You may want to think twice. The information she provides for yellowstone is incorrect. The eruptions are closer to 700 years apart, for starters. and are not considered a predictive measure of activity anyway. I also know yellowstone's volconologist (Mike Poland) and he definitely will not use the term "supervolcano" as it is more of a gimmicky name for the media than a geologically recognized term. This all makes me think twice about everything else she has to say. Not to mention every one of these videos.
Have I ever wondered about Volcanoes? Not really. Will I be telling all my friends this weekend about what Jenni Barclay taught me just now? Absolutely.
What is the point of being so uneducated and mentally lazy. I'm sure you won't take the time to think up an answer. I've never seen so many totally ignorant and brainless questions in one vid in my life.
some of these questions trigger me, it’s like they cannot comprehend how important volcanologists are, like bro I’m glad they do what they do, I ain’t tryn’a end up like Pompeii
Jenni was one of the absolute best lecturers I have ever had the privilege of being taught by. Hugely knowledgeable, with boundless energy and enthusiasm. I recently started a geoscience PhD in no small part because I wanted to emulate the passion people like Jenni showed for her science day in and day out. She was a big inspiration to me (even though I decided not to pursue volcanology. Sorry, Jenni!).
You can tell she loves her job by how passionate she is with her answers. She reminds me of some my favorite science teachers, the ones that would make everything so much fun that you would forget that you were learning.
@gabrielford3473 Serious question, not being snarky, what was she incorrect about? I remember researching volcanoes, etc, many years ago, and it all sounded correct to me. What did I miss?🤔
Okay. I'm not even done with the vid yet, and I've GOTTA say... ... This woman's enthusiasm-in-presentation should be made a REQUIRED training class for everyone doing a Wired Q&A•
I feel like most of the Wired guests have a knack for presenting with a captivating sense of enthusiasm. Wired is really solid at finding these experts.
not quite..in Icelandic the pronunciation of double L's sounds more like a TL sound which can take while to master. But not bad considering I've heard my fair share of bad pronunciations of it during my last 3 years in Iceland. 😅
Obsidian wasn't just for ancient cutting tools. Modern surgeons use obsidian scalpels for some procedures (I think mainly eye surgeries). They look like miniature spears with a chip of obsidian tied to the end. When I last performed animal surgeries (2007), the obsidian scalpel was the sharpest physical blade available to a surgeon, and it held its edge.
@@alex-rw2yg I didn't suggest she was wrong. I was surprised when I saw obsidian scalpels in the instrument catalog a few years ago, and I thought others might find it interesting. You understood my meaning, if not my intent.
Rude? By who's metric?Guess what..professional criticism fosters personal and professional growth. If how something is said offends another by asking for clarification instead of just offering an answer she found form offensive first and foremost, she's entitled and has a superiority complex, kinda like how people say "yass queen!" . If she can't see past her personal emotion because she cannot control herself, i would argue that lack of control could cloud the point. TL;DR - If someone finds something offensive, that's a them problem because they give statements their perceived value. Get humble.
@@bubbabearhuntington2295 im not reading all that - but anyone would agree that comment was rude anyway, so its not like its her opinion against everybody elses lol
My 9 year old has been obsessed about volcanoes and geology for years. I didn’t even know that volcanology was a thing until he started talking about becoming a volcanologist when he grows up.
I love when the experts actually read the curse words in the questions. There's something charming about when people who are clearly brilliant use foul language. Representing Scotland well 😀 🏴
Yeah, but all of those cuss words were in the questions. Every time she said a curse word it was actually someone else's words, and the people writing these questions were clearly not brilliant.
When we talking about volcano, most of them erupted long time ago, hundreds years ago even thousand years ago, but some volcanoes just constantly erupting every year or even every day with small scale eruption.
6:16 Don't do volcano tourism, even the officials say it's safe! In 2019 a group of tourists on a cruise ship were offered to go visit an active Stratovolcano on White Island near New Zealand and were promised that it was safe. It wasn't, the volcano erupted and killed 22 of them and severely injured the 25 others. The survivors could feel their burned skin coming off while they had to wait hours in the toxic gas to be rescued because the volcano was still too dangerous for rescuers to get close enough. I saw a documentary about one of the survivors, a woman who was at the volcano with her sister and father and heard both of them die. Her body was so burned she had to get amputated and even now that she's healed she's still completely covered in scars and permanently disabled. ETA: her name is Stephanie Browitt
That was was always risky and not telling the cruise passengers was bloody criminal. The risk wasn't outright crazy but the potential harm was massive.
