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#vesuvius
There I was sleeping in my bed
Vesuvius my home, just resting my head
Suddenly the mountain it did awake
And apparently sleeping was a big mistake
It appears a big cloud of superheated ash
Into my bedroom and through the window did crash
It was an event I did really quite disdain
However, out of it I got a glass brain
LiveScience: Mystery of how man's brain turned to glass after Vesuvius eruption possibly solved
In A.D. 79, a man who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption near Pompeii had a rare transformation: His brain seemingly turned into glass. Scientists haven’t agreed on the reason, but a team of researchers offers this explanation: The pyroclastic flows must have been immediately preceded by a superheated cloud of ash that first rapidly heated and then rapidly cooled the man's brain as it dissipated. Scary thought. @LiveScience has more:
Greg Cocks A Minute-By-Minute Account Of The Pompeii Eruption, Revealed In Agonizing Detail
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https://www.science.org/content/article/minute-minute-account-pompeii-eruption-revealed-agonizing-detail <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-071 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-072 <-- shared paper
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#AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in #Vesuvius eruption - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/05/ai-helps-researchers-read-ancient-scroll-burned-to-a-crisp-in-vesuvius-eruption "Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition" fab use of tech