Comments on: Big ‘ol honkin’Earth Fart is related to Dolphins.

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:55:20 +0000

Slippy! Where’ve you been?

Steam = water vapor = cloud. You’re parsing. As for Gretal’s 2nd comment, the space shuttle is indeed a satellite, but why it took aim and fired on a volcano is a mystery that may take hours to unravel.

By: Slippy Lane

Slippy Lane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:00:59 +0000

The “steam pushed into a bubble shape” is a cloud generated by the rising column of hot air, and not a part of the eruption itself. These clouds are common above explosive eruptions. The one in this picture is beginning to be dissipated by the rising ash cloud.

Gretal, read the title of the link in your first comment. Now read your second comment. See what you did there? :-)

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:40:34 +0000

Gretal– No way.

By: Gretal

Gretal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:32:12 +0000

Oh, and it was shot by a passing satellite.

By: Gretal

Gretal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:31:41 +0000

It is from a volcanic eruption; it is a cloud of ash: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195215/Stunning-pictures-hole-clouds-astronauts-witness-volcano-eruption-International-Space-Station.html

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:02:10 +0000

NC– Yep, and most of them smell like methane and sulfur, too.

By: Notoriously Conservative

Notoriously Conservative — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:51:54 +0000

Earth fart. I like that, I think it should be the new name for all volcanic eruptions. Geysers could be earth sharts.

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:56:13 +0000

I think it’s a conspiracy to do something or other.

By: strider

strider — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:46:00 +0000

“Detail” could also be in a military context, as in “The astronaut was on photo detail”. The astronaut, thus detailed, becomes a “detailed astronaut.”

Still the missing details from this detailed astronaut makes me think this is slipshod work, and that tax dollars are being misspent. The American taxpayer, indeed, have a right to know what film type, F-Stop setting and shutter speed was used. But above all, I think the taxpayer should also know how it was that he kept the camera steady? How was the tripod mounted?

Cool photo, I agree.