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This is your News You do not Need podcast.
If you’re tuning into this podcast with the hope of gaining some profound wisdom or essential life advice, let me assure you—you’re about to embark on the opposite journey. Today’s story is one hundred percent in the “You don’t need to know this, but now you will” category, and it’s delightfully bizarre. Pull up your favorite chair and let’s get weird.
On this fine November day, perhaps while you were sensibly ignoring the news in favor of doing literally anything else, a seismic panic took over the internet about Mount Rainier, that snowy show-off on Washington’s horizon. For several days, seismic sensors near Rainier started sending out signals that looked, to the untrained and slightly excitable eye, a lot like volcanic tremor. Yes, tremor—the ominous signature that suggests magma, gas, and other volcano-y nonsense are on the move, and disaster is imminent. For 72 hours, the public display was essentially a solid black line: continuous, relentless, like your uncle at Thanksgiving refusing to abandon his theory about the moon landing.
Chaos ensued. Social media turned into a battleground of self-proclaimed volcano experts who mostly just watched Dante’s Peak once and consider Dr. Pierce Brosnan a scientific authority. Headlines screeched “America’s deadliest volcano enters unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase!” and gave everyone in the Pacific Northwest about five gray hairs each. There were theories about eruption, evacuation plans, and some guy who swore his dog was acting weird because of the 'volcano vibes.' For a solid portion of yesterday, calling your friend in Tacoma was basically guaranteeing the conversation would turn to lahar safety and the purchase of inflatable rafts.
But now, allow me to ruin the fun—because this is not an episode of Death By Volcano, it's more “Death By Faulty Wiring.” According to actual scientists, the experts at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, the reason Rainier looked ready to toast the West Coast was due to—you guessed it—a malfunctioning instrument. That’s right: the volcano was as serene as ever, but the St. Andrews Rock seismograph went rogue, spitting out data that had all the accuracy of a weather forecast from your local psychic.
No magma movement. No catastrophic eruption. Just a piece of technology with a flair for melodrama. By Monday, geologists stepped in and said “Everyone calm down, the mountain isn’t about to blow; the only explosion here is in your group chat.” The solid black stripe was just machine noise, but hey, for 72 hours, it gave us all something to fret about besides inflation and our dwindling supply of pumpkin spice.
Is there a lesson here? Sure—sometimes the most earth-shattering news is just a glorified technical glitch. But for a brief, shining period, Mount Rainier nearly became the Jennifer Lawrence of volcanoes, the unpredictable star of every urgent tweet and impromptu apocalypse fantasy.
So next time you see “Unprecedented tremor phase!” trending, remember: you don’t need to know it, you can’t un-know it, and you might just end up buying an inflatable raft for no reason other than pure internet speculation. As far as useless trivia goes, that’s the kind of detail that will never save your life but may win you a very peculiar bar bet.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
If you’re tuning into this podcast with the hope of gaining some profound wisdom or essential life advice, let me assure you—you’re about to embark on the opposite journey. Today’s story is one hundred percent in the “You don’t need to know this, but now you will” category, and it’s delightfully bizarre. Pull up your favorite chair and let’s get weird.
On this fine November day, perhaps while you were sensibly ignoring the news in favor of doing literally anything else, a seismic panic took over the internet about Mount Rainier, that snowy show-off on Washington’s horizon. For several days, seismic sensors near Rainier started sending out signals that looked, to the untrained and slightly excitable eye, a lot like volcanic tremor. Yes, tremor—the ominous signature that suggests magma, gas, and other volcano-y nonsense are on the move, and disaster is imminent. For 72 hours, the public display was essentially a solid black line: continuous, relentless, like your uncle at Thanksgiving refusing to abandon his theory about the moon landing.
Chaos ensued. Social media turned into a battleground of self-proclaimed volcano experts who mostly just watched Dante’s Peak once and consider Dr. Pierce Brosnan a scientific authority. Headlines screeched “America’s deadliest volcano enters unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase!” and gave everyone in the Pacific Northwest about five gray hairs each. There were theories about eruption, evacuation plans, and some guy who swore his dog was acting weird because of the 'volcano vibes.' For a solid portion of yesterday, calling your friend in Tacoma was basically guaranteeing the conversation would turn to lahar safety and the purchase of inflatable rafts.
But now, allow me to ruin the fun—because this is not an episode of Death By Volcano, it's more “Death By Faulty Wiring.” According to actual scientists, the experts at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, the reason Rainier looked ready to toast the West Coast was due to—you guessed it—a malfunctioning instrument. That’s right: the volcano was as serene as ever, but the St. Andrews Rock seismograph went rogue, spitting out data that had all the accuracy of a weather forecast from your local psychic.
No magma movement. No catastrophic eruption. Just a piece of technology with a flair for melodrama. By Monday, geologists stepped in and said “Everyone calm down, the mountain isn’t about to blow; the only explosion here is in your group chat.” The solid black stripe was just machine noise, but hey, for 72 hours, it gave us all something to fret about besides inflation and our dwindling supply of pumpkin spice.
Is there a lesson here? Sure—sometimes the most earth-shattering news is just a glorified technical glitch. But for a brief, shining period, Mount Rainier nearly became the Jennifer Lawrence of volcanoes, the unpredictable star of every urgent tweet and impromptu apocalypse fantasy.
