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

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Post by loeg »

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

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Uh, the aircraft safety figure you're probably thinking of only applies to fixed-wing, airline aircraft -- GA, private flights, and helis are more dangerous.

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

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0xbadcafebee wrote: post #4
asix66 wrote: post #2

YT link is live video. USGS info: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea Timeline: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-updates/volca...

Money shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GcMK020Ao Three weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9qvUWYgcQ

I happened to be on island and got to see it from 5-7am, it was truly a sight to behold, unlike anything else I've seen. Got some cool pictures but of course they really can't do it justice.

Even a mile away we felt some heat! Astounding amount of energy literally spewing from Earths core

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

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Post by metadat »

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.

Normally you are correct, though for the current series of eruptions this year they can often be predicted within a a day or two of accuracy by looking at the micro radians pressure. Once it gets past 12.5, Madame Pēlē is going to start the fountain in short order.

We kept the Kilauea YT stream going 24/7 and just waited till it started and then drove over.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iws3rh5vLAQ

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

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Post by gottorf »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #26
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.

This description still applies to Big Island (if we stretch it a bit):

> You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical.

You can drive from the beach on the leeward side, going past dry ranchland with an average annual rainfall of ~10-15" (similar to arid West Texas places like Midland), to the Mauna Kea Observatory, where snow can sometimes be found, in under an hour and a half; and from there across to the windward side, back to the beach at Hilo, with about 10 feet of rain a year, in another hour and 15 minutes or so.

Truly wild and must be seen to be believed.

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Post by gottorf »

jebarker wrote: post #12
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.

Then you’d be calling a whole continent a single mountain and it wouldn’t be a continuous slope in one direction. I agree though that it’s a bit silly to measure Mauna Kea to the ocean floor.

It feels like it makes a bit more sense with Mauna Kea, since Big Island is just five shield volcanoes in a trenchcoat, and the point where the land meets the ocean is basically just the foothills of the mountains. You cannot say that of Everest, which is over 400 miles from the nearest ocean.

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Post by snapplebobapple »

riffraff wrote: post #39
snapplebobapple wrote: post #32

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Sorry for the tangent, but now I'm curious: can you get a paper cut from toilet paper? It doesn't seem to have the same kind of edges.

Probably not. Its just takibg the thread to its most absurd conclusion because the whole thing is absurd.
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