Observations from 08 Dec to 20 Dec 2023

0930am 08 December 2023 Iceland

0950am 08 December 2023 Spain Can you ask if this volcano has a name? The undersea one? Between Tenerife and Gran Canaria?

1020am 08 December 2023 Ireland – Well, if you look at the West coast of Ireland compared to the West coast of Morocco/Western Sahara or USA for that matter, Ireland has cliffs, tall cliffs. The oceans only been rising dramatically there for, the last what? 15,000 years, since the last ice age. The ocean hits the cliffs and the rock falls. No earthquakes and the cliff faces stay standing. Now, the other places, ocean hits the rocks, the rock falls and it gets split by earthquake seismic vibrations, wind, sunshine and suddenly you have sand, it happens quickly, so there isn’t time for it to become proper soil, it flows down a sandy river bed and into the ocean and more earthquakes and it forms a wide sloped feature. You know you’re actually describing a volcano in slow motion, without the hot sticky lava bits. Well, theoretically almost all the rock, including those of Ireland were originally lava etc. so you are quite right, it is a volcano in slow, slow motion, I might see if some old math works for that? Why do you talk about the water rising dramatically for Ireland, it’s everywhere? Well, there are some quite large inland water bodies, the water levels there, they go up and down too and though the time differences are in thousand or hundreds of thousand of years, it’s the same fluid theory, Great Lakes, Lake Baikal etc. You sound like you’ve been there? No, he has, we chat occasionally.

1155am 08 December 2023 Ireland

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1320pm 09 December 2023 Philippines

1330pm 09 December 2023 Japan, you have to realise that very few people take as Holistic a view of the world as we do? The artic completely cut off? And possibly the Antarctic too, there’s only a short distance between Patagonia and the place? It’s an explanation for the tall steep sides on North and South America? The entire coastline battered by huge waves? The ocean piling up it’s energy on the mountains? No currents in the Atlantic? And? And suddenly there’s a breach and there’s currents and heat movements? The Ocean moving the sun’s heat to a different pattern? And? And the ice starts to melt? Though it’s a bit like a spring and it get’s hotter and colder and hotter? It’s a big theory? Well, it’s only a small planet? Let’s call it that, The Small Planet Ice Breach theory? Lara, tell some of them this and they’re going to wish they were wearing ice britches. Jodhpurs, I wear jodhpurs not britches. Well, put your jodhpurs on and go tell that big friend of yours? They’ve probably heard the theory before, though a long time ago. That from one of the library books? No, not that one.

1400pm 08 December 2023 Greece There’s another possible treasure one, though probably water cisterns? Top of the hill, close to the city, the photo looks like frost from halfway up, and none on that platform? Water cisterns? They’re taking the entire hillside? And earlier someone else probably took the entire temple or whatever was up there, cut stone as a building material was expensive, in time and skilled labour. Why do you think of water in terms of the temple? Vestal virgins. What? Well the Roman daughters, they got responsibility for the house and hearth, a match and a thimble, why? Earthquakes, put the fire out, there’s the bucket. Where’s the fire always kept lit? Temple, top of the hill where it’s safe. The night time guard for the fire, they fetched the water too. Before breakfast, at dawn, the men worked outside the home. How would they do that? It’s dark and dangerous? The legionnaire is, the warrior is here, off we all go to the well. The punishment for harassing the Vestal virgin was quite severe.

1415pm 09 December 2023 Greece How did you find this one? Well, I was looking on the other hill, it’s got many roads and soil, it probably doesn’t shake as much however it’s covered in soil, it’s really hard to dig cisterns to hold enough water for a town. If there were dehydration deaths on the green hillside, they might have decided putting up with the noise and shaking and having water to drink might have been the best option in the long term. And? Well on the positive side, it’s really hard to see the stars through the trees, the town smoke makes the sky darker, the views from the hillside of the ocean would have been nice, and it might have been a little lower down, the water wouldn’t freeze as quickly? And the paths are rocky, fewer falls and fewer landslides blocking the paths. Didn’t think of that one. Well, there might have been kids running on their own, you go on ahead and scout the way, I’ll be right behind you. You’re thinking like a grandparent? Well, some of the mammies and daddies weren’t perfectly spritely either. Look, there’s the bend in the road, we turn up the hill here? Nice one, navigator.

1430pm 09 December 2023 Greece – Planning office, please? How do you know it’s a new road? The triangles on the old road, customs or police etc. Can you wait here for a little while? While, I ask the mayor? See, to the West and North East. Oh, there’s another to the NNW. And? Well, if you put the mayor and mayoress on that estate, it sort of focuses their minds? Now, that’s not right? Well, they’d start thinking about evacuating first? And they’d have words with anyone planning a road through the estate? True. Anyone want to look for the mayor’s house? 1C BC? Maybe 4C BC ? earlier? How old is the pond on the hill to the NE, the sewage works? the light green with the trees around it? Question? Why worry abut the town buildings? Well, it’s a sandbox problem. If the sand box and drop it the sand shakes, the box moves steadily. The rock outcrops, go up and down, horizontal movements you have the pillars of the temple in a cone shape, the bases wider than the tops, vibration up, the opposing pillar catches the forces, giving you the rough basis, the temple drops, the forces of the air underneath pressing outward squeeze the bases of the pillar together like the bottom of a saucer. True, over time the movements would increase the depth of the saucer. Like grinding a concave refractor mirror. A mortar and pestle? Similar idea. The sand, and there is a small story on this in one of the old books. Really? However if you’re going to live in it long term, then you have a nice timber house beside the temple. If times are really bad, you can use the house for firewood. I was told about a similar idea at Baltimore castle, Ireland. Trading posts, it’s the goods which normally need more protection than the people. And the heat and moisture requirements are different. And the place burning down by accident sort of sets back your trading for a while. Their wives were in the highest rooms. Oh, the ones going, save me, save me, I’m sitting on the gold? The Roman flag and crest bearers stood on the pay chest and they were the ones who could count and do sums and stuff. It’s how the Old English in Ireland tended to marry Irish, the women had education, at least some of them had, Grainuaile spoke Latin and stuff. That’s spelt wrong? Actually in Irish there was a fada too. Gráinne Ó Máille. Her kids were Bourkes and Ó Flaithbertaighs. Wiki Grace O’Malley. Oh, this is cool “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasparilla_Pirate_Festival Tampa Florida, “In 2001, the Parade of Pirates was held a week earlier than usual to coincide with Super Bowl XXXV, which was played in Tampa the next day. “Supersized Gasparilla” saw a record attendance of about 750,000, but though the event was generally well received, the city has opted not to reschedule the parade to coincide with subsequent Superbowls played in Tampa due to the serious challenges posed by large crowds and snarled traffic.” “The Outward Voyage Home is the culminating event of the Gasparilla season which was revived in 2008 after being discontinued in 1964. During this ceremony, the Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla’s pirates return the key of the city to the mayor, then climb aboard the Jose Gasparilla and “sail away” across Tampa Bay while festivities continue along the Tampa Riverwalk. The Outward Voyage usually takes place on the first Saturday in March.” Silly question? Is there something nearby which happens that they’d want people entertained at that time of year? Good question, let’s look first week of March? Last week of February? The river walk is cool, Colman took some nice photos of the statues there. Though it might be a nice way to start the Tourist season early, the weather there being warmer than further up USA? If all the winter tourist camper vans have moved further North? The snarled traffic might have been vans parked everywhere because the camp sites were full? From how far away would they travel? Floods, Hurricanes, Tornadoes? Camper vans etc. Reduces numbers of the things in danger areas? Lets have a little look in February? It also kickstarts revenue streams? Temporary work gives cash for petrol money to move North to the cooler Summer places? Possible? The camper sites around Devils Tower were pretty empty in September. We passed a few on the tour. And camp fires were banned which tends to move people out of the camp sites too.

1620pm-1750pm 09 December 2023 USA Hawaii Well, it was where you held your trade goods too? Eat the perishables and gather non perishables? Now, you’re really stretching. Well, long shots have paid off before? Caves etc. How high has the water risen there? The storage caves might be under water now? All it takes is the island dropping a couple of feet in the night? If the caves were close to the beach? For a quick getaway? And that generation didn’t return to the village? The waters rising, a Tsunami either etc. Fills the caves, sloped down into the hillside to have fresh water at the back of the cave for the guards etc.? Fills with water which never empties? Becomes a freshwater spring? Coming out of a cave? Someone would search it? They mightn’t have been looking for what we’d be looking for? And it was dark and wet. Hidden entrance, to the side, storage for real valuables? Which side? Towards the village water source, looking for the water to drain into the cave? You don’t dig twice if you can avoid it? It’s hard work. No one goes in there, there’s gases and steam coming out the top? It was a quiet time when they dug it? Temple? Too obvious? Place guarded because of women’s duties, celebrations, etc. Hospital? Maternity? You’d need guards to keep the women safe and to tend the fire? Why are you thinking trade? Well, Captain Cook was killed just down the coast. Maybe he didn’t know he was supposed to make land at the trading post? How would you know it was a trading post? Permanent fire? Away from the Northern point, so you could see there weren’t warriors behind the trading party? How would the cave fill with water? Well, if the waves washed in, if there was a trickle of water in, then there was a place for the pressure wave of the water coming in from the coast to expand. It’s how blow holes form. Water flowing down from above creating a small vent, which the waves expand as they blow into the cave or crack or softer mineral deposit. On a hillside above the cave, initially there might be a tiny vent where the air blows upwards, sometimes a vent of water spray when the waves are particularly large, though then it wouldn’t be normally seen as people would be staying away due to the weather, winds, rain, storm etc. It depends on the height of cave entrance how much wave to air pressure is exerted at the back of the cave.

1800pm 09 December 2023 USA Caribbean Islands You might ask how Aran Islands and the rest are fixed for Christmas visitors too? Away from the big smoke for Christmas and all that? Flights, ferries, projected weather etc.

1830pm 09 December 2023 Iceland A nice question about how that little island is doing too? That might have knocked a coffee cup and they’re hard to import at this time of year. Have they a pottery? Though suitable clays, you might have to see if there’s an old river near where the animals were shitting for a thousand years? Most Irish clay deposits were from quite old river beds, long ago. Some sea birds perhaps, they were early colonisers? suitable cliffs? though I’m not sure if there would have been small predators, the birds might have nested higgeldy piggeldy, if there were none before the arrival of humans and four legged furry friends? The sea bird shite would was away, the eggs though, they’d last longer though the eggshells might react with the SO2? Chinese pottery, the really fine “bone” china? Were there Viking potteries and what clay types? Smoking pipes for moving fire embers from room to room? They’re really a small form of oil lamp and there was whale oil occasionally? Well, the rising fire would suck new air in through the pipe stem? if you just had a drop in the bottom of the pipe? just enough from room to room? Well, you wouldn’t want to be accidentally dropping a load of the stuff, liquid fire onto the floor? that’d be dangerous? Sounds rather like Greek fire? Well, how many whales were in the Mediterranean? They’re last sightings etc. Ouzo? They might have mixed it with alcohol? to make it last longer?

2100pm 09 December 2023 USA Hawaii – Who invented the game chicken? Asians of course. Why? Well, chickens they used to clear areas of ground for displaying to the hens, didn’t fly, so island dwellers. Chasing off the rivals, that was only for big chickens. They got big because rodents were there and you need to be a big chicken to survive the mice and rats. Cassowary, they needed to survive the dingos and the Tasmanian devils too. What did Moa need to survive from? Man or beast?

0125am 10 December 2023 Ireland – Some geography I certainly wasn’t taught.

1110am 10 December 2023 Ireland Why is this happening? Well, I’ve been having a little think and you know that woolly bog hat you wear occasionally. It’s a fisherman’s hat. Fishermen’s hats are blue, that’s a bog brown, originally dyed with lichen, I can find you the species if you like. Ok, well picture it like this, the hat was tight around your head, you pulled at the top, the artic getting colder, the earths surface contracting. Now the pulling action, it made tension in the hat surface, the stretching makes the shapes of the wool fibres change. Now the hat has started to slide upwards, the fibres start to close together. And, well, it shows a scar on your forehead. It’s an old scar. The other version is mother nature putting a few stitches into the wound as the cold contracts the plates together and closes the wound, however the pressure underneath is still welling and the lava comes up further south. It’s why you close the vein or artery first before closing the outer skin.

1340pm 10 December 2023 Spain Canary Islands – I was just looking at my Instagram and saw this. If you considered The great Pyramid of Giza as the largest sundial in the world? How accurate would your readings be for the positions of Earth with respect to the Sun? It’d depend on how pointy the Pyramid was? Where would the shadow fall on midday Summer solstice? Winter Solstice? Equinoxes? Why? Because I’d have a little temple there for the priest to celebrate the occasion and to mark the exact position? Did the Irish architect doing the new Cairo museum think of it? You might ask her? Grand Egyptian Museum Estimated opening: Late-Spring 2024

2315pm 10 December 2023 USA Nebraska – “Ben Gates answering, and how may I direct your call? Cranks and Conspiracy nuts, Mr Poole takes those calls at ‘insert phone number here’.” Ben, there’s a slight problem, we’ve lost a book. Not that book? No, another book, a much older book.

0845am 11 December 2023 Australia The Guardian Tropical Cyclone Jasper: residents and visitors stockpile board games and beer before storm crosses Queensland coast Google? A small bit of work needed?

0930am 12 December 2023 USA, Now this morning when I tried to save a photo on my Corel program 2019 I got this page. It fills the screen and buttons are hidden behind the top taskbar and the right task bar forcing me to have a left task bar. Now theoretically I could say all americans are assholes and that’s what most of the world says and I won’t write anything helpful for them ever again. So you might have a little word. There aren’t other photo processing programs which aren’t in the hands of the Americans and Japanese, because they buy all the little companies as they apply for patents. So, let’s have a little think about what your software is doing to your world view and I don’t mean looking out, I mean looking in at ye, we all think ye’re a bunch of arrogant pricks. And me? personally, I know a few of ye. And it’s all lovey dovey until there’s three of ye and you’re sitting in a small warehouse in Congo with the two americans going this bloody Irishman knows more than we do. Oh, and any attempt to fix the problem gets me to screens which lock the program and force me to restart the computer. Oh, and this is me being helpful to America. So a word with your set of gobshites, please, it’s getting rather annoying seeing the entire world going to hell in a handbasket. Oh, and so many of my tenants think solving problems with me is a process of leaving hints. To me a hint is “Colman, there is a problem which needs attention.” Anything else is someone being an uncommunicative annoying asshole. I’m a rather thick skinned person and I have no idea which hint is which or from who, so I just ignore that sort of messing. And that’s the full screenshot, I thought this program was called windows??? I think there was a book written predicting the problem, I had it as a kid “The Twits” by Roald Dahl. You see, I’ve seen americans helping in the Third World first hand and it’s nice. Ever heard of America Aid? No, Irish Aid is quite a new idea, nice isn’t it. WE go out and look and bring the nice ideas home and give them to other people. Thank Dessie, he asked me to Improve things. Bit by bit. Did you like the article about the Megamouth shark, Irish Independent via Microsoft Bing, “you cannot enter without a password”, I presume this is purchased? Oh, that was predicted in 2000AD “Brand Wars” Judge Dredd.

1010am 12 December 2023 To paraphrase a Marvel Thor quote “There is no way past the banner.” European Union – This is NOT what Copernicus was for. Why? Free viewing draws hits on the internet, top of the list, now, monetise. Newspapers have their front pages to attract people to purchase. However the front pages are? On the tv the night before, on the newspaper stand, discussed on certain nice tv programs. At least that’s how the British do it.

1345pm 12 December 2023 Ireland – Are weather phenomena like this going to become more frequent? You really haven’t been reading anything lately have you? We want to hear it from you. And here’s my climate expert.

