A volcano on the island of Bali is about to erupt. Thousands of people have been evacuated but there are still many who are watching it to see what will happen (like the twits in the photograph above).
Mount Agung's seismic energy is increasing and, according to the National Vulcanology Centre of Indonesia, has the potential to erupt.
Now they should know as in their region in 1883 Krakatoa erupted being the greatest volcanic eruption in modern times. That eruption was heard 5000 kilometres away and was so powerful that it ruptured the eardrums of sailors on ships nearly 70 kilometres away. The pressure wave radiated out at over a thousand kilometres per hour so forget about trying to outrun that sunshine. That wave rounded the globe three and a half times.
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| Krakatoa |
Now if the Indonesians for some reason have forgotten their own history then surely they've heard about Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD releasing energy 100,000 times the power of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs combined. There was no way that the residents of Pompeii were able to outrun the gases, ash and lava flow there even if they survived the initial blast.
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| Vesuvius 79AD |
This certainly puts the North Korean posturing into perspective.
8 comments:
Someone should tell those people to move.
Someone has and has moved about 45,000 people already.
I guess that Darwin's theory will take care of the rest.
I will save them all. Actually, got to go to the supermarket, and then I've got the washing to get in.
Don't forget to stock up on loaves and fishes.
Failing that go to McDonalds and get some fish burgers.
Glad you referred Darwin's Evolution of the Species as a theory.
Just got to get Richard Dawkins doing the same.
Yes, well Robert, we rational non-believers aren't so arrogant to claim that scientific 'theories' are absolute truth. Anything can be disproved through more experimentation or empirical knowledge.
How can you be both rational and a non-believer? You must rationally believe in your proposition.
Science talks in probabilities. That is 95% significance levels at the lowest.
The most is 99.9% probability.
Science is never certain.
But then you claim science can be 100% certain!
I think you would have got a 'D' in science!
You must have an E in reading.
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