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could one day see natural forces re awake and i'll be back at the top of the hour with mobile news, i'll have to see you that the fast fashion as an environmental night a clothing graveyard image of land desert. this is where things wealthy industrial nations no longer need and lightest textile waste gets stranded fashion, watch now, on youtube, the the volcanic i sold a landscape forged in fire,
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shaped fine for some elemental forces, deep underground, huge glowing chunks of rock. ash that covered everything in minutes and foamed a one of a kind landscape. the volcanoes fell silent some 10000 years ago, but the only sleeping is something brewing deep below the surface of the eiffel. how great is the danger that the volcanoes will roll back to life the, the, the in the east, if the volcanic eiffel near under. now, the forces looking benny cus showed themselves
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the cold water goes up the highest in the world. the every 2 hours the water jet erupt reaching up to 60 meters in. yeah. the going so leaks explains mineralogy, thorsten lumber, that's the fuzzy. that's your 0 guys. your stage guys, a rupture, and as you name, i thought, just as age of all kind of corruption is you name with us, is the rupture unleashes powerful. volcanic forces deep beneath the full as carbon dioxide from the fluid. magma meets the ground floor to more and more. c o 2 bubbles, collect 350 meters below the surface. when it finally erupt,
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the entire water column is propelled upward. yes, this one is the bonds in it, but that's gone. yeah, you can really see and feel the whole volcanic process obviously. so that helps to understand the pressure and power behind it and it'll shoot another volcano dropped in the eiffel monkey. and i think you don't tunnels pressing the foot. when will that happen? the volcanoes of the life will, will low thoughts extinct. now we know that only dormant deep underground the colder and is still bubbling the traces of the last incident of a still clearly visible today. at
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1st glance, lake last is a tranquil body of water. but it was created by the most powerful volcanic eruption in recent central european geological history. 13000 years ago, the it's traces can be found on the nearby. vien gets big fund, the amended, the geologist goes to huffman. as phone university, the will is a window into the distant past. the launch of for that's a 1000 john's 13000 years ago. and this landscape didn't look fundamentally different from today. and then suddenly there was this explosion, 200 hurled ash and trucks some 40 to 50 kilometers into the atmosphere. the, the mass either option lasted several weeks as 1000 degrees celsius magma, mesa,
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ground water reservoir. the of the mountain top above was blown off by an explosion and steam as a huge column of ash with catapulted kilometers up into the at the other one is these are at some point this column collapsed on red hot ash rushed through the landscape along the valleys and through the brother valley, for instance, when it reached the rhine river, which already existed, fucked them with cut the river off. the ashen debris swept over everything and left behind a blanket, several meters deep, th, and stepped on. it's for the fringes of what kind of pools. i'm just all stone.
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describe this. what kind of corruption tom designed and created a recivore around what is known if you today is the logic of dominance at some point that broke the hunters and others settled in the area experience to catastrophes and one lifetime and con. oh schools. first slopes and i felt kind of corruption and then a gigantic quarter search that went all the way down the ryan valley into today's netherlands. the as the blue products presumed on the list of all kind of explosions. and i thought it was more an explosion than interruption. this explosion, 13000 jews ago, left us traces as quote and you can see them on the wall here. as for us, these are, this is like a history book and we can study the centrally read had this volcanic explosion happened to cut off each single layer. there's like a high resolution snapshots of an individual phase of the russian hill to
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the postman. regularly leads groups of scientists through here, the layers of the will reveal the stages of the volcanic eruption. this is sarah english. there's no model by so and so, and what's crazy is that such in there usually shows several tens of thousands of years with a few bonds. even here we have a 13 meter cross section that represents a few weeks at the most. this is just a few minutes. this single there is a collapse in cloud november's, or that it has a stand o c. and if i pulled the stone notes, this is, i'm going to construct my, i'm done. so we n a we night with a rad, blue mineral expelled from the mcmahon. the the, the eiffel is one of the most important sites for routine, the weld. okay? yeah. let me know. i see. moment if you look at it's under a magnifying glass,
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it's really beautiful. levine gets bad vanities punch of the unesco volcanic eiffel g o cock hoffman and he's team and developing an app to allow virtual travel through the volcanic landscape. everything is precisely scanned and measured the new parking tom. i assume we're using the volcanic eiffel jewel part as a reference model. as the very 1st jewel park in germany that's offers the completely digital turning package and all points of interest. and this park can be viewed the sock them. tickets are up to the app works with super precise satellite data, much more exact than basic navigation or hiking apps. the 100. again, it is a one to do you mind him. we want to map the while back there and 3 d doctor up to