Dont do volcanic tourism would rule out most of New Zealand's north island . Taupo the big lake in the center of the north island is an active super volcano. To quote geonet the body responsible for monitoring NZ volcanic hazards. An eruption may occur at any level, and levels may not move in sequence as activity can change rapidly.
But, no, volcanoes aren't making the Earth bigger but it is growing very slowly. Between 4,000 and 7,000 metric tons of space dust fall on the Earth each year.
Every time WIRED has an expert on in a field I know nothing about is like a special treat. Love knowing a little bit more on any given subject after twenty minutes.
I think the best example of how powerful the Tambora explosion of 1816 was how it changed weather patterns in other locations around the world. The New England region of the US has the historic "year without a summer" as a direct result.
I've hiked an Indonesian volcanic mountain called Rinjani, few months back, and it was mind blowing. It consisted of a huge ancient volcanic rim, with a lake within, and a smaller active volcano in the middle of the lake!
Nothing wrong with your teachers 30 years ago. Lets see how this volcano lady would have performed with 20 spoiled, loud, entitled and disrespectful kids under her
@@ladygaga81ful several of my teachers were old school and resorted to humiliating/physically punishing kids who seemed lazy/had no homework. I was a sensitive kid and that made me despise school and see it as a prison. This was in Eastern Europe. I still have nightmares about the never ending school years.
As I was just taking geology classes as electives I didn’t get too much into it, but it’s a fascinating science. The brain sometimes has issues wrapping the concepts of the lengths of time it can take with the formation of metamorphic rocks, tectonic plate shift, and/or magnetic shifts. In our lifetimes the earth is fairly static, but is an ever evolving system with great changes over eons. Wonderful video!
I would also echo liking Soufriere in St Lucia. Went on holiday there and visited the volcano. Beautiful, not just the surrounding area too with the nearby Castries, but the fact it's a tiny island with this steep volcano jutting out the bottom is quite a sight to behold.
@@frankiefavero1666 I know, right? I've travelled to quite a few places over the years, and there's many just as beautiful. But St Lucia has such a beautfully organic design - it's truly wonderful. Some of the other caribbean islands can be a bit boring geographically, but St Lucia certainly isn't. Driving up through the rain foresty part in the centre is also great.
12:46 Obsidian Scalpels are used until this day, particularly in Eye surgery because of their extremely thin edges that cause less tissue damage than steel blades.
7:18 I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this but the picture they are showing is Diamond Head/Leahi on Oahu, while discussing about Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea.
An interesting addendum to the "what would happen if I fell into lava" question: Not many people consider the fact that lava is extremely dense (being made of molten rock and all), so there's a good chance you'd simply die on impact of blunt force trauma. If you were lowered in gently (and had protective gear that could completely prevent burn injuries) you'd only sink to about knee-deep, maybe hip-deep at most before displacing your body weight in lava. Depending on the thickness of the lava, you might be able to move around a bit, but you'd almost certainly lose your balance and end up either face-down or face-up, floating on the surface and unable to sink even if you tried. You could then, in theory, swim around on the surface (though quite laboriously due to the density and viscosity of lava).
Studying geography, volcanoes were always super interesting, but because there are no volcanoes close to where I studied, I never saw one. Definitely go on a holiday to Italy, Iceland or the Canary Isles. I will conquer a vulcano!
Obsidian is still used today in modern cutting tools. Properly treated and machined, Obsidian ended scalpels are used for extremely precise neural surgery
11:32 She forgot to mention that the last super-eruption in Yellowstone was 640k years ago, which puts a bit of a spin on 300k years on average between its super-eruptions...
So technically overdue. I figure all the geysers and such would be taking the pressure off, though, so it's not like we're gonna see it go Pele on our asses
I remember staying in a little mountain village in Costa Rica near Mt. Arenal. We were packing up and getting ready to leave when we heard a little boom and felt the earth moving. I ran outside to see what was going on and some lava and ash was coming out the top of the volcano. I was surprised and a little scared at first, but then looked at the locals who didn’t even react at all but kept on with their daily tasks. They said it does that all the time. I was glad we were leaving soon.
How long ago? That volcano's been dormant for years. Before, you could see the lava flowing down the mountain and of course at night it was beyond breathtaking.
