Jesus! We have more virus than genes in our DNA!?!?! This is very interesting research for sure!
Jesus! We have more virus than genes in our DNA!?!?! This is very interesting research for sure!
I thought this was neat. The pressure wave from the volcano off of Tonga pretty much went world-wide. This was from a barometric pressure sensor in California:
Lots more people showing similar blips in the thread: https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/st...11999984177156
Wow - the pressure wave.
Also cool that there are that many sensitive devices around.
Dunno if any of you saw the video I posted on Facebook, so I'll post it here for the benefit of others who lurk here as well, but Scott Manley had a really good little report on the volcanic explosion and the subsequent effects.
Those pics from planetlab were pretty incredible.
That is WILD
It boggles my mind to learn that people in Alaska could actually hear that explosion! Wonder what it sounded like for the folks near Tonga. Folks at Fiji, NZ and Australia should be able to hear it too since they're way closer?
Anyway, reminded me of that Pixar short film- Lava! However, I hope folks at the surrounding area are okay...
Tonga may be without internet for a couple of weeks. The eruption severed the only undersea cable that runs to the islands. I do know of one person who was swept out to sea in the tsunami and died.
So far it looks like minimal issues but that's only because info is scarce due to the internet outage.
https://gizmodo.com/tonga-is-covered...vol-1848376335
Oh man, the place is covered in ashes... and buildings were damaged by heavy ashes or maybe rain of rocks? Clean drinking water will be an issue. Aid groups would like to help, but Tonga officials are afraid of invasion of Covid19... supposedly they just got their 1st case 3 months ago and had a week long lockdown...
Hope they can coordinate a safe contact free aid relief somehow...