somewhere in Iceland (the country, not the shop) a volcano with an unpronouncable name is spewing out ash and gasses. this is not an overly remarkable thing. Iceland has many volcanoes with unpronounceable names, and these often erupt. if they didn’t, they would just be hills.
This ash is being blown around by the wind, and has been for several days. this means we can’t fly our planes because the ash breaks the engines. this is not in the least bit illogical either. I know that wind exists because you can fly kites and the clouds don’t stay still. and I know the ash can break the engines because I googled it. it gets in to the engines, melts, and the blobs break things. and with no engines a plane doesnt really have any way of staying in the sky, so it doesn’t.
the remarkable fact about this story is the way humans have reacted.
I am talking about the inability of the human race to accept that sometimes things happen that are no ones fault. for example, BA (the people with the planes, apparently) are trying to get money off the EU because they weren’t allowed to fly their planes, because they would probably fall out of the sky. this would cause a lot of damage.
Quite why the EU are expected to pay, or anyone else for that matter, is beyond me. Did they make the volcano erupt? did they tell the ash cloud what to do? NO, they did not. and I understand you have lost quite a lot of money, Mr. BA, but it simply isn’t their fault. In fact, it’s no one’s fault. It is a NATURAL disaster. I.e. NOT CAUSED BY MANKIND!
kghauyhgoerufj? (no offence Iceland)
