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nsaP posted:You have lived less than that dog. You can die while taking a shower. Or while taking a big dump. Life is super fun, I guess.
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Yeah you're right, taking a poo poo and a shower is the same as adrenaline junkie activities. You understand my point fully.
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About ten years ago, Mount St. Helens was seeing some activity again. Supposedly you could see this plume from Seattle. Of course, like everyone living here, we had to go up and take a picture because wow pretty or something? Pretty much every big "mountain" out here is a volcano. Rainier erupting would be a pretty bad scenario, not just because of the ash being produced that much closer to Seattle, but because (my understanding, geologists please point out where I am wrong) the lahars would run right though the south part of the Seattle-Tacoma area (e.g. Tacoma) and it would not be pretty.
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yeah my understanding is that Seattle/Tacoma's catastrophic destruction by lahars and pyroclastic flow are a matter of geological near-certainty
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Venusian Weasel posted:[...] Awesome post, and I'd somehow never seen that final picture before, so thank you for that. I believe that's Mt. Adams, though, not Hood. Among other things the angle of the top of the crater there wouldn't make sense with a view from the south. I highly recommend a visit to the Johnston Ridge Observatory to anyone in the area that's never been or anyone passing through. Well worth the trip.
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Leperflesh posted:I was living in California and going to elementary school when Mt. St. Helens erupted. It was one of the earliest events I distinctly remember watching news footage about. As kids, we were just excited, "holy poo poo volcanoes are cool," but the news coverage was talking about nearby cities coated with layers of ash. One of my friends came back from a family vacation a few months later and he brought along baggies of ash they'd scooped up at roadsides. Hell yeah, ash-getting buddy I was in elementary school too when it happened. My aunt and uncle had just moved to Oregon and they sent me a little vial of Genuine Mount St. Helens Ash. My friends and I decided we wanted to make a volcano of our own so we buried the ash in our playground sandbox because we were in first grade and didn't know any better. A few weeks later the school added more sand to the sandbox, presumably by bringing a dump truck over, it doesn't matter, what matters is that we all came to school one morning to find a cone-shaped heap of sand where we'd planted our volcano and knew then that we had harnessed the power that separates men from gods. Mrs. J didn't believe us.
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Rondette posted:
Started watching it, seems good. The bottleneck 
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May 19, 2015 09:09
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Uk goons there is a documentary about K2 on bbc4 right now
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monster on a stick posted:About ten years ago, Mount St. Helens was seeing some activity again. Supposedly you could see this plume from Seattle. Of course, like everyone living here, we had to go up and take a picture because wow pretty or something? Tacoma being wiped out by a rushing flood of superheated volcanic mud would be a vast improvement.
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nsaP posted:Yeah you're right, taking a poo poo and a shower is the same as adrenaline junkie activities. You understand my point fully. Wait, your post was serious? lol
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Venusian Weasel posted:
I suppose the person in these pictures just sat down to get a steady shot, but I like to imagine that the force of the eruption knocked her on her rear end just after the first photo was taken. My parents collected Mt. St. Helens ash off their car after the eruption. They live in Oklahoma.
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Venusian Weasel posted:
Thank you for this! I remember seeing this in a magazine years ago, and never again. Though as pointed out earlier, I think that was taken from Mt. Adams. I was apparently in the Cascades near the Three Sisters when all this happened. I don't remember, being a baby. A few times when I have flown from Seattle to Eugene, or Vancouver to Portland, I forget which, the plane will go right over St. Helens. It's a hell of a sight from 30,000 feet.
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May 19, 2015 16:35
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Amazing the geology posts. There should be made a geology thread.
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awesome thread great science, great history, and goofy somethingawful gifs to go with it
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benzine posted:Amazing the geology posts. There should be made a geology thread. No. The geology stuff is cool, but don't gently caress with the mountaineering season/caving thread.
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Don't we already have a geology thread somewhere? Somebody could make one otherwise.
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Venusian Weasel posted:EDIT: I forgot I found this gem this morning. The first couple minutes of the eruption seen from the summit of Mt. Hood: This is great, I'm doing the hike from Johnston Ridge to Mt. Adams next month, looking forward to those four volcano views (St. Helens/Adams/Hood/Rainier).
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May 19, 2015 22:07
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SAL is a cool subforum, y'all. The Geosciences Megathread - Hammer? No, that's a size reference for my rock pictures
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Leperflesh posted:SAL is a cool subforum, y'all. But if I go there they'll quickly figure out that I'm actually an idiot.
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Also the whole first page is career & academics discussion, not cool poo poo about geology. I'm not sold yet.
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Yeah I haven't read the whole thread. There's some interesting discussion on page two. The spaceflight thread in SAL is amazing (but I always fall hundreds and hundreds of posts behind). I'd like the geology thread to do similar things, but for that to happen, people have to show up and ask geology questions and chat about geology current events and stuff. As long as it's just academics and people asking career questions, it's not going to be that interesting. Looking at the last couple pages of the thread suggests the "good" kinds of discussions also happen. There's chat about fracking, for example.
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the site itself is a cesspool and the community is pretty crap on the whole but reddit is actually really good for stuff like that. find the right subreddit and sort by best all time and there's usually tons of good stuff, guides, FAQs, etc. Like after reading the German tourists thing I found my way to the "UnresolvedMysteries" subreddit and have had good train ride reading all week
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Reddit is the exact same as the SA forums. If you just accept what you're given and look at the default subreddits or click on GBS, FYAD or whatever other lovely forum is at the top, you'll be stuck with garbage and think the whole site is filled with retards. When you actually dig down into specific forums and threads, you'll find halfway decent humans that you can converse with.
