A high risk to a smallish population means a high premium. Insurance is a business, so they have to earn more in premiums than they pay out.

Question for anybody who can answer it. How long, after these eruptions have cooled, does it take for the ground to break up enough that plant life and trees can return to the area? And are there usable hot springs?

Why did the county allow and provide roads utility service to develop Lailani Estates when there's enough living memory of the destruction of Kapoho in 1960-61? Why housing was permitted AGAIN in a KNOWN ACTIVE rift zone needs to be asked.

That is NOT the only place to live on the Big Island. Certainly NOT in a KNOWN VOLCANIC AREA. Not. Real. Smart.

Almost immediately, especially if there is still some vegetation nearby. The lava surfaces are fragile and contain lots of cracks from the get-go -- good places for stuff to take root. That said, the process is much faster where there is more rainfall. The 200 year old Hualalai flows are still pretty stark. After 200 years on the other side of the island you'd probably be hard-pressed to find any rock still exposed, outside of stream cuts and so on. I know there's at least one hot spring along the coast in Puna.

The museum has the boots and other gear from a scientist who discovered the floor really was lava. Don’t worry, he escaped.

Another very good reason not to wear sandals :D

+Scott Manley Good for him

thank you, I stand corrected.

The ending was the best part.

Agreed, Skye's singing was great. :)

SeaMonkey *Skye*

Agreed. Gave me chills actually.

Alex Landherr thank you for this comment!

Is this supposed to be sexist? :D

+KatouMegumi_osu Does that even matter? :D ( Do you even know what the definition of sexist is? xD _you probably don't because your comment makes no sense._ )

KatouMegumi_osu Sexual* And yes it is

@@KatouMegumiosu How dare you make fun of things and talking about sutff and trying to sell things and I have an item its an item well I have two items one item is a little older do you want the item?

Not just any science nerd, an astronomer!

I thought Scott was a software developer with a strong interest in science.

Here you go! www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/6qdnqj/is_scott_manley_an_actual_astronomer/

I thought the same. Orion sounds slightly odd name for a person but it sounds much better than Uranus.

Yeah, or Brown Dwarf.

Kiddo's growing up.

yeah, wow. Skye was marvelous!

Surprised she didn't sing "I can't help falling in lava with you".

I, too, was impressed with her voice.

I agree! Just as with " You Will Not Go to Space Today" I'm getting a SERIOUS Ingrid Michaelson vibe from Skye's performances. (This is a good thing.)

I want to see that unicorn.

Mafic-Ultramafic volcanoes don't explode

Krakatoa in 1883 wasn't an explosion - just a rapid unscheduled disassembly :)

Wait... you mean they dont?...

+Stefan Buchholtz Like the Chieftain would say: "A significant emotional event" Now "Oh my god, the tank is on fire!"

Thanks, I just wish I could confidently go into more detail about this, it'd a giant mountain sized pile of knowledge I'd love to dig into one day.

Geology is quite a fascinating study. Understanding the earth I walk on is kind of crucial for finding interesting gemstones. But I think that astrophysicists might have some useful knowledge in relation to geology since they understand nuclear energy, planetary dynamo cores, planetary formations and such. I mean, they figured out that the moon came from the earth. But there are crossovers in all fields where two sides can benefit one another by looking at the same issue through different analytical lenses. Biology majors... probably not so much. I know even Dawkins has the respect not to lecture about subjects that are far out of his major, and that's what made him useful when together with Krauss, Tyson, and Bill Nye... accept bill nye got way to big for his britches and overstepped his profession in order to preach a rather creepy narrative... I still don't know what to make of that. But I digress. I think when great minds in different fields all come together and share views, the knowledge gained can be greater than the sum of its parts. Scott is definitely a great aggregator of knowledge from many fields. A jack of many trades in his own right.

Nukes Away Clearly English isn't your strong suit, because geology is defined as "the *science* that deals with the earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it." Please crawl back to the episode of "big bang theory" that you came out of. Nobody cares about your opinion on a subject you clearly understand nothing about. You shouldn't call an academic study a hobby unless you're trying to be funny. Geo: dealing with the earth Ology: a subject of study or branch of knowledge A simple breakdown of the word will tell you exactly what it means. People with any background in the sciences would know this since you really can't be in one of these fields without understanding what a latin prefix and suffix is and you have no excuse for your lack of education on the matter.

Sad is acting like an idiot to garner attention from the public. But I'll leave it there since it's clear that you're just trolling at this point and not actually interested in making an intellectual argument to support your assertion. I love you basement dwelling shitposters, you make for fascinating subjects of study.

Nukes Away Now you've taken your assinine assumptions to a whole new level. I grew up on astrophysics through my local astronomical society, I was in a bill gates funded middleschool for the sciences where I took part in the search for exoplanets by recording the spectroscopy readings from a radio telescope to gather information on its chemical makeup and star wobble to indicate a jovian planet in orbit. I love every scientific pursuit. I loath none of the practices because they are all valid fields of research which advance our knowledge past what it is now. I love Scotts videos, he does an amazing service to this world by making science accessible to the masses by helping them to understand certain aspects of astrophysics. I'm not a geologist, you are just guessing and taking stabs in the dark at this point, and so far you have yet to provide a demonstrably sound argument. You don't even know what I do for a living. I'm so sorry to hear that you are not trolling, because so far you have been so absurdly asinine that I honestly thought "there's no way he can be serious". So what, then? Are you just a child? You presume I loath any non geology based science because I recognize geology as a science: you are wrong You presume I majored in geology: you are wrong. You think I have harshly judged Scott Manly by daring to acknowledge geology as a science: holy shit, you couldn't be more wrong. Everything you have stated thus far is your own worthless opinion, and the opinions of intellectual children have no place in a debate about the sciences. You are the one who loaths geologists to the point that you are a bad parody of a show that pretends to be scientific. You are the one attempting to drop trou and take a dump all over a field of study you clearly are not qualified to judge. At this point you are projecting your own ignorance on to others. Some beatdown you're giving, kid. What exactly is your major? I'm just kidding, I know you don't have one. Otherwise you wouldn't be prone to jumping to so many damn conclusions without a shred of evidence while you infer things I never even implied. And my English isn't horrible, kid, your reading skills just suck.

Totally agree, was there with my family over Christmas week. It's so neat to watch other people's experience of the same place.

Oops, Elvis. :)

I love the way you phrased "the air smelled like a gunpowder fart". I've never smelt a gunpowder fart before, but now I feel as if I've missed out...

so long it smells bad, it's ok. If however you doesnt smell anything in this situation, start worrying you're getting intoxicated.

Zoomer30 It’s pretty wild how physics ‘repeats itself’ on different scales.

Renzsu The beauty of fractals.

I forgot to mention the collapse of Pu'u O'o

As opposed to pahoehoe which is a smooth as it sounds, I've been told. Studied geology, but never been anywhere with lava flows. Born and raised in the middle of a stable craton, the Baltic Shield... :)

Kilauea can absolutely explode. Just not normally (if ever) on the same scale as people usually associate with volcanoes.

Will Dear Thanks for being one of the few to realize this. Aloha from Haw’n. Acres!

Not really, At least personally to me.

I'm so tired I read that "fellate". It was weird.