The Chat Thread

[comet]

Hi Martin,
after I wrote my last post I decided to try the same scanner on a different computer.

the result on an older Dell was quite surprising, The software is SilverFast

The Dell is an Intel Core i7-7500 7th generation 2.7GHz with 16GB of RAM One 35mm negative in 4:30 seconds
The Toshiba an Intel Core i7-8850 8th generation 1.8GHz with 16GB of RAM One 35mm negative in 8:42 seconds

I assumed the 8th generation would perform better, but maybe the difference is in the processor speeds.
the difference between the 1.8GHz and the 2.7GHz. But the time difference is much more than I expected.

Good luck Martin and Dave with your respective projects.

[comet]

I wish you luck, you may learn something on the first roll that will let you save the other fourteen.

Yes I agree some of the people who developed film in the past were often very careless or downright reckless with the negatives, funny you mention it, I remember Grant telling me years ago that he got his film developed with a company in Kerry in Ireland because he trusted them.

[martindn]

So what wildly unlikely happening will we experience in 2021 (I think 2020 is a write off). Plague of locusts, massive volcanic eruptions, asteroid striking the earth, new Hayley album? Only time will tell.

[comet]

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

[Libby]

May 1, 2020 19:21:27 GMT comet said:

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

... But all the other things Martian, I mean Martin, mentioned have a better likelihood, of course.

In my neck of the woods, I think another eruption from Mt. St. Helens is more likely than one from Mt. Rainier, which hasn't erupted in 126 years. It's just had way more volcanic activity there in the last 40+ years in general. Oh, for anyone who didn't know, Mt. St. Helens is about to "celebrate" it's 40 year anniversary of it's big eruption... although that isn't the last time it erupted! After the major eruption in 1980, it had several more small ones through 1986, which created a lava dome. It also had another smaller eruption in July 2008 (I don't even remember it, though! LOL).

Regarding Mt. Rainier, however, a google search pulled up this:

Is Mount Rainier going to erupt?
The volcano is behaving about as it has over the last half-million years, so all evidence suggests that Mount Rainier will continue to erupt, grow, and collapse.

That really narrows it down!!

Mt. Hood in Oregon (which is fairly close to Mt. St. Helens) erupted more recently than Rainier, in 1907. Mt. Adams hasn't erupted since 550 BC!!

But anyway, it's not like these eruptions come with no warning whatsoever. They are usually preceded by a lot of seismic activity at the mountains themselves that warn of imminent danger. Here's what happened leading up to the big eruption:

The first sign of activity at Mount St. Helens in the spring of 1980 was a series of small earthquakes that began on March 16. After hundreds of additional earthquakes, steam explosions on March 27 blasted a crater through the volcano's summit ice cap. Within a week the crater had grown to about 1,300 feet in diameter and two giant crack systems crossed the entire summit area. By May 17, more than 10,000 earthquakes had shaken the volcano and the north flank had grown outward at least 450 feet to form a noticeable bulge. Such dramatic deformation of the volcano was strong evidence that molten rock (magma) had risen high into the volcano.

Within 15 to 20 seconds of a magnitude 5.1 earthquake at 8:32 a.m.(May 18), the volcano's bulge and summit slid away in a huge landslide - the largest on Earth in recorded history.

More details on the eruption here: pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2000/fs036-00/

We can gauge the likelihood of volcanoes and asteroids, because there is scientific data out there. There is no data on Hayley's album, so we haven't the slightest clue on that.

[martindn]

Yes, I think Hayley's next album is a bit like Mount Rainier. We keep seeing signs that it might happen, but it never does!

[Libby]

Yes, except the difference between them is that, while we all very much want Hayley's album, we don't ever want Mt. Rainier to erupt! It would ruin Seattle's skyline... possibly literally, but at the very least, it would take away the beautiful view we currently have from Seattle (it can be seen all over, even very distantly from Oregon).
Of course, I have never seen Mt. St. Helens before it was destroyed, except in pictures.

Here are some now; I decided to add the eruption itself and comparison photos, as well (sorry if some are too big, I never remember how to re-size):




Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Rainier in the not too far distance:










But now we have beautiful scenes like these... I have photos of this spot, myself (but this isn't mine):

[martindn]

Those are superb photos Libby.

[gothemtry66]

I wonder if Hayley will be doing a concert next year.

[Joe]

May 3, 2020 23:57:49 GMT gothemtry66 said:

I wonder if Hayley will be doing a concert next year.

Hello!  It has been two and a half years since Hayley’s last public concert, so I think it one is long overdue!  

Hayley discussion in this thread is off-topic actually 

Thanks Libby for the pics!  I was only seven when Mt. St. Helens erupted,  but I do remember my teacher talking about it. 

[Dave]

May 5, 2020 3:10:37 GMT Joe said:

Hayley discussion in this thread is off-topic actually 

May 5, 2020 3:10:37 GMT Joe said:

Thanks Libby for the pics!  I was only seven when Mt. St. Helens erupted,  but I do remember my teacher talking about it. 

Me too, I remember it well, I was in my 30s!

I was concerned at first that the eruption might cause a kind of nuclear winter, as has happened in past millennia!

Great photos Libby, don't get too close if you are hoping to get some photos yourself of the next one!

[Libby]

Who knows, if I do get pictures, and I survive, I can sell them to the Smithsonian. 😂 There are some photos that a college student took right before, and as, he sped away in his truck, which the Smithsonian Institute shows. They even made up a little video with an actor portraying the student’s experience. Apparently he was camping there at the time. His photos were of the initial explosion, I think.

[crissyt]

In about 2011 or 2012, Hayley was centre stage at the UK's Festival of Remembrance in the Albert Hall in London singing "We'll Meet Again" with the famous wartime film of Vera Lynn singing it on a big screen and the real life Vera in the audience (she's still with us aged 103!).

Hayley sang beautifully and it was very moving.

For today's 75th anniversary of VE day celebrations, it was sung again, and Katherine Jenkins got the job of leading numerous groups of singers.

Yes, I know we're all locked down, but KJ was performing at the front of Buckingham palace. She doesn't live there.

What a pity Hayley didn't do it.

[Joe]

May 8, 2020 23:38:50 GMT crissyt said:

In about 2011 or 2012, Hayley was centre stage at the UK's Festival of Remembrance in the Albert Hall in London singing "We'll Meet Again" with the famous wartime film of Vera Lynn singing it on a big screen and the real life Vera in the audience (she's still with us aged 103!).

Hayley sang beautifully and it was very moving.

For today's 75th anniversary of VE day celebrations, it was sung again, and Katherine Jenkins got the job of leading numerous groups of singers.

Yes, I know we're all locked down, but KJ was performing at the front of Buckingham palace. She doesn't live there.

What a pity Hayley didn't do it.

Hello 

I will have to check, but I think the year was 2009.  

Also, this is the chat thread...and as I said a few posts above, Hayley is actually off-topic in this thread! 

[crissyt]

Oops! Sorry. I'm not very good at Forum etiquette. I thought it would be a good place to post it.