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New Underwater Volcano 28

Posted by michael from the land-rush dept.
fuqqer writes "CNN has a story about a new volcano just a few hundred feet below the ocean's surface. It is just off of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer! Here's a cool link to the Alaska Volcano Observatory with satellite pictures of Alaska Volcanos. Here's a link to the NOAA's underwater features site."
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  • Just imagine how much fun a land invasion route would have been during the Cold War. Both sides would have just loved that. Still, it would be very fun to be able to be able to drive from New York to London.
  • The appearance of his new lair means only one thing: Dr Evil is back.

  • Walk? (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I fail to see how yet another island would enable us to walk? Swim, possibly, but not walk.

  • Geology 101 (Score:4, Funny)

    by rlowe69 ( 74867 ) <ryanlowe_AThotmailDOTcom> on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @04:24PM (#6679113) Homepage
    Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer!

    Soon meaning a few thousand years?

    • And Geography 101 (Score:3, Informative)

      by core plexus ( 599119 )
      I live in central Alaska, and it's about 800 miles from my house to the coast of Russia. Maybe you'd like to walk, but I sure wouldn't. You might want to come up here sometime and try a short walk first, say Fairbanks to Deadhorse via the Dalton Highway.

      A road is being started that will go from Fairbanks and follow the Yukon River, eventually ending in Nome. Until then, you'd have to follow the Iditarod Trail, and cross several major rivers. Best time to walk that trail is the winter.

      -cp-

      • Re:And Geography 101 (Score:1, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward
        Yeah, I'd always heard freezing to death is one of the more peaceful ways to go.
      • Where are you in relation to Fairbanks?

        Are there any good books (fic or non-fic) that you'd recommend about life in Alaska, especially rural Alaska?

        • Just south of there about 200 miles.

          I was just thinking, trying to answer your second question, and I realize I can't recall any good books on life in rural Alaska. I don't know if it's because I live in rural Alaska, or if it's just not something I read about. Most of the books about Alaska I have read are about adventure, or historic mining stuff, like I don't get enough of that every day.

          I'm a geologist for a small exploration company, and have spent 4 months alone in the Brooks Range, 400 miles northw

          • Edges of the Earth: A Man, a Woman, a Child in the Alaskan Wilderness by Richard Leo. Amazon says it's out of print, but maybe I'll get a used copy. His follow-up book appears to be a dud, though.

            I'll look for your friend's stuff. I've always had a fascination with the world's more remote places and after reading In Siberia by Colin Thubron I'm always looking for similar writings.

            • That's it, hard to believe I could have forgotten his name. Been distracted a lot lately. I read part of it, but I don't believe I have a copy still.

              There's a lot of stuff about Roberta on the web, I'm sure you've already googled her. If you need any help let me know.

              -cp-

    • >> Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer!

      Soon meaning a few thousand years?

      Precisely. Geologists have finally started using software development timescales...

      They say LA's about to get the "Big One" Real Soon now (whew!) Hopefully unlike the game, that quake will be vaporware.

  • Location, location, location... (Score:3, Funny)

    by ivanmarsh ( 634711 ) on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @04:44PM (#6679408)
    "To me, it's exciting because it's in the United States and not in some remote part of the South Pacific," Reynolds added. No, just the most remote part of the north Pacific. Got to love those silly scientists.
  • How will they keep the papier-mache from disintegrating underwater? To say nothing of the all-important baking soda and vinegar mixture.

    And what will happen when all that shredded newspaper washes up on the shore of Alaska? It'll make the Exxon Valdez spill look like a zit squeezed on a mirror.

    Sometimes scientists just won't answer the tough questions.

  • You already can... (Score:3, Funny)

    by PeteyG ( 203921 ) on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @05:19PM (#6679830) Homepage Journal
    Soon we all might be able to walk to Russia during the summer!

    You already can... just during the winter.

  • Ah HA! (Score:4, Funny)

    by teamhasnoi ( 554944 ) * <teamhasnoi@CURIE ... minus physicist> on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @05:20PM (#6679837) Journal
    I'll finally be able to invade via Kamchaka!

    I took a real RISK posting this!

    I'm going to go shoot myself now.

  • Uhh... (Score:4, Funny)

    by QuantumFTL ( 197300 ) * on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @07:20PM (#6680816)
    Quoth the article: "You don't want to sail a ship over an erupting volcano," said Jennifer Reynolds, chief expedition scientist and a University of Alaska marine geologist.

    Is this the same Jennifer Reynolds that works at the Freakin-Obvious department?

  • Watch out! A burrito tsunami is coming!

  • Wonder if this will help or hinder those pipe (track?) dreams to build a rail link from North America to Mainland Asia (And by extension Europe). With global trade and all, so much stuff being transported by ship from China these days. Who knows, maybe, I'll get a chance to ride a train from South America to Britain some day...

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