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“So Dan Miller decided to roast a pig. The idea took hold of him after another eruption on August 7. He would roast a pig in the steaming volcano fields at the base of St. Helens. Being a scientist meant that he would do it in a methodical fashion: notes would be kept and he would document everything. The operation needed a cover name because reporters and others were monitoring all radio communication around the volcano, so he called it the 'FPP temperature experiment'. FPP stood for Front Page Palmer, a name the scientists had given a local geology professor who had irritated the Survey geologists by grandstanding for the press. Miller would roast a pig and Palmer at the same time.”
― Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
― Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
“Maybe they had become volcano smoke jumpers, diving into an unknown risk to do a dangerous job because, in part, it was a social good and, in part, because they loved the big show.”
― Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
― Volcano Cowboys: The Rocky Evolution of a Dangerous Science
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