Good to Know You, Sleep

[00:00] Next up, it's under Google time. This week, Coalson was slacking. And so it fell to me. And I was
[00:10] thinking I was reading the Washington Post this morning about all the things going on in Hawaii
[00:16] and looking at the amazing videos there of the volcanoes. But these don't even seem like
[00:24] volcanoes to me. It just seems like the earth is coming apart and lava is flowing up.
[00:29] So I guess my question is, what's the deal with volcanoes? Like, why aren't we all dead?
[00:36] I don't understand why. I know there's been crazy volcanoes. Like, what was it? Etna
[00:44] was the volcano in Italy. And there's like, you can go and see people frozen in time because
[00:51] it happened so fast or something like that. Is that a thing?
[00:55] Yeah, that was Vesuvius. That was more modern day, I believe.
[00:58] Okay. Well, there we go. So yeah, what are your fears? What is the best coffee grow on volcanoes?
[01:09] I don't understand. I don't understand what's going on.
[01:12] So baking soda and Mentos is involved.
[01:18] Paper mache.
[01:19] Baking soda and vinegar trip.
[01:21] Yeah. Yeah. So hot magma. Are there volcanoes on every continent?
[01:33] I'm going to go with not Antarctica.
[01:40] Okay. But I don't know why not.
[01:45] I don't know why not either. Because there's definitely North America, Europe, Asia,
[01:52] Africa, right? Yeah. Australia. Everything in Australia kills you. So it's also a volcano there.
[02:04] So yeah, so right now in Hawaii, like, you're right. It's just like what I read today,
[02:09] like 23 different fissures coming up just that they're separate from the actual volcano that are
[02:14] just just right fire coming from the earth. And so that's that's different than what my
[02:24] sixth grade science understanding of what a volcano was is, is it's an opening in the crust of the
[02:32] earth, right? And there's basically like a channel down to the mantle. Is that right? Is that where
[02:41] the lava is or whatever? It's like some hot rock. And every now and then the pressure builds
[02:46] up so much that you get an eruption. And usually it just spits a bunch of dust and dirt into the
[02:53] air, which can be bad enough. Can wasn't that like one of the posits for how the dinosaurs
[03:02] got wiped out was there was like a huge volcano explosion or something like that?
[03:07] Covered the sun. Yeah, exactly. And so you're blacking out the sun. But but this seems,
[03:16] yeah, different. So it's it's this is just the earth is coming apart. Yeah.
[03:21] Well, I think that the the tubes that lead to the, you know, the cone or the top of the volcano,
[03:30] those are pretty complex networks, I think. So it's like the roots of a tree or something
[03:35] a little bit, I think. And so I think that if one of the main arteries gets blocked,
[03:43] then pressure builds up and then you get it's basically like a pipe bursting, I think, or
[03:51] something along the way. Okay. Okay, interesting. So don't like put a lid on the volcano, because
[03:57] you're just going to get lots of fissures in the land. Well, you're going to build up pressure,
[04:03] and that pressure is going to result in it's going to burst out somewhere. Yes. And so you
[04:09] small fissures or if it is, you know, if it builds up super high, then you can get a large
[04:16] volcano with what we think of as a large volcanic explosion, right, which shoots crap up 60,000 feet
[04:22] in the air. Right. noxious chemicals. Yes. All this lots of bad stuff underground, apparently.
[04:29] So are there are there places on is on earth? Is there constantly somewhere where there is lava
[04:39] bursting forth through the crust? I presume so. I mean,
[04:45] like someplace like under the ocean, probably like all the time or something. Yeah. Okay.
[04:50] I mean, I think even, you know, the volcano in Hawaii, even it's sort of always is dribbling
[04:58] out on some level in it. I don't know. I mean, it's an active volcano. I don't know. That's what
[05:03] I was wondering. Yeah. Because the article I was reading was, you know, these people that were
[05:07] just like, yeah, I mean, this is we live by a volcano. And this is what you know,
[05:13] this happens. Sometimes our trees just burst into flames. But I like it here. So my house burns.
[05:19] I'll just, you know, build someplace else. But there's, you know, and there's like land that
[05:24] has been passed down from generations and stuff like that. And then I suppose if you're,
[05:29] so that's a legal question. If you're, if you own the land, but the then lava comes
[05:36] out of a volcano and goes over that land, do you still own the land?
[05:40] Or is that, that's new land, right? From a geological perspective.
[05:47] Um, I would, one would think you would still own the land, although it might not have much utility.
[05:54] But it does though, doesn't it? Like, aren't like, like, uh, isn't volcanic soil,
[05:59] like very fertile for sure. And like, uh, yeah, you'd grow like the best coffee beans or whatever
[06:07] on the side of a volcano. Potentially.
[06:12] If instead of a house, cause it's want to make coffee. Yeah.
[06:15] If you'd like a coffee field shirt. Yeah.
[06:18] I feel like that'd be a nice lifestyle to retire.
[06:22] Silver lining. Yeah.
[06:23] Yeah. But where are you putting your house?
[06:27] Oh, down the hill.
[06:29] In somebody else's land.
[06:31] Yeah. You walk up to your, your coffee field.
[06:37] Milpup farming. Uh, yeah. Okay. I guess I didn't really have a question.
[06:43] Well, no, but I mean,
[06:46] just volcanoes are amazing. These pictures are incredible.
[06:48] They really are crazy ones.
[06:50] And it really makes you feel like, you know, you walk around on solid earth all the time
[06:55] and to come to the realization that it's all just floating on a sea of hot magma is insane to me.
[07:04] Weird. I read somewhere that they said that it's like, um,
[07:09] 20 jet liners leaving out your backyard all the time.
[07:12] Just the sound. Oh, that's crazy.
[07:14] Yeah. So.
[07:18] That can't be good for your ears. No, you wouldn't think.
[07:21] No. Uh, but, uh, they're saying, uh, maybe don't vacation in Hawaii right now.
[07:29] Probably not a good idea.
[07:30] Yeah. The, uh, what is it?
[07:33] The sulfuric mist that's coming out of the ocean now that the,
[07:39] that the lava has reached the Pacific.
[07:42] Yeah. It seems like that's what happens when lava goes in water.
[07:49] So it is, it's boiling the water instantaneously, I assume.
[07:52] And then it's off gassing some terrible things that you shouldn't die outside or something.
[07:58] Yeah. It's pretty crazy, but volcanoes do shoot out lots of useful things,
[08:08] which is why the soil is so fertile. Right. Okay. Right.
[08:12] So volcanoes, you know, they're, they're, they're useful. You just want to avoid them when they're
[08:17] angry. Sure. And so you hear the term dormant volcano. Does that mean it's,
[08:23] it's just waiting to erupt? Like, does the volcano ever become completely inactive?
[08:30] Probably not. Right. Like I assume that there's always some sort of,
[08:34] well, I would, I would always pressure from underneath trying to get up.
[08:38] Well, no, I would assume that if it's dormant, that the pressure has moved elsewhere
[08:42] and that it, maybe it'll come back someday, but probably not within the human lifespan sort of
[08:48] thing. Like that's what I assume dormant means. Like it hasn't exploded in the last
[08:54] 10,000 years and probably won't for another 10,000. And so it doesn't matter to us.
[08:59] I presume if there was enough tectonic movement that you could get a completely inactive volcano,
[09:05] right? Yeah. Okay. And then you just have a mountain. Yeah. With a hole in it.
[09:18] There's a hole in the mountain, dear Ira. Do you guys remember when we were kids that
[09:25] I remember being, uh, going through a phase where I was afraid that Mount Saint Helens was
[09:31] going to kill us all or something like that. Do you guys remember that?
[09:35] Like did it, it erupted when we were kids. Yeah. We were very young though. Yeah.
