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(37,162 posts)I'm inclined to think an actual "ain't playing" scenario would have involved the cameraman getting the hell out of there.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and nightfor 18 months. "For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year," wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record "a failure of bread from the years 536539." Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says.
Historians have long known that the middle of the sixth century was a dark hour in what used to be called the Dark Ages, but the source of the mysterious clouds has long been a puzzle. Now, an ultraprecise analysis of ice from a Swiss glacier by a team led by McCormick and glaciologist Paul Mayewski at the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine (UM) in Orono has fingered a culprit. At a workshop at Harvard this week, the team reported that a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere early in 536. Two other massive eruptions followed, in 540 and 547. The repeated blows, followed by plague, plunged Europe into economic stagnation that lasted until 640, when another signal in the icea spike in airborne leadmarks a resurgence of silver mining, as the team reports in Antiquity this week.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)period. Everything that could have gone wrong, did
LuvLoogie
(7,028 posts)Maybe more.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)and they are also well above the valley where the lava accumulates.
Besides, it does this about every 8 to 12 minutes. It ain't playing indeed.
Some of the best views are from the drones which are all over the place.
The vulcanologists are having an absolute field day!
Takket
(21,625 posts)Deuxcents
(16,332 posts)Mother Nature having something to say. Hope no one in the way...
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)Several very big volcano eruptions around the world; Guatemala, Congo, Mt Etna and Mt Stromboli in Italy, ash coating everything on St Vincents island, Mauna Loa is erupting again,
Flooding in the Arabian peninsula and other locations not subject to heavy rain.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)He is a geologist and I am just enthralled.
The night videos really detail the lava streams that are running underneath the lava that has solidified. Incredibly beautiful.
Brother Buzz
(36,465 posts)Granted, there's a boatload of light gaseous bubbly lava on the surface, but there's some heavy liquid shit below, slowly cooling.
With gravity's help, it gonna go where it wants to go.