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Re:Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] by JumpCrisscross on Sunday December 07, 2025 @01:19PM (#46183760)
> viewing the lava fountain at night was a mesmerizing experience

Is there anything comparable to the overview effect [1] that attends seeing a lava fountain in person?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

Re:Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] by ceravis on Monday December 08, 2025 @01:20PM (#46195739)
Perhaps a total solar eclipse? Especially so when seeing half the solar system lined up neatly in a row with the sun and moon (and a comet in case of the recent April 2024 eclipse in the US), and truly feeling that one is riding on a chunk of rock hurtling through space, tethered invisibly to that impossibly distant mass of gas and plasma like a ball at the end of a rope...

Still get frisson every time I think about it ;)