flows out.

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Post by tracerbulletx »

perihelions wrote: post #17
tele_ski wrote: post #10

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I've always thought that it seems like a silly way to measure it.. Everest also goes to the sea floor, technically.

Everything is silly, and consensus reality on these kind of things is just a glorified Reddit thread IRL. There's at least four plausible metrics. Everest is tallest from the local mean sea level (the smoothed gravitational equipotential—what a stationary water surface hugs); McKinley-Denali from its local terrain base; Mauna Kea from the local terrain base inclusive of underwater terrain; and Chimborazo, in equatori…

Enjoyed your clear description but I don't know that framing it as some kind of hive mind group think issue is that accurate. It's just taxonomy and ontology, it's ok to have different taxonomies for different contexts. The same issue exists for everything. planets, temperature, oceans, species..

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Post by okanat »

dboreham wrote: post #24

A rule that has emerged over the years is that if there's some volcano erupting spectacularly, if I book a flight and go fly there, it will immediately stop. So if anyone would like the lava to cease, just send me a plane ticket...

Tom Scott is that you?

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Post by WillPostForFood »

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #3

Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dol…

You must be thinking of a different island. Hawaii, the Big Island is big. 93 miles long, 76 miles wide. Maui has a narrow waist (an isthmus connecting two volcanos), 6 miles across.

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Post by daedalus_j »

heohk wrote: post #22
jasonthorsness wrote: post #5

Can’t predict the volcano, but I highly recommend a helicopter trip over Kilauea if you have a chance to go. Even if it is not currently erupting, from the air you can see the cooled lava flow paths and it’s clear the massive volume that occasionally flows out.

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Post by avidphantasm »

heohk wrote: post #22
jasonthorsness wrote: post #5

Can’t predict the volcano, but I highly recommend a helicopter trip over Kilauea if you have a chance to go. Even if it is not currently erupting, from the air you can see the cooled lava flow paths and it’s clear the massive volume that occasionally flows out.

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The only way I will ride in a chopper is if myself or an immediate family member is being flown to a hospital.

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Post by avidphantasm »

daedalus_j wrote: post #27
heohk wrote: post #22

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I don’t care if the probability of failure is lower in a helicopter than automobile. The failure modes for helicopters are all worse than that of an automobile. Chances of dying if something goes wrong is much higher.

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Post by andsoitis »

daedalus_j wrote: post #27
heohk wrote: post #22

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Multiple sources indicate that helicopters have a higher fatal accident rate compared to cars, with some calculations showing helicopters to be 10 to 85 times more dangerous when comparing based on hours flown.
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