"A safe and legal distance" Tourist was spotted hiking across lava field to approach spatter cone. Insanely dangerous. He even broke through some crust and was tripping along the way.
That was nuts, he actually got up on top of the rim near the out flowing part of the cone with two obvious cracks behind, and to his right of where he stood. The area he stood on the cone has since caved in, the guy must have a death wish or just plain stupid.
I just returned from Iceland. The information I learned from watching this channel added a lot to my trip. Thank you for being so informative and have a great time there!
Thanks a bunch for always working and keeping us in the know. Your visiting Iceland gives me a greatly appreciated 'vicarious' vacation. Having an expert, such as yourself, leading will insure nothing is missed and memories are made.
I mean, they should be able to tell that the artillery shell would be imbedded in the unit below this recent lava flow. Then they’d know that it was there before this eruption
Thanks for the update! Interesting thing about basaltic volcanic glass like Pele's hair is that research has shown amino acid rich aqueous fluids flowing through this kind of glass leads to spontaneous random RNA molecular chains forming some of which at around 800 base pairs long are in principal large enough to possibly undergo natural selection. In a related note the research samples used in that study were collected from the eruptions of Fagradalsfjall a few years ago 2019 (I think? Might have been one of the 2 other eruptions or a mix of them I don't remember the specifics beyond that they tried to use the same source material for experimental control) If this is further validated this has potentially large implications for abiogenesis.
Absolutely fascinating - or maybe it acted as a kind of substrate for early Earth primitive self-replicators (the way they sometimes talk about clay or crystal) I’m gonna look this up - thanks!
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Here is the article referenced. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9233534/ John Michael Godier via his Event Horizon interview channel also interviewed the lead author on the paper
Pele’s Hair is still just glass and relatively thick and heavy compared to asbestos. I would definitely not want to be outside in a storm downwind, but all other days there is little risk.
@@davidpetersen1 With “just” i wanted to refer to its ‘mudane’ properties being relatively heavy and dense compared to asbestos, that makes it less likely to become airborn
Yeah, there are signs to not go off the roads in the area, because of unexploded ordnance. There is a gravel road to the north of the road to the blue lagoon. You can't drive there, it's closed off, but there is a parking lot 500 meters away. So unless they now have police there (they didn't in May) you can go on that path up a hill, which is called "Arnarsetur" on some maps, and you should have a good view there, c:a 3 km from the current cone, if I read the maps correctly.
Ive been at the Grindavik Roundabout all day and aside from a few strong emissions of gas, the cone has been quiet although the icelandic met is still declaring it a ongoing eruption.
My wife and I are going for the sixth time to Iceland in January, actually going to be there for New Years in Reykjavik which is something we’ve always wanted to do. A couple years ago we went in November and hiked the Fagradalsfjall trails and got an amazing view of the flow fields. One of the best experiences of my life, Iceland is my favorite place on earth. A geological wonderland. I’m the lone pyscho that prefers being there during Icelandic winter and likes the cold, but also the chances to see auroras. I’ve seen those about 15 times now all totaled and still aren’t sick of them.
Pele’s hair can be very dangerous. Would you pick up glass shards that thin? Or walk your dog across broken, sharp glass? Or voluntarily breathe this stuff into your lungs? Of course not!
Hope you were able to see it. Cams on Live from Iceland are, currently, not looking very promising, as it may have stopped. Will only be able to tell better, at night.
Not asbestos, but glass. Not the same thing at all. However, both are dangerous as the filaments are very fine. They can embed themselves in skin, eyes, and lungs.
WE will be traveling to Iceland later this fall. With or without the eruption. Or maybe a following eruption 🌋 .Please just keep the northern lights on for us .
This just in: an inter-mythological drama is brewing as Pele's hair has been spotted on Odin's Icelandic pillow. No word on any response from Odin's wife.
Flying back to the U.S. from Doha, Qatar tomorrow but we are going over the North Pole. My last trip to Iceland was on the way from Newark to Copenhagen and we lost and engine and had to land in Reykjavik.
As long as the lave keeps flowing it keeps relieving pressure & that's a good thing. When it stops, pressure may build again & the last thing that anyone needs is a volcano that blows its top. Mount St. Helens in the US is an example of that.
@@xwiick Something is pushing that lava out of the Volcano, .... we call it pressure. As long as the lava flows, the pressure is being controlled. If the lava stops, & the lava hardens, it forms a plug which may seal the volcano for anywhere from a week, to forever, but history shows us that a sleeping volcano may well become active again, even thousands of years later. Why become active again? Pressure, ..... & heat. Re activation may be slow, or explosive. Slow is better.
You might want to contact Prof. Shawn Willsey of Southern Idaho University who has contacts in Iceland who help him monitor the volcano and on going eruption.
Okay, carefully gather that stuff up (I'd advise tweezers and leather gloves!) and embed it in resin with a bit of lava. The tourists will go wild for it, as charms and paperweights and stuff! It would bring in a nice hunk of cash at a time it's needed.
Anyone else baffled by the abundance of unexploded ordinance? They couldnt remove that from their tiny island in the past 7 decades? Seems really strange.
There are some conflicting sources on that issue with some saying that pele's hair is too thick to be inhaled, but others say that it can be hazardous to the lungs though no specifics were provided. This it is best to be cautious. It is most dangerous to be handled because it can easily become embedded in the skin.
Well, as advancing lava would heat the ordinance unevenly, that would result in uneven distribution of shrapnel and the production of lava bombs. That could be very dangerous. By controlling the explosion, they can control the shrapnel and lava bombs.
@xwiick Unfortunately, this is a wide-open area (hence its use as a bomb area), which means keeping people away is very difficult. Have you never heard of people repelling down into a volcano before or standing too close to get pictures for social media? Even volcanologists can be caught. People never think anything can happen to them. I've seen people slow down to take pictures on a freeway that end up causing 15-vehicle pile-ups. People (including me) can be very stupid about their own safety! At least now, at 74, I've learned a thing or two about keeping myself safer. (By the way, debris is the correct spelling.)
