May 16, 2011: Floodgate of Hell
 

http://cellar.org/2011/Nyiragongo Crater1.jpg

http://cellar.org/2011/Nyiragongo Crater2.jpg

I admit it. I'm a hopeless volcano addict.
Lotta nice shots on the link.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...rney_to_t.html

Beautiful! Awesome.

Volcanos remind me of zits.

Imagine if you could harness that energy? There's so MUCH of it down there.

It's like looking at the sun.

It's the Eye of Sauron.

Wow.

Picture 20...

I had an image in my head of it being, ooh 8 feet or so across until image 20...

ZOMFG!

Wow!

The lava outside the rim is twisted into weird black shapes that look very like the Bog Bodies retrieved from peat bogs. Or tortured souls climbing out of hell, if you'd rather.

I struggled with scale too until I saw that image. "Lake"... yep.

new wallpaper:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa..._2011/bp27.jpg

These guys are crazy. They pretend they are taking all sorts of precautions and being careful, but one burp and they are all dead.

Not unlike Thanksgiving with my family.

Yeah jim. ..great choice!

Glatt, would that be a burp, beltch or a fart?

Print a bunch of copies of that first picture, and cut then to fit the bottom of potholes. Scare the crap out of people.

I didn't really appreciate the scale of the lake until I saw the guy in the bottom-left of this pic: http://inapcache.boston.com/universa..._2011/bp20.jpg

(a) Whoooaaahhh...

(b) can we take this as goatseed? Or goatseed after a really hot mexican restaurant...

I can almost feel heat coming from the photo.