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Live Paradox

A journeyman’s ramblings: He is no everyman, but one who turns a carefully focused eye on the events of the madcap world around him. He aims to point out what others miss and draw attention to the patterns that exist amongst the chaos. 

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

10:32 AM -

WAG - Waiting for thar she to blow


Note: I already wrote one post on the subject but the computer ate it and I am only not reconstituting it.

Okay. It's been a couple decades and it looks like Mount St. Helens is rumbling for another round.

To me, this is fascinating despite the fact I don't recall the previous eruption, though I have studied it a lot (including pictures my parents took as the ash drifted east across the nation and caused cool atmospheric condtions, i.e., freaky cool clouds). Volcanoes was one of the few subjects in physical science I always enjoyed in school (no offense to the different animal kingdoms or or simple machines or the endocrine system). I even took an honors vulcanology class at MU, of which I had to kill myself for a B, but I nonetheless enjoyed.

The world has changed in the decades since Helen last blew her top. Global volcanic activity has been on the rise, ...

MORE TO COME

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