Comments on: We'd lava to stay, but...

We'd lava to stay, but...

greatgefilte — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:41:38 -0800

Stop me if you've heard this one. An Icelandic sea captain, an Alaskan reporter, and a bunch of Russian amateur radio enthusiasts try to get to a remote island in the Aleutians to set up a ham-radio outpost as part of a DXpedition (wiki). From the preliminary report, it sounds uninteresting. They landed on the island, and the resident volcano, Mount Cleveland (wiki), erupted. Solution? Bring on the vodka and big bags of croutons. (WMV or RealAudio)

By: greenie2600

greenie2600 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:23:04 -0800

What?

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:35:42 -0800

dang dang dang, I'm on a machine that will play neither, someone please tell me what they did with the croutons!

By: isopraxis

isopraxis — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:35:58 -0800

The next potluck I go to, I'm taking vodka and big bags of croutons.

By: potch

potch — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:02:40 -0800

Croutons are a superior snack food, especially homemade croutons.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:14:41 -0800

mp3 link from the podcast.

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:44:36 -0800

DXpeditions are a LOT of fun, although I go for the shortwave reception and not so much for the point-to-point/amateur communication. I've been meaning to plan one to Egypt for a while now, although so far I've mostly had to settle for places like Cape Cod and, uh, Burning Man. (And I never thought to check Wikipedia for an entry on "DXpedition" before...)

By: acro

acro — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:52:11 -0800

Wow. "At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams from International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 contacted the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) to report that the Cleveland Volcano had produced a plume of ash. Shortly after the activity began, he took this photograph. This picture shows the ash plume moving west-southwest from the volcano's summit. A bank of fog (upper right) is a common feature around the Aleutian Islands. The event proved to be short-lived; two hours later, the plume had completely detached from the volcano (see image from May 24). The AVO reported that the ash cloud height could have been as high as 6,000 meters (20,000 feet) above sea level."

By: acro

acro — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:57:07 -0800

(MP3 volcano story starts at 12:26).

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:14:36 -0800

acro - that is a fantastic picture. Awesome. Thank you!

By: jeffmik

jeffmik — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:38:44 -0800

Chuginadak Island is a great name.

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:57:39 -0800

Crunchy friends in a liquid broth.