Tuesday, April 20, 2010
As Eyjafjallajokull percolates along I find myself musing about various ScFi scenarios. The last time it erupted it kept erupting for two years-- would that mean the end of air travel to and in Europe for the duration? Of course Europe isn't cut off-- we are able to communicate, just not travel. Will we see a renaissance in ship travel? If I were a cruise line I'd be doing some focus groups right now. What do the supermarkets look like, with no fresh produce from the south? Apparently several NATO F-16 fighters suffered engine damage after flying through the ash cloud-- what are the security aspects of that kind of thing, long term? If this keeps on would the economy of Europe shift to the south and the east?
It would be interesting to be somewhere to see what is happening, but maybe not Iceland. I've always wanted to see it-- who hasn't? Shaped like a duck, out there in the middle of the North Atlantic, they've been having a rough time of it lately. Who'd have thought that the duck-shaped island where Bjork comes from could wreck so much havoc on the European economy? What next, dragons?
I'm not really getting the sense that this is the most photogenic event: what I'm seeing mostly are satellite pix or pictures of people sitting around in airports. What does the sky look like?
// posted by Bill @ 8:10 AM 
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