1820pm 13 December 2023 Tonga

1850pm 13 December 2023 Tonga – What you looking at Tonga for? Summertime, everything warms up. And? Well water absorbs energy quite well, so it’s the ones near teh surface you have to watch. With a pointy top on them? Well, that just says they haven’t had an explosive eruption yet. The ones with pointy tops though, they do have more solid volume over the possible eruption site. True and the explosive potential needed to blow their top is much higher than one with a soft vent to the surface. Water does cool the things quite quickly though and there is sometimes a question about the plug sometimes being harder than the surrounding fast cooled lava and exploded remnants from the old eruptions surrounding the volcano peak or caldera? How would you predict the volcano? Well, the heating event might possibly have been at the front of the moving plate and an earthquake concurrent with the event might have happened long ago, so it’s quite difficult, though keeping a log of earthquake events from current data might possibly allow estimation of stored energy in the form of deep heated magma for future predictions?

0005am 14 December 2023 World

Beyond tsunami fragility functions: experimental assessment for building damage estimation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41047-y 
This model will primarily be of use to Japan, with it’s already amazing building codes on Earthquakes and Tsunamis. Comparing the data sets of damage caused by Tsunami to the Japanese Infrastructure, Office and Residential properties, to those in less disaster aware and less financially well off countries, is like comparing chalk and cheese, and speaking of which, the underlying geology of the areas with differing absorption of the physical impact of the Tsunami and drainage of the receding waters into the underlying rock and via the constructed drainage channels and underground rainwater drainage tanks is dramatically different too, of which the Japanese planners might also take cognisance. It is a nice idea though. One thing to consider on the opposite side of the “known” data is: Delivered information on the damage done, information delivered by the local authorities, sometimes reduces the availability of capital to local projects, which might not be completely up to the central government standards, as required by higher risks.

0145am 14 December 2023 Peru – Machu Pichu – You have to remember that the Spaniards had a few local allies from smaller potentates further North, who might not have been too fond of the local gods either. However messing with tombs, that’s not good, diseases and stuff. I’d be having a nice last look at the archaeological sites on Google Earth Satellite photos, as it seems some of the archaeological sites are being digitised building mapped over the real photos for the good of the sites, considering the tiny number of archeologists capable of investigating the large number of sites, I’m not particularly sure whether that’s a good or a bad thing. Now, recently, having heard of a bed ridden person in a nursing home, of sound mind and with a voice of their own. It was thought that a computer, at the time a Vic 20, would give a new lease of life to him. Now at the time, it was too early in the technology, however with voice recognition and large screen capability, 10,000 euros for a top computer and screen and you have a new lease of life and a potential employee, who mightn’t be perfectly qualified, however you know they’re not going to be walking away with the merchandise. Just saying. Twenty of the gentlemen and ladies and video conferencing and you have an active community. Health service? Need some database work done? A website maintained? It might be a slow start, however it’s a twenty, thirty, forty year investment? One teacher, writing the voice activated software? The image reviewing system was devised and shown in Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford. Zoom, pan right, stop… 

0330am 14 December 2023 Peru Lake Titicaca – You might watch over the dead?

0355am 14 December 2023 Peru Nice thesis, a little look at Google Earth might be a thought? ”Regionally, Inca shrines replace LIPchullpa cemeteries as principal ceremonial loci. Inca shrines near pre-Inca sacrosanct sites, and the evidence for their construction and use “by local actors,” indicate a “mutual accommodation between Inca and local religious traditions”; in contrast, shrines on the Island of the Sun emphasize “tight control” and an Inca-dominated hierarchy (Arkush 2005: 239 – 340).” Ruralism, land use history, and Holocene climate in the Suches Highlands, Southern Peru by Benjamin Vining 2012 Colman’s comment There’s a few volcanoes. Now some people would ask, why the yellow stuff on top of mountain? Actually the mountains are so high that the rain doesn’t fall up there, the clouds are normally under that level. It’s a troposphere thing. Ask a weather expert. In Volcano terms they’re so tall that it means that if it blows, it blows, really, really big. ”When the wind blows” style, without the radioactive fallout, though I’d do a Geiger counter check too, just in case?

0500am 14 December 2023 USA Hawaii What’s unassigned mean? Oh, no one told us to watch it. The colours are supposed to be for lava flows? The gases produced by hot lava in salt water are??? The Circles are supposed to be for the earthquakes, the depth not mattering particularly as you’re a Volcano Observatory? However during the quiet times, it looked rather empty of colour and someone thought… Suggestions?
I’ll draw a little picture?  

0535am 14 December 2023 Ireland, we’re only at this a few months, so it’s a little embarrassing to be so close to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory already, we only got a professor last year, some Scandi I think? And this is a Paddy thanking the Scandi, they can do better, I know where they were trained, they spent their time at Warpcon or NetSoc (UCC) or their colleges equivalent and got their exam cheat sheets from the college server. One module in Web design, you’d be better off with an Internet Graphics person, though you’d have to explain the maths to them again. The seismographs, wow. That, that’s class. You put the things where? Oh, in nice soils. They were supposed to go in rocky mountains, they buried them in the lake valleys, easier to dig little holes and near people, roads and stuff, because they don’t like driving to the remote locations and didn’t know that it’s only 5,000 euros to get optical fibre to almost any remote location now. Have fun. it’s a years work by contractor, four weeks if you ask the Defence Forces. They’re not normally allowed lift a fork to a mouth without a written order from the Department, the Department tender and the officer’s not allowed do the work themselves, they might be employable outside after doing an actual job of work with the Defence Forces army technicians under their supervision. Ask one if they’ve ever built a brick wall?

0625am 14 December 2023 Ireland Earthscope taking the proverbial? Well, their counting skills they be not so good neither. It’s called Beta testing and having the code written so it can be altered easily later. PHP was designed for security. It was designed that if one bit went wrong, the alteration caused a massive failure and the piece of code (webpage) was taken out of another correct version in backup. The presumption being that that bit was corrupted by a bad reading of the tape or hard drive. These days, you can write the same program quickly in Python and hopefully someone reading the webpage will … , actually, the file should be read and it’s various bitcodes checked for the correct bitsums to confirm the piece of code is correct before making your calculations and your finished web picture or file at the time of sending. 
After that, it’s about keeping your server secure. 
Pity about Ballincollig, the Indians, they do the “can I help you” so much cheaper. 
Well, a few people came back to Ireland after their failures. 
We shall see?  Why were EMC – Dell here? Well, the patents? The coding modules? The base code? Why is there a “Timsort” in here? You know it’s … Look, I’ll show you the problem. Example? What versions of Python are running on the Raspberries now? It’s why I prefer the Arduino and the C programming language. The UK crowd with knowledge went back to the Q Basic programming language and the Commodore 64.

0700am 14 December 2023 France Nine departments in south of France prepare for practice tsunami alert “The exercise will let authorities see how well their text message alert system works” 02 November 2023 13:12 [Updated 13:00 November 2: the tsunami exercise has been cancelled due to bad weather] 
“The Fr-Alert text message system, set up in 2022,
allows the authorities to warn people of imminent dangers. 
It can make mobile phones ring
even if their owners have put them on silent mode.“

0720am 14 December 2023 World United Nations UNESCO ? Really? Why? Oh, he/she started the thing so we left it with them. https://whc.unesco.org/en/story-abu-simbel/ The moved Abu Simbel to save the monument from the rising waters due to the Nasser dam in ??? ”From 1960 to 1980, UNESCO orchestrated the gigantic project. Archaeological research in the flood areas was intensified, yielding exciting new discoveries. In all, 22 monuments and complexes were saved by 40 technical missions from five continents. Massive temples, notably those of Abu Simbel and Philae, were relocated. Total cost came to US$80 million, half of which was donated by some 50 countries.” ”Abu Simbel was inaugurated in its new location on 22 September 1968. The Philae monuments, the last to be saved, were transported to the higher Agilkia island between 1972 and 1979.” I visited Abu Simbel at it’s new location. It’s quite impressive, they did an amazing job concealing the tiny cracks, where the saws cut the mountainside. More than 1000 blocks most over 30 tonnes each. Ah, here it is ”The key was international solidarity. UNESCO convened top experts – hydrologists, engineers, archaeologists, architects – who devised a radical plan: temples would be dismantled, moved to higher ground and reassembled.”

