{"id":15123,"date":"2010-04-17T08:10:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T08:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/iceland-volcano-eruption-making-an-ash-of-itself-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T08:10:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T08:10:31","slug":"iceland-volcano-eruption-making-an-ash-of-itself-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/iceland-volcano-eruption-making-an-ash-of-itself-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Iceland volcano eruption making an ash of itself | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallaj&ouml;kull has erupted for the second time this month, sending a long plume of ash across the north Atlantic into the UK, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2010\/04\/what-an-ash.html\">enough to disrupt air traffic there<\/a>! <\/p><p>NASA&rsquo;s Terra satellite <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/features\/iceland-volcano-plume.html\">caught the plume<\/a>:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/features\/iceland-volcano-plume.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/332f9_terra_iceland_volcano.jpg\" alt=\"terra_iceland_volcano\" width=\"610\" height=\"474\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14064\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>You can easily see the plume extending from Iceland across the ocean. Boston.com&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/04\/icelands_disruptive_volcano.html\">The Big Picture<\/a> has dramatic and beautiful shots of the volcano as well.<\/p><p>I&rsquo;ve seen a few volcanoes in my time, but I&rsquo;ve never witnessed an actual eruption. I&rsquo;d really like to&hellip; from a safe distance. This particular eruption is likely to be a big pain to a lot of people for quite some time; there have already been floods and evacuations due to the activity. I feel badly for those folks affected, but I also can&rsquo;t help but gasp in awe at the beauty of events like these. It always amazes me that violence on such a large scale &mdash; volcanoes, solar flares, supernovae, galactic collisions &mdash; can also be so beautiful.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KLZtP_-yQiBcg3pSUDSgBgKJ3Uk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/332f9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KLZtP_-yQiBcg3pSUDSgBgKJ3Uk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/332f9_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/332f9_YIV84TXdwqs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/332f9_Z5fTiGEBN68\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallaj&ouml;kull has erupted for the second time this month, sending a long plume of ash across the north Atlantic into the UK, enough to disrupt air traffic there! NASA&rsquo;s Terra satellite caught the plume:You can easily see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/iceland-volcano-eruption-making-an-ash-of-itself-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}