[QUOTE=seba079;47385954]wow, that color really works; I can only see a white and beige trashcan[/QUOTE]
That's a pretty shitty picture to show how it works, here's a better example:
[IMG]http://everythingwdisneyworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/noseeum-001.jpg[/IMG]
The pale green blends into the surroundings of the objects around it, as opposed to other pronounced colors. Of course you're going to notice the trashcan if you're looking for it -- but if you're busy looking at all the cast members and the attractions, the buildings/common objects painted this color are a lot more likely to slip your mind, and continue the illusion of Disneyland.
makes sense. when we were in the wild before civilization, we don't need to remember every tree or bush.
[QUOTE=pentium;47386541]
David Johnston was never seen or heard from again. The twisted remains of his trailer were discovered by accident by state highway workers in 1993.
[/QUOTE]
Wait, they never found his body? Just the trailer?
I knew as soon as I saw that picture of him looking so happy I was about to read something depressing.
Just found this
[IMG]http://41.media.tumblr.com/c21ffa818128a7ea116063a65efc20a9/tumblr_nkypwur0Eu1s5kgq3o1_1280.png[/IMG]
[img]http://41.media.tumblr.com/90d472d3d378fc284c4f5a33b93c09a7/tumblr_nkwvagQ6oX1s5kgq3o1_1280.jpg[/img]
A Japanese Mujihideen fighter during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Does anyone have more info on this guy?
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47381251]It's crazy when currency used to have different dudes faces on them
especially when you get them back as change
Cleveland was on the 20 in the 1910's
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/doxFQoA.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE]
Hey I'm back to admit that I photoshoped this picture. I was just holding a one dollar bill at work, and spent 20 minutes getting it to look passable.
however, it is still interesting to note that if I did indeed get this back as change, it would only be worth between 50 and 60 dollars.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;47392003]Wait, they never found his body? Just the trailer?[/QUOTE]
He was likely ripped apart by the impact. This was the Coldwater II site six (and the same location as the above photo) months after the explosion.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/MSH80_st_helens_from_johnston_ridge_09-10-80.jpg/800px-MSH80_st_helens_from_johnston_ridge_09-10-80.jpg[/img]
There isn't even a single trace of the surrounding trees. It's the fucking moon. Johnston never stood a chance. Neither did another person not far away who saw it happen.
[quote]Initially, there was some debate as to whether Johnston had survived; records soon showed a radio message from fellow eruption victim and amateur radio operator Gerry Martin, located near the Coldwater peak and farther north of Johnston's position, reporting his sighting of the eruption enveloping the Coldwater II observation post. As the blast overwhelmed Johnston's post, Martin declared solemnly, "Gentlemen, the uh... camper and the car sitting over to the south of me is covered. It's gonna get me, too. I can't get out of here ..." before his radio went silent.[/quote]
Here's a photo of photographer Reid Blackburn's car a few months after the eruption:
[IMG]http://media.columbian.com/img/croppedphotos/2010/03/31/20100331-145003-pic-661992092_t770.jpg?14d6aa988ff86e4c07f5eb5afbea0f8176fedeb4[/IMG]
Reid Blackburn was killed while he tried to get away from the incoming wall of hot ash and debris.
Here's the car (with Blackburn's body in it) just when it was found:
[IMG]http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/files/2013/02/MSH80_reid_blackburn_car_on_ColdwaterI_05-22-80_med.jpg[/IMG]
Notice how it's fucking burried in ash up to the windows...
Sort of makes you realise how fucked we are if a supervolcano erupts.
To clarify, to class as a supervolcano it has to have a potential eruption (or previous eruption) [B][I]thousands[/I][/B] of times larger than a standard volcano.
[QUOTE=Killbane;47394596]Sort of makes you realise how fucked we are if a supervolcano erupts.
To clarify, to class as a supervolcano it has to have a potential eruption (or previous eruption) [B][I]thousands[/I][/B] of times larger than a standard volcano.[/QUOTE]
1,000 square km of debris compared to the.. what, 10 square km of mt. st helens.