0730am 14 December 2023 Egypt Wouldn’t it have been cool, if someone had put a nice “Time Capsule” in somewhere in the mountain? No artist? Didn’t tell anyone? (Actually we threw a Coca-cola can and a coin under that one? So the move can be dated later? Which coin? A Greek silver drachma, 3C BC, just to annoy them. We were a little bored.) Now strangely, it is a little known fact that Silver was more valuable than Gold in Egypt. And the silver stuff was so valuable that it was traded for silk in Constantinople much later by those pesky Vikings. Now, as it happens we have a lovely thing in Ireland called the Ardagh chalice, The Ardagh Chalice, National Museum of Ireland, represents a high point in early medieval craftsmanship and can be compared in this regard to the Tara Brooch and the Derrynaflan Paten. This is quite cool too. Selected coins from a hoard of silver coins ”comprising pennies, half pennies and quarter pennies. 1270-72 AD.” Sevenchurches or Camaderry, Co. Wicklow This coin represents the earliest Irish coinage. It shows SITRIC, King of Dublin. The style is an imitation of the English Æthelred II design. It was excavated in Glendalough in 2016. Minted AD 995. Viking silver arm-rings discovered on the shores of Clew Bay, Co. Mayo ”This is the largest hoard of such arm-rings ever found and it seems clear that they were deliberately buried, probably for temporary safe-keeping, sometime in the 10^th century.” 

0820am 14 December 2023 Strangely the Irish stuff was mostly in the Victoria and Albert Museum, it being in the United Kingdom in the 1890s, at least it was when I was there, spent 7 days in the British and 7 days in the V&A, it’s a long walk seeing every room in each of them, I could only look at the places a few hours a day, my brain could only take so much excitement. There’s 220 rooms in The British Museum from memory, I bought a nice map, and the book. Masterpieces of the British Museum

0835am 14 December 2023 Lumen Learning – Western Civilisation – Chapter Eight – The Fourth Crusade ”Andrew II of Hungary waged the Bosnian Crusade against the Bosnian church, which was theologically Catholic but in long-term schism with the Roman Catholic Church. The conflict only ended with the Mongol invasion of Hungary in 1241.” Woops – Coloman of Galicia ”Coloman was born in 1208.^[8] According to historians Márta Font and Gábor Barabás, he was named most probably for Coloman of Stockerau, an Irish pilgrim who had been martyred in Austria in 1012.” Coloman of Stockerau ”Originally known as Colmán (variously rendered Koloman, Kálmán, Colman, and Colomannus), he was an Irish pilgrim en route to the Holy Land and was mistaken for a spy because of his strange appearance. He was tortured and hanged at Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria, on 16 July 1012.  Later tradition has it that he was “a son of Máel-Sechnaill (d. 1022), high king of Ireland.” (Breen, 2009)”

1140am 14 December 2023 Ireland – Remember that history of Newspapers? There’s a nice story in here about the O’Keeffe and Cliodhna Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

1250pm 14 December 2023 Ireland Can someone tell wiki that is Baile na Martra or Castlemartyr. You might fix the link? some additional and slightly contradictory history is in the Castlemartyr page. Can ye find out if Lancelot “Capability” Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) left a copy of Castlemartyr House garden plans lying around anywhere? I’d like to see the original plan of the waterworks which brought the water to the lake? If it’s not too much trouble? And I’d like a shrubery?

1155am 16 December 2023 World – Global Volcano Program Silly question, there’s about three hundred remote volcanoes need monitoring and the countries don’t have the money. That’s the cost of nine hundred helicopters? and three hundred helipads with three helicopter bay hangers? No pilots? Well, you need three hundred pilots at two per helicopter for two weeks and 26 two week, no that’s three days in the simulator, a hundred simulators, and a week in the jungle, desert etc. 300 x 2 x 52 x 2 for backup pilots and night flying? x 2 for three helicopters? x 2 = Maintenance? Three maintinance people too? 93,600 pilots? That’s every airline pilot in the world with a free two week holiday to… You know there’s a pension for a UN person for five years work? Six months on, six months off? ten year contract? it’s easier? 300 x 6 x 2 x 2 x… add a few for headquarters and training them on the simulators? + 50?  7250 pilots? You know some of those volcanos are actually quite near to one another?  Well, that and the fuel requirements and local fuel availability are a calculus problem as is frequency of flights and availability of qualified Volcano people to guide the science. Sensor locations, sensor maintenance, onboard flights watching the FLIR, safety of the flight from volcanic gases, etc. Oh, and some of the locations are near water, availability of the pilots for coastguard duties too? Training? Training? Winchmen etc. Well, you’re not going to be able to land some places? Train the volcano people? Six months ambulance training is standard? Do you just train the dopes on the ropes to maintain the volcano sensors? It’s a big job? You want it? No, it’s completely out of most pilots scope, where would you start? Iceland? Cold etc, Antarctica? Indonesia, good pilot knowledge, fuel availability and high jungle? Chile? High mountains for altitude flying? You’re talking about needing the best pilots in the world? No, I’m talking about training the best pilots in the world, six months in each location?  Why? Well, you want people to fly accross the face of the Moon on Moon hoppers, where do you find pilots for that? You start by looking at the best pilots in the world, six months on six months off. Where did you come up with all this? I had a dream. Oh and some of the volcanoes are in civilised countries without the impetus to monitor the volcanoes weekly, they think space can do better? USA, Russia, etc. It’s a big job? They might pay their dues if they were getting value for money? It’s like the landlord complaining that no policeman came to check if the building supporting the 300 workers supporting the towns economy was being burgled. Why? Well, when’s the last time the UN supported a relief effort in the USA? Katrina, etc. They never applied for monies? World government should be about helping people? It’s a silly thought? It’s like offering a band aid? Yes, and one silly paddy long ago said, it might be a very big band aid, however we’ll try. Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE ”Due to his Irish accent, the profanity was stated to be misheard as “fock” and “focking” respectively. After the outburst, donations increased to £300 per second.” Colman’s comment – Earth, actually the place isn’t quite “Mostly Harmless” – Now strangely, to use a Douglas Adams simile, this is also the cost of flying some modern warplanes as they use fuel so quickly and are rated for so few possible flying hours. Monty Python, I didn’t know he appeared with them? ” “Mr. Neutron”, Adams is dressed in a pepper-pot outfit and loads a missile onto a cart driven by Terry Jones, who is calling for scrap metal (“Any old iron…”).” ”According to Adams, the idea for the title occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing at the stars. He was carrying a copy of the Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe, and it occurred to him that “somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“. “ 

1300pm 16 December 2023 Ireland - HSE
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/media/pressrel/
HSE WARNING: WINTER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES
HSE advise COVID-19 vaccination of children aged 6 months to 11 years
HSE monitoring emerging overdose situation in Cork City region
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly T.D., officially turns the sod on new Letterkenny Community Hospital
European Antibiotic Awareness Day 18 November
Be Winter Ready This Year
“Good Choice, Bad Choice, My Choice” – Adult Safeguarding Conference for South East held in Kilkenny

The girl who died in the Emergency room??? This is the reason: 38 degrees is NOT a mild fever – 38 degrees is ON DEATH’s door. Get a focking doctor, she’s dying and why isn’t there a sticky temperature indicator on her focking forehead. (Colman’s comment The old cure was??? Sore throat? Gargle with Disprin? Aspirin, first medicine made artificially, by ze Germans – New treatments, reduces heart attack and stroke symptoms, blood thinning.) Does aspirin reduce fever? Yes, aspirin reduces fever. Also known as acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin inhibits an enzyme needed to make prostaglandins—those natural chemicals in our body that produce pain, inflammation and fever. As such, aspirin is classified as a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). GHOSTBUSTERS (movie_1984)- “I get my salicylic acid as a generic???”

