Idle question of the day...

[seawasp]

... how many of you have actually witnessed (as in, with your own eyes, not on TV screens, etc.) a volcanic eruption? I have, I'm just wondering how large a percentage of the population has.

(Mine was the 1970 eruption of Hekla on Iceland; we overflew the lava field and then circled the erupting cone for some time in a private aircraft)

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Child?

[niall-shapero.livejournal.com]

And I had been out of academe (I finished with grad school in '76) earning an honest living for just shy of four years in 1980 (working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing software for use in the Deep Space Network).