I especially appreciate how Wired doesn’t go find someone who is a cliche representation of someone who we would imagine would be in a specific field. It makes me love these videos even more.
my family was stuck in italy due to the eyjafjallajökull in march of 2010! had to get back to england somehow so they bussed us for 20 hours total and it was a nightmare
I have always loved geology and volcanoes in general. I think what I like most is Ms. Barclay’s presentation is so open and approachable regardless of the question she’s tackling.
Jenni Barclay - brilliant! Simple, concise answers to a variety of questions about a subject very few people know much about. I learned something today!
Check out the story of a Boeing 747 back in 1983 that flew through the plume of an erupting Volcano over the Pacific at night and it shut down all 4 engines and they incredibly were able to restart all four engines and land safely. Aircraft suffered heavy damage.
I saw the Mayday episode of that. The ash was causing electrostatic light around the airplane, and the windshield was really hard to see through, having been sanded by the particles.
Great story that almost led to disaster. Their all engines shut down and pilots had no idea what was happening, as they had no clue about a volcanic eruption. They had to glide, trying to find an emergency airport to land, but during gliding that hot melted ash cooled down and broke to pieces and engines were able to restart again.
12:20 My daughter is 8 and loves Minecraft. It BLEW HER MIND when I showed her a piece I have in my rock collection. I guess she didn't realize it's real. 😆
Is it not wild that out of many countries. Indonesia is so freakishly geologically and vulanically active that when geologist or vulcanologist gives comprehensive explanations. Thay can let off such well known country like japan, but not a hidden gem like indonesia. ❤
What do volcanologists do? Well, one of the things is paying attention to signs of possible future eruptions. That’s rather important when people live close to those volcanoes. I live in the Pacific Northwest roughly between Mt Hood and Mt Adams, the latter of which has seen an increase in minor earthquakes lately. That could be one sign of an incoming eruption but volcanologists looked at the info and said it most likely doesn’t mean there is about to be an eruption. Useful info and I’m glad people like that are on the job
We were privileged at my primary school in Berkshire to have a very good teacher Jean Skuse who was visiting Iceland at the time Surtsey formed in the late 1960s. She took and showed us a cine film of Surtsey and was able to explain to us how Iceland itself was formed in the same way but on a bigger scale.
I'm at a juncture in life where I am studying an environmental science degree and getting close to having to choose my field of study - I'm currently torn between ecology and geology and this video isn't helping because volcanoes are so interesting and cool >_
7:02 @katy_nickleson1 asks, "Where is the biggest volcano???" Well Katy, the biggest that we know of is called Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars. Standing about 22.5 km high, and 600 km wide, it is far bigger in every dimension than Mount Everest, and is big enough to hold all of the Hawaiian islands inside of it.
Imo, it's kinda wild how much better this was than the episode with Bill Nye about volcanoes. Bill just seemed dead in his enthusiasm. This woman seems wayyyy more passionate.
Wow, that explanation about Earth being, in the beginning, a ball of magma reminds me of Japanese mythology about the world's creation. Perhaps they were, even then, onto something 🤔
It would depend on where your friend lives and if there are any threats at all for an eruption. I live in Oregon where the active stratovolcano Mt Hood, is and I've been impacted by Mt. Saint Helens when it blew. But I don't think I need Volcano insurance. If Peter lives in the vicinity or path of some Hawaiian volcanoes, it might make sense to have some insurance. I bt it's pretty darn expensive though.
Whoever is in charge of finding the experts for this series at WIRED is *excellent* at their job!
You may want to think twice. The information she provides for yellowstone is incorrect. The eruptions are closer to 700 years apart, for starters. and are not considered a predictive measure of activity anyway. I also know yellowstone's volconologist (Mike Poland) and he definitely will not use the term "supervolcano" as it is more of a gimmicky name for the media than a geologically recognized term. This all makes me think twice about everything else she has to say. Not to mention every one of these videos.
So we're supposed to believe you over this video because @@gabrielford3473
@gabrielford3473 thank god we got a REAL expert to comment on RUclips
@@gabrielford3473 I have a hunch this mike poland guy would not endorse your youtube comment here
@@gabrielford3473 XD Always someone like you.
Have I ever wondered about Volcanoes? Not really.
Will I be telling all my friends this weekend about what Jenni Barclay taught me just now? Absolutely.
"How do you know this much about volcanoes!!!"
"Ahhh, you know, my friend Jenni told me."
O.O
I want a volcano buddy.
She's going to steal me Lucky Charms
Volcano buddy for rent here
The reason anything is alive or indeed has ever lived on the planet, is largely due to volcanism and plate tectonics.
