As if Covid-19 wasn't enough, now Krakatoa wants in on the act.

Malevolence said:
Apparently she's getting all angry and erupting. Wonder what the chances of her properly going pop are?
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Whatever the chance is, it's reduced by eruptions. So eruptions are sort of a good thing in some ways. The major global catastrophe stuff occurs when they explode and that's made more likely when they don't erupt. It's sort of like the difference between heating a tin of beans until it bursts and heating a fire extinguisher (without a working safety release system) until it bursts.

Fun fact - the famous Krakatoa explosion was so loud that it was audible to humans ~2000 miles away across the seas. At ~1200 miles away, it was loud enough for people to think it was cannons firing nearby. The explosive yield was thousands of times more powerful than a nuke.

StriderX said:
Wouldn't it be grand if Yellowstone finally vajazzle'd?

Should nuke it preemptively to let off some steam.
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That idea has been considered. It's a bad idea. It probably wouldn't work, it might trigger an uncontrolled eruption/explosion and it would definitely cause a huge amount of fallout because you'd need a huge nuke to have any chance of any useful effect.
 
DarrenM343 said:
Forest fire near Chernobyl releasing locked up radiation apparenttly. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/11352239/chernobyl-forest-fires-radiation/
That's Chicken Kiev off of the menu for me.
What are the chance of a radioactive dust cloud sweeping across Europe killing COVID ? :)
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Lovely...they didn't even bother giving any figures. So in one spot it might be 16 times what it was before the fires. But what was it before? What is it now? 16 times negligable could still be negligable. I assume that it is still negligable and that's why the numbers aren't being reported.

Hmm...the Guardian illustrates with a picture showing 0.34 on a gieger counter. 0.34 what? microsieverts per hour, maybe. That's a common figure to show on a gieger counter. If so, that would be about 3 millisieverts per year. Which is negligable. Plenty of inhabited places have that level normally. The average is over 2.

Ahah! CNN has some figures. In one place, and only one place, readings of 2.3 microsieverts per hour have been recorded. ~20 mSv per year. Not serious. Not ideal, but not serious. No cause for panic. Not even if you were living right there, permanently.
 
VincentHanna said:
Was this a nod to the series?
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No, just coincidence. I haven't watched the series, whichever series it is you're referring to. That Chernobyl series? I've seen it being criticised for inaccuracies, but I haven't seen the series itself. I haven't watched TV for many years.

McstylisT said:
2020 is a year to remember that's for sure.
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True, but there have been many years that were worse.
 
Selekt0r said:
It's the end of days I tell you :eek: :D
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I'll just leave this here. :D

Revelation 6:1-2 said:
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
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The opening of the first seal is supposed to release the first of The Four Horseman, Pestilence. And corona is Latin for crown.
 
This is Anak Krakota which is young and a very active volcano hence its name 'Child of Krakota' - the famous eruption in 1883 literally blew most of island into the sky and sea, the remains of the original Krakota are located to the south of this volcano. Anak produced a tsunami recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Sunda_Strait_tsunami As another member has mentioned its probably a safer bet that its erupting quite frequently and letting off steam (literally) instead of bottling up.

Again the original eruption in 1883 would've been the loudest sound ever naturally created was something like 300dB apparently...shocking how many died from the resulting tsunami. It also produced interesting sunsets around the world.
 
On the plus side, at least we're getting all this crap done in one year rather than having it spread out.
 
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McstylisT said:
2020 is a year to remember that's for sure.
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The last decent year for me was 2017. 2018 was pretty good but it tanked towards the end. 2019 was utterly gash, so I was due a good year and I had high hopes for 2020. The start of 2020 was pretty good, but obviously it has thrown it all away now. I can't see the next few years being good either.
 
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