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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2010-04-16 05:08 pm

A Marvel

It's a beautiful day- and for the first time in my lifetime of nearly sixty years there are no vapour trails in the skies over England.

[identity profile] lblanchard.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
We had that on September 11, 2001. Sadly, the marvel of it wasn't uppermost on our minds.
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[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, but that was rather different...
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[identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Amazingly blue! And you've just given me an idea for my photo of the day. :)

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I look forward to seeing it. :)
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[identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Strangely enough, it looks uncannily like your photo. :)
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[identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. Hadn't thought of that. I wonder what the weather effects will be? You might get slightly warmer weather than you otherwise would have done...

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
There's the possibility that this volcano could set off a bigger, neighbouring volcano and the eruption could carry on for over a year- because this is what has happened in the past. If that happens we could be witnessing the beginning of a world-changing event here.
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[identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, oh! That doesn't sound good. Perhaps we'll all be able to stop worrying about global warming and start panicking about another ice age instead. :(

My husband, who is a geologist, has noticed that the earth is very seismically active at the moment. We've had a string of earthquakes and now this eruption. It's possible that they're all related as the stresses shift over the earth's crust.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
We're always panicking about something. I think we're programmed for it.

[identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Utter, utter heaven!!!

It's so quiet! It's wonderful!!!!!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes; yes indeed!

[identity profile] ooxc.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Being the next thing to Mary Mary q c, I looked for some time at what I thought were vapour trails before i realized that it must be cloud trails drifting off the mountains

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-17 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't want the aeroplanes to return. I want it to be like this forever and ever.

Which is hugely selfish of me- as I have friends and family who need to get places and can't.

[identity profile] athenais.livejournal.com 2010-04-17 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't it odd? For me, living quite close to San Francisco Airport, I was in awe the day the planes stopped flying (9/11). Such clear skies, so quiet, no con trails...truly eerie.

Marvelous to see a sky free of our upper air passages.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-17 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
I keep thinking, this is the sky as Chaucer saw it.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-04-17 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
This shut down of the airports has coincided with a period of absolutely glorious spring weather.