Q: Whats the point of being a volcanist huh
Jenni: kinda rude. Anyway i like to look at rocks
Love the Office Space reference in the time stamps.
What is the point of being so uneducated and mentally lazy. I'm sure you won't take the time to think up an answer. I've never seen so many totally ignorant and brainless questions in one vid in my life.
@@arnox4554 Hahah! I didn't catch that, so I'm glad you mentioned it!
@@arnox4554
...look at rocks and listen to the rocks recordings.
Totally -pointless- improve the initial image.
some of these questions trigger me, it’s like they cannot comprehend how important volcanologists are, like bro I’m glad they do what they do, I ain’t tryn’a end up like Pompeii
Don't live at the bottom of a volcano, you should be ok.
Even besides that, just understanding the world around us.
Same bro
@@TheJpf79 Volcanos can cause quite widespread damage because of the explosions, and the smoke and fumes.
@@ACrazyCreative Why are you telling me things that I already know? And what tf does it have to do with Pompeii or me telling a joke?
She’s fantastic at reading out the comments.
She's going to steal me Lucky Charms
@@Hotobushe's Scottish, you berk
@@Athairne ME LUCKY CHARMS ARE IN DANGER!
Educate me, Scotish Volcanologist Queen.
As one of Ms Barclay's fellow countrymen, allow me to educate you: it's Scottish*, two "t's"
@@cleverusername9369hush child
@@cleverusername9369 No no, he wasn't saying she was Scottish, he was saying she is Scot-ish!
Rock my world, Scottish Queen was right there buddy.😐
*why is yt offering to translate your comment to english?!*
Jenni was one of the absolute best lecturers I have ever had the privilege of being taught by. Hugely knowledgeable, with boundless energy and enthusiasm. I recently started a geoscience PhD in no small part because I wanted to emulate the passion people like Jenni showed for her science day in and day out. She was a big inspiration to me (even though I decided not to pursue volcanology. Sorry, Jenni!).
She's going to steal me Lucky Charms
I was also lectured by her in my physics degree, as part of Geophysics during covid.. She handled the online lectures quite well
You're going with geomorph aren't you
@@Hotobushe’s Scottish not Irish
You can tell she loves her job by how passionate she is with her answers. She reminds me of some my favorite science teachers, the ones that would make everything so much fun that you would forget that you were learning.
You can be passionate about anything when you have food on the table.
@toshtao1 sometimes you get really lucky and being passionate enough about something becomes the means of putting food on your table! 😊
now, if only her information was accurate
@gabrielford3473 Serious question, not being snarky, what was she incorrect about? I remember researching volcanoes, etc, many years ago, and it all sounded correct to me. What did I miss?🤔
@@gabrielford3473 receipts or didn't happen
Okay. I'm not even done with the vid yet, and I've GOTTA say...
... This woman's enthusiasm-in-presentation should be made a REQUIRED training class for everyone doing a Wired Q&A•
I feel like most of the Wired guests have a knack for presenting with a captivating sense of enthusiasm. Wired is really solid at finding these experts.
She's consistently wrong. Pretty easy to fool people. What informs your opinion? They entertained you well so it must be accurate?
@@gabrielford3473 What’s she consistently wrong about?
@@gabrielford3473You keep saying that she’s wrong, but you remain deliberately vague. What exactly is she wrong about?
@@gabrielford3473and what informs your opinion?
16:05 that was maybe the most impressive non-chalant pronunciation of a ridiculously difficult word I think I've seen.
But was it pronounced correctly?
@@BlueRoseGreen we need someone who speaks Icelandic to weigh in!
not quite..in Icelandic the pronunciation of double L's sounds more like a TL sound which can take while to master. But not bad considering I've heard my fair share of bad pronunciations of it during my last 3 years in Iceland. 😅
@@rossbooth4635 It's "Ey-yuh-fyuh-tthla-yaw-kootthl". So, no, but it wasn't terrible.
@@rossbooth4635 if she said that word without any content, no i would not understand her lol :) but good effort
Obsidian wasn't just for ancient cutting tools. Modern surgeons use obsidian scalpels for some procedures (I think mainly eye surgeries). They look like miniature spears with a chip of obsidian tied to the end. When I last performed animal surgeries (2007), the obsidian scalpel was the sharpest physical blade available to a surgeon, and it held its edge.
A scalpel is, by definition, a cutting tool. So the expert isn’t wrong, you’re just providing additional information.