Initial symptoms can include:

• runny nose
• blocked nose
• mild fever (temperature of 38 degrees Celsius)
• slight cough.

https://pharmeasy.in/online-medicine-order/asperin-300mg-tab-35602 

Asperin 300 MG Description

Asperin Tablet is an antiplatelet medicine (blood thinner). It contains aspirin as its active ingredient. It is used to prevent the formation of blood clots. This helps reduce the risk of heart attacks, stroke and angina due to blood clots. Blood clots are one of the factors that can cause heart attacks, stroke and other critical health conditions. Blood clots can limit or block the passage of blood to essential organs, resulting in a heart attack or stroke. It works by slowing down blood clotting and hence prevents the formation of blood clots within blood vessels. Before initiating treatment with the Asperin Tablet inform your doctor about your complete medical and medication history. The treating doctor will decide the dose and duration of the treatment. It’s best to take this medicine with food so it doesn’t upset your stomach. Avoid missing any dose of this Tablet. While taking this medicine you can incorporate certain lifestyle modifications to boost your health such as quitting smoking, limiting alcohol consumption, regular exercise and eating a healthy balanced diet.

Why? Because the doctors learn the focking medicine charts by heart. And when you change the medicine charts they move to other medicines. And it’s cheap and annoying to Medical Sales representatives who make money selling expensive medicines.

Still on medical Leptospirosis (Weil’s disease) Leptospirosis, also called Weil’s disease, is an infection you can catch from animals. It’s rare in Northern Ireland. See your GP if you have concerns you may have come into contact with the pee of an infected animal and have symptoms of leptospirosis, (see section below on symptoms).

One of the results of the Rat catchers being successful is: Children aren’t exposed to the bacteria, USA CDC – Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that affects humans and animals. It is caused by bacteria of the genus Leptospira. In humans, it can cause a wide range of symptoms, some of which may be mistaken for other diseases. Some infected persons, however, may have no symptoms at all.

Any chance of bundling the two vaccines together for outdoors? Boosters at college for sports people etc. ? Why you mentioning tetanus? Oh, some gobshite clocked me in the face a couple of days ago, the following day, I got a cold sore and a pain in my throat, and a muscle spasm in my left little finger. I wonder where he’s living, because the garda I gave my statement to said he might have been a midlands UK traveller? Can you give them some blue cheese for Christmas? the stuff is excellent for cleaning the bacteria out of the car/house/caravan, it does make the bread (and the damp leather seats) mould a little faster than normal though. I have blue cheese ever few months, I leave some out on the kitchen table for a few days, so the spores inhabit my kitchen.
The pied piper of Hamlyn (wiki). Now Colman’s version The flute; made of pure silver, the black silver oxide being an excellent biological catalyst, covered with food particles, carried by the piper, in his infected, dyed leather coat, an accidental carrier of Tetanus or Leptospirosis. Every child who tried to play the flute, died of the disease as they were city dwellers and the rat catcher had previously done an excellent job removing the disease from the town, so the children had no natural immunity.

Colman – You’re associating the cold sore with the bacteria? No, I treated the cold sore with Zovirax, or at least the generic form, the cold sore arrived because blow cut my inner cheek and the bacteria also killed cells in my cheek and there was material for it to breed. The weakness caused by one infection causing the second to manifest. Roquefort blue cheese originates from the village of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, France. Its flavours come from the use of unpasteurized sheep’s milk, inoculation with Penicillium roqueforti, and the special conditions of the natural caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in which they are ripened.  In addition to Penicillium roqueforti, various yeasts are present, namely Debaryomyces hansenii and its non-sporulating form Candida famata, and Kluyveromyces lactis and its non-sporulating form Candida sphaerica. (wiki) Blue Cheese. 

1715pm 16 December 2023 World – I’m looking at Salt flats and this is cool. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_lake The Racetrack Playa, located in Death Valley, California, features a geological phenomenon known as “sailing stones” that leave linear “racetrack” imprints as they slowly move across the surface without human or animal intervention. These rocks have been recently filmed in motion by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and are due to a perfect coincidence of events. First, the playa has to fill with water, which must be deep enough to form floating ice during winter, but still shallow enough that the rocks are exposed. When the temperature drops at night, this pond freezes into thin sheets of “windowpane” ice, which then must be thick enough to maintain strength, but thin enough to move freely. Finally, when the sun comes out, the ice melts and cracks into floating panels; these are blown across the playa by light winds, propelling the rocks in front of them.^[3] The stones only move once every two or three years and most tracks last for three or four years. Colman’s comment – What’s the longest race on the planet? Well, if two teams placed rocks of their own design here, depending on their knowledge of the phenomena and shared laser scans of the terrain, you might hope for the race to be completed in ten years? Depending on weather? though Global warming might halt play in twenty years? We race legends. ”This phenomenon, which has been documented since 1948, is not unique and has been observed in various playas in southern California, the Tunisian Sahara, and South Africa.” ”The Burning Man yearly event takes place in a playa in the Black Rock Desert in western Nevada every year.” Fish Farming??? That hardy? Really? NASA??? With proper environmental protections to protect local species? “A new species of giant fairy shrimp was found in 2006. environmental protections for local species? Although a large predatory species, it evaded detection because of the murkiness of the playa’s water caused by winds and a fine clay load. This shrimp species is able to regenerate using tiny undetectable cysts that can remain in a dry lake bed for years until conditions are optimum for hatching.” ”In southwest Idaho and parts of Nevada and Utah there are a number of rare species that occur nowhere else but in the inhospitable environment of seasonally flooded playas” Salt, heat? They related to the ones at the bottom of the oceans, the ones around the hot lava vents? Sulpher? SO2? availability in the local salts? Hard, undissolvable salts? Actually along with oxides, that describes most types of rock and soil, though SO4 salts, there aren’t too many undissolvable ones. Silly question? We’re quite new to this curing cancer stuff? Does part of the biopsy look at whether the cancer is a little growing shrimp? DNA checks?

1805pm 16 December 2023 World – Copernicus - Can you now confirm this? Fangfang Yao et al (2023), at the University of Virginia reported that more than half of the world’s large lakes are drying up. They assessed almost 2,000 large lakes using satellite measurements combined with climate and hydrological models. based on their finding, that unsustainable human use, changes in rainfall and run-off, sedimentation, and rising temperatures have driven lake levels down globally, with 53% of lakes showing a decline from 1992 to 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_lake

2050pm 16 December 2023 Ireland https://www.epa.ie/ Good start, nice use of format and text and colour, now, get some sarcastic bollixes from the far off reaches they were transferred to for being that way back to the headquarters to make the site as horrifying as the current situation deserves and Waste Water? ”A little word about the focking Industrial Waste Water might be nice?”, if they used that phrase, he’s the man.

1245pm 17 December 2023 Philippines 
And every now and again, you have a look behind you.

1250pm 17 December 2023 USA Hawaii Why is it a three week picture? Well, there are two reasons One 52/3= 14 and this weeks picture makes 15 and you can put the entire fifteen pictures accross the screen on a 60″plasma screen to see the Earthquake picture and above this you can put your graphs and predictions. 
Who What Where When Why? - 
How? Oh, that’s the second slide? No, that’s on the second screen.
General Patton – The Army plan will be: 2 pages A4 with Half a page for a diagram.
Now, the math person is looking at the H going I need a ruler and the farmer has already folded the page in half to get a nice crease down the middle. Now, why do Army vehicles have a sunshine shader over the drivers eyes? Well, when you meet others you tilt it upwards and they can’t see your map tied to the back of it with elastic bands. Which is why the map was in a box, with space for the elastic bands, so they didn’t cover any of the map detail. Some people put their CDs there when they were driving. And when I say some people, that’s Colman.

