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Hope it is not 2020 v.3 :)

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Not exactly looking forward to it, but I do hope things will get better. :o

Best wishes to everybody here on TankNet!

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2021 was an ass, may 2022 be less than such.....

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7 hours ago, Nikolas93TS said:

Happy New Year, let's hope it will be better than 2021! 🍾

It was better than 1917

1919, (that 'other' flu')

1940

etc etc etc

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A few verses for the beginning of 2022.

Ecclesiastes 5:5 “It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.”

Isaiah 43:18-19 " 18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.
 

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5 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Mmmmm.  Soylent Green.

Also available: Girl Scout cookies.  Made with real Girl Scouts!

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8 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

 

Harry Harrison's book, on which the movie was very loosely based: 'Make Room, Make Room'; was so much better than the movie.

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6 hours ago, DougRichards said:

Harry Harrison's book, on which the movie was very loosely based: 'Make Room, Make Room'; was so much better than the movie.

For a look at the opposite, a movie first then a book, there is the great movie "How the West was Won." This was followed the next year by Louis L'Amour's book of the same title. Both are superb. 

  • 2 weeks later...
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2022 starting off with a bang;

https://www.axios.com/tsunami-waves-hit-tonga-volcanic-eruption-8f88a5e3-bb67-4b23-93c2-3d2abc51d20b.html

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An undersea volcanic eruption near the Pacific nation of Tonga triggered a tsunami warning across the islands and for some parts of Japan on Saturday, AP reports.

 

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State of play: The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano first erupted Friday, sending a plume of ash 12.4 miles into the air, Radio New Zealand reports.

  • There was a second eruption on Saturday at 5:26 p.m. local time, per RNZ.
  • It is the latest in a series of eruptions of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano, which is about 40 miles north of the capital.
  • Tonga's King Tupou VI was evacuated from the Royal Palace after the tsunami flooded the capital Nuku'alofa, per RNZ.

 

 

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More pictures: https://matangitonga.to/2022/01/15/tongan-geologists-stunning-Jan14eruptions

This one has a certain nuclear mushroom vibe:

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Edit to add:

This has the potential to be the beginning of a series of large eruptions, according to this:

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It remains unclear if this is the climax of the eruption. It represents a major magma pressure release, which may settle the system.

A warning, however, lies in geological deposits from the volcano’s previous eruptions. These complex sequences show each of the 1000-year major caldera eruption episodes involved many separate explosion events.

Hence we could be in for several weeks or even years of major volcanic unrest from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano. For the sake of the people of Tonga I hope not.

 

 

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If the international aid its carried out without transmitting corona into the little island, then the effort gets an A.

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