[editline]25th March 2015[/editline]
theres a chart somewhere with categories 1-7 or something, think that was a 5 but yellowstone would be 7
[img]http://i.imgur.com/C5fcrjN.jpg[/img]
[quote]Marine Lieutenant communicates with young children that were taken in by Americans during the Battle of Okinawa. Most likely school children lucky enough to reach American lines.[/quote]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/T57Zs84.jpg[/img_thumb]
[quote]John Kerry receiving a medal for his actions in Vietnam, very well-known as a very outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and the Secretary of State today[/quote]
A pic of Spirit Lake I took myself
[url=https://flic.kr/p/ar2uc5][img]https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6175/6190413258_3880737087_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/ar2uc5]IMG_0323[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/59868994@N03/]Terranigmus[/url], on Flickr
[editline]25th March 2015[/editline]
And friends of mine chillin' on top of that lake:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/rvuTy1][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7619/16742734140_f50d9a4928_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/rvuTy1]IMG_0346.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/59868994@N03/]Terranigmus[/url], on Flickr
[editline]25th March 2015[/editline]
You can walk down there, it's a 25 minute walk but the lots of tourists we saw didn't want to take it and just snapped pics from their cars.
[QUOTE=zupadupazupadude;47394009]Here's a photo of photographer Reid Blackburn's car a few months after the eruption:
[IMG]http://media.columbian.com/img/croppedphotos/2010/03/31/20100331-145003-pic-661992092_t770.jpg?14d6aa988ff86e4c07f5eb5afbea0f8176fedeb4[/IMG]
Reid Blackburn was killed while he tried to get away from the incoming wall of hot ash and debris.
Here's the car (with Blackburn's body in it) just when it was found:
[IMG]http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/files/2013/02/MSH80_reid_blackburn_car_on_ColdwaterI_05-22-80_med.jpg[/IMG]
Notice how it's fucking burried in ash up to the windows...[/QUOTE]
Here are his glasses and some doughnuts he had with him:
[t]http://media.columbian.com/img/photos/2010/03/31/20100331-145003-pic-292043195.jpg[/t]
[t]http://media.columbian.com/img/photos/2010/03/31/20100331-145003-pic-900655594.jpg[/t]
Must have been a very painful death
[QUOTE=Adius Shadow;47395272]Must have been a very painful death[/QUOTE]
Hopefully it was quick.
400 mph wall of 1,200 degree gases and ash
pretty sure the pressure alone would knock you out before you died
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47394752]1,000 square km of debris compared to the.. what, 10 square km of mt. st helens.
[editline]25th March 2015[/editline]
theres a chart somewhere with categories 1-7 or something, think that was a 5 but yellowstone would be 7[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_explosivity_index]This[/url] maybe? On that St. Helens is a 5 and Yellowstone is an 8.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47394752]1,000 square km of debris compared to the.. what, 10 square km of mt. st helens.
[editline]25th March 2015[/editline]
theres a chart somewhere with categories 1-7 or something, think that was a 5 but yellowstone would be 7[/QUOTE]
It goes all the way up to VEI-9, which is held exclusively by the eruption of the Parana and Etendeka traps which holds the record for the single largest explosion to ever occur on planet earth at over 15,000 km^3 of ejecta
VEI-8 is for supervolcanoes, ranging from 1,000 km^3 to 5,000 km^3 (Yellowstone)
VEI-7 and shit are still huge volcanoes but not exceeding 1,000 km^3
Now for comparison, the 1980 Mt St. Helen's eruption spewed out only 1.2 km^3 of ash. and was VEI-5 (though it was accompanied by a massive landslide)
Thanks to the Discovery Channel, NatGeo and Google for making the apocalypse so neat.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_explosivity_index[/url]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Mancage_in_Afghanistan_1921.JPG[/IMG]
[QUOTE]"Although Marco Polo apparently avoided bandits on Afghanistan's mountain trails, other travelers then and later were plagued by thieves. But our January 1921 article "Every-Day Life in Afghanistan," which included this photograph, reported that "owing to the aggressive pursuit and harsh punishment meted out by the Amir's troops, the once famous robbers of the Afghan hills have almost disappeared." One such punishment was the "man-cage," like this one at Lateh Band Pass. A thief was "put in this iron cage, raised to the top of the pole, so that his friends could not pass food or poison to him, and here he was left to die.""[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Glitchman;47395351]400 mph wall of 1,200 degree gases and ash
pretty sure the pressure alone would knock you out before you died[/QUOTE]
I think you would probably turned to ash instantly.
I wonder, if the people who died around Mount St Helens had been left there for thousands of years, would it eventually have turned into another Pompeii?
[QUOTE=Bbarnes005;47395463]I think you would probably turned to ash instantly.[/QUOTE]
The human body is pretty resilient.
[QUOTE=Adius Shadow;47395500]The human body is pretty resilient.[/QUOTE]
not [I]that[/I] resilient.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47395315]Hopefully it was quick.[/QUOTE]
A lot of the people who died because of the eruption died of ash asphyxiation, including Blackburn.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;47395218]Here are his glasses and some doughnuts he had with him:
[t]http://media.columbian.com/img/photos/2010/03/31/20100331-145003-pic-292043195.jpg[/t]
[t]http://media.columbian.com/img/photos/2010/03/31/20100331-145003-pic-900655594.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I like his glasses
Here's two pictures of him alive and his camera:
[IMG]http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2010/148/28488478_127515146071.jpg[/IMG]
[t]http://nppf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/REID-BLACKBURN.jpg[/t]
[t]http://media.columbian.com/img/photos/2013/12/25/Reid-s_lost_roll.jpg-.jpg[/t]
last time i went to st helens there was a big lump regrowing out of the crater
[editline]25th March 2015[/editline]
this pic gives a good sense of the scale of the devastation:
[IMG]http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.8795.1360078430!/slideshowimage/3_mt_st_hellens.jpg_gen/derivatives/fullsize/3_mt_st_hellens.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Kommodore;47395988]last time i went to st helens there was a big lump regrowing out of the crater
[editline]25th March 2015[/editline]
this pic gives a good sense of the scale of the devastation:
[IMG]http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.8795.1360078430!/slideshowimage/3_mt_st_hellens.jpg_gen/derivatives/fullsize/3_mt_st_hellens.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Holy fuck
[quote]The May 18 eruption. Composite photograph from 35 miles (60 km) west in Toledo, Washington. The ash-cloud stem is 10 miles (16 km) wide, and the mushroom top is 40 miles (64 km) wide and 15 miles (24 km) high. The footprint of the cloud stem is roughly the same as the devastated area north of the mountain where the forest was knocked down and which three decades later is still relatively barren.[/quote]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/MtStHelens_Mushroom_Cloud.jpg[/t]
fuck
[t]http://i.imgur.com/8HzrTwz.jpg[/t]
[IMG]https://extremeplanet.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/mount-helens-landsburg-last-photo.png?w=560[/IMG]
[QUOTE]When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, photographer Robert Landsburg was there – within a few miles from the summit, shooting away. Landsburg had spent several weeks prior to the eruption documenting the volcano, putting himself on the precipice of danger.
On May 18, Landsburg’s luck ran dry. Seeing the immanent explosion in the not-so-distant distance, Landsburg decided he could not escape the eruption in time to save his own life. And so, he used his body to save his film.
Landsburg continued to photograph the eruption until the last possible moment, leaving himself enough time to wind up his film into its case, place his camera in its bag, place that bag into his backpack, and lay his body on top of the bag as the final protective layer against the shower of magma and ash.
Landsburg’s body was found 17 days later, buried in ash with his film in tact. The photographs were published in the January 1981 issue of National Geographic...[/QUOTE]
[url]https://huckberry.com/journal/posts/robert-landsburg-s-brave-final-shots[/url]
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