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Diodes???
Open floor if correct..
Open floor if correct..
DaleCooper
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No
I was looking for "Diode" but I see that I was a bit out of date as "Tunnel Field Effect Transistors" have been developed relatively recently (2004).
theageofthetra it's your turn...
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Sorry theageofthetra beat you to it.
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Anybody got a question?
I actually read about this briefly while helping my son do his homework yesterday which was about Mount St Helens!
Basically (and I can't remember all the details without Googling it now), it went unrecorded, that is to say no one in the western world witnessed or recorded it. In fact I don't think anyone actually knew where it had happened, it was somewhere around Columbia I think?
I assume anyone actually living on the side of the thing noticed though
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Correct, a eruption of approximately VEI6 (a logarithmic scale from 1-8) so this was a very big eruption happened at some point in very late 1808 or early 1809 but the actual volcano responsible is entirely unknown. The only known observations were one meteorologist in Colombia and one in Peru which only really narrows it down to a tropical volcano. Current money is one somewhere in southeast Asia which even then was still relatively unexplored to Westerners.
Your floor
Your floor
I have been lucky enough to see a few active volcanoes on a few continents, none of which are that close to Britain. I will guess it is in Iceland perhaps being a bit closer than one in Italy? That isn't an answer I know but I will follow with interest.
DaleCooper
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I would've guessed Iceland but fowler9 beat me to it.
DaleCooper
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Koala? Bear with me.
That would have been my guess but was too obvious. Hmm. Kjoll (Just made it up unless it was a really inspired guess).
I think you are probably referring to Katla
Although the geography student/nerd in me says it is whichever is the nearest volcano in the East Eifel Volcanic field in Germany. Possibly the Laacher See (theres a big relatively unknown beast in the middle of Europe!)
Although the geography student/nerd in me says it is whichever is the nearest volcano in the East Eifel Volcanic field in Germany. Possibly the Laacher See (theres a big relatively unknown beast in the middle of Europe!)
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That's the one I was looking for. I saw after I'd set the question that there was potentially one in Germany, near Bonn I think? But I was committed by then and Katla seemed more the definition of an active volcano.
Anyway the floor is yours, I lava your answer.
Anyway the floor is yours, I lava your answer.
The one near Bonn is the Laacher See. Its a large caldera lake and is potentially active. If you go to it you can watch gas bubbling up from the magma below. My degree dissertation was all about the Laacher See. Katla on the other hand is very active and there is baited breath for a large eruption. Every recorded eruption of Eyjafjallajökull has triggered a Katla eruption which hasn't happened yet.
So, keeping the volcano questions going because I can;
Somewhere in the UK is the remains of a truly enourmous supervolcano. Where?
So, keeping the volcano questions going because I can;
Somewhere in the UK is the remains of a truly enourmous supervolcano. Where?
martinsh
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Giants Causeway ?
I'm thinking it may be the one on Skye called Cuillin or similar? Again I only read something about it the other day and I seem to remember that there was more than one supervolcano in the uk. I know where the other one was I think but I'll try Skye first. Fascinating subject anyway.
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I went there last year (my wife's Northern Irish), what an amazing place.
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I went there last year (my wife's Northern Irish), what an amazing place.
Was this the one that was featured in the, "Walking Through History "programme on the idiot box a couple of weeks ago?
Sorry, ignore. I've now remembered the programme was, "Walking Through Time" and the presenter was talking about a meteorite crater.
Isn't "Arthur's Seat" in Edinburgh a volcanic plug?
Sorry, ignore. I've now remembered the programme was, "Walking Through Time" and the presenter was talking about a meteorite crater.
Isn't "Arthur's Seat" in Edinburgh a volcanic plug?
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It is indeed Glen Coe.
The volcano answer was good! But not quite as good as Koala bear
No not AEC but that was a good guess as the AEC Ergonomic cab was a very early tilting cab design.
Actually a friend of mine who restores old lorries had one of them and in order to change the engine you had to remove the cab, from what I remember it was sprung by a kind of mechanic murdering tortion bar arrangement, nice old truck though the Mandator.
I'd be happy here if someone just came up with the make rather than the model.
Clue - The cab was probably fairly easy to lift because of what it was made of.
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DaleCooper
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I don't know the answer but it got me thinking about all the defunct UK lorry manufacturers:
Foden, ERF etc. and where would we be without "N*****s like Scammel wheel nuts"?
Foden, ERF etc. and where would we be without "N*****s like Scammel wheel nuts"?
DaleCooper
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A feature of mine too (all be it retired to a scrapyard).
Not the Scarab and not a Scammel I'm afraid.