@@alex-rw2yg I didn't suggest she was wrong. I was surprised when I saw obsidian scalpels in the instrument catalog a few years ago, and I thought others might find it interesting. You understood my meaning, if not my intent.
It was also used to kill white walkers
@@alex-rw2yg "Obsidian wasn't just for *ancient* cutting tools." Yes, additional information, not contradiction.
I lava good volcano video
It's a very hot topic, for sure.
Yes there is no reason to be ASHamed about your love of volcano videos!
comments like these are so magma-nimous
The comment section is sure to erupt after that one 🌋👏
My wife laughed at these jokes. I caldera silly person.
"slightly rude" TELL EM QUEEN
Rude? By who's metric?Guess what..professional criticism fosters personal and professional growth. If how something is said offends another by asking for clarification instead of just offering an answer she found form offensive first and foremost, she's entitled and has a superiority complex, kinda like how people say "yass queen!" . If she can't see past her personal emotion because she cannot control herself, i would argue that lack of control could cloud the point. TL;DR - If someone finds something offensive, that's a them problem because they give statements their perceived value. Get humble.
@@bubbabearhuntington2295 im not reading all that - but anyone would agree that comment was rude anyway, so its not like its her opinion against everybody elses lol
She's going to steal me Lucky Charms
@@Hotobu she's Scottish not Irish, and lucky charms are a purely American thing
@@jonathan545 ME LUCKY CHARMS ARE IN DANGER!
"this is volcano support"
Me, a volcano enthusiast alone in my living room: "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
My 9 year old has been obsessed about volcanoes and geology for years. I didn’t even know that volcanology was a thing until he started talking about becoming a volcanologist when he grows up.
I love when the experts actually read the curse words in the questions. There's something charming about when people who are clearly brilliant use foul language. Representing Scotland well 😀 🏴
Yeah, but all of those cuss words were in the questions. Every time she said a curse word it was actually someone else's words, and the people writing these questions were clearly not brilliant.
Maintaining the Mither Leid. 🏴
WIRED , you never disappoint. Jenni Barclay Is wow!
I remember watching documentaries about mount Semeru in Indonesia. They asked "when the last time it erupt?". And the guide said, "yesterday"
When we talking about volcano, most of them erupted long time ago, hundreds years ago even thousand years ago, but some volcanoes just constantly erupting every year or even every day with small scale eruption.
14:29 what a gentle way of saying you’d be burned alive instantaneously 😂
She looks a little like Linda Hamiltons character in Dante’s peak.
Those rocks look a little like Tommy Lee Jones in Volcano.
OMG! She really does!
Facts..
They do both have hair.
Put the town on alert!
I read “volcanologist” as “ventriloquist” at first, and I was very confused as to why they would be answering questions about volcanos 😂
I read Vulcanologist. So you can imagine my confusion 😅😅🖖🖖
Wired must find a ventriloquist volcanologist for this guy
volcanologist or ventriloquist, you're going to have a bad time if you stick your hand in it
@@kristenbenser2168Vulcan does have a lot of volcanoes!
"I WILL MAKE THESE MOUNTAINS SPEAK!"
6:16 Don't do volcano tourism, even the officials say it's safe! In 2019 a group of tourists on a cruise ship were offered to go visit an active Stratovolcano on White Island near New Zealand and were promised that it was safe. It wasn't, the volcano erupted and killed 22 of them and severely injured the 25 others. The survivors could feel their burned skin coming off while they had to wait hours in the toxic gas to be rescued because the volcano was still too dangerous for rescuers to get close enough. I saw a documentary about one of the survivors, a woman who was at the volcano with her sister and father and heard both of them die. Her body was so burned she had to get amputated and even now that she's healed she's still completely covered in scars and permanently disabled.
ETA: her name is Stephanie Browitt
That was was always risky and not telling the cruise passengers was bloody criminal. The risk wasn't outright crazy but the potential harm was massive.
Dont do volcanic tourism would rule out most of New Zealand's north island .
Taupo the big lake in the center of the north island is an active super volcano.
To quote geonet the body responsible for monitoring NZ volcanic hazards.
An eruption may occur at any level, and levels may not move in sequence as activity can change rapidly.
wow, she's knocking these answers out of the park
But, no, volcanoes aren't making the Earth bigger but it is growing very slowly. Between 4,000 and 7,000 metric tons of space dust fall on the Earth each year.
She has the perfect personality for this video series - informed and educational, plus cheeky and entertaining. I want part 2!
Every time WIRED has an expert on in a field I know nothing about is like a special treat. Love knowing a little bit more on any given subject after twenty minutes.
I love how every time Mt. Tambora comes up, it's mentioned that the explosion was heard as far away as Australia… given our states are
I think the best example of how powerful the Tambora explosion of 1816 was how it changed weather patterns in other locations around the world. The New England region of the US has the historic "year without a summer" as a direct result.
@@MainelyLove Same for Europe
the first question already sent me. who travels to italy around the area of mt vesuvius and doesn't know of its existance?!?
Idiots or liars
🇺🇸🤠🦅🏈
I've hiked an Indonesian volcanic mountain called Rinjani, few months back, and it was mind blowing. It consisted of a huge ancient volcanic rim, with a lake within, and a smaller active volcano in the middle of the lake!
Probably the same volcano tbh just much smaller after millennia
@@roberth8254 well, kind of. The eruption of the “big” one is believed to have caused a mini ice age globally , about a thousand years ago
Recursive island lakes & volcanos! Some of the coolest geographical features ever IMO
8:18 What a pure soul. I hope the next time she reaches for her jacket she finds money she forgot about in one of her pockets.
RUclips showing me the teachers I wish I had in school 30 years ago ...
Nothing wrong with your teachers 30 years ago.
Lets see how this volcano lady would have performed with 20 spoiled, loud, entitled and disrespectful kids under her
@@ladygaga81ful several of my teachers were old school and resorted to humiliating/physically punishing kids who seemed lazy/had no homework. I was a sensitive kid and that made me despise school and see it as a prison. This was in Eastern Europe. I still have nightmares about the never ending school years.
@@cineturon i mean same in my country (eastern europe as well).. kinda missed my own point there😝
I'm an indonesian, watching this about 20 minutes is a pure joy
Same here! Literally came here wondering if we'll be mentioned 😆
I hope you folks are in a pretty safe location there.
Indonesian here. We eat volcanoes for breakfast.
😂😂
Perfect
With blue lava sauce apparently 😅
And everyone's a black belt in Taekwondo 💪
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Volcanic infrasound recordings? You mean Björk?
great expert! sympathic, competent, able to explain complicated stuff easy to understand, overall just a pleasure to listen to. thx
Just been to Hakone, Japan. Volcano tourism is still alive and kicking.
No, son. Volcanologists do not study pointy-eared space aliens. Those are Vulcanologists.
Logical
I mean, Vulcan was the Roman god of fire. So......Vulcanologists would be archaeologists?
16:10 I think it's the first time I ever saw someone pronouncing that name so smoothly 😂😂
When I hear about magma, there is no way on earth I am not thinking about Dr. Evil in Austin power.
Okay so I might be biased but bring Jenni back to read ALL the questions. So enthusiastic and entertaining while educating us.
As I was just taking geology classes as electives I didn’t get too much into it, but it’s a fascinating science. The brain sometimes has issues wrapping the concepts of the lengths of time it can take with the formation of metamorphic rocks, tectonic plate shift, and/or magnetic shifts.
In our lifetimes the earth is fairly static, but is an ever evolving system with great changes over eons.
Wonderful video!
I love how she just casually without breaking a sweat answers a creationist *and makes sense*
What a brilliant woman! ❤❤
I would also echo liking Soufriere in St Lucia. Went on holiday there and visited the volcano. Beautiful, not just the surrounding area too with the nearby Castries, but the fact it's a tiny island with this steep volcano jutting out the bottom is quite a sight to behold.
Me too! Loved that Volcano and St Lucia in general was one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to ❤
@@frankiefavero1666 I know, right? I've travelled to quite a few places over the years, and there's many just as beautiful. But St Lucia has such a beautfully organic design - it's truly wonderful. Some of the other caribbean islands can be a bit boring geographically, but St Lucia certainly isn't. Driving up through the rain foresty part in the centre is also great.
She went ahead and spoke out the full phrase that tf abbreviated. Love it.
The scots are not afraid to swear lol
12:46 Obsidian Scalpels are used until this day, particularly in Eye surgery because of their extremely thin edges that cause less tissue damage than steel blades.
I was living in Longview Washington when Mt St Helens erupted. Was fascinating as a 13 yr old.
7:18 I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this but the picture they are showing is Diamond Head/Leahi on Oahu, while discussing about Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea.
Thank you! That made me laugh, but it also made me sad. An astonishingly wrong graphic does a lot of damage to the science that surrounds it. Auwe!
I will never not enjoy hearing the word "ethereal" in a Scottish accent.
An interesting addendum to the "what would happen if I fell into lava" question:
Not many people consider the fact that lava is extremely dense (being made of molten rock and all), so there's a good chance you'd simply die on impact of blunt force trauma. If you were lowered in gently (and had protective gear that could completely prevent burn injuries) you'd only sink to about knee-deep, maybe hip-deep at most before displacing your body weight in lava. Depending on the thickness of the lava, you might be able to move around a bit, but you'd almost certainly lose your balance and end up either face-down or face-up, floating on the surface and unable to sink even if you tried. You could then, in theory, swim around on the surface (though quite laboriously due to the density and viscosity of lava).
Studying geography, volcanoes were always super interesting, but because there are no volcanoes close to where I studied, I never saw one.
Definitely go on a holiday to Italy, Iceland or the Canary Isles. I will conquer a vulcano!
It would be a good time to go to Iceland with all the current eruptions 😄
Whoever edited this nailed it. The lighting cue was perfect
3 seconds in and I'm sold. Teach me things!
Obsidian is still used today in modern cutting tools. Properly treated and machined, Obsidian ended scalpels are used for extremely precise neural surgery
Shout out to whoever did the timestamp labels for this one. You can tell they had fun with it.
11:32 She forgot to mention that the last super-eruption in Yellowstone was 640k years ago, which puts a bit of a spin on 300k years on average between its super-eruptions...
So technically overdue. I figure all the geysers and such would be taking the pressure off, though, so it's not like we're gonna see it go Pele on our asses
Not every eruption is the "big one" though.
I suspect the 300k years average is a mistake. Most sources quote an average of 6 to 700,000 years
I remember staying in a little mountain village in Costa Rica near Mt. Arenal. We were packing up and getting ready to leave when we heard a little boom and felt the earth moving. I ran outside to see what was going on and some lava and ash was coming out the top of the volcano. I was surprised and a little scared at first, but then looked at the locals who didn’t even react at all but kept on with their daily tasks. They said it does that all the time. I was glad we were leaving soon.
How long ago? That volcano's been dormant for years. Before, you could see the lava flowing down the mountain and of course at night it was beyond breathtaking.
We are Indonesians, have experienced several super volcanic mega eruptions in the past... Mount Krakatau, Mount Tambora, Mount Samalas, and Mount Toba
The most recent supervolcano eruption was 25 thousand years ago, those are giant eruptions though.
It’s great they brought an expert to teach us how useful volcanoes are.
This was a GREAT guest expert! 🌋
I always love when you can tell that someone is genuinely excited about a topic they discuss! 😎
I loved it how she say in Spanish Ojos de Salado, saludos desde Latam
I especially appreciate how Wired doesn’t go find someone who is a cliche representation of someone who we would imagine would be in a specific field. It makes me love these videos even more.
my family was stuck in italy due to the eyjafjallajökull in march of 2010! had to get back to england somehow so they bussed us for 20 hours total and it was a nightmare
I have always loved geology and volcanoes in general. I think what I like most is Ms. Barclay’s presentation is so open and approachable regardless of the question she’s tackling.
SCOTLAND FOREVER
Fascinating. I love these "Support" videos and this one was particularly enlightening. Thank you.
Can't believe WIRED knew I just watched Dante's Peak for the 216th time last night.
I could listen to their accent all day, it’s incredible. One of the best “support” videos I’ve seen in a while. ❤❤
How about hurricane support lmao
Oh snap!
Already exists, search tornado chaser wired
I think they already have weather support, but hurricanes specifically might not have
Please, dont stop these videos. I love this series.
Has anyone else noticed that the picture of "Mauna Loa" is definitely NOT Mauna Loa? It's Leahi/Diamond head on Oahu.
Yup. It would be nice if they fixed that.
Amazing and kudos to Jenni for her pronunciations of all those names!
Came to learn about volcanos stayed for the accent
Jenni Barclay - brilliant! Simple, concise answers to a variety of questions about a subject very few people know much about. I learned something today!
Check out the story of a Boeing 747 back in 1983 that flew through the plume of an erupting Volcano over the Pacific at night and it shut down all 4 engines and they incredibly were able to restart all four engines and land safely. Aircraft suffered heavy damage.
