Image Credit : Archaeological Park of Herculaneum
Guy on the beach was handing a Grey Poupon to someone.
CDC has declared his death a Covid one. Not vaxed.
Archaeologists at the time suggested that these victims were waiting for rescue, when they were killed instantly from the heat generated by a pyroclastic flow att temperatures of around 500 °C.
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“Need more sunblock!”
Enough to obliterate a body and it’s organs but not a cloth bag and wooden box?
I read recently they think they found Pliny the Elders body. Is this the body they think that of?
A body found on the beach during earlier excavations was determined to be a soldier and the inference was that he was organizing the evacuation.
The world needs to get its act together because some day, some time beyond our knowing a giant will re-erupt.
There are about a dozen or so super volcanoes so the odds of 1 erupting in our life is not high at all. Yellowstone erupted 630,000 yrs ago and about the same time before that. Another one erupted only 25,000 years ago but several erupted millions of years ago. So it could and WILL happen again.
Far more likely are the less explosive but more common “VEI” indexes of 5 (every 75 yrs like Pinatubo) or 6 sized like Krakatoa, or even a Tambora (every 750 years, Tambora was only about 200 years ago). The massive 7s (500-1000 yrs) and 8s (50,000+ yrs) are long shots.
Still with today’s high population a weak Tambora/Stronger Krakatoa type could disrupt food supply and cause famine, especially if it erupted in Summer and the ash went high enough to circle the globe. Very likely by say the next 2-3 generations.
I clearly remember in 1991 walking out shocked to see my Ford Aerostar spotted with ash when I had washed it the day before—In Indiana!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index#/media/File:VEIfigure_en.svg
The newly found man was not wearing a mask.
What a way to go.
I’ll bet his last words were, “Oh Shit.” In Latin of course.
5.56mm
Probably never even knew what hit him.
