LAST and LATEST BATCH: ICELAND VOLCANO (pic heavy)

[AsahinaKimi]

Edited: Added a few more photos, and some commentary from the website.






































In this picture made available by NEODASS/University of Dundee shows the volcanic ash plume from Iceland, top left, to the north of Britain at received by NASA's Terra Satellite at 11.39 GMT Thursday April 15, 2010.



In this picture made available by the Icelandic Coastguard, taken Wednesday April 14, 2010, smoke and steam rises from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, which erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Authorities evacuated 800 residents from around the glacier as rivers rose by up to 10 feet (3 meters). Emergency officials and scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month, and carried a much greater risk of widespread flooding. (AP Photo/Icelandic Coastguard)


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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Holy shit! Picture # 9 finally proves the existiance of Fire Man.

:+

[Arkansas Granny]

3. You saw the same thing I did. It made me do a double take.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. I can't blame this on being high. I'm

actually at work. :evilgrin:

[Arkansas Granny]

9. Me too.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Yay granny!

:smoke:

[KittyWampus]

20. I see it too!

[Divine Discontent]

2. what a beautiful creation this planet is. the lightning and the sky photo after it, are so amazing.

what a wild planet...

[gateley]

7. Beautifully stated. Thanks. nt

[Divine Discontent]

19. hello dear gateley! hope things are good your way...

[One Voice]

4. Wow

Great photos, thanks.

[tonysam]

6. What terrific pictures! n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

8. I have a good friend in Iceland

She sends me the links. Pretty amazing stuff!

[inna]

11. Thank you very much for sharing!

Please feel free to share more! :thumbsup:

[AsahinaKimi]

12. I added a few more I found on the same site

There is some awesome stuff there!

[Ian David]

10. ...

"Very funny, Tower. Now seriously, what is the REAL heading for the runway?"



"I have this strange feeling I forgot to turn-off the stove."

[Lars77]

13. Looks nice, but it did cost me an 18 hour train+bus ride.

Berlin-Hamburg-Lubeck-Puttgarten-Rødby-Copenhagen-Gothenburg-Oslo.

Good night!

:D

[inna]

22. Hi Lars!!

:hi:

I'm glad you made it safely home! :hug:


18 hours is a major inconvenience of course, but... at least you made it back! :thumbsup:


I keep hearing these (real life horror) stories about people being stranded for days/weeks... :(

[Lars77]

24. Yes its pretty bad

One guy on the train had been travelling from Portugal, another from Istanbul.

The express train from Hamburg to Copenhagen was so overbooked, the platform was full of people when the train was full. Probably 6-700 people too many, and the German train company had only gotten four additional buses.

It certainly shows how dependent we are on air travel even for short distances around Europe. It would be interesting to see if anyone has checked the air pollution levels during this thing and see of it has dropped.

[Froward69]

14. looks like a color "Dust bowl" photo.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. Will toss in a few more pics...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gfXupHOEhH0/S8w2DMZaqDI/AAAAAAAAQTI/YxGzPXpsYDQ/s640/Dan+Kitwood+Getty+Images+1.jpg

[inna]

25. Wow, this is truly awesome (as in, "inspiring awe").

What are the long, thin particles in these pictures? Does anybody know? (What in the world??...)

[Hekate]

17. Ragnarok and Gotterdammerung. Gorgeous photos. nt

[Bitwit1234]

18. I don't know about volcanos...someone please explain

why do they have lightening associated with the explosions. Is this something that happens all the time, or is it with this volcano only..

[KittyWampus]

21. All those particles rubbing against one another causing build up of energy?

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. It's late so my science brain cells have all gone to sleep, but might it have to do with a very hot

volcano located near a cold glacier? Or maybe it's static. I dunno. My head is too thick to think just now. :)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. It's static from all the ash moving around.

It's all volcanoes that produce so much ash.

Although the quality of the photos is getting better these days. I don't know if that's something to do with improvements in digital photography, or what.

[inna]

27. Ahem. Dude. This is not static. lol

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. Yo, like, it totally is, dawg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning

[inna]

29. Oopsie. Was responding to a wrong post. Long day.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. Wow!!!!

Mother Nature's hot lava enema, I guess.

[bridgit]

31. Stunning images, thanks for posting

:kick: