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PHOTOS OF THE DAY... MSNBC.com posted these images showing the volcano Eyjafjallajokull spewing out a plume of ash and creating a so-called "dirty thunderstorm" in Iceland. Pretty awesome...unless, of course, you live anywhere in Europe and were planning to fly out of the continent for vacation. Anyways, these pics show how reality can be more interesting than fiction sometimes. In the Lord of the Rings movies, Mt. Doom would’ve looked a whole lot cooler if you saw lightning shoot out of the ash cloud across the skies above Mordor (and striking Frodo and Sam on the ground in the process...seriously injuring the two Hobbits. Hah). Or, you would see Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi trying to dodge lightning from above as they engaged in that climactic lightsaber duel on planet Mustafar in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. You dropped the ball there, Peter Jackson and George Lucas.
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One last thing: When was this volcano given the name Eyjafjallajokull? It would make sense if it was recently (obviously not)...seeing as how it sounds like someone just randomly pressed a bunch of buttons on a keyboard to come up with this weird moniker. Whatever.
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