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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

City This Is Our Place on Earth

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM

The volcano and the city. The image is perfect.

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Beautiful. I love the juxtaposition with Rainier. It makes the city look delicate and vulnerable.

Posted by Vince on January 31, 2012 at 1:59 PM

Couldn't be beautifull-ler.

Posted by MLM on January 31, 2012 at 2:02 PM

I don't like being made to feel small in the universe. Take this down immediately.

Posted by MacCrocodile on January 31, 2012 at 2:04 PM

@3: Lolz.

This is a great photo. This gives a bit more emphasis to that feature article from several years back (in response to the 2004 Sumatra tsunami, I think), asking exactly how fucked Seattle would be if Mt Rainier blew its top. I think Frizzelle ate a squirrel as part of his research.

Posted by Knat on January 31, 2012 at 2:16 PM

@4,

I thought that was Kiley.

Posted by keshmeshi on January 31, 2012 at 2:21 PM

@5: (*Shrug*) It's been too long for me to remember.

Posted by Knat on January 31, 2012 at 2:27 PM

Charles,
Excellent photograph. It's as though Mt. Rainier is a sentinel standing guard over her prized metropolis.

Posted by lark on January 31, 2012 at 3:01 PM

here is the actual photo on flickr ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thatcherkel…

Posted by Gordon Werner on January 31, 2012 at 3:03 PM

@8 Thanks!

Gorgeous photo.

Posted by Zebes

on January 31, 2012 at 3:23 PM

St Helens is even visible. Word.

Posted by Geraldo Riviera on January 31, 2012 at 3:33 PM

GMA anyone?

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on January 31, 2012 at 3:50 PM

@4, 6, the only person on Slog to believe a Rainier eruption would bother the city much is Will in Seattle, who predicts (contradicting every scientific prediction ever) that it would instantly bury the city in what he calls "hot molten mud and scurf".

Posted by gloomy gus on January 31, 2012 at 3:53 PM