Gawsh, I should read what I've typed before posting.

Hell, I wish I didn't.

I meant to ask you if you had any opinion of Hal U of M's Wanless, Balta. I saw him present a seminar last week to a standing room crowd at my institute and I was pretty impressed.

Just stopping by to say good morning y'all . . .

Kang and Kodos still have the peoples' hearts and minds.

I think people have moved on from Simpson's references... What's next, Newhart jokes?

I think people have moved on from Simpson's references... What's next, Newhart jokes?

 

Lo and Behold. . . SS2k5 has made egg salad out of alphabet order again.

Lo and Behold. . . SS2k5 has made egg salad out of alphabet order again.

Me thinks he's drunk already.

Me thinks he's drunk already.

 

Nah, more like still...

I meant to ask you if you had any opinion of Hal U of M's Wanless, Balta. I saw him present a seminar last week to a standing room crowd at my institute and I was pretty impressed.

Obviously I've heard of "U of M" before, and I've heard of a guy named Wanless before, but I have no idea what "Hal U of M Wanless" means.

Obviously I've heard of "U of M" before, and I've heard of a guy named Wanless before, but I have no idea what "Hal U of M Wanless" means.

 

pffft, I meant "Hal Wanless from U of M" but muffed it. He let me know my house would be beachfront property in about 50 years.

 

Quite often during hurricanes your house turns into in the ocean property too.

Right you are. I was very happy we were spared this season.

Some of mother natures work is pretty amazing. I actually rode out Hurricane Alica when I was a wee lad.

Tsunamis make your hurricanes look like April showers.

Unlikely any books that any of us would write would have as big an impact of the one celebrating it's anniversary today, "Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin

Voyage of the HMS Beagle was the expedition that forever changed the scientific world view.

Tsunamis make your hurricanes look like April showers.

We'd better hope that we never get a legit island collapse tsunami.

xenolith is a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded.

Yay! (Goes and grabs one of his xenoliths)

zero, well almost zero chance, I know why the above happens

All because I have so many.

but how dies it happen? The embedding?

We'd better hope that we never get a legit island collapse tsunami.

 

Crappy European Islands had better keep it together.

but how dies it happen? The embedding?

Diamonds, for example, are xenoliths that are entrained in a specific type of eruption called a kimberlite. They are more dense than the liquid and sit in equilibrium within the mantle. However, the liquid is moving fast enough and its viscosity is high enough that the liquid is able to pick up and carry these xenoliths. Once it reaches the surface, the liquid cools, trapping anything it picked up en route.