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SPUCK 05-16-2011 05:36 AM

May 16, 2011: Floodgate of Hell
 
http://cellar.org/2011/Nyiragongo Crater1.jpg

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

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In June 2010, a team of scientists and intrepid explorers stepped onto the shore of the lava lake boiling in the depths of Nyiragongo Crater, in the heart of the Great Lakes region of Africa.
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

DanaC 05-16-2011 07:01 AM

Beautiful! Awesome.

Trilby 05-16-2011 07:22 AM

Volcanos remind me of zits.

glatt 05-16-2011 07:36 AM

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

CaliforniaMama 05-16-2011 09:39 AM

It's like looking at the sun.

Spexxvet 05-16-2011 09:49 AM

It's the Eye of Sauron.

BigV 05-16-2011 11:16 AM

Wow.

ogwen69 05-16-2011 12:03 PM

Picture 20...

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

ZOMFG!

Sundae 05-16-2011 12:55 PM

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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.

BigV 05-16-2011 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ogwen69 (Post 734320)
Picture 20...

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

ZOMFG!

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

jimhelm 05-16-2011 01:40 PM

new wallpaper:

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

glatt 05-16-2011 02:16 PM

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

Sheldonrs 05-16-2011 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 734365)
... but one burp and they are all dead.

Not unlike Thanksgiving with my family.

plthijinx 05-16-2011 06:42 PM

Yeah jim. ..great choice!

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

xoxoxoBruce 05-16-2011 11:26 PM

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


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