Quick! Go to volcano cam! Mt. St. Helens just ejected a pyroclast!

[DianeG5385]

n/t

[bowens43]

1. link?

[tk2kewl]

5. link

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

[bpilgrim]

19. animated gif of last 20 minutes...

more pics here...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/images/volcano/msh

peace

[htuttle]

22. You know, I think that IS an icicle after all

It's growing very slowly, but not moving like something falling. I think I see a tiny drop of water start to come off the bottom, too.

[charlie]

24. Yeah

There's those sparkly artifacts, too. And the smaller projection doesn't look like the farther part of an arc -- it's growing for one thing, and it's doing it in front of the mountain instead of from within the caldera.

[bpilgrim]

25. it completely disapears in the latest frame

you maybe right

more pics here...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/images/volcano/msh

peace

[sui generis]

2. quick give us a link!

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Here is link

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

[Catherine Vincent]

3. a link would have been nice....

[RetroLounge]

6. Love these threads!

Quick...

No...

RL

[htuttle]

7. Well, thats spectacular

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

I stored a copy of this one too with the pyroclast in mid-flight.

Wow.

[donsu]

10. thanks for the pic

was this pyroclast a canary or is this usual?

[DianeG5385]

13. I have seen stuff ejected before

but this is spectacular and beautiful!

[NMDemDist2]

14. there was three last night at sunset n/t

[Deja Q]

8. Damn! That's beautiful!

Even my boyfriend can't compare to that! :wow:

What next for this sad planet, I wonder...

[DianeG5385]

9. I saved the pic, will try to post

Sorry, Iwas so excited I forgot the link! I was wondering whether the tsunami could have had an effect????

[Career Prole]

11. Cool! Look out belooooow!

Thanks for the tip-off!
I can't help thinking Mother Earth intends to "get over" humanity like a bad cold and just shake us off.

[Deja Q]

12. It's a string of ecological disasters... One MOAB too many?

Did it start on its own?

Or did mankind sneeze when drilling for more oil?

[tridim]

18. Has anyone checked their boy scout compass?

Are the Earth's magnetic poles flipping?

[Career Prole]

28. Intelligent design, perhaps?

Pollution, over-population, reckless exploitation of resources...might be time for the earth to smack this race out like a skeeter.
That Boston fern in my living room might just be the source of oil for the next iteration of intelligent life here millions of years from now.
Maybe I'll take it out of the pot and toss it out back to give it a headstart.
Someone should point out to the fundies they might cheat themselves out of their "Rapture Moment" if they let their leaders destroy the human race before God wants to yank the plug. :7

[indigobusiness]

15. A thread in the Science forum has the cam (for easy checking daily)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x1062

[theophilus]

16. Uhhhhh, I think those are icecicles on the camera box.

Still neat, though.

[htuttle]

17. Well, it hasn't moved, but the timestamp updated

So that is certainly possible unless gravity has been suspended near the volcano.

[Ian David]

21. I started to wonder about that too

This is one reason why UFO and ghost sightings can be so unreliable.

[SlowDownFast]

26. if its an icicle

it's gone now.

[WebeBlue]

23. An icicle on the cam-box, hmmm, I suppose, guess I better

turn on the tv news, see if any local reporting on Miss Mt St Helens this morning.

[WebeBlue]

20. Wow, tx, me here near St Helens + tsunami warning county

this stuff is sure making me nervous some...we live in a county well marked with tsunami warning signs, tells us where to get to higher ground..although I've never felt like higher ground would keep us safe if it was a real tsunami like the one just a few days ago.

Just this morning, was saying, well with tsunami, earthquakes around the planet, guess Miss Helens will be busy today. I wasn't wrong it seems.

[Branjor]

27. Beautiful....

but what's a pyroclast? It's not in the dictionary.