[pianotech] New experiences

[Ron Nossaman]

On 11/6/2011 3:23 PM, Paul T Williams wrote:
> Sure, Ron,
>
> That is the biggest caldera in the world!!

I know, continuously active for at least a couple of million years, and 
moving relative to the surface as the North American plate slides over a 
hot spot in the mantle.


>Very few folks know.... (I
> was a geology undeclaired minor in college).

I read and think. Being paroled from school has proven to be by far the 
most dramatic and long running educational improvement of my life. 
School probably set me back at least ten years, not counting early 
installed false premises and outright lies that I'm still uncovering 
after all these years. I wish I could have escaped sooner.


>If it blows, we're all done!

Unavoidably, which casts an interesting filter on my childhood memories 
of visiting Yellowstone and watching the tourists, including us, 
cavorting among the bomb only peripherally aware, in some cases, that we 
were wandering around in an active volcano.


>Who knows that the big Island is HI is also a huge
> volcano and the tallest mountain in the world???

I read, and I know this one too.
Ron N