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do this. you need a lot of photos on the right image processing software. if the drones can get close enough, you can get a good 3 d image. comes on the data, one of the the drone can also reach sections of the will that otherwise difficult to access the, the camera scans at high resolution. so the computer that can later generate a detailed image the, the various layers in the wall are especially interesting. they consist mainly of pumice and tough interspersed with rock fragments drank, stopped by the volcanic eruption the
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aspect, once in the thing, it's backbone shows all the settlements, this fall kind of corruption on earth. and it's been geologically proven that there were different interruption phases. you have to imagine it's not like an exploding powder cake, but like several atomic bombs on it. and that's how powerful the home them. so again, just a lot of the big i know it's always cool as long as the so what i'm the kind of just we country lots of pressure, russian only class or other volcanic structures here in the life of us. and we can only hope that would be enough warning by the for example in the form of earthquakes warms when we don't want to paint to har. scenario bush of what happened. 13000 years ago happened again today in a densely populated region like the rhineland. as a treat would be catastrophic island. serious type of safari, the large cities like phone
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industrial plants and refineries. the rhineland chemical belt, cologne, with mold and a 1000000 people. how can the region possibly protect itself from such a natural disaster? the federal academy for civil protection and disaster assistance. b, a, b k in the valley generate scenarios because such disasters. professor klaus right you to is researching possible consequences of a fresher option of the lake loc volcano. level 2 on so i only gave them detail it would be a very high eruption column design of the app which would be closed off immediately then because like the landing simply wouldn't be possible. okay. then you'd have to see how far and how quickly the rushing cloud spreads, depending on the wind direction to move into the
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league of cost and the phone. and we'd have to consider whether birds were still usable with a critical infrastructure like trains and the power grid still worked. 20 certain vehicles may be able to drive on the free ways to evacuate people, but then things would get difficult. there are no other escape routes as you get exist in the problem is that in strongly con to landscapes like the valley or he in the eiffel people have settled in the valleys and so there are only 2 ways out and forwards and backwards. there is no other option to buy the house to come forward until the sign has been sent to the dispute. he must be losing the strange. i'll talk to you depending on where we uh, they will probably be casualties as well for that. so when do you do, hospital is must be prepared for this specific types of injuries. that volcanic
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eruptions can cause cause especially bones or stuff. so they have to have dedicated burn unit, but they also need specialized units for the se amputations and emergency surgical procedures. if that would be necessary after enough quick via the businesses, unless he does nobody the that is it even possible to prepare for such a disaster? the people who you've explained the order for evacuation plans or rules of conduct, what people should do in a specific situation. that's difficult, right now. there are no plans in place like that. that may be a mistake, but i don't think it's absolutely necessary yet. unlike with flooding is a volcanic eruption allows more response time because it's less me outside volcanic eruptions come with ample warning in the form of trim is and gas emissions
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at lake law. it's easy to forget that the ground below has still not settled. the old vocab and create to is a unique natural paradise the but at the lake's east and show there is still signs of volcanic activity, mo, fence carbon dioxide bubbling up through the war. so the nearby, the jersey would spill to study and recreation home. so young monk c, 1970, when 8 of them died, inexplicably gas emissions from the lake. so what blamed the the young man were buried on the grounds of today's maria last abbey. in the creek
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. on the one of the smaller chapels with the monks really is fixated has never been confirmed the foot professor hoffman and his team of geologist. the lake is of great interest the most fits are important to better understand volcanic activity in the eiffel. and to observe any changes the to, and viewers and shop in speaking to a g, a scientist, to investigate some offense, show that there is still a volcanic activity. here's the stuff and it's not only ever molten rock that comes out of the ground just involved in the it's mostly gas costs. and this is why the
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amount of escaping gas is continuously monitored, the via see and plus tax and gas. if we still have gas emissions increasing and it would be a sign that there is activity underground, perhaps indicating a coming vote kind of corruption. how scorpion going today? we know that the gas bubbles and mostly carbon dioxide, escaping from huge magnet chambers about 40 kilometers on the ground. but what does that tell us? does the gas come from the magma the russian brought forth 13000 years ago? which is still slowly cooling, is fresh magma foaming under the lake. a new study involving researches from several gym and institutes raises these question. numerous weak trim is at great depths, indicate that magma easy in motion,
