Mount Etna blowing smoke rings

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aggiehawg
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3:08p, 4/6/24




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The rings arose from Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano. Etna rises 11,000 feet above the island of Sicily in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The volcano erupts frequently, and its explosions have been documented for more than 3,500 years.
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Until recently, how the smoke rings form wasn't well understood. Formation requires a calm atmosphere and a circular volcanic vent. And, technically, it isn't really smoke. When hot volcanic gases are released suddenly from the vent in a short pulse, the gases rush upwards and create a cloud, not unlike plane contrails. While the smoke rings have been documented at volcanoes worldwide, multiple displays like this one are extremely rare.
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Kind of cool and scary at the same time for a volcano.
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3:10p, 4/6/24
Climate change, white supremacy, toxic masculinity.
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Infection_Ag11
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In reply to aggiehawg • 3:14p, 4/6/24
The sheer volume of cool yet bizarre stuff like this that can be found on our planet makes it incredibly easy to see why people throughout history believed in the supernatural/UFOs/mythical monsters/etc.

Imagine seeing that 6000 years ago and trying to figure out which god was about to decimate your civilization.
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In reply to jja79 • 3:15p, 4/6/24
jja79 said:
Climate change, white supremacy, toxic masculinity.
You forgot to cheer on Brandon.
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In reply to TA-OP • 3:16p, 4/6/24
He's going to stop it just like he cured cancer.
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In reply to jja79 • 3:17p, 4/6/24
jja79 said:
Climate change, white supremacy, toxic masculinity.
+ transphobic
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3:20p, 4/6/24
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In reply to jja79 • 3:22p, 4/6/24
jja79 said:
Climate change, white supremacy, toxic masculinity.


Imagine seeing a cool headline and thinking "this needs my tired boomer joke."
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In reply to Ag87H2O • 3:28p, 4/6/24
Ag87H2O said:


Fort Kyle volcano.
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3:40p, 4/6/24
I hope Italy is paying the carbon taxes for that CO2 release.
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In reply to panhandlefarmer • 3:47p, 4/6/24
panhandlefarmer said:
I hope Italy is paying the carbon taxes for that CO2 release.
No kidding. That one volcano can spew out more particulates than mankind ever did.
Trump will fix it.
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jja79
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In reply to TriAg2010 • 4:53p, 4/6/24
TriAg2010 said:
jja79 said:
Climate change, white supremacy, toxic masculinity.


Imagine seeing a cool headline and thinking "this needs my tired boomer joke."


Wasn't a joke. Fully except to see that soon.
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In reply to Ag87H2O • 5:19p, 4/6/24
Ag87H2O said:


This is cool, but only the true cool kids ever got to see the cannon shoot a fireball into the old horseshoe at Mmidnight Yell Practice. I'm pretty sure it was like 1996 or 1997.
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Rapier108
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7:25p, 4/6/24
IIRC, Etna is famous for generating smoke rings.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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In reply to Ag87H2O • 7:37p, 4/6/24
Is this from a YouTube video? Do you have a link. It is awesome.
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In reply to BTHOB-98 • 7:52p, 4/6/24
BTHOB-98 said:
Ag87H2O said:


This is cool, but only the true cool kids ever got to see the cannon shoot a fireball into the old horseshoe at Mmidnight Yell Practice. I'm pretty sure it was like 1996 or 1997.
us true Old Army kids remember the flaming ball of cotton landing in the endzone at DKR after beating the sips to win the 1986 SWC title
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Ag87H2O
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In reply to sharpdressedman • 7:53p, 4/6/24
sharpdressedman said:
Is this from a YouTube video? Do you have a link. It is awesome.
Just search "smoke ring" on GIPHY
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In reply to aggiehawg • 7:35a, 4/7/24
Well that's perfect. I'll be in Sicily this summer.
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7:59a, 4/7/24
That volcano is just showing off.
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8:15a, 4/7/24
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8:21a, 4/7/24
Combine that with a solar eclipse and every stoner in the world will attend and say wooooooowwwwww.
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