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Bagana A rarely visited active volcano in Papua New Guinea. volcanolive.com/bagana.html

Nyamuragira Volcano Democratic Republic of Congo. The most active volcano in the world in 2026. volcanolive.com/nyamuragira.…

This is how OpenAI treats customers on the $200-per-month plan. "Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model"

Rubin Observatory was built to observe and discover objects far away, but discovered a new dwarf planet in our Solar System.

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What’s Inside a Black Hole’s Event Horizon? We still don’t know. 🤔 Possibilities include: • a true singularity ⚠️ • a firewall 🔥 • a fuzzball 🌀 • a regular (non-singular) core 🪐 — or something else entirely 🌌 All are largely untestable: the event horizon hides the interior from observation. 👀🚫

🌍 The Longest Mountain Range on Earth Is Almost Entirely Underwater 🏔️🌊 The global mid-ocean ridge system is the longest continuous mountain range on the planet, stretching roughly 65,000–80,000 km — more than four times the length of the Andes. 📏 More than 90% of it lies deep beneath the ocean, with the crests typically around 2,500 metres below the surface. 🌊 Only in a few places, such as Iceland, does it rise above sea level. This is a global chain of underwater volcanoes that wraps around Earth like the seams on a baseball. 🌎 It forms where tectonic plates pull apart at divergent boundaries. Magma rises from the mantle, erupts onto the seafloor, and creates new oceanic crust through seafloor spreading. 🌋 Most of Earth’s volcanic activity happens here. Around 75–80% of the planet’s total magma output comes from these ridges — far more than all land volcanoes combined. 🔥 In places the ridge is relatively shallow; in others, such as the Cayman Trough, it drops more than 4,000 metres. 🔍 Hydrothermal vents along the ridges support unique ecosystems that thrive in complete darkness, powered by chemical energy rather than sunlight. 🔬 Meanwhile, the constant creation of new crust means the ocean floor is continuously being renewed and the planet’s surface is slowly reshaped. 🌐 The biggest geological feature on Earth is one most of us never see. The mid-ocean ridges quietly dominate global volcanism and seafloor formation. ✨

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🌋 AMBRYM ALERT: MINOR ERUPTION UNDERWAY 🔥⚠️ Ambrym Volcano in Vanuatu has escalated from major unrest to a minor eruption, with the Volcano Alert Level raised from Level 2 to Level 3. 📈 Activity has been building since 19 September 2026 and remains confined to the Benbow and Marum craters. 🌋 Seismic activity is elevated, consistent with ongoing magma and fluid movement in the shallow system. Sulphur dioxide emissions have stayed moderate to high since mid-September, while thermal monitoring shows persistent moderate to very high anomalies inside Marum Crater — clear signs of shallow magma and active lava flow. 🔥 Ground observations on 2 October 2026 confirmed ashfall, gas emissions, and a visible volcanic glow at the summit at night. ✨ Ambrym is a long-active volcano in Vanuatu that had remained at Alert Level 2 since January 2024. Its typical style is effusive, with past lava lakes in both Benbow and Marum (drained since 2018) and occasional magma flows. History also includes fissure and flank eruptions around the summit that can pose sudden threats. 💥 Recommendation from Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-hazards Department: 🚫 DO NOT ENTER Danger Zone B 🚫 • ~2 km radius around Benbow Crater • ~2.5 km radius around Marum Crater (including Mbwelesu, Niri-Mbwelesu and Mbwelesu) • ~1.5 km around the 2018 fissure zone These areas face risks from projectiles, ash, gas, and possible lava flows at any time. Ashfall and acid rain can affect the summit and nearby villages downwind when plumes rise high. Major fissures near the craters may also collapse without warning. ⚠️ Tourism operators, local authorities, residents of Ambrym, and visitors: stay well clear of the expanded hazard zones. Monitor official updates and follow local guidance. 🛡️ ambrym.com volcanolive.com/ambrym.html

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Eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD according to AI.

😱 Shocked Gemini 4 test run — TOTAL FAILURE 💥 Just tested Gemini 4 🤖… it was mid-way through a long, detailed response ✍️ when the entire chat VANISHED 💨. One second it was generating… the next the whole conversation was GONE 🚫. Nothing saved 🗑️. No recovery 🔄. No history 📜. Just… gone. After all that compute 💻 and a lengthy reply that looked useful 💡… it evaporated mid-stream 👻. Complete fail ❌.

🚀 Google’s BACK in the AI race: Gemini 4 Argon initial consensus 🔥 Argon is widely seen as the model that puts Google firmly back among the top frontier labs. 💪 It shines hardest at complex knowledge work, long-horizon/agentic tasks, rock-solid reliability (lowest hallucination rates), cybersecurity defense, and powering Google’s own product ecosystem. 📚🧠🛡️ Coding is competitive and capable — strong on many real-world SWE and agent benches — but mixed rather than dominant. It doesn’t dethrone the pure coding leaders. 💻⚖️ The biggest early complaint? Access, not ability. For the first two weeks almost nobody outside Fairwind cyber partners could actually try it, sparking “Google can’t release a model” jokes across HN and X. 😤🔒 After the wider rollout on 13 October, hands-on impressions have been generally positive for its intended use cases. Users like its depth, low shortcut-taking, and usefulness on hard multi-step work — while still noting it’s not a universal “best model” that wins every category. 📈✨ In short: a strong, specialized frontier contender that restores Google’s seat near the top table. 🏆