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but there in those to the signal. so i thought that the volcano was preparing for another eruption, the further west, the famous monce, a residence of hell, volcanoes shaped the landscape. the deep lines of the eiffel divine failed mon you down is locally cold, the month of the dead, because of the neighboring cemetery. with its closed crate to ring the pool, the amount is the deepest at more than 70 meters. it seems bottomless. the
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sofa told her so cloudy, a v by gibbet. the shelton marin ma is the most beautiful. she is published a book of underwater photos from the crater lakes, which she worked on for years. the fact there, under the trees, there are always fish on one side, so i can to take there because i smoke perch always hide under the trees among the branches. that's nice to i'm always happy to see that when she comes here again. and again, even when the temperature is dropping, the full. but it's the very special under water will the iphone mines that fast night. so the most the
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below the surface, the water of the miles, he's still remarkably clear no method the season at this time of year the water is only 10 degrees celsius in winter it goes down to 3 or 4 degrees. the what happens with this consumer? it isn't a kazi, sometimes it feels like the caribbean because of the turquoise blue water. and there are so many fish just seen efficient. if you just float quietly, they will swim right by you by
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a common and when you die cards button page by car and tension the hatch, there's really a lot to do. as a smokeless, jeffrey, it says in down here flora and phone a bound. although most of the most have no regular water in float this said solely by rain morsa, which 1st seats through volcanic rock layers before flowing into the ma. well filtered and clean, the lesson is done. yeah, that's on. so what fascinates me is the depth of some of them are, so the programmer is 17 meters deep and they're striking. man mark is 35 meters deep on ones. you can get a feel for it. steps at the creature room when you see how the sharp drop continues under the short one was there. so we need to be aware that it could go off
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at any time. that's just the way it is on fossil and that's also the last direction was 12 or 13000 years ago. scientists say one should occur roughly every 10000 years. so in fact, we're overdue, the mazda end volt tenant cones, grace the landscape within magical chum. and to test to the fiery past of the volcanic eiffel, the, the volcanic activity use still every way, even if it's not always apparent. at 1st glance, the
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interval penny going full region. the surface is rising by about one millimeter per year. even more in some places, these can only be measured from high in the air. what's causing this? is it the gas is rising from the magnet chambers, deep, underground pool, hot springs, the, when the food comes to the only full traces of possible kind of captivity can be found in the topography of the landscape. i bustled columns, rise from some of the numerous volcanic cones, colson hicks, i can know the figures which shapes thousands of years ago during a volcanic eruption when hot lava escaped and then slowly cooler. the
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in the quarries of the volcanic eiffel lava best sold has been mined for centuries . as here near the village of strewn in the past, the hard stone was used for building houses and paving roads. even the banks of the rhine were fortified with 6 sided vessel columns. today the stone is mostly crushed into gravel and grits bene down is the most are strewn stone. he manages the b quarry and knows the long history of the place for you in the eyes are solid and beyond. there were 3 big of options here. 34000 years ago, have these guns with, and this whole valley filled up with lava follicles. the geologists are still looking for the old of back valley down here, and i know that's kind of the i just left off the, the lava flows solidified and phone the wide. those he made
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a thick layer of vessel here. the funds advised me to look over there, for example, you can tell the difference. and down below you can see the bus onto there and further up the beach wordly, where it gets some more reddish. you can see that there are lava and all that you can really tell, but there is a hard to just look back there. that's the bustle to there. you can see the lives of the 1969, cory wood, cuz stumbled across a sensation. a blast released a huge rock formation from the corey will 15 meters up. the 1st, they weren't sure what they were looking at. a cool sample cleared it up. it was a gigantic lava boom that had been flung out of the volcanic crater. the strong love of them was discovered back there and just lay there for some time
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. finally, they, we missed the policy of strong decided they wanted to. then the question was, how to get this thing over there. it weighs $120.00 tons to them. how do you move a stone, measuring almost 5 meters across, over the fields from the quarry to the village? we don't watch the wind is blowing up on up to a lot of pieces in mid deadlines. and obviously they waited until the ground had frozen over the winter with the ice and stuff into the 5. then they welded big iron plates together and rolled the bomb onto them. when i thought maybe i that should be a, took a large caterpillar and a bulldozer cushion from behind to move to boulder across the field to where they wanted it decided, oh, i'm a single octopus. but where did the joint real come from? the cool sample revealed that the lava bone consisted of many layers that had built up one after the other around a cool,