British Airways Flight 9
I saw the Mayday episode of that. The ash was causing electrostatic light around the airplane, and the windshield was really hard to see through, having been sanded by the particles.
Didn't they call the blue glow St. Elmos fire?@@AnthonyDentinger
Great story that almost led to disaster. Their all engines shut down and pilots had no idea what was happening, as they had no clue about a volcanic eruption. They had to glide, trying to find an emergency airport to land, but during gliding that hot melted ash cooled down and broke to pieces and engines were able to restart again.
This is one of the funniest and most informative videos on natural disasters I've seen in a while
Jennifer Barclay is gogorgeous ❤❤❤😊
Best video on volcanoes I’ve ever seen. Thank you Jenny Barclay
12:20 My daughter is 8 and loves Minecraft. It BLEW HER MIND when I showed her a piece I have in my rock collection. I guess she didn't realize it's real. 😆
I'm impressed with your pronunciation of "Eyjafjallajökull". Not quite correct, but you said it with confidence, and you got close. 🙂
Hang on- pumice? So you're telling me my mum used to scrub her feet with volcano rock?
I mean, all rocks are volcano rocks 😂
As someone who's had Jenni in their First Year lecture's she's an absolute GEM!
I think our volcanologist friend here might be the only person that watched Disney's 2014 film "Lava", haha. It's news to me anyways.
It's just a little short film, not a full movie! It's pretty cute
Is it not wild that out of many countries. Indonesia is so freakishly geologically and vulanically active that when geologist or vulcanologist gives comprehensive explanations. Thay can let off such well known country like japan, but not a hidden gem like indonesia. ❤
She's awesome!
A little accent that makes listening all the more entrancing! Love the topic, love the presenter, and love the series!
the stab against rings of power lol
1:16 fascinating
7:52 in Australia wow 😮
10:54 good to know
I wouldn't have guessed that volcanologist is actually a word.
Theres an "ologist" for basically everything in the world
What do volcanologists do? Well, one of the things is paying attention to signs of possible future eruptions. That’s rather important when people live close to those volcanoes. I live in the Pacific Northwest roughly between Mt Hood and Mt Adams, the latter of which has seen an increase in minor earthquakes lately. That could be one sign of an incoming eruption but volcanologists looked at the info and said it most likely doesn’t mean there is about to be an eruption. Useful info and I’m glad people like that are on the job
and sadly, Trump might come after those jobs
MOTHER! tell me more about the hot rock juice
We were privileged at my primary school in Berkshire to have a very good teacher Jean Skuse who was visiting Iceland at the time Surtsey formed in the late 1960s. She took and showed us a cine film of Surtsey and was able to explain to us how Iceland itself was formed in the same way but on a bigger scale.
Dear video editor, Jenni Barclay is right about Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea but you've shown us an image of DIAMOND HEAD, not even on the same island smh
Yeah, why haven't they fixed that?
She's fascinating. Such a wonderful Question round! Thank you Dr. Barclay
I'm at a juncture in life where I am studying an environmental science degree and getting close to having to choose my field of study - I'm currently torn between ecology and geology and this video isn't helping because volcanoes are so interesting and cool >_
hi, envisci student here! :D
This woman is such a great teacher! I want a part 2.
5:03 guys, is this real? Not photoshopped?
7:02 @katy_nickleson1 asks, "Where is the biggest volcano???" Well Katy, the biggest that we know of is called Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars. Standing about 22.5 km high, and 600 km wide, it is far bigger in every dimension than Mount Everest, and is big enough to hold all of the Hawaiian islands inside of it.
Imo, it's kinda wild how much better this was than the episode with Bill Nye about volcanoes. Bill just seemed dead in his enthusiasm. This woman seems wayyyy more passionate.
Wow, that explanation about Earth being, in the beginning, a ball of magma reminds me of Japanese mythology about the world's creation. Perhaps they were, even then, onto something 🤔
I think in Finnish mythology Earth was an egg.
Great answers by an enthusiastic volcanologist!
My friend Peter recently got this expensive volcano insurance. Your opinion? Would you recommend?
It would depend on where your friend lives and if there are any threats at all for an eruption. I live in Oregon where the active stratovolcano Mt Hood, is and I've been impacted by Mt. Saint Helens when it blew. But I don't think I need Volcano insurance. If Peter lives in the vicinity or path of some Hawaiian volcanoes, it might make sense to have some insurance. I bt it's pretty darn expensive though.
Another piece of great content. I could listen to this lady talk rocks and volcanos all d@mn day. more please!