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How do they propel that heavy giant all of explosive powder without it igniting instantly on the ground?
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For those who didn't know, Johnston was a USGS scientist, who was studying the strange new bulge on the mountain on May 18, 1980.  He was killed in the blast, and the ridge where he died now bears his name, and there is a great observatory there.
 
He made the famous radio transmission call, "Vancouver!  Vancouver!  This is it!"

Johnston was the hiker in the pic?

No, that was someone else, on a different mountain miles away.  Johnston was VERY close to St. Helens.  If you go to the Johnston Ridge Observatory, there's just a small valley between you and the volcano. 

This is basically the view from there:

 

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My family lived about 120 miles south of St. Helens when it blew.  We could see Mt. Hood from our deck and the day of the eruption could see the plume cloud arising beyond Hood.  It was pretty surreal.  


Johnston was the hiker in the pic?

This was Johnston shortly before the eruption. Other than being in the caldera itself, there wasn’t a worse place for him to be when the eruption occurred. The eruption was pretty much directed right at him. On the bright side, it was probably pretty fast and painless. On the not so bright side, he knew for a couple of minutes he was proper fucked and there was nothing he could do.

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32 minutes ago, Hate said:


This was Johnston shortly before the eruption. Other than being in the caldera itself, there wasn’t a worse place for him to be when the eruption occurred. The eruption was pretty much directed right at him. On the bright side, it was probably pretty fast and painless. On the not so bright side, he knew for a couple of minutes he was proper fucked and there was nothing he could do.

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Also, Harry Truman(not that one) at Spirit Lake which is directly adjacent to what is now called Johnston Ridge.

Harry Truman vs. The Volcano - John M Jennings

 

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5 hours ago, CooterBrown said:


How do they propel that heavy giant all of explosive powder without it igniting instantly on the ground?

I’m no expert, but I would guess wadding separates the propellant charge from the explosive package that has some sort of fuse. 

3 hours ago, Elvis said:

I’m no expert, but I would guess wadding separates the propellant charge from the explosive package that has some sort of fuse. 

Or that video is fake.

On 12/5/2023 at 11:10 PM, brakeman said:

 

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I too love St. Helens. Had never seen those photos of the hiker on a neighboring mountain.

18 hours ago, Butch Had Not said:

Those photos from Mount Adam's were in Nat Geo. Still to this day my favorite issue ever. I was absolutely memorized by that eruption and my fascination with volcanoes began right there. 

Adam's????

Sorry for the size, anyone know how to edit the size of images and videos?

 

 

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15 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

Adam's????

Yeah, he butchered the name.   The major peaks in the Cascades mountains of Oregon and Washington have some weird nomenclature.  You have the ones named after Royal Navy dudes ( like Rainier, Hood, Baker, St. Helens, etc.), Presidents (Jefferson and Adams), random Europeans who passed through certain areas (McLoughlin, Lassen, etc.), those named after their features (Glacier Peak, Three Sisters, Bachelor, etc.) and then the randomly named ones like Shasta.   All of this completely ignores indigenous names for those peaks as well.  

Lithium prices will be going up

Chinese OSHAs not gonna like that.  

On 12/7/2023 at 11:02 AM, Macanudo said:

My family lived about 120 miles south of St. Helens when it blew.  We could see Mt. Hood from our deck and the day of the eruption could see the plume cloud arising beyond Hood.  It was pretty surreal.  

Did yall get a little bit of ash?  Seems like it all went East from what I have read. 

57 minutes ago, Lhorn said:

Chinese OSHAs not gonna like that.  

Chinese OSHIT approved.

We got just a little bit the first day or so.  Yakima and the Kennewick area got the worst.   Interestingly, all that ash may have helped the hop industry albeit 15-20 years later.  Central Washington is prime hop growing land and the soil benefited from the ash.

I was in Seattle. We got nothing, but you could see it. We had a volcano party on the roof of the EM Club.

2 hours ago, crash_davis said:

HOLY SHIT.

 

oh no.  are they ok?

6 hours ago, Macanudo said:

Yeah, he butchered the name.   The major peaks in the Cascades mountains of Oregon and Washington have some weird nomenclature.  You have the ones named after Royal Navy dudes ( like Rainier, Hood, Baker, St. Helens, etc.), Presidents (Jefferson and Adams), random Europeans who passed through certain areas (McLoughlin, Lassen, etc.), those named after their features (Glacier Peak, Three Sisters, Bachelor, etc.) and then the randomly named ones like Shasta.   All of this completely ignores indigenous names for those peaks as well.  

Dude. It's like you've never contemplated the geological significance a tasty affordable beverage.

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2 hours ago, futureman said:

 

Asleep at the wheel?

2 hours ago, nineliveslost said:

what shitty reaction time. JESUS

My thought.  Took forever for that fuck to respond.

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47 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Asleep at the wheel?

Counting sheep. 

80,000 pounds of loaded semi ain’t stopping that fast.

6 hours ago, Smax said:

 

I would bet in older buildings that have been renovated this isn't that uncommon.   Any architects want to weigh in?

49 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

 

I was kind of hoping that the reserve didn't open.

8 hours ago, Macanudo said:

I was kind of hoping that the reserve didn't open.

in the near future we are going to hear about a shitload more Darwin Award deaths because these fucknuts are doing it for the clicks.

 

4 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

in the near future we are going to hear about a shitload more Darwin Award deaths because these fucknuts are doing it for the clicks.

 

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10 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Travis Pastrana is not impressed.

 

 

If I saw a bear I would be the one doing the shitting in the woods. 

 

12 minutes ago, markstanco said:

If I saw a bear I would be the one doing the shitting in the woods. 

give or take 48 hrs you become shit.

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