That's really neat. Although I could look it up, can you tell us again, what keeps the earth's core continually hot, as in, why hasn't it cooled down already?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Too lazy to look it up, but I did read that Katla is able to be almost a > world killer -- but that was about almost killing all life on Earth -- the > lesser damage of "killing humanity due to mass starvation" is a much more > possible result out of a Katla event. > > Here's a concept that most folks really don't have a handle on: the thinness > of the Earth's crust. > > How thin? Well the Earth's diameter is about 8,000 miles, and the crust is > at most 50 miles thick and under the oceans it's only about five to ten miles > thick. About a third of one percent of the diameter of the Earth. > > Sounds like a lot of rock between us and the hot interior, right? > > Well it is -- we're not boiling, right?, but though rock has great insulating > properties, the crust's thinness is very very much thinner than you might > expect -- relatively speaking, and it is this I wish to underline -- with a > metaphor that packs a punch for me. > > Consider this: if the Earth were the size of a billiard ball, if one touches > the ball where there is ocean, it would feel only "barely moist to the > touch." And if you breathed upon it -- fogged it as if to clean your > eyeglasses -- then that layer of water you've put upon the ball would be one > of Earth's deepest oceans. > > See? > > The oceans are about five miles deep, and so is the crust under the > oceans....that's about 1/1000th of the Earth's diameter. > > The crust is thinner than an egg shell and the inside of the egg is up to > about 10,000 F degrees....hotter than the surface of the sun. > > There's your protection that volcanoes so easily pierce. > > Feeling a bit more at risk? My job is done here. > > Edg > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > That second volcano is a mofo and if it blows like it has > > > blown before, whew we ain't seen nothing yet.....could be > > > a world crushing event. > > > > The volcano that was incorrectly reported to have erupted > > was Hekla. The big mofo is Katla. It blows about twice a > > century, so I guess the world must have been crushed on a > > pretty regular basis. > > > > > That's probably all it would take to precipitate the fears > > > about 2012 into a very real religion > > > > Not. It's unlikely to be a big threat anywhere but in > > Iceland. If it spews a lot of ash and the wind is right, > > that could be a problem elsewhere, but not a "world- > > crushing" one. > > > > > > > > -- who will spring to the fore to be its high priest? > > > > > > Edg > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > > > The bigger volcano is only 8 miles from the one that is erupting. So > > > > it > > > > would not be unusual at all for it to start up. Living around volcanos > > > > one learns a bit about them. They could be doing damage control too as > > > > not to alarm the public but if it does explode with a boom then damage > > > > control may no longer be possible. > > > > > > > > authfriend wrote: > > > > > >From the main volcano story on the MSNBC Web site: > > > > > > > > > > "A plume of smoke from a second Icelandic volcano briefly > > > > > caused concern Monday but its impact was quickly minimized." > > > > > > > > > > Not sure who/what "minimized" its impact. But there's > > > > > nothing on MSNBC cable, CNN, or Yahoo News, so this looks > > > > > like it may have been a flash in the pan, for now at least. > > > > > > > > > > (Hekla *is* the one they're worried about, BTW.) > > > > > > > > > > OK, the Eruptions blog on ScienceBlogs says it was a false > > > > > alarm (see the comments for updates and very interesting > > > > > discussion of various points): > > > > > > > > > > http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/04/changes_in_the_eruption_at_eyj.php > > > > > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/y3yjj8c > > > > > > > > > > A post on an Icelandic blog, saying it's bogus: > > > > > > > > > > "I have been seeing a lot of false reports in english > > > > > about Hekla volcano having started erupting. This reports > > > > > are false. Currently there is no eruption in Hekla > > > > > volcano. At the moment Hekla volcano is quiet and shows > > > > > no signs of eruption, or that it is going to start > > > > > erupting soon. > > > > > > > > > > "When Hekla volcano starts erupting there is a period of > > > > > earthquake swarms that come from Hekla volcano. Currently > > > > > there are no earthquakes in Hekla volcano." > > > > > > > > > > http://www.jonfr.com/?p=3874 > > > > > > > > > > Here's a Hekla volcanocam: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.ruv.is/hekla > > > > > > > > > > BONUS: More than you ever wanted to know about how to > > > > > pronounce the name of the erupting volcano, with four > > > > > different audio clips: > > > > > > > > > > http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2257 > > > > > > > > > > VIDEO BONUS: > > > > > > > > > > Close-up view of the eruption in daylight, showing > > > > > the ash cloud, from a helicopter tour: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1395588323904&ref=mf > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Gaia is really pissed now as "Breaking News" on MSNBC > > > > >> has the second volcano, the one with the pronounceable > > > > >> name Hekla, has begun erupting. If this is the one they > > > > >> are were worried on then all bets are off. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
