|
Image of the Day Images that will blow your mind - every day. [Blog] [RSS] [XML] |
|
Thread Tools | Rate Thread | Display Modes |
12-28-2004, 12:42 PM | #1 |
Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
|
12/28/2004: Mount St. Helens lets one go
Elspode sends this along with the priceless addition: "St. Helens hocked up a pretty nifty loogie today." It's not just the amazing image but the wiseass comment that makes the shot. Reminds one of busterb's anvil shooting, except that in this case the "anvil" is probably the size and weight of tens of anvils, on fire, and probably about 1500 F degrees hot. All I can imagine is being on the ground, shouting "I got it I got it I got it..." |
12-28-2004, 12:56 PM | #2 |
When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Raytown, Missouri
Posts: 12,719
|
The only thing that would have been neater than this would have been a next frame that showed the pyroclast hitting the ground and exploding into a shower of devastation.
Also, it needs a "ptui!" sound effect done by Mel Blanc to accompany it.
__________________
"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog |
12-28-2004, 01:04 PM | #3 |
still eats dirt
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 3,031
|
Pyroclast? Looks like icicles hanging from the webcam housing to me.
|
12-28-2004, 01:05 PM | #4 |
-◊|≡·∙■·∙≡|◊-
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Parts unknown.
Posts: 4,081
|
I don't know why I keep thinking that's Homer Simpson at the front of that plume
__________________
♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ |
12-28-2004, 01:10 PM | #5 |
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
It does look like icicles.
|
12-28-2004, 01:15 PM | #6 |
still eats dirt
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 3,031
|
I mean, where's the plume/explosion/smoke from the top of the mountain if it vomitted these boulders up?
Next thing you know, there will be a gia-- OH MY GOD! |
12-28-2004, 01:21 PM | #7 |
™
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 27,717
|
HOLY CRAP! Run for your lives!
|
12-28-2004, 02:06 PM | #8 |
When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Raytown, Missouri
Posts: 12,719
|
Damn...I was fooled.
It *was* icicles, huh? Sigh. Another Cellarite bites the IOTD dust.
__________________
"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog |
12-28-2004, 08:11 PM | #9 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
Nah, nah, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me.......this time.
Els, you're but a grasshopper. You've got a looong way to go to catch up with the Master of Bogus Images, yours truly.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
12-28-2004, 10:36 PM | #10 |
King Of Wishful Thinking
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 6,669
|
You know, I deleted a message asking if it was possible that recent Mount St. Helens activity was connected with the quake/tsunami in Asia. I thought it was a little to speculative, and then I found this
__________________
Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
12-28-2004, 11:47 PM | #11 |
Superior Inhabitant
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ape City
Posts: 73
|
Interesting article....but I doubt if they are related. Mt St. Helens' activity is more due to whats in it's inherent magma chamber than any underground fault line. I live the same state as St. Helens and I kinda find the recent activity underwhelming compared to 1980. But that's probably a good thing.
|
12-29-2004, 12:48 AM | #12 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
But magma chambers and fault lines have something in common. We know how they work but not when or why they're triggered. Is a cooling core causing the earth to shrink slightly making plates move and zits like St Helens to erupt? If so will this cause the magnetic poles to switch, which is long overdue? Will it set off the frozen methane in the ocean depths? Will it cause the ladies to suddenly desire bald fat guys?
btw- I was in Centrailia in '80.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
12-29-2004, 01:27 AM | #13 |
Superior Inhabitant
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ape City
Posts: 73
|
Whoa Centralia....front row seat almost. The mountain has changed in twenty years but that place hasn't much.
I vote for ladies suddenly desiring fat bald guys. |
12-29-2004, 03:51 PM | #14 | |
Slacker
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 144
|
Quote:
I desire fat bald guys. But if you want supermodels, the mountain may have to emit a lot more smoke. |
|
12-29-2004, 05:43 PM | #15 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
|
To hell with the mountain, I'll bring smoke.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|