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I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2
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Toba and Thera weren't though.D'you know, I was thinking about that one, too. But then I remembered, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?" (this was before the advent of humankind, IIRC, and the dinosaurs don't count, for the purposes of this post). :pac:
IIRC there was also a big one in Indonesia in the 19th century, larger than Krakatoa on the holy sweet Jesus Ted, that's a big one vulcanism scale. Toba was truly massive though. 30 times the scale of Krakatoa.
Another "factoid" sometimes referred is that before Pompeii Romans didn't have a word for "volcano". Untrue, though oddly appealing an idea. While they didn't have a single word, they did have descriptors for them. Along the lines of mountains that burned, agitated mountains and the like.
The first machine to measure earthquakes was invented in China around 2000 years ago. It could measure the strength and direction of the tremors. This was considered important as quakes were seen as signs from the gods and used for divination.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Toba and Thera weren't though. IIRC there was also a big one in Indonesia in the 19th century, larger than Krakatoa on the holy sweet Jesus Ted, that's a big one vulcanism scale. Toba was truly massive though. 30 times the scale of Krakatoa.
Tambora, in 1815? Led to the "year without a Summer" in 1816, which led to food riots and famines in parts of Asia and Europe. On a more positive note, it is also thought to have contributed to the spectacular sunsets which are preserved in paintings by William Turner.0 -
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Shur you could squeeze in San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein while you’re at it.0 -
Toba and Thera weren't though. IIRC there was also a big one in Indonesia in the 19th century, larger than Krakatoa on the holy sweet Jesus Ted, that's a big one vulcanism scale. Toba was truly massive though. 30 times the scale of Krakatoa.
Tambora, in 1815? Led to the "year without a Summer" in 1816, which led to food riots and famines in parts of Asia and Europe. On a more positive note, it is also thought to have contributed to the spectacular sunsets which are preserved in paintings by William Turner.
Wasn’t the sky colour in Munch’s scream also meant to show that or a similar event?0 -
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On another note, far away from mowing the grass on acres and acres of property
, I came across an interesting study about brain activity.
It says - in short - that after death, that is when the heart stops beating and all organs are defunct, the brain is still active for 10 minutes and 38 seconds.
Basically electricity, or neurons, are still firing away in the brain in a certain wave pattern.
What that exactly does to a dead person is unclear. Is that the moment when your life is passing by in your brain? Is that a state like in dreams when everything is wildly unlogical? The study doesn't explain and probably nobody will ever know until they are dead.
The idea is a bit frightening. You are dead, are you aware of it? What is going on in your brain? Does it involve conscious thinking? Or just wild images out of the depth of memory? Or just colourful flashes of something?
Well, maybe you all knew that, I didn't.
When I had to put my dog down I petted her head for the last time after the vet gave her the injection and she was finally still. At my touch she shivered and exhaled three times. I told the vet that she is still alive but he said that this is only the last electricity going out. I was seriously spooked.0 -
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