NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted

[Atrocities]

I kid you not, it looks like a small eruption from here but its erupting non the less.

Its not showing anythign as of 17.48 hours, but hopefully within a few minutes it will.

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

[Mindi]

I just read reports of ash clouds 25,000 feet high!

[Annette]

Atrocities, are you in danger?

[Atrocities]

From what I can tell its a low level eruption between 5k to 20k. Hard to tell from here. But interesting none the less. Its getting hard to see now through the trees. I will have to drive drown the road to see the full moutain.

No danger for us. We live about 50 miles to the south west of the mt in Vancouver / Richfield area.

[CovertJaguar]

Quit impressive to look at, is it not. I am probably closer to it than you are Atrocities. The mountain is due east of here.

EDIT: Got my directions messed up.

[Atrocities]

The news channels her suck.... and their web sites are even worse. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif You get the Portland stations right?

[Captain Kwok]

It's not an eruption, but an emission. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Atrocities]

Emission, eruption, its still a show. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[CovertJaguar]

Atrocities said:
The news channels her suck.... and their web sites are even worse. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif You get the Portland stations right?


Yep, I'm in Washington, but all I ever hear about is Portland and Oregon. I just listen to the radio usually. They get the news out faster. Usually hear something on the radio a day or two before the TV news has anything to say about it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.

[CovertJaguar]

Really? I got this one from Dean Kamen the guy who made the segway scooter. They called him the Wizard of IT back when they didn't know what IT was.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That's the first time I've heard the Dean Kamen qoute, but I've heard the other one about a dozen times, and either of them were writing in the 30's.

[CovertJaguar]

It was a quote in an article I read several years ago. The quote caught my eye, so I saved it. It seemed fitting with my work on the Adamant Pics.

[Suicide Junkie]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.


Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."

[CovertJaguar]

I found the article.
Dean Kamen (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/02/02/60II/main269165.shtml)

[Phoenix-D]

Suicide Junkie said:

narf poit chez BOOM said:
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.


Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."



Or the Florence Ambrose amendum: Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it.

http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm

[CovertJaguar]

I seem to remember reading somewhere a line that sort of sounded like this:
Magic is simply something that the uninitiate does not understand.

Any ideas as to the source of that line?

[Yith_Saulkar]

The Plume reached 36k feet and the eruption lasted about 30 min. No show from here though I live in Bellingham. Maybe Mt. Baker will give me a "show" someday.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[luke_slovakian]

It would really really suck if st helens blew full blast...smoke would get to me:-(. And also would kill at and anythere because the dust is like microscopic glass, well sharp and will cut you lungs and throat if enhailed. PAINFUL DEATH

[Atrocities]

Well the intial ploom was about 35k high but disipated rapidly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif It was an Ash fart. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif It did however catch everyone off gaurd so that is the scary thing.

[luke_slovakian]

Man i want to see a eruption would be pretty,exept the dust but its ok:p. Enojoy the fireworks without all of us there

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

When I saw this post first I thought:

Oh Christ. Not again.

in response to the 1980? eruption where the entire peak of MSH was completely annihilated.

I suppose the mountain's calmed down by now.....?

[Suicide Junkie]

Do you have to worry about the ash getting into your computer and gumming up the works?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

I'm more curious as to how many ashtrays have been placed under holes in the roof.....