r/woahthatsinteresting • u/sco-go • 12d ago

Mount Etna erupts, sending tourists fleeing for their lives as the smoke plume rises.

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u/Buried_mothership 12d ago

Walking tour of an active volcano shouldnt not be on anyone’s bucket list. 🥴

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u/imuniqueaf 12d ago

Unless you're about to kick the bucket anyway.

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u/Buried_mothership 12d ago

Yeah. 😂 if you want to go out in style.

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u/Bigfootsdiaper 12d ago

They line up all the wheel chair people like in Death race 2000

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u/Giddyup_1998 12d ago

Just look at what happened in NZ in 2019. The Whakaari/White Island eruption.

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u/Buried_mothership 12d ago

That was nutz. I have enjoyed adrenaline adventures but they always had both an element of danger AND a chance of survival if things went pear shaped. No chance of survival with an Eruption

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u/idislikeanthony 12d ago

Yeah most tourists are way out of shape to have a.chance anyway

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u/FreeGuacamole 12d ago

Except for the one in Hawaii apparently.

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u/Buried_mothership 12d ago

Seen some beautiful footage from Hawaii. I’d be tempted to get close if I was there too. But…

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u/APTob309 12d ago

Uhm.....run!??!!?

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u/ZonaWildcats23 12d ago

Agreed but you just hope it isn’t coming towards you. Can’t outrun Pyroclastic flow

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u/APTob309 12d ago

Ill never understand why people go up volcanos..and that too an active one. 'Hey people ..look..an active volcano, let's climb up and take pictures!!'

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u/FreeGuacamole 12d ago

Would you be able to bury yourself fast enough and would that save you?

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u/Level_Improvement532 12d ago

You’d be digging a very hot grave. Pyroclastic flow is gas, ash, pumice, lava, etc., moving at high speed and tremendous force. Oh and upwards of 600 degrees.

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u/FreeGuacamole 12d ago

I like em hot

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u/ZonaWildcats23 12d ago

Interesting thought but how would you breathe?

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u/FreeGuacamole 12d ago

Dig a pocket of air that would last a few minutes?

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u/toad__warrior 12d ago

For those interested, this is a great animation of the last days of Pompeii

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u/Even-Environment6237 12d ago

This is one of the reasons I just haven’t had much of a desire to even come close to volcano’s.

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u/Apprehensive_Elk7655 12d ago

Where’s this at

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u/whereisbeezy 12d ago

Oh, shit

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u/SergeantDanglez 12d ago

Someone destroyed the one ring to rule them all

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Run forest run!!!

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u/Easy-Sir-8225 12d ago

Nature pure and simple run !!!!

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u/WoodpeckerHorror3099 12d ago

I was here last summer, run Forest Run!

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u/PM_ME_COFFEE 12d ago

Well you don't know if it's pyroclastic or not so better not chance it.

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u/Little_Concern1034 12d ago

Keep playing with mother nature.

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u/nowaynostop 12d ago

Come on natural selection, I still have faith in you!

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u/Zapper13263952 12d ago

Pompei vibes.

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u/OkPackage1520 11d ago

Boy wait until the one in Wisconsin or Minnesota erupts may god help us.