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This is a pretty cool 70s adventure documentary about some bad rear end dudes kayaking down the Dudh Kosi on Everest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju9g8GtJOAo
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mik posted:This is a pretty cool 70s adventure documentary about some bad rear end dudes kayaking down the Dudh Kosi on Everest. Haha that's crazy I just watched the summit and once I finished I was like "I wonder what the documentary about the guys kayaking through the himalayas was called, I want to watch that again" Seriously it's a really good doc. e: the youtube video is missing the amazing soundtrack by Tangerine Dream though 
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OMGVBFLOL posted:yeah my understanding is that Seattle/Tacoma's catastrophic destruction by lahars and pyroclastic flow are a matter of geological near-certainty no one will miss tacoma
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I've read about that base jumper dying in Yosemite a couple days ago, but couldn't find his last film, "Valley uprising". Is it out on Netflix, or not released yet? It was mentioned in the article as being released in 2014, maybe just in the states.
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midnightclimax posted:I've read about that base jumper dying in Yosemite a couple days ago, but couldn't find his last film, "Valley uprising". Is it out on Netflix, or not released yet? It was mentioned in the article as being released in 2014, maybe just in the states. I have a copy, so it's released yet.
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Did either of those 2 dudes have a gopro on? Or are there any pictures of what they hit? The news article I read said they tried to clear a notch, I have no idea what that means.
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Sammus posted:Did either of those 2 dudes have a gopro on? Or are there any pictures of what they hit? The news article I read said they tried to clear a notch, I have no idea what that means. From some articles and being a mountain dweller myself, I think notches are a part of a sawtooth ridge. Something like this:  "Notch" refers to one of those small notches in the rock. I can't believe they were crazy enough to do that at nightfall. It seems perilous enough in broad daylight.
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xie posted:the site itself is a cesspool and the community is pretty crap on the whole but reddit is actually really good for stuff like that. find the right subreddit and sort by best all time and there's usually tons of good stuff, guides, FAQs, etc. Anything good enough to share with the thread? More like the germans thing, less like X-filesey stuff, I mean.
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For Britgoons, Rondette forgot to tell you you can watch that new BBC K2 documentary online legally here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03td9sc It is online until Monday 25. Sadly, I don't think the film is available outside of the UK.
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mik posted:This is a pretty cool 70s adventure documentary about some bad rear end dudes kayaking down the Dudh Kosi on Everest. This video is awesome and I feel almost embarassed that those were just kids who set that all up and achieved it. gently caress, I'm only 28 and that was how old the oldest person on the team was. Also, there's a shot where the camera man is dangling on a rope tied up 50' in the air between two cliffs on both sides of the rivers. How does such a relatively small crew set that up? Like do they set the line up on one side then magically cross a raging river to set it up on the other side?
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Sammus posted:Did either of those 2 dudes have a gopro on? Or are there any pictures of what they hit? The news article I read said they tried to clear a notch, I have no idea what that means. According to Outside Magazine, there is GoPro footage.
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Cojawfee posted:Reddit is the exact same as the SA forums. If you just accept what you're given and look at the default subreddits or click on GBS, FYAD or whatever other lovely forum is at the top, you'll be stuck with garbage and think the whole site is filled with retards. When you actually dig down into specific forums and threads, you'll find halfway decent humans that you can converse with. cool, can we talk about this reddit website some more in this thread?
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Sammus posted:Did either of those 2 dudes have a gopro on? Or are there any pictures of what they hit? The news article I read said they tried to clear a notch, I have no idea what that means. Almost certainly trying to do something similarly stupid as this: https://youtu.be/TWfph3iNC-k?t=1m14s There's flying, and then there's flying in a way that a gust of wind or 2 milliseconds of error in leg positioning kills you.
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I Greyhound posted:Almost certainly trying to do something similarly stupid as this: why is it that every flying video i see has that song
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There is footage of the incident: Dean Potter camera captured deadly jump Would be awful to see, but illegal wing-suiting is just begging for a closed casket funeral
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Sadly, I don't think the film is available outside of the UK. I Greyhound posted:There's flying, and then there's flying in a way that a gust of wind or 2 milliseconds of error in leg positioning kills you.
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I Greyhound posted:Almost certainly trying to do something similarly stupid as this: In aviation, when you have a "near miss" where a airplane comes closer to another airplane (or a tower, or a structure, or anything else that would cause a crash) you have weeks or months of investigations, people get fired, it's a big goddamn deal and everyone involved does everything possible to understand how it happened and make sure it never happens again. When you're an rear end in a top hat with a wingsuit, you just go "well, I came extremely close on that one! Heh haha heh" and then just keep doing the same loving things, because LOL YOLO etc. etc.
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Leperflesh posted:In aviation, when you have a "near miss" where a airplane comes closer to another airplane (or a tower, or a structure, or anything else that would cause a crash) you have weeks or months of investigations, people get fired, it's a big goddamn deal and everyone involved does everything possible to understand how it happened and make sure it never happens again. Kind of surprised that Shane McConkey hasn't come up yet. He was quite an experienced base jumper (was a famous Mogul/Freestyle skier beforehand) who died because of gear failure. McConkeys thing was, well, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MrhRf7J-cU Except one day he got the idea to replicate this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaEU_A405zA So he manages to find the quick release bindings they used in that film. They had stopped being manufactured in the 80's and, IIRC, the company went bust around the same time. No new parts were available. Shane bought as many as he could find, and started experimenting. So now he's skiing off mountains, quick releasing the skiis, and starting the base jump. Then this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWFTpkDq56U Basejumping: Not even once.
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