And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If you want to read about how great #44 was or how bad #45 is, today's journalists will write enough to either put you to sleep or make you nauseous. Articles about science and industry will get you three sentences.
Most folks, even (or especially, perhaps) the ones that go around screaming "but, Science!", are really all about emotion. Anger and hysteria, and a complete absence of rational thought. Devolution. I'm afraid some serious biblical level shit is gonna have to seriously cleanse the gene pool some time real soon.
Happened to me in a steel mill. Didn't know I was on fire until I was flying through the air backwards, jerked by a damn good co-worker, and sprayed by a water hose.
I think they can test the amounts/types of gases coming-up with the lava. If those gases change(against a certain 'norm'.....they may know that an explosive event is in the works.
Magma mineralogy changes through out its life within the chamber as partial fractionation occurs. Guessing that they are pulling samples for mineralogy profiling, x-ray diffraction, etc. to understand changes in the petro-chemistry. Helps them understand what's going on in the magma chamber and maybe informs on workings of the mantle too. One of the few places on earth that has civilized infrastructure and steady funding where they can study volcanos, live eruptions, mantle hot spots, and plate tectonics in uninterrupted peace.
Why?
ReplyDeleteTesting. Not much info on the testing though.
Deletehttps://www.businessinsider.com/geologist-scooping-molten-lava-bucket-hawaii-kilauea-crystals-temperature-heat-2017-6
If you want to read about how great #44 was or how bad #45 is, today's journalists will write enough to either put you to sleep or make you nauseous. Articles about science and industry will get you three sentences.
DeleteMost folks, even (or especially, perhaps) the ones that go around screaming "but, Science!", are really all about emotion. Anger and hysteria, and a complete absence of rational thought. Devolution. I'm afraid some serious biblical level shit is gonna have to seriously cleanse the gene pool some time real soon.
DeleteA pandemic perhaps.
DeleteIf your hands are really dirty it makes good soap.
ReplyDeleteGotta love those safety shoes, um, safety sneakers. I've seen pics where guys have their shoes catch fire standing on lava flows.
ReplyDeleteHappened to me in a steel mill. Didn't know I was on fire until I was flying through the air backwards, jerked by a damn good co-worker, and sprayed by a water hose.
DeleteJeremy P.
I think they can test the amounts/types of gases coming-up with the lava.
DeleteIf those gases change(against a certain 'norm'.....they may know that an explosive event is in the works.
Magma mineralogy changes through out its life within the chamber as partial fractionation occurs. Guessing that they are pulling samples for mineralogy profiling, x-ray diffraction, etc. to understand changes in the petro-chemistry. Helps them understand what's going on in the magma chamber and maybe informs on workings of the mantle too. One of the few places on earth that has civilized infrastructure and steady funding where they can study volcanos, live eruptions, mantle hot spots, and plate tectonics in uninterrupted peace.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's a lot of mileage out of one little, "Why"! Thanks!
DeleteI've done that. Oh never mind it was larvae I was harvesting.
ReplyDeleteSo that's how you make Stone Soup!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to see this with Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs.
ReplyDeleteso this is where Lowe's gets there lava rocks?
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