So next time you see “Unprecedented tremor phase!” trending, remember: you don’t need to know it, you can’t un-know it, and you might just end up buying an inflatable raft for no reason other than pure internet speculation. As far as useless trivia goes, that’s the kind of detail that will never save your life but may win you a very peculiar bar bet.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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If you’re tuning into this podcast with the hope of gaining some profound wisdom or essential life advice, let me assure you—you’re about to embark on the opposite journey. Today’s story is one hundred percent in the “You don’t need to know this, but now you will” category, and it’s delightfully bizarre. Pull up your favorite chair and let’s get weird.
On this fine November day, perhaps while you were sensibly ignoring the news in favor of doing literally anything else, a seismic panic took over the internet about Mount Rainier, that snowy show-off on Washington’s horizon. For several days, seismic sensors near Rainier started sending out signals that looked, to the untrained and slightly excitable eye, a lot like volcanic tremor. Yes, tremor—the ominous signature that suggests magma, gas, and other volcano-y nonsense are on the move, and disaster is imminent. For 72 hours, the public display was essentially a solid black line: continuous, relentless, like your uncle at Thanksgiving refusing to abandon his theory about the moon landing.
Chaos ensued. Social media turned into a battleground of self-proclaimed volcano experts who mostly just watched Dante’s Peak once and consider Dr. Pierce Brosnan a scientific authority. Headlines screeched “America’s deadliest volcano enters unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase!” and gave everyone in the Pacific Northwest about five gray hairs each. There were theories about eruption, evacuation plans, and some guy who swore his dog was acting weird because of the 'volcano vibes.' For a solid portion of yesterday, calling your friend in Tacoma was basically guaranteeing the conversation would turn to lahar safety and the purchase of inflatable rafts.
But now, allow me to ruin the fun—because this is not an episode of Death By Volcano, it's more “Death By Faulty Wiring.” According to actual scientists, the experts at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, the reason Rainier looked ready to toast the West Coast was due to—you guessed it—a malfunctioning instrument. That’s right: the volcano was as serene as ever, but the St. Andrews Rock seismograph went rogue, spitting out data that had all the accuracy of a weather forecast from your local psychic.
No magma movement. No catastrophic eruption. Just a piece of technology with a flair for melodrama. By Monday, geologists stepped in and said “Everyone calm down, the mountain isn’t about to blow; the only explosion here is in your group chat.” The solid black stripe was just machine noise, but hey, for 72 hours, it gave us all something to fret about besides inflation and our dwindling supply of pumpkin spice.
Is there a lesson here? Sure—sometimes the most earth-shattering news is just a glorified technical glitch. But for a brief, shining period, Mount Rainier nearly became the Jennifer Lawrence of volcanoes, the unpredictable star of every urgent tweet and impromptu apocalypse fantasy.
So next time you see “Unprecedented tremor phase!” trending, remember: you don’t need to know it, you can’t un-know it, and you might just end up buying an inflatable raft for no reason other than pure internet speculation. As far as useless trivia goes, that’s the kind of detail that will never save your life but may win you a very peculiar bar bet.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
If you’re tuning into this podcast with the hope of gaining some profound wisdom or essential life advice, let me assure you—you’re about to embark on the opposite journey. Today’s story is one hundred percent in the “You don’t need to know this, but now you will” category, and it’s delightfully bizarre. Pull up your favorite chair and let’s get weird.
On this fine November day, perhaps while you were sensibly ignoring the news in favor of doing literally anything else, a seismic panic took over the internet about Mount Rainier, that snowy show-off on Washington’s horizon. For several days, seismic sensors near Rainier started sending out signals that looked, to the untrained and slightly excitable eye, a lot like volcanic tremor. Yes, tremor—the ominous signature that suggests magma, gas, and other volcano-y nonsense are on the move, and disaster is imminent. For 72 hours, the public display was essentially a solid black line: continuous, relentless, like your uncle at Thanksgiving refusing to abandon his theory about the moon landing.
Chaos ensued. Social media turned into a battleground of self-proclaimed volcano experts who mostly just watched Dante’s Peak once and consider Dr. Pierce Brosnan a scientific authority. Headlines screeched “America’s deadliest volcano enters unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase!” and gave everyone in the Pacific Northwest about five gray hairs each. There were theories about eruption, evacuation plans, and some guy who swore his dog was acting weird because of the 'volcano vibes.' For a solid portion of yesterday, calling your friend in Tacoma was basically guaranteeing the conversation would turn to lahar safety and the purchase of inflatable rafts.
But now, allow me to ruin the fun—because this is not an episode of Death By Volcano, it's more “Death By Faulty Wiring.” According to actual scientists, the experts at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, the reason Rainier looked ready to toast the West Coast was due to—you guessed it—a malfunctioning instrument. That’s right: the volcano was as serene as ever, but the St. Andrews Rock seismograph went rogue, spitting out data that had all the accuracy of a weather forecast from your local psychic.
No magma movement. No catastrophic eruption. Just a piece of technology with a flair for melodrama. By Monday, geologists stepped in and said “Everyone calm down, the mountain isn’t about to blow; the only explosion here is in your group chat.” The solid black stripe was just machine noise, but hey, for 72 hours, it gave us all something to fret about besides inflation and our dwindling supply of pumpkin spice.
Is there a lesson here? Sure—sometimes the most earth-shattering news is just a glorified technical glitch. But for a brief, shining period, Mount Rainier nearly became the Jennifer Lawrence of volcanoes, the unpredictable star of every urgent tweet and impromptu apocalypse fantasy.
So next time you see “Unprecedented tremor phase!” trending, remember: you don’t need to know it, you can’t un-know it, and you might just end up buying an inflatable raft for no reason other than pure internet speculation. As far as useless trivia goes, that’s the kind of detail that will never save your life but may win you a very peculiar bar bet.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI