The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a 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’s whims.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: nature technology europe aviation 2010 eyjafjallajokull volcanoes 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajökul socioeconomics
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can 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 ŽižekTags: life nature earth humankind europe aviation iceland 2010 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokull butterfly-effect eruption-columns eyjafjallajokull volcanic-ash volcanoes
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 RobbinsTags: god disasters cheating earthquakes volcanoes pinball flash-floods tidal-waves
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 ThompsonTags: science geology volcanoes geology-humor mt-st-helens usgs
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 ThompsonTags: volcanoes usgs hvo pinatubo the-survey
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