Incredible growing rock!

iceman (Mike) · #1 10-05-2006, 06:28 AM

Wow, blown away by today's APOD.

A rock slab at Mt St Helens is growing at 1 metre a day!

Incredible picture, and check out the time lapse movie linked in the text. Just mind blowing.

h0ughy (David) · #2 10-05-2006, 08:06 AM

what an amazing place we live on

higginsdj · #3 10-05-2006, 08:09 AM

Hmmmm..... Don't know about growing but it looks to me like a cork is about to pop!

Cheers

David

janoskiss (Steve H) · #4 10-05-2006, 08:34 AM

Did you see the movie? Looks scary. I wouldn't hang around it for too long.

ving (David) · #5 10-05-2006, 01:24 PM

at one meter per day you be better off watching it than watching paint dry

Octane (Humayun) · #6 10-05-2006, 01:41 PM

That truly is amazing.

In the time lapse video, it looks like some giant finger of a robot, machine or something is slowly emerging out of the earth.

It will be fascinating to see what happens in the near future. I hope there's a video camera, or some kind of imaging system, capturing data 24 hours a day.

Incredible.

Regards,
Humayun

gaa_ian (Ian) · #7 10-05-2006, 05:45 PM

That is awesome Mike !
I will have to share that one with the civil engineers at work
OK guys, now calculate the force being exerted on this rock !

Vermin (Tom) · #8 11-05-2006, 09:12 AM

Yeah that was a pretty cool sequence, but what qualifies it for APOD?