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like an onion. the lava bomb was probably flung upwards during the a rupture, and then repeatedly rolled back into the crater of the active volcano. in the process, it became thicker and sticker before it was finally encased in molten lava, where it remained until it was exposed in the quarry the . today it's the main attraction of the smooth village drone volcanic stone from the ivy region was covered to building material as early as the middle ages. the maria la abby was built mainly as have dock bustled and light tough. the at
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austin cathedral tough is even found on the night sided central structure, the famous caroline gee, an octagon, the v. tenix stone from the nibbling eiffel was also shipped along the rhine to help build cologne's cathedral and ice old tough was continually used for repair, with brave men from the mineral rich village of vibe and helped the 19 o one. a railroad line was built now popular with tourists, as the val con express, disproved the stone, like tough thomas and bustled to the rhine at the winter hub or in bruise,
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it was then load it onto the ships a lifeline. so the iso and a stroke of luck for the village of 5 in whitfield county, corruptions, full 100000 years ago, deposited a massive layer of tough perfect building materials for churches, the tough he's light and easy to work with the same. if you look back from the 19th century onwards, at the construction of cathedrals and volts were being, you realize this is ideal material lightweight and able to bed heavy loads. a nice, why is the humans but i deal for the slender arches stretching toward the heavens. the worlds of ham, but also built with tough from vibe in the stone masons,
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gave the stone. and it's characteristic surface texture with him is she's those and which is a f o r y o for the q and shit. the do for the corey was also the production site in the stone was still dumped when it was brought to the store house on lava and then cuts into rough sizes for the stone masonry steinmetz situation extortion through stuff at the stats of the 20th century. mold in 1200 stonemasons. what to you? tough from vi been built, a real boom to the small village to gush each vice for shy and tough is a soft stone made up of solidified default kind of ash, depending on where they are found and see. the layers can be course are quite fine . good guns, pine,
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a dungeon that the showers in here does eat minus the number of houses here, where you can see that the masters and the cory owners had the money to have a leverage besides both on the apologize and. ready vibe in was able to afford its own water and sewer network earlier than on the villages and had electricity as early as 1915. but the demand for tough fell from the 19 sixty's on woods and the boom ended. today. the many tough houses still bear witness to the village is full of prosperity. the many volcanic cousins of the iphone,
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windows certainly used as quarries. some of them still provide living spaces today of the, for the rulers of the middle ages. the top of such a volcano, it was a good place for a fortress. there were plenty of stones for building and was a panorama old brook console, for example, seats proudly at top of 460 meta high volcanic cone. the newborn stands even higher as an altitude is more than 670 meters, but he's best known for the famous race cools at the foot of the mountain. the renewable agreeing was originally built to provide the pool eiffel region with a new source of income and under the asphalt, on which famous racing drivers have done their laps line messes of lava. best salt
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from the quarries of the volcanic iso, the state your ability, even when bearing enormous loads, made them the ideal foundation the today, it's almost forgotten that the ancient ruin of new a book castle sits on an extinct volcano. but the volcanic origin of many places can be seen from above the room. a bed is a cone and solidified slag in front of it. is this true ma? it's almost completely sealed, shut up the sum of the extinct volcanoes. provide the perfect conditions for recreational athletes. the may have failed. ma, for example,
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is popular with powered light is the what sits, the smaller apart from others is the form of its crate to rim. it's very steep and so exposed in some places that it makes, but just the right take off slope above the steep curved crater ring, you can fly perfect circles like the wind is rise. and with the views like this, it's like a dream come true. the, the volcanic county police of world of water and not only because of its many months, there are plenty of places where water rises to the surface. as in the bolts shipped with its steep walls, the volcanic tress, a list spectacular,
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but still valuable for the region is another phenomenon. there is springs everywhere in the eiffel, some hidden in the middle of the forest. andreas schuler from the volcanic eiffel, g, a puck knows where these trays come from. in the case of the guys in under now it's carbon dioxide that drives the ground water up through the volcanic rock. the, the, the special aspect of this area is the fact that the water contains not only minerals but also a significant amount of carbon dioxide which device month. oh, is the same. and we know from chemical studies that this c o 2, like other gases, originates from the venting process of the magma deep in the cross list and the
