欧宝娱乐

“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland鈥攁 small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth鈥攃an bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.”
― Slavoj 沤i啪ek

“The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)鈥攁 century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature. At the same time, at a different level, it makes us more dependent on nature鈥檚 whims.”
― Slavoj 沤i啪ek

“In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.”
― Pliny the Younger, The Letters Of Pliny, The Younger: With Observations On Each Letter

“Somehow Geryon made it to adolescence. Then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches. ... Geryon was going into the Bus Depot one Friday night about three a.m. to get change to call home. Herakles stepped oof the bus from New Mexico and Geryon came fast around the corner of the platform and there it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. The world poured back and forth between their eyes once or twice.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.”
― Harold Jeffreys

“So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would roast a pig in the steaming volcano fields at the base of St. Helens. Being a scientist meant that he would do it in a methodical fashion: notes would be kept and he would document everything. The operation needed a cover name because reporters and others were monitoring all radio communication around the volcano, so he called it the 'FPP temperature experiment'. FPP stood for Front Page Palmer, a name the scientists had given a local geology professor who had irritated the Survey geologists by grandstanding for the press. Miller would roast a pig and Palmer at the same time.”
― Dick Thompson, Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science

“Maybe they had become volcano smoke jumpers, diving into an unknown risk to do a dangerous job because, in part, it was a social good and, in part, because they loved the big show.”
― Dick Thompson, Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science

“If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.”
― William Hamilton, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos

“Volcanoes be in Sicily
And South America
I judge from my Geography鈥�
Volcanoes nearer here
A lava step at any time
Am I inclined to climb鈥�
A Crater I may contemplate
Vesuvius at Home.”
― Emily Dickinson

“So instead I stare at the steaming liquid dripping into a coffeepot and start thinking of steaming volcanoes. And dinosaurs standing around drinking coffee, staring up at the giant meteor soaring through the air, commenting on how pretty it is.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“I drown myself in liquids of all kind
Pour me another fiery glass of wine
Volcanoes flash before my eyes
I fear the love I left behind”
― Isbelle Razors, Reflective Dogma

“You will never really get, how really everything works in my world. How the colour of the sky changes every now and then, and how deep the sea gets in there. How volcanoes and rivers flow together, and how demons and angels fall in love in there. How stormy a night can get and how bright a day can be. How ruined the home is, but how vibrant the feelings are in there.”
― Akshay Vasu

“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, absorb infrared energy and help warm the planet. So they're absolutely crucial. The problem is that their concentration in the atmosphere needs to be regulated as the sun slowly brightens. Otherwise, the Earth would not be able to stabilize its surface temperature, which would be disastrous.

Plate tectonics cycles fragments of the Earth's crust -- including limestone, which is made up of calcium, carbon dioxide, and oxygen atoms -- down into the mantle. There, the planet's internal heat releases the carbon dioxide, which is then continually vented to the atmosphere through volcanoes. It's quite an elaborate process, but the end result is a kind of thermostat that keeps the greenhouse gases in balance and our surface temperature under control.

--Guillermo Gonzalez, Ph.D. (astronomer & physicist)”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

“Across the lansdcape, steam vents hiss gaseous breath from deep inside the planet, creating an environment that feels like it hangs in the balance between our world and another.”
― Stefanie Payne, A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip

“Those who seek power somewhere outside rather than within themselves should carefully look at the volcanoes! All the power is within you! And all you have to do is take it out!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There are reminders of the truth to mankind about the universe: Lightning, earthquakes, storms! The angriest of these reminders is the volcanoes eruptions!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the dense cloud of hot ash in the absence of oxygen would lead to unconsciousness in a few breaths, as well as causing severe burns to the respiratory tract... On the other hand, survival is possible in the more distal parts of a surge if there is adequate shelter to protect against the surge flow and its high temperature, as well as the missiles (rocks, building materials) entrained in the moving cloud of material.”
― Encylopaedia of Volcanoes

“Krakatoa, spelled 鈥淜rakatau鈥� in Indonesian, is a volcano in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. It is also the name of an island group made up of what is left of a larger island, consisting of three volcanic peaks that were destroyed by the catastrophic 1883 eruption. This explosive force was equivalent to 100,000 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs. It was the loudest sound ever heard in modern history and could be heard up to 3,000 miles away. At that time, the explosion caused huge tsunamis which killed more than 36,000 people and sent out shock waves that were recorded worldwide for almost a week. Years later in 1927, 鈥淎nak Krakatau鈥� a new island mountain formed in its place and is again the location of volcanic activity. It is considered a part of the Pacific 鈥淩ing of Fire.”
― Captain Hank Bracker

“Okay, well, how about this for an idea. How about we throw you screaming from a helicopter into the fucking waiting maw of an active volcano? Would that be fun? I know that the volcanoes, they usually like nubile young virgins, but me and the villagers had a conference and we decided that we would rather throw you in and keep the virgins for ourselves. Fuck what the volcano wants.”
― T.J. Kirk

“A man defying an extinct volcano is only declaring his cowardice!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Volcanologists have a tendency to drift westward in the United States because that's where the action is tectonically. North and Central America occupy the western portion of a big slab of the earth's crust known as the North American plate, which is shaped roughly like an inverted triangle. The bottom of the triangle is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean halfway between South America and Africa. The top two corners are north of Siberia and northwest of Greenland. This piece of the earth's crust is constantly jockeying for position with the tectonic plates that surround it. In some places, like Iceland, the North American plate is pulling away from an adjoining plate, and molten material is welling up to fill the gap. In other places, like California, the North American plate is slipping past an adjoining plate, often getting stuck and then breaking free in earthquake-inducing jolts.

But the most dramatic and dangerous of these plate interactions occur in the Pacific Northwest. There, in a line from southern British Columbia to Northern California, a small piece of oceanic crust is being forced under the edge of the North American plate at the rate of a few inches per year.”
― Steve Olson

“When the volcano speaks powerfully, everyone looks for a safe place to escape! When wisdom speaks powerfully, nobody escapes and no one looks for a safe place, because they have already found the safe place in the words of wisdom!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“~2221 years = 26 kilometers

翱辞鈥�.&谤诲辩耻辞;
― Aristw

“Student: Master, why do volcanoes erupt? Master: Because no one takes a silent volcano seriously!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan