Comment on checkmate, big geology!!

• the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah and slightly off topic wasn’t the pic of Helens blowing its top taken by a man who knew in advance the explosion would kill him and protected his film? Am i thinking of the right story?

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  • mihor@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. Heroic deed it was.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Such a simple but beautiful act of love to spend your last moments of life doing that knowing that if those photos might help people understand volcanoes and their associated hazards even a tiny better in the future it was worth it.

      You could call it tragic, and of course it is, but I prefer to call it badass.

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    • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for adding the link. He was a real one, deserves to be remembered

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think so

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    • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Had to look this up. It was en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg

      RIP

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  • wanderer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s Robert Landsburg although I don’t think his photos are very famous.

    The series of photos that were turned into a video were taken by Gary Rosenquist, who survived the eruption.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So much awesome power in that eruption (with non-awesome human and nature/animal consequences).

  mountsthelens.com/history-1.html

  This article is a good play-by-play of how the eruption physically progressed, I particularly like this illustration.

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