Of course we all know this already, but it has been brought home yet again with authority in the recent (and I believe still) eruptions of Eyja (for island), Fjalla (for mountain), and Jökull (for glacier).
I generally like to write my own stuff but I read an interesting little article by Christopher Hitchens which I'd like to share.
I've been hearing the term VAV being thrown around recently on BBC Radio 1 - a VAV being a Vocanic Ash Victim! well, there you go.
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Unweaving the Rainbow, by Richard Dawkins
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
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