icelandic volcano?

[daschoo]

anyone else been caught up in this?
i've got a funeral up in uist at some point this week (waiting on the body being released from post mortem to get a date) and due to the planes being grounded i'm now looking at a two hour car ride and 6 and a half hours on a ferry each way rather than a 45 minute flight. also my sister is meant to be going to berlin and i'm meant to be going to dublin at the weekend so we're waiting to find out whether or not we can go.
just goes to show that we're not as advanced as we think

 

[theogt]

How do you say the name?

 

[daschoo]

How do you say the name?

what name?

 

[arglebargle]

If that volcano was to go full tilt for a couple of months, it would have very serious repurcussions throught the modern 'just-not-in-time' world. Given all the earthquakes and volcanos going off, it seems like we are in the midst (or start up) of a very geologically active period.

That's a long trip time by European standards, but it wouldn't be enough time to get from Austin to El Paso....unless you drove real real fast. I take it that the ferry doesn't set any speed records?

 

[YosemiteSam]

what name?

lol, Eyjafjallajokull

 

[daschoo]

If that volcano was to go full tilt for a couple of months, it would have very serious repurcussions throught the modern 'just-not-in-time' world. Given all the earthquakes and volcanos going off, it seems like we are in the midst (or start up) of a very geologically active period.

That's a long trip time by European standards, but it wouldn't be enough time to get from Austin to El Paso....unless you drove real real fast. I take it that the ferry doesn't set any speed records?

its not that bad a trip but when you look at the size of scotland on a map its rediculous that it can take you that long to get anywhere, plus the fact i could otherwise do it in under an hour by plane.
theres folk stranded all over the planet, a guy on the radio yesterday was talking about trying to get a flight to the middle east and from there try and get back in to europe on the ground and work his way back.
going to dublin for the weekend was my birthday present from the girlfriend. my birthday's in january but we had to re-schedule as the airports were closed with the snow we had at the time and now looking like we might need to re-schedule again!

lol, Eyjafjallajokull

i pronounce it as "that *******ing icelandic volcano"
i'm not sure thats entirely accurate though

 

[daschoo]

its back. again. my sister was stuck in berlin for a couple of days at the end of last week then everything opened back up. now airspace is closing again and they're saying it could potentially be decades!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8685193.stm

also they're now saying that historically this volcano tends to mark the start of a period of volcanic activity in iceland so even when this one finishes theres another 3 or 4 they expect to errupt in the next few years.

incidentally i did get to dublin

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Hopefully it won`t screw up my flight to Rome at the beginning of July

 

[theogt]

Maybe we could get BP to plug the hole. They're experts.

 

[Ren]

One of the nights days after the eruption we could smell a faint sulfur smell in the air all the way in Oslo that's the only way i personally have noticed it, that and no planes over head

lol, Eyjafjallajokull

I can pronounce that lol, seriously :laugh2:

 

[CowboyWay]

Pretty neat view of it....

http://www.vimeo.com/11673745

 

[CliffnDallas]

If Iceland melted. Would it just be called...land?

 

[TwoCentPlain]

If Iceland melted. Would it just be called...land?

Isn't Iceland green and Grenland ice? Go figure.

And if Iceland melted, it would be Waterland, which reminds me of that stupid Kevin Costner movie, Waterworld or something.

 

[Ren]

Isn't Iceland green and Grenland ice? Go figure.

And if Iceland melted, it would be Waterland, which reminds me of that stupid Kevin Costner movie, Waterworld or something.

The story behind that is that the Vikings who discovered it didn't want people going there and tried to send them to greenland instead or something like that

i didn't pay much attention in history class

 

[masomenos]

The story behind that is that the Vikings who discovered it didn't want people going there and tried to send them to greenland instead or something like that

i didn't pay much attention in history class

:laugh2:

I'm pretty sure that's all just a myth.

 

[peplaw06]

Maybe we could get BP to plug the hole.

I'm not gonna ask BrainPaint to do that. And that's what she said.

Pretty neat view of it....

http://www.vimeo.com/11673745

That is awesome.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

The story behind that is that the Vikings who discovered it didn't want people going there and tried to send them to greenland instead or something like that

i didn't pay much attention in history class

:laugh2:

I'm pretty sure that's all just a myth.

Interesting.

I was told the same story.

However, if Maso questions its veracity, it must be false. Maso, like Bob Sacamano, is never wrong.

 

[Ren]

:laugh2:

I'm pretty sure that's all just a myth.

obviously :laugh2:


it got it's name for the glaciers or something, no idea about Greenland though


I tried looking it up and came accross this gem

The real story behind the name is given in Erik the Red's Saga, based on oral tradition and written down in the early thirteenth century in Iceland. After the Icelandic landnám was over, Erik the Red and his father Thorvald were forced to leave Norway because one or both of them was involved in killings (details are not given). After Thorvald died, Erik was involved in yet more killings, for which his punishment was three years' vacation--er, I mean banishment from Iceland.

 

[masomenos]

However, if Maso questions its veracity, it must be false. Maso, like Bob Sacamano, is never wrong.

However, unlike Bob, I have neither ticks nor poison ivy. I like to think of Bob not as an equal, not as a protege, but more like an invalid cousin.