Comment on checkmate, big geology!!

JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• slurpyslop@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  didnt use enough cement

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  • interolivary@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Definitely! I find that most problems in life can be solved with cement; if it didn’t solve your problem, you just didn’t use enough of it.

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    • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I need about a moon-sized glob of cement for…

      Science stuff.

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      • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Add duct tape to the list

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• sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where is this from?? Is this AI?

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  • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I believe that’s Mt St Helens erupting. Real footage from 1980 (though this gif is sped up).

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    • seejur@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If I recall correctly, it is not real “footage” but real photos which are interpolated into a film using editing software

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That would definitely explain why it’s sped up if the source was a bunch of still images. I’ve seen other edits of it that look a little more like a real-time video.

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    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you, I just read the Wikipedia summary of the event, and I can’t believe this isn’t even as big as the “Big One” everyone talks about for Yellowstone.

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      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s neat seeing someone learn about Mt St Helen’s for the first time. It was such a big deal in the 80s that I can’t remember not knowing about it. It makes me excited to discover major events I know nothing about…

        Anyway… The thing with it wasn’t necessarily the size of the eruption. There have been much, much bigger eruptions. It’s that it was one of the first with really good footage (since it was one of the earlier predicted eruptions), it occurred in the US, and it blew out sideways instead of the top.

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      • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mt, St. Helen compared to Yellowstone or the Phlegraean Fields in Italy was an a simple New Year’s Eve rocket. Both capable to create an month long night on the whole Earth.

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      • IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The Yellowstone volcano is about 8 times larger than the entirety of park that has Mt St Helens in it (~860,000 acres of volcano vs ~110,000 acres of park).

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mt. St. Helen’s eruption, 1980. I remember this form when I was a kid. I couldn’t wrap my head around a mountain exploding then, and I still can’t.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where is this from?? Is this AI?

    At this point in Earth’s timeline (1980) AI had not yet gained control of Earth’s volcanoes through a projection network of 80s music into the asthenosphere.

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