May 8, 2008: Volcano - Page 2

glatt · 05-09-2008, 12:35 PM

You think the neuron images were intentional? I just assumed he linked to an image that he thought was lightning after seeing a thumbnail of it next to a volcano article.

Sundae · 05-09-2008, 01:04 PM

Probably not, it's Inigo's text after the images, with his :p
I spose he might have found them googling, but regardless it's pretty cool

LabRat · 05-09-2008, 01:40 PM

I assumed he was pointing out the similarities. Which I enjoy finding in nature too btw. Certain trees in the winter look uncannily like astrocytes and certain kind of neurons in their branching patterns.

glatt · 05-09-2008, 01:44 PM

Oh, yeah. Visually, they fit right in. Amazing really. Some kind of fractal law working there. Or something.

LabRat · 05-09-2008, 02:39 PM

God's just not all that creative. . .

maybe even lazy.

Sundae · 05-09-2008, 04:19 PM

[Atheist] Or maybe we just evolved to see patterns [/Atheist]

Imigo Jones · 05-09-2008, 06:13 PM

BigV, great pics! That must have been really something to stand there and behold the mountain, both the immediacy of its mass but also sensing what that glow and steam meant.

To get more precisely oriented: The shot above is from the northeast (see map below). "We ask that you credit the source of the images as 'Image courtesy of USDA Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.' " 'Kay.
MSHNVM Photo Gallery

North is straight right.
So, facing the mountain, V, you were to the left (south or SE) of Spirit Lake for those shots?

Nice.

Of course, it's also really something knowing what occurred there when we were younger.

The photographer who caught this amazing sequence was somewhere out "your" way, only probably farther south:

"Explosions (red) begin to rip through the landslide (green)
[Original illustrations by T.R. Alpha]"

"Exploded rock debris (red) forms a pyroclastic surge that quickly overtakes the landslide (green)"

Photo sequence: "08:32:21.0 am . . . 08:33:18.8 am"
Page with GIF animation of Rosenquist pics.
The graphic on this page briefly tells the photographer's story. He was 10 miles away.

This graphic (and two added to pic sequence) shows MSH from straight east, or south of you, BigV. Also, the first photo inset must be from the south or southwest of the eruption.

Short USGS page on the mechanisms of magma intrusion, landslide, and explosion of the north face of Mt. St. Helens.
Site map for ton of USGS pages on Mt. St. Helens.
Index for megatons of volcano pages, but inexplicably omitting Io.

barefoot serpent · 05-12-2008, 12:44 PM

some more pix from Chile -- including the ash plume from space.

TheMercenary · 05-12-2008, 02:55 PM

Fantastic pics and links.

Imigo Jones · 05-18-2008, 07:57 AM

barefoot serpent, cool pic. I have a question below.

Today's the 38th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.

I remember that day as being disastrous at the two opposite corners of the United States, with Mt. St. Helens in Washington and riots in Miami. Here's a page with the text of the Mt. St. Helens story.

So, barefoot serpent, I was going to ask whether you remember the east-west movement of the MSH ash plume back in 1980. It arrived over the Midwest on, I think, May 20. Even at this distance and dilution, the air smelled faintly of sulphur.

More odd was how the light was changed. Whether from sulphur in the air between you and objects down on ground level, or from atmospheric filtering of the sunlight, everything looked barely tinted yellow, as though the CSI: Miami cinematographer had grabbed the wrong filter. Actually, the yellow wasn't that strong (CSI: Miasma is like swimming in orange juice), but just enough to give you the sense that something was wrong. It was like how the light of a partial solar eclipse, or even of a heavy ozone day, is strange.

SPUCK · 05-21-2008, 04:00 AM

Ha! I was in a broken down Renault 10 on the side of the freeway outside of Spokane wondering what all the gray snow was.

SPUCK · 05-21-2008, 04:11 AM

These are my favorite MSH shots.

SPUCK · 05-21-2008, 04:13 AM

Notice these are all before and after shots of the same spots.!!!

HungLikeJesus · 05-21-2008, 09:40 AM

As Bruce says, why are there no "during" shots?

dar512 · 05-21-2008, 02:36 PM

Because people were busy screaming and running away?

Actually, there had been plenty of warning that things would be happening, so that area was evacuated.