1320pm 17 December 2023 Iceland Why has the level of Earthquake dropped from M3.0 to M2.5 Well, I’d be guessing here, however, water freezes and the rocks are quite cold now, and the cold has dropped down quite deep, it’s almost Solstice, so I’d guess that the rocks containing water, having frozen are more brittle? Now the other possible explanation is the speed of movement, the contracting cooling rocks are being bent slower than earlier as the temperature cooling is slowed by the surrounding seawater and so, it’s like bending a bar of lead, you’re not looking at the top of the bar, you’re looking at the wrinkles forming on the inner curved surface. Bend it fast and you get big rips on top, bend it slowly and more of the energy becomes heat instead of micro fractures and the rips aren’t as deep. It’s the same for bending copper pipes etc.
Why does the sunshade tilt left and right for the driver? So, you can compare the map detail to the ground outside the side window? What do you think about when you’re driving? I wonder, why?

1340pm 17 December 2023 Algeria, you might ask how the little villages are doing? The vehicle sunshade idea turned into the Heads Up Display on airplanes and the Sat Nav on the dashboard. Why is it called a dash board? Well, you had the …

1400pm 17 December 2023 Iceland What’s the change you’d make to improve things? Well, having the little radio fit in the beverage cup holder might be nice, the old dash boards had a recess where the large handheld American set fitted. And the beverage cupholders strong enough to hold the radio? Though having them in the side pockets was nice too and the nice space in front of the gear shift, that was a little too shallow, though both driver and passenger could reach the radio. The Japanese cars, with the little armrest behind the gear shift, well, you could rip the top off so the people in the back could reach the radio as well. Motorola??? A radio base holder to recharge the radio from solar with holes for bolts to attach it to where ever? Cylindrical to maximise solar panel surface area? With a built in speaker and press to talk microphone? Suitable for an Engineer on a work site? Cranes, diggers etc. With a second input plug 3.5mm for the phone to the speaker for local radio or music stations?

1445pm 17 December 2023 World – Improving the efficiency of Solar panels? Sill question? If the microwave experiment calculating the speed of light using a cheese toastie says that it only heats at a certain point? Can you similarly mirror the back of the solar panel? The ^ hitting the generating cell is the maximum, the minimum missing the cell, with the mirror at the right distance a multiple of the frequency length + 1/4 a frequency length, the returning maximum reaches the cell? If the surface is not particularly flat, then the light is returned at different angles and chances of hitting the cell are greater, though the efficiency isn’t quite perfect, similarly, the frequencies of the light etc. Cost? Silver is a good mirror? You blow the atomised silver over the back of the Solar cell? Now, others would ask is the cost greater than the extra efficiency, however you’ve only so much space for the cells, so maximising the efficiency of the space over thirty years is the question? And since mirrors aren’t perfectly efficient either and we’re using them for reflective heating to large power generators, can you use the absorbed heat in the mirror for generating electricity too? Using Thermoelectric devices or something like that? Turning heat into electricity Study finds topological materials could boost the efficiency of thermoelectric devices. Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Publication Date: January 16, 2018 
(Colman’s comment – Topological? Materials with lumpy bits.)

2230pm 17 December 2023 Indonesia

2245pm 17 December 2023 Turkey

2300pm 17 December 2023 Turkey

2310pm 17 December 2023 France Vanuatu

0640am 18 December 2023 Iceland - Someone off on holidays early? It’s 640am and the website says yesterday at 1455?????

0650am 18 December 2023 World ??? 
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-s-colmans-web-library/#WebLibrary-ESP Spain (Canary Islands)
https://munsterartscienceandenterprise.com/countries-p-colmans-web-library/#WebLibrary-PRT Portugal (Sao Jorge)

0655am 18 December 2023 Portugal Island Azores, Sao Jorge ”The last terrestrial volcanic eruption on the island of São Jorge was the eruption of “Vulcão da Urzelina” in 1808.”

2022 São Jorge Seismovolcanic crisis From March 2022, São Jorge Island had been the location of a serious seismovolcanic crisis. The Instituto de Investigação em Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos is following the crisis with a special webpage called “Crise Sismovulcânica de São Jorge“.  The alarm level on 26 March was 4, “this means that according to the alarm scale in force in the Azores archipelago we are in the pre-eruptive volcanic phase”.

0830am 18 December 2023 Ireland Could someone have a look at this and ask yourself who is buried here?

Sail until you can sail no further, then bury him under the black stones.
You see, I’ve seen the black stones there and how easily worked they are.
And it is a place fit for a kings burial or a kings ransom. 
Look up black minerals, and it’s not Obsidian, I can guarantee you that. 
Happy Hunting. Colman

1150am 18 December 2023 India

1205pm 18 December 2023 Italy

1210pm 18 December 2023 Turkey

0710am 19 December 2023 Iceland

USA CNN – Volcano erupts on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula weeks after town evacuated By Mitchell McCluskey, Taylor Ward and Jessie Yeung, CNN 4 minute read Updated 12:21 AM EST, Tue December 19, 2023

UK SkyNews – Volcano erupts in Iceland after thousands evacuated from town Lava has been emerging from a crack in the earth’s surface which was around 3.5km ( 2 miles) long and had grown rapidly, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. Tuesday 19 December 2023 03:29, UK

UK The Guardian – Iceland volcano: eruption begins on Reykjanes peninsula after weeks of activity

Irish Independent – Iceland volcano erupts after weeks of earthquake activity Eoghan Moloney and Chandni Shah Yesterday at 23:16

0805am 18 December 2023 Iceland Spain Icelandic Monitor Caught because of information from Icelanders ”Before the weekend, the police in Spain reported that 14 employees at Teneri-fe South Airport were arrested and seized. About 20 employees at the airport are also under investigation.”

0820am 18 December 2023 Iceland - How do you heat NewGrindavic? Well, ceramic research has been quite successful at identifying new insulating materials and there is loads of hot water (it’s a little hotter than hot water at present?) so moving it is the question. Piping above ground on pipes is the best solution, the pipes being on rubberised platforms for isolation from the “occasional” ground movements. You’re being funny again. Yes, it’s playing with the audience run with it. Now, while some would say make the electricity there, it’s less efficient make it near the homes, however it’s far more efficient to move the water to heat the homes and have solar for electricity in Summer and have back up generators for electricity heating in case of a failure in all of the three hot water pipes to the new location, on separate geographic routes, naturally. How do you pay for it? United Nations? Research for use of VolcoThermoEnergy in Third World countries? There’s quite a few Active Volcano locations and it’s a lot cleaner than fossil fuels. Oh, and we’ll need a new airport and fishing port for NewGrindavic too. (What’s the Islandic for New? Should we future proof and call it Grindavic2?) I want to live in my old house? Well, theoretically, it’s easier just carve up the old houses and cement them together in the new location? Seriously? With trucks and cranes? It’s possible? It’s a matter of cheap labour, does Iceland have a few soldiers available? How old were the houses and was Asbestos used as an insulating material? The modern insulating foam and we only have to use facemasks and safety glasses. The dust is an eye irritant and it tastes horrid. What about the SO2? the moisture condensed in your cloth facemask catches it. Two types of people used scarves over their mouths? Desert people and Arctic people. And arctic people also had visor glasses for stopping snow blindness. They were made of bark or wood. It’s one of the reasons we humans have eyebrows and eyelashes. Research? Check mining lore, “Are your eyes squinting, closing due to an unfamiliar gas?” underground? do you check your gas monitor, canary etc.? Why were the canaries bred to be yellow? Oh, to remind the miners they weren’t just there to keep them company. It’s why the Irish PDF has a nice red square behind their cap badge. And why it’s not on some of our best uniforms, the ones used for parades.

0905am 19 December 2023 Iceland - Where are these people now? 

Who do you think was flying the helicopter? Was he? Good photo though.

“We conducted a fieldwork mapping project combining terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerophoto techniques to characterize the cone morphologies. We recorded videos of the eruption and used edge detection and particle image velocimetry to estimate venting heights and particle velocities. We find that the number of active vents producing lava fountains decreases from 57 along the whole line of fire to 10 lava fountains at distinct vents during the first 5 days of the eruption. We suggest that this happens by channeling the magma supply in the subsurface developing conduits. Thereby we see that at the locations where spatter cone morphology developed, the strongest and the highest lava fountains with high ejection velocities were recorded on the very first days of the eruption. In addition, the sites that eventually developed moderate or weak cone morphologies were identified as less active lava fountain locations during the early stage of the eruption.”

