Hawaii versus the volcano
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🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What are you here? Yanny or Laurel? |
| 0:03.6 | Yilly. |
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| 0:30.0 | Kilauea has sort of this syrupy magma that comes out of the ground. |
| 0:44.4 | It sort of oozes rather than iruts explosively and very slowly creeps along land and melts |
| 0:51.1 | things in its path. |
| 0:53.0 | It reaches about 1600 degrees Celsius. |
| 0:55.8 | So metal, rock, asphalt, trees, they don't stand a chance. |
| 1:00.6 | And as it creeps forward you see it ignite things ahead of it. |
| 1:04.2 | And it can form these tall lava flows as well. |
| 1:06.9 | They can be taller than a person that can easily engulf a car. |
| 1:12.0 | And it's just this sort of building ominous threat that you can see coming but you can't |
| 1:17.6 | stop in any meaningful way. |
| 1:20.6 | And similarly if you look at the volcanoes themselves you can look into the craters and you can |
| 1:24.8 | see these fiery glowing pits that are spewing sulfur dioxide gas and ash. |
| 1:31.2 | And when they erupt these ash columns can reach miles into the sky. |
| 1:35.2 | They can blot out the sun and if the eruption gets sufficiently large it can change the |
| 1:39.8 | temperature of the whole planet. |
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