#volcano

So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would roast a pig in the steaming volcano fields at the base of St. Helens. Being a scientist meant that he would do it in a methodical fashion: notes would be kept and he would document everything. The operation needed a cover name because reporters and others were monitoring all radio communication around the volcano, so he called it the 'FPP temperature experiment'. FPP stood for Front Page Palmer, a name the scientists had given a local geology professor who had irritated the Survey geologists by grandstanding for the press. Miller would roast a pig and Palmer at the same time. ↗

— Dick Thompson

#geology-humor #mt-st-helens #science #usgs #volcanoes

Maybe they had become volcano smoke jumpers, diving into an unknown risk to do a dangerous job because, in part, it was a social good and, in part, because they loved the big show. ↗

— Dick Thompson

#pinatubo #the-survey #usgs #volcanoes #love

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #crust #from time to time #over #revolution

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#expect #flowers #heart #how #shall

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#grass #grow #peak #volcano #which

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. ↗