Volcano Erupts In New Zealand

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1. “At 2:00 p.m. the crater rim camera catches a group of people – tiny specks in relation to the vast volcano – right at the edge of the rim.”

   Yeah, not cool.

   1. Storm chasers are equally as foolish by putting themselves in harm’s way just to get their jollies. Legitimate researchers find them extremely irritating.

2. 1990’s movie with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, Joe versus the Volcano. Is this a remake? Darwin awards coming.

3. This is why I don’t travel for the sake of the impact my pictures will have on Facebook. Could have just hiked in some mountains, “OH NO, it just HAS to be a volcano… and not just any volcano, but an ACTIVE one!”

4. I guess none of them were virgins.

   1. Yeah, they were all *u*k*d.

5. Tourista #1 on volcano rim: “You hear something?”

6. Sad loss of life. Was tomorrows Rock Wall Climbing without Safety Ropes Excursion cancelled?

7. You ever see people served a meal in a restaurant and they’re told by the server not to touch the plate, its hot, and then well, you know.

8. I don’t ever have to worry because I bought Volcano offsets!

9. I remember a couple of decades back when one of the volcanoes in Hawaii was active,and one of our esteemed geo scientists suggested perhaps they could “cork’ it. Fortunately, it was never tried.

   Instead they suggested covering the Sahara in a white thermal blanket to stave off Global warming, as their earlier plan to combat Global Cooling by covering the Arctic with soot was never attempted.

   https://pages.mtu.edu/~hnlechne/controling_eruptions.htm

   In this article is says Mt.St.Helens was only a 24 megaton event. Considering the Russians developed a 60 mt hydrogen bomb, 24 is a mere firecracker. Ma Nature’s gotta do better. Maybe we should drop one of the Russian Tsar Bomba’s into the NZ crater and see if that stops the damned thing, thus saving tourists precious lives.

   If you’re gonna do insanity,do it up big.

10. I do look forward to seeing Jacinda Ardern try to explain how climate change was to blame—and why anybody was allowed near the volcano at all.

    According to all reputable volcanologists, no human being who valued his life had any more business going near White Island than he did going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

    May I suggest the five deaths be ruled death by misadventure and that the survivors’ insurers not be made to accept responsibility for their medical bills.

    1. “and why anybody was allowed near the volcano at all.”

       Allowed? Because we are not Nazis and allow people to do whatever stupid thing they want.

11. Smote by Angry Volcano Gods !
    We are all going to die. How many of us will go out in style like that ?

    1. What would Greta think?

       1. Greta, think ? What an amusing speculation. Do you think she can or ever has ? I suppose we will have to forgive her then.

          1. Everybody thinks. Most people aren’t very good at it.

12. Looks like the Kiwis have Volcano to worry about.I live within 50 mile or so radius of Mt Shasta

13. some more than others are keen to experience Pompei 79AD

14. Remember the joke after Air New Zealand flew their tourist laden jet into Mount Erebus?
    What big and white and f*cks Kiwis?
    Mt Erebus.
    Maybe Tourists in NZ should stay away from volcanos, active or extinct.
    Actually I am surprised the nanny state there even allowed people to set foot on White Island,maybe they were limited from their regulating by the fact White Island is private property?

15. Tragic.
    That is the sort of place that I would have visited had I been there.
    People should be free to travel there at their own risk and make their own decisions.

16. I love Mother Nature. Climbed one active volcano in Guatemala; love the photo of me standing there with sulfur rising from my feet. That volcano blew a year later.

    I have a video of me climbing down into a “leaking volcano” in Indonesia twenty years ago. At the bottom, sulfur was dripping from the vents. My wife & I passed workers climbing down to load buckets of hardened sulfur (weighing up to 150 pounds) that they carried up on their shoulders then back down the other side to sell to corporate drug company purchasers.

    We only live once. I am in my 60’s & now have MS. My physical activities have ended. No regrets; none whatsoever…

17. A couple of weeks before there was concern that increased activity might be warning of a potential eruption. Oh well.

18. Pete the Kiwi is taking the next flight to England

19. Oh my God what a tragedy! Think of all the Carbon Dioxide being emitted! It dwarfs by a factor of billions the CO2 that twit what’s-her-name saved by sailing across the Atlantic to a climate conference.