Downwind effects? Wikipedia Laki Volcanic Fissure – Historical

1783 eruption

1783 eruption of Laki
Start date	8 June 1783
End date	7 February 1784
Type	Phreatomagmatic, Strombolian, Hawaiian
VEI	4

Worst case scenario – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki#1783_eruption On 8 June 1783, a 25 km-long (15.5 mi) fissure of at least 130 vents opened with phreatomagmatic explosions because of the groundwater interacting with the rising basalt magma.  Over a few days the eruptions became less explosive, Strombolian, and later Hawaiian in character, with high rates of lava effusion. This event is rated as 4 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, but the eight-month emission of sulfuric aerosols resulted in one of the most important climatic and socially significant natural events of the last millennium. Oh, I’d read the full effects for myself, with a print out for your boss and one for him to give to his boss all the way up to the President of the EU, his version having the signatures of all the people below him on it, Seen ____________ O’Keeffe C 19 Dec 2023.

They all have Very Strong Chins, Ted.

1210pm 19 December 2023 Iceland https://en.vedur.is/weather/aviation/webcams/ ???

1305pm 19 December 2023 United Nations https://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=1000080&episodeid=5&eventtype=VO update to the Islandic Volcanic eruption update this morning, please, and until eruption is concluded, please?

1315pm 19 December 2023 UK BBC Iceland volcano erupts on Reykjanes peninsula Published 8 minutes ago

1340pm 19 December 2023 Iceland – SO2 concentrations. A bucket of water at front and back door and you might check – research? Dehumidifiers, do they increase or decrease the SO2 and NO2 concentrations in your house? Why? With no moisture in the air, it’d make a beeline for the “large water bags” to use a Star Trek phrase, it was an alien term for human. Cold moist air entering the home, on heating the relative humidity reduces anyway? Why? Because my house, unless there’s been towels drying under the windows by my tenants there’s never any mould. And we dry clothes occasionally in the kitchen without effect either as the kitchen is kept well ventilated because I go outside for a peek at the weather so often. It’s almost ten degrees Centigrade outdoors at the start of the night at the moment.

1805pm 19 December 2023 Ireland – Cork
Weather’s changed air temperature in the shade at sunset 1 degree C. 
Ground is still quite wet and warm, so it might be black ice Cork city hillsides tomorrow? Possibly frost on high ground Cork county above 500m tonight? 
Last Instagram post on Carrauntoohil? does anyone go up there anymore or has the constant harassment by the Instagram advertisers stopped sensible people posting to what were popular tags? I was looking to see if there was snow up there yet?
https://patfalvey.com/product/climb-carrauntoohil/
I like the Black and Amber, though I would have gone for Green and Gold for Kerry and O’Keeffes, that’s a personal choice though most people haven’t seen real amber, the old dark volcanic stuff was quite orange, depending on it’s origin and the reason for there being amber. County Geology of Ireland: Kilkenny Published:14 August 2009
https://ambergemstones.com/lava/ 
Check for the stuff from Mount St Helens? Tunguska? 
It has to have the lighter carbon stuff boiled off, it gets harder with age.
Carbon dating? Duh? Depends on species and temperature and ?
https://geoschol.com/ GEOLOGICAL PERIODS ”Silurian. Volcanic islands erupted lavas and volcanic ash near Dingle, Co. Kerry. Shallow seas contained corals, brachiopods, and trilobites, and plants grew on dry land for the first time. The Leinster granite was injected into the crust.” There’s some of the brachiopods visible in the rocks on the top of Benbulbin. The fossils are a little harder than the ____________ in which they are deposited. Insert the correct rock type here. Now some people they presume the word has to be the length of the number of underlined spaces.

1940pm 19 December 2023 Ireland – Cork – Onshore breeze, air temperature up to 4 degrees C.

2035pm 19 December 2023 Iceland

2100pm 19 December 2023 Iceland RTE News Power of volcanic eruption in Iceland decreasing Updated / Tuesday, 19 Dec 2023 20:03 2 min video, excellent reporting and video. Chink? Fissure? Vent opening into previously opened surface earthquake trench/dyke/gulley/rupture? https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rupture a quite shallow volcanic canyon? formed by the earthquake breaking a previous lava tube to the ISL – FAG – Fagradalsfjall – Last eruption: Current – 18 Dec02023AD
Sundhnúkar crater? ”The eruption does not present a threat to life,” an Icelandic government statement said.” ”There are no disruptions to flights to and from Iceland and international flight corridors remain open.” 
__ICELAND – SAFE – Nice safe start to the eruption!!!__ Nice one! Colman Colman’s comment? It’s like turning on a hose pipe with the end blocked and a few dozen holes poked in it by the earthquake. Check which end the lava fountain was highest? towards the South Western end? Flow upwards increased as the lava hit the end of the blocked lava tube, the crater being full of soil and stuff, or it reached the crater and puttered up out the top, flow slowed because the end was longest exposed to air and became cooler and less fluid and the back end was hotter and more fluid and the lava jumped higher towards the start of the eruption. the extra fluid flow melted the opening wider, heat speed et. fluid dynamics and then the height of flow slowed because the wider openings, then the pressure started to slow as the coiled spring opened and the fluid pressure decreased as the space available increased. Now it’s a question of weather, cooling temperatures due to local sea conditions, whether there’s continued pressure from deep underground, whether local air pressure increases or decreases putting slow pressure on the local rock via the ocean, it’s a spring calculation too, though very tricky as it depends on the initial state of the spring being known, and there was pressure from inside as seen from that hot sticky stuff coming up the top at present. 
Why sticky? Because if it attaches and cools quickly the lumpy lava bit attaches around the stick you’re poking it with.
I saw a video of that long ago, it was quite cool. 
You can use a stick? 
It’s an insulator, so long as the lava has burned away all the oxygen nearby… 
Yes, the man was wearing a very nice suit. Found it, the lava emerged from a series of earthquake induced rents in the previously voided volcanic lava tube.

 

2230pm 19 December 2023 Iceland 
Murphy’s Laws of Volcanology – John Seach
Seach’s Paradox:
A decrease in eruptive activity increases the risk.
Corollary one: Beware of a quiet volcano.
Merkin’s Maxim: When in doubt, predict the trend will continue.
Volcano Safety | John Seach
“Between 1980 to 2000 there were 34,000 people killed on volcanoes
(23 were Volcanologists).” 
“Safety Recommendations When Visiting an Active Volcano”
Pre-Planning - Volcano Safety | John Seach
1) Read about past eruptions. – 12) Beware of easily accessed volcanoes.
“Volcanoes which are easily accessed can be especially dangerous because they can have larger numbers of visitors accessing the dangerzone. …” 
Volcano Safety | John Seach
Final Word?
9) Take all precautions in PREVENTING an accident.
Be very conservative in your actions.
Don’t (DO NOT presume) assume the volcano is safe if everything looks quiet.
It may be the “calm before the storm”.
A blocked vent can be quiet but the pressure can be building to a large eruption.

2320pm 19 December 2023 Colman’s addition? And bring more spare batteries. More? More than last time. Why? Because the other person may have forgotten theirs and they might have nice footage too? 5v-20,000mAhrs. Do they go poof in the lava? Why? Drones? Poof, it’s quite warm? Cooling mechanisms? You know those nice liquid coolers on the computer cores? How would you rig a radiator so the wind would cool the liquid and what speed would you need to keep it moving fast enough to cool the batteries? A little chart too? Oh, I wouldn’t worry about altitude for Iceland, however a little warning light from a temperature sensor? Those nice arduino gas monitoring things are cool too, I bought some on the internet a few years ago? Discussed them for use with drones for the local Cork Fire Brigade with a computer lecturer at UCC, 2016, 2017, maybe 2018? I lent a few books about making presentations and stuff to them. Being qualified to teach Class taking etc.

2325pm 19 December 2023 China RTE News At least 126 killed after earthquake hits north China Updated / Tuesday, 19 Dec 2023 10:41

You know what I was saying about boundaries and such and how the flat bits and the sandy bits were where frequent earthquake events have taken place?

0340am 20 December 2023 Iceland

No, there is a few photos further down, I particularly like this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper(II)_sulfate In electronic and microelectronic industry a bath of CuSO₄·5H₂O and sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) is often used for electrodeposition of copper. Oh, I’d be a little more careful of the helicopter? Check the rotors? Electrical depostion of copper onto the rotors due to electrical generaation during flight. ”Hunt for Red October” danger of grounding the charge to earth? One never steps off a flying helicopter, one jumps. Two portions in contact, heli, hand and ground foot and bang, electrostatic shock. And it’s a bit more than a carpet burn.

0410am 20 December 2023 Iceland USA NASA

0415am 20 December 2023 Antarctica - If the volcano stopped at Max Q, then the expansion of the rock and ice was faster than the expansion of the magma, which appeared to contract, leaving a cratery hole? The lava tube cooling and ??? Was there any snow lately, filling the crater? Steam perhaps? Forming ice crystals as it left the crater? It can be seen from the base with the New Zealanders? Why? Well, the thing has a habit of throwing rocks and lava bombes when it give voice, so a little calculation would say, an eye on it from say Jan 21st, though it’s an extreme, so from Jan 07th? to definitely April 21st Max Q contracting? And I just looked back, 16th of February 2023.
Now, I have a nasty and very healthy habit, a little phlem ball or two is made every month and I cough it up, now theoretically, a hardy chemical might sit top of the lava and roil around gathering size, exposed to the air, it might add mass and lower it’s density becoming a ball shape falling into the crater to be ejected as one erratic? Now the other alternative is that the top of the crater, the centre of the lava forms the same, the top oxidising and hardening, and as the lava reaches top, the top is a little too narrow and the big lump gets thrown, while lava bombes have been thrown quite a distance from Mount Erebus, 750 meters isn’t that far, so that might be quite a large lumpy bit? Potentially of a lava concentrated mineral with a, oxidised shell over top? Now, the soft stuff, Silicon, Calcium, Sodium, Lithium these tend to mix, larger atoms with lower melting points, Gold and Silver, I saw a video of them floating immiscible, so since Gold, which is ejected as vapour from this beauty is quite shiny and I presume someone would have noticed one of them? Silver, it’d be hard black Silver Oxide and tear drop shaped?  Although some of the rare Earths, far more valuable are possible, though you might check a compass reading towards the Mountain, if that was the case as the magnetics would be absolutely magnificent? And you might have a look for Captain Oates, if he stepped over one of those out for a shite in the snowstorm, it might have twirled his compass for him?  Now, that was quite fanciful, until I did a little reading.

It was March 16th, the last time Oates was seen, the day before his 32nd birthday.

0700am 20 December 2023 Antarctica A last look? What’s the belt buckle made of and where did it come from?

On March the 13th there was a final brush with disaster as Erebus collided with Terror sweeping away the Terror’s bowsprit. The two ships drifted towards two icebergs some sixty feet apart. Terror passed through first before Erebus whose yards (ends of the horizontal wooden poles from which the sails hung) hit the iceberg again and again. Ross eventually sailed her through the space between the icebergs “by the hazardous expedient of the sternboard”. In other words, he sailed backwards. The two ships returned to the Falkland Islands before setting off for the south again in December 1842 to explore the Antarctic Peninsula though they did not get so far as they had done previously.  They arrived back home on the 4th of September 1843, four years and five months after setting off.

0725am 20 December 2023 Iceland

0735am 20 December 2023 Ireland – Iceland and whatever came out of that volcano? The wind is blowing our way? Friday 22, though I’d recheck tomorrows forecast too?

0852am 20 December 2023 Iceland It’s not showing on NASA Firms, though it’s certainly showing in the live cameras.

It’s past 9am can someone call their webmanager? Sunrise isn’t until past 11am.

GVP – Report on Fagradalsfjall (Iceland) — September 2022

The newly discovered Jurassic Tikiusaaq carbonatite-aillikite occurrence, West Greenland, and some remarks on carbonatite–kimberlite relationships The lava, it’s cooling rather fast and it’s winter, it shouldn’t be flowing? Are these carbonatite lavas? Low melting points? Possibly recycled early carbonatites and/or Limestone, carbonatite, it’s a form of carbonate, however it is over metallised through it’s association with salt water, Na and K and the Chlorine or ancient Fluorine has normally boiled off long before, in this case possibly in the 1800s? While normally the Carbonate forms an ion of negative with a metal ion positive, the carbonites are many metals forming strong covalent bonds around the Carbonate. These are however broken by the addition of water. Now logically, this would produce heat? So what’s coming up the spout? Theoretically that could be SodaLime – NaOh and KOH or Na²O and K²O with some various Carbonates and possibly Sulphates the residual Na^xK^xCaCO3? If it’s the stuff from Greenland having dropped into the furnace and popping back up again? And yes, there is a place nearby called the furnace, so it’s a possibility? Why? Well, stick this stuff in the kiln to make Iron and Odin’s lost an eye etc. Concentrated NaOH is bad stuff, and at high temperatures and Ugg, don’t even want to think about it. Think “Alien” the movie and the viscous Alien blood spatter? Oh, and they can also have rare Earth elements, there’s some just over the water in Sweden too. Why? Because the older the lavas around the earlier eruptions there are getting the whiter the rocks and there’s an old document taking about the difficulty of preserving the specimens due to how quickly they decay and the surface goes white, and I wouldn’t be rubbing my eyes either. Remember Sharpe and burning oyster shells? CaO is a Hawaiian smoothie compared to anhydrous NaOH, the stuff they used to clean drains with that was the nice clear crystal hydrated version. Think already diluted by a good bit before you put it in the drain. And you use it to eat the hair and fats and grease out of the drain. You feeling me? Pit of the stomach, sick and I want to go home, feeling me? Excellent, now, let’s go for a little trip to the Volcano and take a little sample? Please choose your clothing for the sampling trip? A? B? C? D? E? F? And you’re allowed to ask questions, and just like Naked Attraction, this is not the time to be shy about those awkward questions like, is it going to melt my clothing away. Colman’s comment – The Andromeda Strain (movie_1971) might not have been completely about bacteria? ”That’s not entirreelyy true.” to paraphrase Independence Day (movie_1996). However you are asking the right questions.

1200pm 20 December 2023 Iceland UK BBC – Iceland volcano: Pollution warning for capital after eruption Published 2 hours ago By Sofia Bettiza, Oliver Slow and Marita Moloney ”Fumes could reach Reykjavik by Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.” Someone didn’t have their cornflakes this morning? BBC News, Iceland and London

1235pm 20 December 2023 Iceland Sky News Iceland volcano – latest: Fresh spectacular pictures; warning volcanic eruption could last ‘for months’ Wednesday 20 December 2023 11:52, UK Where were they looking at if they saw this at Laki? Another much earlier volcano site? With a viewing mountain nearby? With clear skies? Summer… No. Night, it was at night just like this one. Since the eruption sites here have been moving to the South West, bit, by bit over many years, Is this a mirror of an earlier version? it’s annoying to say it, however? that the other dragons left wing above right and is there a story about two dragons vying over the one treasure? Seen from up over there at the back etc. The cameraman seems to be conveying his version of events too? Old knowledge?

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2205 20 Dec 2023 Iceland

2220pm 20 Dec 2023 Turkey – This one is Important. As an aside, I was looking at the Earthquake and for previous warning places, however it’s nice limestone. And possibly a few Egyptians escaping Egypt or looking for a possible uphill residence for Pharaoh? The hills caught my eye as looking like orions belt? Star charts are nice. https://www.iau.org/static/public/constellations/gif/ORI.gif