Wow. Photos 7 and 12 in that thunderstorm-meets-volcano link are just. wow. posted by mediareport at 7:28 AM on May 8, 2008
I ran into a melange of these photos last night. Good lord. I didn't know what I had stumbled on. Here it is. posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 7:30 AM on May 8, 2008
Fantastic. I saw #11 elsewhere, but it's great to see a more complete collection. Here's a slightly more hi-res image from Flickr, but it's also got more noise, unfortunately. posted by echo target at 7:31 AM on May 8, 2008
great find...thanks! posted by HuronBob at 7:31 AM on May 8, 2008
darkripper, that link would be perfect if only the kitties where hacking flaming hairballs at one another. posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 7:33 AM on May 8, 2008
And you wonder what made ancient civilizations believe in all-powerful gods? posted by Pollomacho at 7:39 AM on May 8, 2008
Jesus... fantastic, thanks for posting. Beautiful. posted by Pantengliopoli at 8:50 AM on May 8, 2008
Sackcloth and ashes folks. It's the Seventh Seal.
I'm hearing Dan Aykroyd in Ghost Busters qupting from the Book of Revelations in my head right now... posted by Nick Verstayne at 8:54 AM on May 8, 2008
Johnson: “You can’t evacuate people. I mean, you can if you want but that’s not what you want to say here.
Copy Editor: “A building can be evacuated. To evacuate a person is to give that person an enema.
Sorry, I just started watching Season 5 of The Wire and now "evacuated" stands out.
We need hi-res photos right now. My desktop screams for this Götterdämmerung.
Thanks for the appropriate LOTR headline submitter. posted by Ber at 9:14 AM on May 8, 2008
Very interesting
Very cool pictures
I definitely does look like the eruption is at least providing a pathway for the lightening. posted by caddis at 9:16 AM on May 8, 2008
Any idea why there is blue lightning in some of the photos? They are extraordinary. posted by Maias at 9:28 AM on May 8, 2008
Thank you for posting this. I considered posting something about the eruption, but I couldn't seem to stop looking for YET MORE AMAZING PICTURES and the post would have had 10 million links. You found the perfect links and knew when to stop! posted by rtha at 9:45 AM on May 8, 2008
See, these are the kinds of things that make me aspire to doing more with my photography hobby. I would love to take a picture like this, which people can stare at in wonder and be awed at the majesty of what our world can produce.
On the other hand, that would mean that I had to be somewhere near this kind of event. And let's be honest: Fuck that shit. posted by quin at 9:46 AM on May 8, 2008 [6 favorites has favorites]
From one of the links: "What is clear is that volcanic lightning is dangerous." Well, that's all I needed. posted by boo_radley at 9:53 AM on May 8, 2008
Another vote for "please let me know when this hits widescreen desktop wallpaper size", as I yearn. posted by thanotopsis at 10:40 AM on May 8, 2008
Stuff like this is how mythology happens, isn't it?
The earth groaned beneath him, and the heat and blaze from both of them was on the dark-faced sea, from the thunder and lightning of Zeus and from the flame of the monster, from his blazing bolts and from the scorch and breath of his stormwinds, and all the ground and the sky and the sea boiled, and towering waves were tossing and beating all up and down the promontories in the wind of these immortals, and a great shaking of the earth came on, and Haides, lord over the perished dead, trembled...
I'm starting to think that Chile has the lowest number of megapixel cameras per capita in the world. The greatest eruption in years, and the pictures are shite. posted by crapmatic at 11:58 AM on May 8, 2008
If I took any of those lightning/volcano pictures, I'd be damn sure to hand out nothing but thumbnails until I got a big-ass cheque. posted by anthill at 12:10 PM on May 8, 2008
When I look at these, I see the beginning of the world for some reason. I feel like we'll be reading reports of giant walking lava monsters born from fire and electricity. posted by Joey Michaels at 12:12 PM on May 8, 2008
Dude, those are totally 'shopped. posted by kcds at 12:47 PM on May 8, 2008
Yeah, shopped.
I can tell by the pixels posted by Skorgu at 1:11 PM on May 8, 2008
Does anyone else hear Stravinski's Monster Dance from The Firebird when looking at these pics? How about Night on Bald Mountain? posted by Araucaria at 1:16 PM on May 8, 2008
In the words of Bob Fossil: Holy shit sauce! posted by EndsOfInvention at 1:27 PM on May 8, 2008
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