Volcano Pics
 

These pics are just nuts! This feels like the end of the world. lol

http://www.hostimages.ca/hosted/8d9b...af7547b095.jpg
http://www.hostimages.ca/hosted/4784...afa2e5d9b7.jpg
http://www.hostimages.ca/hosted/9ad3...bd685b5929.jpg
http://www.hostimages.ca/hosted/befc...809cdb4d2d.jpg

More here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...llajokull.html

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Wow, that's incredible. Can you imagine what you would think if you saw that before knowing all about the science of things we know today?

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Amazing. Those are great pictures in the link too.

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Amazing pictures


I would probably believe I just Witnessed Jehovah :)

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Volcanic ash is insane. I wish I could afford to take a trim up there right now, just the opportunity to come back with pics like that is amazing.

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Friggen awesome! Those pics are incredible!

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that's pretty insane.

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We would think Obama really is the chosen one!! :spin:

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Please don't bring politics into this thread.

Awesome pics! Lava and lightning looks bad ass together.

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Wow those are some amazing pics! Thanks for posting

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No politics, it's called making a joke. Geez, everybody needs to lighten up. :joint2:

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wow cool pictures

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I know it was a joke, but I just get so sick of seeing it pop up all the damn time. I think we need a specific section of the forum for just politics, and keep it out of the rest of the forum.

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Agreed with kevin.

Those are some amazing pictures, I forgot that volcanic ash clouds cause lighting. Sooooooo sweet.

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Holy eff!

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Just a reminder, this is a free speech site. Don't like what's being said, skip over it and move on.

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Damn! Was going to say, when did volcanic ash produce lightning! That looks so insane! Fake in a way, but awesome!

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I guess the volcanic ash and gasses spewing out is really electrically charged, so thats why the lightning happens. Crazy stuff!

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Do they not teach anything in school anymore? The ash rubbing together in the air causes static electricity to build up which causes the lightning. I'm damn near positive I learned that in 6th grade.

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Apparently not :/ Because they never taught me that in school, I graduated from WI so that could be the reason lol!

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I knew it Matt, just forgot is all. It looks totally apocalyptic tho. Love it.

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The ash rubbing together is not why.... And no they didnt teach this in any school I went to, not even college geology or meteorology did they cover this for some reason.


What happens:

"Thankfully, the ash that comes out is hot enough so that not every particle is neutral: many are positively charged ions and many are negatively charged ions.

If you can make something push the positive ions differently than it pushes the negative ones, you can create a charge separation! If you get enough charges separated, you can make a large enough voltage to give you lightning!"

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^^ ftw

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Yeah I don't think volcanic ash was in any of my curriculums. They did however teach me that there were 9 planets...

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Sort of correct, though I have never heard of this, but I'm just a closet science nerd. Also, quote your sources. ;)

http://geology.com/articles/volcanic-lightning/

http://www.livescience.com/environme...ll-100420.html

Saying I'm wrong is, well, wrong. :) It's the same deal as when you rubbed a glass rod with silk in science class.

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Matt D is never wrong. :)

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab...yjafjallaj.php

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Haha not at all, I gladly admit when I'm wrong.

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Hahaha +1