Apr 10 2009BA-BOOSH!: More Volcano Lightning Action
I don't actually know if that's the sound volcano lightning makes, but for the sake of my journalistic integrity, let's run with it.
When Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano began rumbling back to life in January, a team of researchers scrambled to set up a system called a Lightning Mapping Array that would be able to peer through the dust and gas of any eruption that occurred to the lightning storm happening within. Lightning is known to flash in the tumultuous clouds belched out during volcanic eruptions.
The lightning produced when Redoubt finally erupted on March 22 was "prolific," said physicist Paul Krehbiel of New Mexico Tech.
Cool. Not as dramatic as last year's Chaitén volcano eruption, but this one does have a smiley face in the lightning. Can you see it? It's there on the right. Kind of looks like a giant monkey head....
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THEY'VE FOUND MONKEY ISLAND!
Dramatic Image Shows Volcano's Lightning [livescience]
Thanks to Watch, who once punched a cloud in the face and made it cry rain. True story.
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Reader Comments
1. Watch - April 10, 2009 10:42 AM
Hey! my tip made it again!
2. Watch - April 10, 2009 10:44 AM
I like this pic the took, it's not often you can photograph volcano lightning.
3. LSDiesel - April 10, 2009 10:44 AM
@1, Congratulations. Stop by my house later for your reward spankings.
4. Heather - April 10, 2009 10:53 AM
Monkey Island, eh? I hereby volunteer to wear a 1930's bathing suit and be tied to a pole as a sacrifice.
I mean, what ELSE am I gonna do this weekend?
5. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 10, 2009 10:55 AM
@3
By spankings, do you mean bullets in the head? If so, I'll bring the bullets.
6. DeeplyTroubled - April 10, 2009 11:02 AM
@4 - Good idea, thanks for volunteering. Stop by my house later for your reward spankings.
7. catch22 - April 10, 2009 11:08 AM
its billy the mountain!!!
...you never f*ck with a mountain
8. Jess - April 10, 2009 11:10 AM
Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!!
9. K. L. Parish - April 10, 2009 11:15 AM
Damn Nature, you scary. @ Seth MacFarlane
10. mattk - April 10, 2009 11:27 AM
@8
BWAHAHAHA! Most excellent Monkey Island reference...
11. LSDiesel - April 10, 2009 11:34 AM
@5, I was thinking more the traditional spanking, but with a 2x4 with nails in it. You can bring the nails?
12. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 10, 2009 11:39 AM
11- You're awfully sadistic today...
Um... d00d... a volcano just winked at me... I'm thinking that's a bad sign. Which would make sense today since I forgot I was supposed to be in at 7am today and got here at 8:15am... Yeah buddy, Good Friday my ass...
13. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 10, 2009 11:43 AM
@11
Better. I have a nail gun. It's on!
14. Elmo - April 10, 2009 12:20 PM
I can just see a little dude going 'boom shacka lacka'
15. Mr. Krinkle - April 10, 2009 12:40 PM
GW and #8, you both just pwned humanity with the Monkey Island references. NICE!
16. paineel - April 10, 2009 1:36 PM
i thought he was going to make the FIre out of the monkeys head the song from Gorrilas or the fire monkey in the movie storm riders
17. Watch - April 10, 2009 2:27 PM
@ 5 , youre sick, get help
18. Jiakasuma - April 10, 2009 2:41 PM
Groudon!?
19. rossd - April 10, 2009 5:56 PM
thats the second biggest super-destructive volcano i've ever seen !!
20. Jess - April 10, 2009 7:00 PM
@19 - nice one! However, you fight like a dairy farmer
21. Madzay - April 10, 2009 8:22 PM
wow.....I SWEAR I just saw "Goku" from Dragonball Evolution perform a kakahamaha attack......
22. Madzay - April 10, 2009 8:22 PM
sorry i mean kamahamaha.....
23. Xavier - April 13, 2009 8:30 PM
I was actually able to see this from my house.
24. ech0z - April 15, 2009 11:43 PM
HAHA! CUTE MONKEY!!! HES LOOKING AT ME!
LOL AT @ 23 :D
25. explosion - April 26, 2009 5:17 PM
These pictures about volcano explosions and lightenings are very spectacular and amazing. Still, if you think about it, in reality they are actually very dangerous.