Posted on 09/06/2013 12:25:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
ping for things that go boom.
The Giant Zit of the Ocean. Smack dab off the north end of the ring of fire.. Great.
If only it could send lava to DC
Well, I guess distant future Earthlings can enjoy the new Hawaii that ought to be springing up someday.
I have already made filings to build condos there.
They estimate the volcano stopped 145 million years ago, give or take a few months.
Mauna Kea grew up from the ocean floor to about 31k feet in only a million years though. Last eruption was 3500 years ago.
I went to visit Halemaumau Crater last year. Gates of HELL. Fearsome and awesome to behold like I cannot describe as well as Mark Twain did. No kidding that when the Christian missionaries went to Hawaii to preach the gospel of the angry Judeo-Christian sky god, the Hawaiian natives said "Yeah, well, we have a fickle and ten times angrier volcano goddess named Pele that we can actually SEE." then they took the missionaries to Halemaumau Crater and watched them pee themselves.
A thousand times hotter than the sun. I’m stuned!
But why pick on New Mexico? Couldn’t it just as well be the size of Kansas?
It’s not just dust in the wind.
Soooo... you were worried about Yellowstone?
Wait until you see "Tamu Massif-Earth Killer"
It...We...will be if this thing blows
The people living in the east Mediterranean and middle east area are no stranger to Volcanic carastrophies and powerful earthquakes, you know. The area of the Bible, of the “angry Judaeo-Christian sky god” of which you speak. Is this some sort of one-upmanship going on here, the pagan gods (little “g”) of the Polynesians having it one up over “the angry Judaeo-Christian god” (which you have with a little “g” I notice)?
From my Christian perspective, the God of the Bible (big “G”) does not come in second to ANY pagan god, the Polynesian kind or any other kind. As the creator of heaven and earth, the Hawaiian volcanoes, and the huge one this article is about, he knows all about having created them. There is only one God, the God of the Bible (big “G”), pagan gods (little “g”) only exist in the minds of pagans.
You may not have meant for your post to be taken this way, if so I apologize, it just appeared this way to me.
RoseannaBonannodanna agrees. (Old SNL skit) old.
At the time when missionary William Ellis visited Hawaii in 1822, Halemaumau Crater was a lake of lava several miles wide, spouting jets of magma with cinder columns belching smoke in a plume thirty miles out to sea. It had been that way for several hundred years previous and stayed like that until the early 1900s until it receded to a crater like we visit today -- and it's still fearsome to behold in person, though in those days it must have been shocking. No Italian volcano comes anywhere close, and no European ever witnessed anything like it before.
Ellis wrote:
"... Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with our eyes riveted on the abyss below. Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, about two miles (3 km) in length, from north-east to south-west, nearly a mile in width, and apparently 800 feet (240 m) deep. The bottom was covered with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of burning matter, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its "fiery surge" and flaming billows."
Don't think for a moment that the Christian missionaries' astonishment and fear at such an awe-inspiring sight wasn't lost on the pagan Hawaiians who were being actively instructed about adhering to the new Christian god's law about being plunged into a lake of fire after judgement day if their mortal lives displeased Him.
Hawaiians: "Here is our lake of fire, where Pele dwells. Sometimes, when she grows angry, she destroys us rather than waiting after we're dead to cast us into fire as your god threatens. Is this what your book describes?"
Missionary Ellis (looking on at Halemaumau): *Gasp!*
I'm sure this added an enormous level of complexity in convincing the native Hawaiians of the difference between a geological oddity versus a theological abstract, don't you agree?
I would imagine there perhaps was probably one-upmanship going on when the first Christian missionaries came to Hawaii to steer them away from their pagan fire goddess worship.
Nothing new here, re:the great commission and the book of Acts, Christians are commanded to do as you describe...what these Hawaiian missionaries were trying to do. Nothing new either with the difficulty they had trying to convince the pagans that their God was "one up" on theirs. And not just the Hawaiians, apparently you find it difficult to believe also.
Wouldn’t there be bubbles on the surface of the ocean above it?
Okay, well thanks. We’re done here.
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