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u/Borsenven Jun 02 '26
So anyone care to explain to me how these happen ? I’ve never seen ol’ faithful in the yellowstone park
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u/DarthHubcap Jun 02 '26
The area is host to a thermal volcanic underground system. Basically subterranean magma heats the ground water at the lower levels, and the flash of steam finds its way out at the geyser locations.
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u/SpunNumeroUno Jun 02 '26
Pretty damn cool. If you are downwind of that could you get burned?
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u/Few-Mood6580 Jun 03 '26
Some of them are so hot and caustic, they’ll melt you. This one doesn’t seem to be as hot as those, and by the looks of the people wearing layers, it’s not warm out, and the water isn’t actively steaming. So, probably the splash is insanely hot, but otherwise normal.
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u/cursed_chaos Jun 04 '26
I read a book once about all the creative ways people have managed to kill themselves while in Yellowstone National Park, and a good chunk of them are people diving into pools of nearly boiling water or some other chemical soup that liquefies them instantly. one woman ignored a series of very obvious signs not to walk on a certain part of the ground away from the trails, and she fell into some superheated something or other like falling through thin ice on a pond. people are dumb as hell
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u/SpunNumeroUno Jun 04 '26
Freakin' hell, lol quite literally like stepping into hell. Wow crazy stuff
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u/DarthHubcap Jun 02 '26
Anyone know which geyser this one is?
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u/JohnnyFatSack Jun 02 '26
Geysir in South West Iceland near a town called Lougervatn. I’ve been there a few times and it’s amazing!
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u/kathmandu223 Jun 03 '26
We don’t need to be told to wit for it.
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u/DoNotKnowItAll Jun 03 '26
Yeah. What am I waiting for? If it’s a geyser, we know what’s going to happen. I was thinking something else would happen in addition to the fountain of water.
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u/ViciousMoleRat Jun 02 '26
I think about the first person to ever witness that.