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Post by ilmatto on May 17, 2010 22:40:17 GMT -5
Yeh magical, and I saw a documentary where there was this elderly couple of amateur vulcanologists, I think it was a Mt St Helens, anyway, they always walked out on the lava flows and one day a bunch of steam vents opened up around them and they were trapped and, well...[crosses]
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Post by ilmatto on May 17, 2010 22:43:04 GMT -5
Oh good there's a corresponding PBF for this topic; there's a PBF for every occasion ;D
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 18, 2010 0:51:41 GMT -5
Yep, I'm right. You live in a TRULY dark world. ;D And don't think falling in didn't run through my mind when I was standing on that bench...it did. Park Rangers let us, that's all I can say.
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 21, 2010 5:32:35 GMT -5
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Post by ilmatto on May 21, 2010 7:24:37 GMT -5
Oh I love to hear the announcers say "Halemaumau", they articulate the individual vowels the same as Japanese. Hawaiian's such a musical language.
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 25, 2010 4:52:39 GMT -5
I wanted to share some pictures I took a few months ago while traveling to Kailua/Kona for my birthday. We leave at around 8am, and we are: On our way! This is Mauna Kea as seen from Saddle Road looking NW. Unfortunately, no snow this year. This is about an hour drive from my house. About half an hour later, it's rest time. This is Mauna Kea State Park near the Pohakuloa Training Area. This is located at a height of 6,500ft and is dang cold with the ever blowing breeze. It can, and will, drop into the 30's during the night. An hour to an hour and a half later, we are in Kailua/Kona...and I forget I have a camera! We visit used books stores, eat, ride around the town a bit, then, at around 3:00pm: I remember I have a camera! This is just north of Kailua/Kona. This is a pretty typical Kona afternoon. Dark, humid, and voggy. At this point, we're on our way too Costco! So what do I take a picture of? Guess? Why, it's a berry smoothie! Yes, I'm sitting there...my parents are sitting there...and I take a picture of the drink. At around 4, we are on our way back home. We hit saddle road at around 5:15, start to head back to Hilo, and I snap this beauty: Yes, it's blurry grass and clouds. I was trying to take a picture of the conditions we were driving through. So, if that's the case, we were at the blurry altitude. Next, another brilliant idea flashes through my mind...the road, let's take a picture of the road. And, voila! Saddle Road, heading down a step hill, If your brakes go here, you're dead. It also shows my mom's head, my dad's arm, and the radio station we listen to. Lastly, around 10 minutes later, I actually snap a nice picture. Mauna Loa, looking south, just before Pohakuloa. It was a beautiful sunset, and around 2 hours later, we were home. That was fun! I hope you enjoyed it, and until next time, Aloha!
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Post by ilmatto on May 25, 2010 18:58:37 GMT -5
Great pictures once again AFC!
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 27, 2010 17:25:45 GMT -5
Thanks Ilmatto. As for the picture, we locals would say "dat's all hamajangs." Translation: "That's screwed!" We just had our Lahaina noon, which happens twice a year. It's when the sun is directly overhead and we have no lateral shadows for a short time. I wish I could find a picture to show how odd it looks.
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Post by Birdgirl90 on May 27, 2010 18:48:24 GMT -5
Wow, Hawai'i looks like such a pretty place! I've never been out of the contential states, but now I want to go here. And the volcanoes - wow.
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Post by ilmatto on May 27, 2010 18:56:08 GMT -5
We just had our Lahaina noon, which happens twice a year. It's when the sun is directly overhead and we have no lateral shadows for a short time. Oh that's right you like astronomy etc. I really like solar & lunar events/phenomena like analemmas, eclipses, that weird solstice event that will render shadows on the concave sides of the egyptian pyramids, apparently there is a long hallway (at MIT?) where the sun will shine through an end window and illuminate the hallway only once or twice a year, or something like that, etc., etc.
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Post by spackle on May 27, 2010 21:28:23 GMT -5
So a building at MIT joins the ranks of Palenque, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, and others? I wonder what kinds of sun-worshipping rituals they practice at MIT?
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 27, 2010 21:34:46 GMT -5
My favorite astronomical events were the July 11th, 1991 total solar eclipse of the sun, Comet Hayakutake in 1996 with it's awesome tail, and the 2007 total lunar eclipse, which are much more magical then people give them credit for. We tend to have a lot of lunar and solar halos and, because of the islands shape, we get a lot of that spaceship/UFO looking clouds. For some reason, at the moment, I can't remember what causes the shadow to be on the concave side of the pyramids.
During Lahaina Noon, it's always fun to stand outside and look down...where's my shadow? Wa' 'appen? Of course, one of the only problems is that in order to actually get in the shade, you need to stand directly under an object, or lean right up against a tree.
Birggirl90, the eruption of Kilauea from the Pu'u O'o vent is only around 10 miles away from where I live. Luckily, my neighborhood is on a slight uphill slope from it, so it would really have to pile up on the flows to get here, but it could if it decided too. You want more volcano? Here you go:
The coast line they show near the end is the Na Pali coast on Kauai.
And a short news clip from a few years ago:
Then two of my favorite things, my home island and astronomy:
I hope you, and everyone else, enjoyed that. Mahalo nui loa.
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Post by afriendlychicken on May 27, 2010 21:37:53 GMT -5
So a building at MIT joins the ranks of Palenque, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, and others? I wonder what kinds of sun-worshipping rituals they practice at MIT? I knew that sounded "new age" too me. Let's see here, where are the eggs... ;D
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Post by ilmatto on May 27, 2010 21:49:53 GMT -5
For some reason, at the moment, I can't remember what causes the shadow to be on the concave side of the pyramids. Well it's just the angle of the sun that causes the shadow but I read in an article once years ago that the shadow is only rendered prominently at certain times of the year, like equinox or solstice or some event; I can't recall exactly.
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Post by spackle on May 27, 2010 21:59:52 GMT -5
So a building at MIT joins the ranks of Palenque, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, and others? I wonder what kinds of sun-worshipping rituals they practice at MIT? I knew that sounded "new age" too me. Let's see here, where are the eggs... ;D eggs?
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