05-09-2008, 01:04 PM	#17
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Probably not, it's Inigo's text after the images, with his :p I spose he might have found them googling, but regardless it's pretty cool __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

05-09-2008, 01:40 PM	#18
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	I assumed he was pointing out the similarities. Which I enjoy finding in nature too btw. Certain trees in the winter look uncannily like astrocytes and certain kind of neurons in their branching patterns. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

05-09-2008, 02:39 PM	#20
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	God's just not all that creative. . . maybe even lazy. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

05-09-2008, 04:19 PM	#21
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	[Atheist] Or maybe we just evolved to see patterns [/Atheist] __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

05-12-2008, 12:44 PM	#23
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	some more pix from Chile -- including the ash plume from space. Attached Images __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

05-09-2008, 12:35 PM	#16
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	You think the neuron images were intentional? I just assumed he linked to an image that he thought was lightning after seeing a thumbnail of it next to a volcano article.

05-09-2008, 01:44 PM	#19
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Oh, yeah. Visually, they fit right in. Amazing really. Some kind of fractal law working there. Or something.

05-09-2008, 06:13 PM	#22
Imigo Jones Tornado Ali Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Used to be woods in town on prairie; now Emerald City Posts: 82	BigV, great pics! That must have been really something to stand there and behold the mountain, both the immediacy of its mass but also sensing what that glow and steam meant. To get more precisely oriented: The shot above is from the northeast (see map below). "We ask that you credit the source of the images as 'Image courtesy of USDA Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.' " 'Kay. MSHNVM Photo Gallery North is straight right. So, facing the mountain, V, you were to the left (south or SE) of Spirit Lake for those shots? Nice. Of course, it's also really something knowing what occurred there when we were younger. The photographer who caught this amazing sequence was somewhere out "your" way, only probably farther south: "Explosions (red) begin to rip through the landslide (green) [Original illustrations by T.R. Alpha]" "Exploded rock debris (red) forms a pyroclastic surge that quickly overtakes the landslide (green)" Photo sequence: "08:32:21.0 am . . . 08:33:18.8 am" Page with GIF animation of Rosenquist pics. The graphic on this page briefly tells the photographer's story. He was 10 miles away. This graphic (and two added to pic sequence) shows MSH from straight east, or south of you, BigV. Also, the first photo inset must be from the south or southwest of the eruption. Short USGS page on the mechanisms of magma intrusion, landslide, and explosion of the north face of Mt. St. Helens. Site map for ton of USGS pages on Mt. St. Helens. Index for megatons of volcano pages, but inexplicably omitting Io.

05-12-2008, 02:55 PM	#24
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Fantastic pics and links. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

05-18-2008, 07:57 AM	#25
Imigo Jones Tornado Ali Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Used to be woods in town on prairie; now Emerald City Posts: 82	barefoot serpent, cool pic. I have a question below. Today's the 38th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. I remember that day as being disastrous at the two opposite corners of the United States, with Mt. St. Helens in Washington and riots in Miami. Here's a page with the text of the Mt. St. Helens story. So, barefoot serpent, I was going to ask whether you remember the east-west movement of the MSH ash plume back in 1980. It arrived over the Midwest on, I think, May 20. Even at this distance and dilution, the air smelled faintly of sulphur. More odd was how the light was changed. Whether from sulphur in the air between you and objects down on ground level, or from atmospheric filtering of the sunlight, everything looked barely tinted yellow, as though the CSI: Miami cinematographer had grabbed the wrong filter. Actually, the yellow wasn't that strong (CSI: Miasma is like swimming in orange juice), but just enough to give you the sense that something was wrong. It was like how the light of a partial solar eclipse, or even of a heavy ozone day, is strange.

05-21-2008, 04:00 AM	#26
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Ha! I was in a broken down Renault 10 on the side of the freeway outside of Spokane wondering what all the gray snow was.

05-21-2008, 04:11 AM	#27
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	These are my favorite MSH shots. Attached Images

05-21-2008, 04:13 AM	#28
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Notice these are all before and after shots of the same spots.!!! Attached Images

05-21-2008, 09:40 AM	#29
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	As Bruce says, why are there no "during" shots? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

05-21-2008, 02:36 PM	#30
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Because people were busy screaming and running away? Actually, there had been plenty of warning that things would be happening, so that area was evacuated. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

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