As the more diligent readers will have surmised from the end of the world thread, a ginormous volcanic eruption is taking place in Iceland right now. No, it's not the start of the Rapture, no avenging Jesus has been spotted punishing unbelievers in any way, shape or form. However, a good portion of the south has been inundated with massive ashfall with all the usual hardships that that entails, etc. The good news is that the ash is much heavier and less glassy, and so probably unable to shut down continental flight entirely like the last one. Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber in days instead of weeks. Usually.
The bad news is that even if the ash is generally coarser than the previous outing it seems to be compensating with a metric fuckton more in terms of volume. Right now it's down to 2000 tonnes of ejecta per second reaching up to 10 kilometers which is 1/10's less than on Saturday. On the plus side the winds had been blowing the higher athmospheric gunk towards the Artic, but apparently a huge ash cloud is descending on Scotland. So Britain and Ireland could potentially see some air travel disruptions.
So yeah, um, sorry 'bout that.
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Quote from: Legbiter on May 23, 2011, 05:54:35 PM
Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber
Is that what you're calling it now.
What's with the gigantic marshmallows?
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 23, 2011, 05:58:08 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on May 23, 2011, 05:54:35 PM
Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber
Is that what you're calling it now.
What's with the gigantic marshmallows?
Has to be hay or something.
They use the exact same casing here for bundles of rice. They're everywhere in the country.
Everyone be on the lookout for media stories asking if climate change is to blame.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 23, 2011, 05:58:08 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on May 23, 2011, 05:54:35 PM
Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber
What's with the gigantic marshmallows?
It's hay bales. -_-
Quote from: Legbiter on May 23, 2011, 06:09:03 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 23, 2011, 05:58:08 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on May 23, 2011, 05:54:35 PM
Also, the volcano usually empties it's magma chamber
What's with the gigantic marshmallows?
It's hay bales. -_-
So are the Icelandic hillbillies doomed?
I guess Jesus didn't appreciate their election of Martinus as their leader.
Quote from: Neil on May 23, 2011, 06:12:00 PM
So are the Icelandic hillbillies doomed?
Livestock has already started dying where farmers are unable to quickly house them. The pitch black ash storm renders visibility to zero and all the usual water & grazing resources have of course been knocked out. One farmer was in tears because of how many of his lambs were dying on the evening news here.
Here in Reykjavik, 250 miles away you'd hardly notice anything was amiss except for the thin grey film that coats everything outside. Which will be gone in a week once the eruption is over.
Jeez. Looks like Doomsday...
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It's pretty rough for the folks immediately downwind, yes.
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That's good visibility btw.
Quote from: Legbiter on May 23, 2011, 06:48:33 PM
It's pretty rough for the folks immediately downwind, yes.
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That's good visibility btw.
I never knew Morrowind was a documentary.
So is ash Iceland's primary export now?
Love the pictures. The little dinky Scandinavian style houses (thought you didn't have trees in Iceland?) with the end of the world calmly happening behind them.
Quote from: ulmont on May 23, 2011, 07:06:34 PM
I never knew Morrowind was a documentary.
Icelanders, Ashlanders, sounds almost the same to me.
Then again, I was at a concert last night.
Quote from: Tyr on May 23, 2011, 07:13:37 PM
Love the pictures. The little dinky Scandinavian style houses (thought you didn't have trees in Iceland?) with the end of the world calmly happening behind them.
Not wild trees, two trees in the farmyard.
BTW, Grímsvötn is a real volcano, not a pisspot piece of shit like Eyafjallajökull. This also seems to be a real eruption, usually they just happen under the volcano and melt ice, so this one is bigger than the eruption in the 1990's in the same volcano.
I can't say this clearly enough, you Euroscum need to forgive our national debt or this will keep happening. I'd like to get back to normal eruptions.
Ok, could you be kind enough to be done with it and sink that island already?
kthxbye
Quote from: Viking on May 24, 2011, 03:10:50 AM
Not wild trees, two trees in the farmyard.
The houses are built of wood though.
Buildings are usually made of locally available materials so it just strikes me as strange that so many Icelandic buildings would be wooden rather than be made of some sort of local stone.
Quote from: Tyr on May 24, 2011, 04:59:39 AM
Quote from: Viking on May 24, 2011, 03:10:50 AM
Not wild trees, two trees in the farmyard.
The houses are built of wood though.
Buildings are usually made of locally available materials so it just strikes me as strange that so many Icelandic buildings would be wooden rather than be made of some sort of local stone.
The residence is possibly made of wood, imported wood. The barn and livestock houses are made of cement and clad (if clad at all) in corrugated iron.
Having a chimney and the relatively modern scandinavian design (look at the windows) suggests that the residence might be a norwegian package house.
Quote from: Tamas on May 24, 2011, 04:36:55 AM
Ok, could you be kind enough to be done with it and sink that island already?
kthxbye
do you really want to get into the "who would you rather sink into the sea, iceland or hungary?" debate already.. you know you will lose.
What 'sea' would you sink Hungary into? Lake Balaton?
:hmm: An inland sea in central Europe would be pretty neat though. Romania would get like ten times as much snowfall annually. :menace:
The clear east euro candidate to sink and form a sea is Poland. They have a coast to get the water from, and would form a buffer between Russi and the civilized world
Quote from: Tamas on May 24, 2011, 07:15:22 AM
The clear east euro candidate to sink and form a sea is Poland. They have a coast to get the water from, and would form a buffer between Russi and the civilized world
Wouldn't that fuck up sea levels world wide leaving most harbors out to dry?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 24, 2011, 07:17:28 AM
Quote from: Tamas on May 24, 2011, 07:15:22 AM
The clear east euro candidate to sink and form a sea is Poland. They have a coast to get the water from, and would form a buffer between Russi and the civilized world
Wouldn't that fuck up sea levels world wide leaving most harbors out to dry?
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Quote from: Tamas on May 24, 2011, 07:15:22 AM
The clear east euro candidate to sink and form a sea is Poland. They have a coast to get the water from, and would form a buffer between Russi and the civilized world
If Poland sinks, Russia would have to go through Hungary to invade Europe.
See you in the Battle of Budapest, version 3.0. Will you be carrying some sort of uniform to make your identification easier?
What about Ukraine?
Well, the eruption is fast dying down now and ash column is now so low that the ejecta is just being deposited around the immediate area itself and on the glacier.
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