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minus-squarepete_the_cat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·7 months agoIIRC when Mount Saint Helens erupted in the 80s it blew the top half of the volcano off.
minus-squarethe post of tom joad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·7 months agoYeah and slightly off topic wasn’t the pic of Helens blowing its top taken by a man who knew in advance the explosion would kill him and protected his film? Am i thinking of the right story?
minus-squareSilic0n_Alph4@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoHad to look this up. It was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg RIP
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoThat’s Robert Landsburg although I don’t think his photos are very famous. The series of photos that were turned into a video were taken by Gary Rosenquist, who survived the eruption.
minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 months agoSo much awesome power in that eruption (with non-awesome human and nature/animal consequences). http://mountsthelens.com/history-1.html This article is a good play-by-play of how the eruption physically progressed, I particularly like this illustration.
IIRC when Mount Saint Helens erupted in the 80s it blew the top half of the volcano off.
Yeah and slightly off topic wasn’t the pic of Helens blowing its top taken by a man who knew in advance the explosion would kill him and protected his film? Am i thinking of the right story?
I think so
Had to look this up. It was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg
RIP
That’s Robert Landsburg although I don’t think his photos are very famous.
The series of photos that were turned into a video were taken by Gary Rosenquist, who survived the eruption.
So much awesome power in that eruption (with non-awesome human and nature/animal consequences).
http://mountsthelens.com/history-1.html
This article is a good play-by-play of how the eruption physically progressed, I particularly like this illustration.