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opera mantles as well. so you could say that the iphones, mineral water is also contained the breath of the volcanoes and titan. the would raise these celtic for willing spring, the dust. this is here. this is the dash side to phase. it's carbonated, it's busy, and also it has a very, very high i am content on top. in fact, it's the mineral water with the highest i am content in the volcanic iphone isn't guy if you know we con josh i garo stein down. almost every community here has its own spring. the settlements grew up around them . either place this odds and so mine and been of these wood is contain minerals and the guns and a number may even have medicinal applications,
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intuitive properties. so good looks to be. and so the idea arose to capitalize on these properties, to bring some cash into the region, some of them all. it's all scared to be like you also play today, the volt kenney calling police, known for its many varieties of curative mineral water. the rou, lake in the north, west of the eiffel is also a drinking water reservoir. a massive dam holds back the ruler river at almost 80 meters in height. it protects the people down stream from a catastrophic flood. but what would happen if the dam was damaged, say, why a powerful this quake. this is why deep down in the dam daily inspections are performed to ensure everything is in order. this is the job of dan safety engineer band. how to begin. the
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pendulum shows every little movement, minimal swings, and normal. they may not dam is functioning properly. but what is the nearby volcanic eiffel stats to rumble? if the volcanoes reawaken the 1st quakes would be the 1st signs leading to my end. but it's when that's when we're talking about around 200000000 cubic meters of water. tom, height of 77 meters. if something happened it would be huge. and so we just have to make sure that the safety is guaranteed around the clock is here in the fall south of the volcanic i so lies an important measuring station else console stands and assigned value of the most a river. the doctor bridge you
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took snuff by a intrude hits besides my logical observe a tree at cologne university. she and her colleague klaus fleischer visit the 12th century console regularly. they have no interest in oreos or targets. they going underground the here in the deepest volt of the castle, directly on the rocky ground. the university has installed a highly sensitive science, mcgrath it registers every vibration, no matter how gentle the mitzy i'm the i for i'm this will here any i said we have on average about 50 to a 100 tremors a year. but most of them are so minor that they cannot be felt by humans since my
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form mentioned bonnie baldwin. i suppose to what's this distance trema. exactly. isn't that something let us give us just before 12 or 12 it will have to take a look later. it was relatively short quarters. oh those were just so this waves from a bloss to thing and then from nice thing, one of the calls that could be this course to be in. most of the strongest quick we have reported with instruments was in 2007, your site, which had a magnitude of 3.9 and was felt over a great distance and found on the bottom. it was in 2013, but this one is my logical station recorded an unusual phenomena that is occupied the scientific world ever since. first trim is from deep beneath the awful the
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keeps mimi and archie smith the deepest quakes ever recorded in germany. and they had a special signature where they look different from the quakes. we usually see here that this does not necessarily mean that maxima is rising, but there is definite movement and with the movement that could indicate that maxima is gathering again on the ground. the volcano is becoming active. these raises questions. the impression given them was not assembled in which areas should we actually expect this? mainly in the area of like laugh or perhaps even further west, where volcanic centers were more recently active. the goal is to better understand what is down there and how dangerous it may be. a goal shed by seismic geologist, professor russia, to at the federal academy of civil protection. for his work,
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the measurements are important to indicate is the these at people's insects 9 to 690 shoot to them in these earthquakes. very small trim is open ended the interesting the probably because such an accumulation may full cost of volt county corruption. hospital fine is that worked really well with a lot palm interruption to see if we had size mixed signals that effectively full cost this maxima rise. the package piece is the might be some lockman of duke and trinity, the diesel, loud enough time to prepare thousands of people for the massive erupt sion of cooper in the house and to bring them to safety from the ash and red hot lava knowledge, which is just as valuable, so the ice will be here more in time. i think this is by steve. this idea of what
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we're doing here at the moment is passive. we're just listening to the us and trying to interpret signal noise coming from different depths. this gives you the c to the earthquakes at lake last, where the deepest earthquakes in all of germany, a record they go down to about 40 kilometers, which means that we have to position additional devices and listen to different locations against window. she the with us as the specified move and that's what we're working on. and why the eiffel is a real laboratory for us, a moving research project. and why it is actually a jeweler for research. a volcanic activity in germany this weekend is moving towards the end of june, bonus, bio of fire, still smoldering deep beneath the ice. so no one knows when the volcanoes will
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