EDIT: I didn’t realize the video didn’t work, so the link is here.
It’s not often that I use the phrase, but fuck me running, that was awesome. I just watched a video (which I’ll include at the bottom of this post) of a volcano just raising hell. The video, taken from Discovery Channel’s show Curiosity, is utterly breathtaking.
And it gets me thinking about how much we know today, and how little we knew once upon a time. I get why someone who lived near a volcano would imagine it a god. Today, we know all about plate tectonics and the earth’s crust and all that jibber jabber, but not too terribly long ago, all we knew was that sometimes this mountain would explode and cascade fire and awful all over our huts. It’s terrifying enough to see the raw power of the molten core of the earth, but to not have the frame of reference that we do now must have been incredible.








