Comments on: Volcano Porn https://habitablezone.com/2021/04/13/volcano-porn/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:45:30 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2021/04/13/volcano-porn/#comment-46799 RL Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:44:01 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88000#comment-46799 Thats hot... Thats hot…

]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2021/04/13/volcano-porn/#comment-46798 Robert Thu, 15 Apr 2021 05:52:11 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88000#comment-46798 Thanks for the clarification, podrock. I'll stop trying to be funny now. I'm suitably impressed at both scales. Thanks for the pix, pod. Thanks for the clarification, podrock. I’ll stop trying to be funny now.

I’m suitably impressed at both scales. Thanks for the pix, pod.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2021/04/13/volcano-porn/#comment-46797 podrock Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:59:57 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88000#comment-46797 <p>Clarification:</p> The first two photos are from Iceland, where the currently six vents are splattering and oozing. It's a real tourist attraction now. I've heard more than thirty thousand people have visited. I so want to go! So far these are small, but they are productive, and are filling the valleys with basalt. If they keep going a nice mountain will grow. La Soufriѐre is a mountain, a quite impressive edifice. The last picture is a radar image looking down its throat. Too bad there is no scale. Using Google Earth measuring, that hole is about 700 meters in diameter. Clarification:

The first two photos are from Iceland, where the currently six vents are splattering and oozing. It’s a real tourist attraction now. I’ve heard more than thirty thousand people have visited. I so want to go! So far these are small, but they are productive, and are filling the valleys with basalt. If they keep going a nice mountain will grow.

La Soufriѐre is a mountain, a quite impressive edifice. The last picture is a radar image looking down its throat. Too bad there is no scale. Using Google Earth measuring, that hole is about 700 meters in diameter.

]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2021/04/13/volcano-porn/#comment-46796 Robert Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:57:41 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=88000#comment-46796 Like, I guess, most people, I hear "volcano", and I picture something massive, an angry mountain. Something much larger than life. That was my assumption about La Soufriѐre. So when you pointed out the humans for scale in the previous post, the perspective shift was a little mind bending. It brought me back to reality, reminding me of the more human scale of active geologic features like Yellowstone and Mammoth Lakes. And it's mind-bending in its own way, people standing next to a volcano taking selfies. Whoaaaaaa.... Like, I guess, most people, I hear “volcano”, and I picture something massive, an angry mountain. Something much larger than life.

That was my assumption about La Soufriѐre. So when you pointed out the humans for scale in the previous post, the perspective shift was a little mind bending. It brought me back to reality, reminding me of the more human scale of active geologic features like Yellowstone and Mammoth Lakes. And it’s mind-bending in its own way, people standing next to a volcano taking selfies. Whoaaaaaa….

]]>