Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: mass55th
"Watch out for the pyroclastic flow."

When the pyroclastic flows reached the survivors at Herculaneum, the heat was so intense that it flash-cooked their brains and the resulting steam fractured their skulls.

43 posted on 05/17/2018 9:51:35 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies ]


To: Flag_This

This sounds amazing. I always thought the term “heads exploding” was figurative.


47 posted on 05/17/2018 9:53:45 AM PDT by GnuThere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]

To: Flag_This
I am fascinated by both Pompeii and Herculaneum. Have watched quite a few British documentaries on both cities. Would have loved to have been able to go to both places in my younger days, but I'll have to settle for websites like this instead:

Herculaneum Panoramas

103 posted on 05/17/2018 12:34:12 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson