> Olin Lathrop wrote: > > Carl Denk wrote: > >> I don't think New Orleans is a volcanic region. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ^^^^ > > ... speaking of bad language > > > > I think part of the problem is people don't even bother to look over wh= at > > they wrote anymore. =A0Just bang it out and hit enter. =A0Nobody is exp= ecting > > perfection, but there is little excuse for the real obvious stuff a qui= ck > > look-over would have found. > > > > What is real obvious for you may not be that obvious for non-native > English Language member of the list. Some reasonable level of > tolerance should be expected here. Sometimes, depending on text typing > and reading options, typing correctly and checking out the typed in > text may be a problem even for native English speaker. Nah. Olin isn't serious. Even looking on from far off China (or it would be far off if I wasn't here instead of "there") it's obvious that he's just playing agent provocateur / Devil's advocate (add accents as desired) and trying to maintain the general list discontentment level. His own posts regularly contain the same old spelling mistakes time after time (as opposed to typos which slide through brain filters invisibly) so clearly his comments on "just bang it out and hit enter" is tongue in cheek. Beirut will be destroyed by a massive Tsunami (if it hasn't already recently be destroyed soon before that by human stupidity (again) - it's only a question of when. Rangitoto burst into existence less than 1000 years ago, possibly much less. By itself it produced double the volcanic material of the whole 50 or so Auckland volcanoes before it. They have been getting bigger and more frequent. Next one is well overdue. Most likely location is Eastern suburbs maybe slightly out to sea - say St Heliers. Should do wonders for my property values - I live some km outside the edge of the "hot spot" - they tell me. The "Taranaki" (aka Mt Egmont) that was conically perfect enough to stand in as Fujisan in "The last Samurai", is not the mountain that was there when very major things happened some millennia back. The old mountain completely self destructed and the new one replaced it. The present city of New Plymouth lies across a number of flow channels from the mountain and if the mountain woke properly much of the town would be destroyed. If the mountain emulated its forbear the locals would probably not need to be concerned about the flow channels. The largest volcano on earth in the last 20 years, presently "dormant", so big that locals can't see it, with a crater lake ~ afair 20+ miles wide and ~?40 miles long, with hot springs bubbling out of the shore sands and hot running streams (arguably some sort of clue) is just biding the day when it does its encore. Next to it Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Mt St Helens and a few dozen more all combined are still also rans.Last time the respectable sized mountain some kms to the south was overtopped by a pyroclastic wave about 1 km higher than the mountain. As these travel at a good fraction of the speed of sound, any near observers (vanishingly few) would not have been subsequent rapporteurs. (The mountain pumps an ejecta colum up out of the essential atmosphere - maybe 50 km tall column of ash etc balanced on the new flow. THEN the mountain takes a breather ... . The now unsupported column has to go somewhere and does. When Taupo reawakens, those who live in Christchurch will be thankful that they do. Russell .. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .