Well, now that Lockwood got #13 on the first try, I will have to reach back into my vault to attempt to find a stumper ...
Current Standings:
Don Crain - 2
gijs - 2
volcanista - 1
Lockwood - 1
Elizabeth - 1
Ralph - 1
Anne - 1
Cam - 1
gg - 1
The Bobs - 1
Boris Behncke - 1
Good luck.
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Joey Bernard, who writes about science under Linux, has just started a multi (as in two?) part series on GSL, the GNU Scientific Library. It is here. Just browsing through the files of GSL is fun.
Remember a while back, I wrote about a crackpot who pestered me both about
converting to Christianity, and his wonderful, miraculous compression system? He
Here's an odd little bit of math for you this Sunday. It's defined in terms of recurrence. Recurrence happens when a function is defined in terms of itself.
Quiet weekend on the whole, volcano-wise, beyond the articles about the latest eruption at
Vesuvio?
Ha ha ha ... wow folks, you're running this feature out of business.
Congrats Damon, it is indeed Vesuvius.
Current Standings
Don Crain - 2
gijs - 2
volcanista - 1
Lockwood - 1
Elizabeth - 1
Ralph - 1
Anne - 1
Cam - 1
gg - 1
The Bobs - 1
Boris Behncke - 1
Damon Hynes - 1
Anak Krakatau?!
Blast! I need to check the site more often. :-)
I think this is a photograph of Vesuvius sometime during the late 19th or early 20th century (prior to the 1906 eruption in any case) ...
Tavurvur crater at Rabaul?
Don't open a casino Erik!
I think that going for old photos is not going to work, as there are only a limited number of better known volcanoes that would have been photographed, e.g Vesuvius, Paricutin, Etna etc.
Perhaps it's Mexico's Partucin (sp?) -- the cinder cone that rose in the corn(?) field?
Anyone notice the 2nd post?
Off-topic. Galeras in Columbia is active. There's a SO2 signal, despite comments to the contrary, over at The Volcanism blog at wordpress.
SO2 signature detect report
http://sacs.aeronomie.be/alert/?alert=20091117_183001_001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeras_Volcano (map match)
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/galeras-update-17-november-20…
The system doesn't appear to be sealed. Hopefully, the new bulletin to be released today includes a mention of SO2 leakage, for accuracy sake.
Surtsi.
Going by the quality of the photograph - which I would say is from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century - my guess would be Mount Etna.
A word to Boris Behncke: always enjoyed your Italy Volcanoes site and I miss it. I still remember that video clip taken by some British chap of the 2001 paroxysmal eruption of the SE Crater on Etna: amazing!
You are a very clever person!