[09:44] I easily got a mortified of things.
[09:48] You lived in tornado alley, but you were worried about Mount Saint Helens.
[09:51] Okay. I didn't understand it to this day. So does it Yellowstone have some supervolcano?
[09:59] What's now I got to worry about this. What's a supervolcano? Yeah. Yellowstone's
[10:05] supposed to kill us. Wipe out the United States. That's right. Great. Wonderful.
[10:11] I mean, you're real far away. It might take. Can I do it sooner than later?
[10:15] Cause we could, we could go for a reset button right now.
[10:21] So I should be Googling volcanoes information. I went straight to the Yellowstone thing to
[10:27] mess with Jason. So yeah, I just want to know what a supervolcano is. I've heard the term
[10:31] supervolcano, but I don't know what that actually is increased activity above this. By the way,
[10:36] this is from March, May 14th increased activity above and below the surface at the U S supervolcano
[10:41] has set off alarm bells for those who are monitoring the site for a potential eruption.
[10:45] Excellent. Multiple earthquakes at the national park followed by a fourth eruption of his usually
[10:51] dormant geyser has led to speculation about the world's largest supervolcano.
[10:57] All right, cool. So careful what you wish for Jason.
[11:04] So it's good to know you sleep.
[11:08] We were good friends for a while. Okay. Here we go. Volcanoes are classified as active,
[11:15] dormant or extinct depending on the amount of volcanic activity. Active means that there's
[11:20] regular activity. Dormant means that there hasn't been recent activity.
[11:25] And so it's currently quiet and extinct means it's been so long since the last eruption that
[11:29] it's unlikely that it will ever erupt again. So I was, I was saying dormant was extinct,
[11:34] I guess is what I was saying. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, it's good to know they can go
[11:40] extinct. Right. I suppose. Yeah. Once they're done killing us, then they go to sleep forever.
[11:47] Great. I've got, I've got full volcano fun facts. Okay. Great magma is the name given
[11:53] to hot liquid rock inside the volcano. Once it leaves the volcano, it is known as lava.
[12:00] Volcanoes don't just occur on land. They're found on the ocean floor
[12:04] and also under ice caps. So Antarctica then. Yep. The world's largest active volcano is
[12:14] Manau low in Hawaii. I'm sure that's not how you say it. And loa. Thank you. Yeah.
[12:25] Hawaii and you pronounce all the valves. Okay. Uh, in AD 79, mountain Suvius erupted,
[12:34] devastating the Italian town of Pompeii. So our question about Antarctica. So there's a
[12:44] article in the Guardian. The headline is scientists discover 91 volcanoes between beneath Antarctic
[12:51] ice sheet. This is in addition to 47 already known about an eruption would melt more ice
[12:58] in region affected by climate change. Well, in our defense, scientists had trouble finding them too,
[13:04] obviously. True. True. There are about 1900 volcanoes on earth that are considered active.
[13:13] Okay. Okay. Um, in 1883, Krakatoa and Southeast Asia erupted releasing 200 megatrons of energy.
[13:25] That's what it says. That's a lot of Calvin Johnson's
[13:32] 15,000 nuclear bombs and it generated the loudest reported sound in history.
[13:40] I don't know what that means. Sounds pretty exciting though. It means people heard it.
[13:45] Yeah. A hundred far away. That's right. Uh, oh, yep. Okay. Yep. There's volcanoes on every continent.
[13:54] Here are the tallest volcanoes on each continent. Uh, you got Ojos de Salado in South America,
[14:04] Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Pico de Orizaba in North America, which is in Mexico
[14:13] somewhere. Uh, Damavand in Asia. That just sounds scary. Which is in Iran. Wow. Mount Gilue
[14:24] in Australia and Mount Sidley in Antarctica. The word volcano, uh, comes from the name Vulcan,
[14:34] um, uh, which we all know is, uh, from Star Trek.
[14:37] Mm-hmm. Yep. Good job. Also the, uh, Roman got a fire.