9 ms·
I went for a hike there on Saturday night, here are a few of the shots I got: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFBYeKa30w&list=PLoqbqfn2kulYtxzhHlwKNk4V85R-gxf
by hugi 6y ago
I went for a hike there on Saturday night, here are a few of the shots I got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFBYeKa30w&list=PLoqbqfn2kulYtxzhHlwKNk4V85R-gxf1q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFBYeKa30w&list=PLoqbqfn2ku...
Unfortunately, photos and movies don't capture the atmosphere and sheer scale of the thing. What might look like some rocks rolling from the crater is cose to building-sized. Still, it's defined as a small eruption.
Edit: iCloud rate-limited the playlist I originally posted, so changed to YouTube playlist. Original link: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0OG6XBubGEA3MC https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0OG6XBubGEA3MC
- srich36 6y agoAwesome videos! Is it not dangerous to get that close? I got apprehensive just watching that
- hugi 6y agoWhen I got back from the hike I heard on the radio that this location was, ahem, not recommended. It was closed off yesterday and a short while later the crater walls collapsed in that direction. https://youtu.be/eeAf1kZ7_ZE https://youtu.be/eeAf1kZ7_ZE But there were a few of us at that spot at the time so at least I wouldn't have died alone :).
- ragebol 6y agoA bit on the macabre side (but your comments makes me believe you don't mind too much perhaps): what would happen if you'd fall or otherwise get trapped in lava? Gollum melted I think but that seems unlikely (it's a movie after all). Left for future archeologists like in Pompeii? Please don't test on purpose or accident this btw.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agoit's 1200°C so you burn already before your body even hits the lava. During the Pompeji eruption people got killed by the hot ash (arriving first and travels further) which cooked them alive: > The individuals in the boat houses died relatively quickly: The volcanic ash blocked the entrance to each structure, and the temperature of the air within probably rose to about 400°C—even hotter than a wood-fired oven. -- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/studies-reveal-gruesome-last-moments-pompeii-volcano-s-victims https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/studies-reveal-grues...
- Tuna-Fish 6y agoThe lava is substantially denser than you, so you'd probably float on top and bake until you are dry and then burn. The victims at Pompeii got buried in pyroclastic ash, not lava.
- ragebol 6y agoAh, of course. Should have known. Still terrible.
- the8472 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7DDk8eLs8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7DDk8eLs8
- elihu 6y agoI don't think much would be left of a person, but in central Oregon near Bend there's a park called the Lava Cast Forest, which is what it sounds like. About seven thousand years ago or so, there were some lava flows that engulfed live trees. The lava solidified, and what was left of the trees decomposed. Now, what's left is a bunch of hollow tubes that are castings of the trees. You can still see the texture of the bark. I assume this sort of thing exists in other lava flows around the world.
- btach 6y agoA trail around Mt St Helens (Trail of Two Forests, https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/trail-of-two-forests https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/trail-of-two-forests) has that kind of thing. There is a short tunnel you can crawl through - two trees were laying 90 degrees to each other overlapping when covered with lava. The entrance reminded me of a scene of a typical campy B horror movie (No! Don't go in that cave! The Monster is in there!) I wish I thought to scream to my wife when I crawled in (pretending the Monster got me) -- only thought of it later :-).
- matsemann 6y agoIt almost looks like the hole is 2 meters in diameter and that you're standing right next to it. But then a person in red coat is really small. How big is the hole really?
- hugi 6y agoI don't have exact measurements. But for some reference, here's a drone shot from the location. I'm the lone guy standing above the SAR team. https://www.hugi.io/img/crater.jpg https://www.hugi.io/img/crater.jpg
- jacquesm 6y agoI'd hate to own your life insurance policy :) Other than that great shots, please be very careful.
- matsemann 6y agothanks, that image provides a nice scale
- hugi 6y agoThe Met office just released a statement where they said the walls of the main crater are currently about 30 meters tall (~100 feet). It's of course gained some height since Saturday.
- DyslexicAtheist 6y agoholy smokes you're awfully close to the action :D
- jiofih 6y agoWhoa that is really close. Isn’t it common that lava will be ejected much farther than that? Or does this volcano have a particular known pattern already?
- hugi 6y ago
- busymom0 6y agoYour iCloud album is no longer available "due to high demand"
- aargh_aargh 6y agoThat is ridiculous... Oh, an actual demand for the sharing service? Let's shut it down temporarily until the demand passes. Have they never heard of caching?
- consumer451 6y agoThe funny thing is that iCloud integration with Win 10 is excellent, and vastly superior Google’s product. But then you have rate limiting and the fact that Apple doxes you when you share.
- ianai 6y agoHow do they dox their users in this case?
- casefields 6y agoClick the link, you'll see who shared it. They are suggesting that Apple should have an option to withhold that info.
- consumer451 6y agoThe only time I have tried it, this happened: 1) win file explorer, right-click file and choose Share with iCloud link (not at pc, am paraphrasing) 2) test link in private browser tab 3) see “this file shared by First Last” My apologies if I am conflating the way this file was shared versus the way I had shared
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoYeah, I’ve only ever shared with people who know my name anyway, but you’re right, that’s no good. Don’t iCloud share with the internet, got it! Thanks.
- chrisco255 6y agoApparently Apple has rate-limited this shared album. I got to see the stunning footage before it was cut off. If you get a chance to upload it to another source, please circle back with a link!
- hugi 6y agoI didn't know they did that, thanks for the notification! Moved some of the videos to a YouTube playlist and updated the post.
- drcongo 6y agoAmazingly, when the iCloud page did start working for me, the videos wouldn't play and gave the message "This video cannot be played in this browser" - I'm using the latest Safari.
- markdown 6y ago"Your browser cannot play this video." I'm running Chrome v89.0 on MacOS.
- est31 6y agoI think the video might be in H.265 format. Outside of Safari, no browser supports it, not even Chrome. https://caniuse.com/hevc https://caniuse.com/hevc The video was probably originally in H.265 format and Apple apparently did no attempt at transcoding it to a format that's more widely understood like H.264.
- saagarjha 6y agoDoes not play in Safari, either :/
- stoolpigeon 6y agoI've never been anywhere near any volcano. If you don't mind - what does it smell like? Could you feel the heat from it? What was the sound like? If you don't have the time I understand but I'd love to hear what the experience was like to be that close.
- hugi 6y agoOh yes, you feel the warmth. The smell that immediately hit me was comforting, like you just lit a nice hardwood barbecue, probably from soil and plant material burning when coming into contact with the magma. The crater is loud and deeply rumbly and makes you feel the raw power of the Earth.
- news_to_me 6y ago> The crater is loud and deeply rumbly and makes you feel the raw power of the Earth. I'm using this in my next Zork clone ;)
- anthk 6y agoDo it with Inform6 please :D
- gojomo 6y agoBut don't you Icelanders find sulfuric smells – the same that much of the world associates with rotten eggs – kinda comforting, too, because since childhood such smells usually accompany hot bath water from the faucets? :)
- hugi 6y agoHaha, well… I'm born and raised in the East fjords where there's little geothermal activity and geothermal heating is thus rare. When I first went to Reykjavik as a kid I nearly vomited when I was introduced with a bathtub full of that sulphuric liquid they called hot water :).
- brabel 6y ago
- canada_dry 6y agoDamn travel ban!! I'd strike two things off my bucket list: visit Iceland, get up-close-n-personal with an active volcano. And quite possibly a third: seeing Northern Lights. I spent a few days at Arenal in Costa Rica years ago and left without experiencing any volcanic activity.