You left the lounge before I had a chance to thank you.... *sniff*

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VOLCANO LIGHTNING!!
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>> ^notarobot:

Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan? Is the earth trying to shake us off or what?


Don't forget the new volcanic activity in Hawaii...the plates are a'moving, and the magma plume's looking for a new path of least resistance. All in all, if there's a message, it's that we should appreciate the period of relative climatic and geological stability that have given us these wonderful tools and toys, and we should dedicate ourselves to do whatever is necessary to hold onto them a little while longer. Perhaps one should be using them less as toys, and more as tools.

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>> ^jonny:

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That area of Japan is highly volcanically active. Some of the best hot spas to be found too!

Photos of Mount Shinmoedake volcano eruption

Hell it'd be cool if you could have a program that would let you drag and drop stuff onto a field, doesn't even have to be particularly pretty. But it needs to effect the sound, so you could create a beach with waves.....a windy day....a gentle shower.....raging storm...stream that's steady, stream that has a waterfall or two in it. Those sound generators and recorded nature sounds are cool and all, but they all have something that is not quite right about them.

I think overall I'd prefer some awesome sound fields associated with games, awesome gameplay, tolerable graphics, but massive real time and realistic reactions both visually and via sound. It's neat to shoot fireballs at stuff, but what if you could whip up a tornado and unleash it on the enemy? I'd like to be able to watch that thing do it's damage in real time instead of scripted everything we have now. Big earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions.....without scripts....it does what it does based on the factors present in the game which can be changed via player involvement.

Graphics are great and all, but.......great graphics aren't really creating virtual worlds you can believe in. One day they might make a virtual world still frames might look "right", but everything else will be "You can't do this because ...".

I am all for ending all subsidy of energy, oil, coal or otherwise! I would LOVE to see technology finally take government out of energy production. I would love for every house in America to be its own power generator. Could you imagine stopping off at someones house to "fill'er up"! That would be so cool to me! We still might want to keep "the grid" around, but it would fulfill a totally different function. I am hopeful that a combination of solar power + hydrogen fuel cells will give us this ability. Solar seems like such a cash crop of energy, and fuel cells give you the mobility aspect. Time will tell if this comes to be, but it seems pretty promising now with solar cells reaching 50% effectiveness!

I know of studies that talk about feedback loops for weather, and while intellectually intriguing ( I love all things dealing with Apocalypse!), it seems to be without any real historical evidence. Most mass extinction due to weather change that we have any real evidence of are due to catastrophic events such as massive volcanic activity or comets and meteors. While I don't doubt that human CO2 levels could do something that equates to those, I question if we produce the amounts necessary at this point in time. I have tried with little success to find ice and CO2 levels of the Mesozoic era. However, I have read somethings to the contrary of the capacity of the ocean to stabilize the temperature better than ice. Liquid water has a very high specific heat, by increasing the volume of water, you could have an even more effective heat dissipation system than that of reflective ice. I lack any real education into which one is more true. Interestingly enough, CO2 levels were most likely 10% higher than today during the Cretaceous period. There might be slightly more elasticity in the climate than most people have come to understand.

I disagree that the government needs to "create a market for something". If it is one thing governments are very poor at doing is creating markets for things. People do this better and faster than government think tanks. I do however support new understandings in pollution in how it interacts with property rights. If you clog my air with filth, there has to be some legal ramification to that. It is due time to assess how property is defined in terms of air, water, and the like, I welcome that conversation.

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I can see what he's saying but I don't really buy that argument totally.

We share 90% of our DNA with all life because at the end of it all we all emerged from the same spark of life millions of years ago. We share DNA with almost all living things.

After that, let's think about it, Neil's arguement essentially levels all humans to the same level i.e. I can be as smart as Stephen Hawking. I believe that the difference between the average human being and Stephen Hawking is far larger then the difference between the average human and the chimpanzee. Out of our 6 billion people we have a small pool of highly educated and inquisitive people like Neil, Hawking and so on.

Furthermore, the more I read into the subject of INTELLIGENT alien life, the more I think it's fairly rare in our universe. There is alien life out there for sure, if life can arise near volcanic plumes then life is out there perhaps in the probable oceans of Europa.

A reading of our past and development as a species show how depended we were on some factors beyond the probable. We have had extinction events but not catastrophic enough to kill all life. We have a satellite that induces currents and what I believe contributed to life occurring. I recommend reading the Short History of Everything to further explore this topic.

You mean like this?

>> ^gwiz665:

Wow, awesome. If only there was some VOLCANO LIGHTNING too.

Your video, Visible shockwaves from massive volcanic explosions(Iceland), has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Some excellent footage of shockwaves in the ash plume:

http://videosift.com/video/Visible-shockwaves-from-massive-volcanic-explosions-Iceland

>> ^KnivesOut:

I guess they're using a massive telephoto lens, but still, if a big bubble of pyroclastic gas jumped out of that crater, they'd be dead in an instant.
They are very brave cinematographers.


Maybe, maybe not.