Talk:Geyser

message: Countries using British English refer to a Water heater as a geyser ("geezer"). (Perhaps just mentioning this usage will suffice?)
:I just came here looking for water heater info, so i added a disambiguation link at the top. --Piet Delport 23:13, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation required 

message: Would it not be very convenient to live near a geyser? We might
have our victuals cooked by it, and have pipes led from it all
round our house, to keep us comfortable in winter; and we might
have nice hot baths in our dressing-rooms, arid even a little
steam-engine to roast our meat and grind our coffee. But perhaps
you may think it might not be altogether pleasant to be kept so
continually in hot water.
Were any of the water from the geyser to fall on your hands, you
would doubtless feel it rather sore; still more so, were you to be
so rash as to thrust your hand fairly into the jet of boiling
water, as it ascends into the air. Nevertheless, strange as it may
seem, it would be possible for you, without feeling any pain or
sustaining any injury, to thrust your hand right into the glowing
lava as it flows from the crater of Hekla. The only precaution
needful to be observed, is first to plunge the hand into cold
water, and then dry it gently with a soft towel, but so as to leave
it still a little moist. This discovery was made by a French
philosopher, M. Boutigny, and has been practically proved both by
him and M. Houdin, the celebrated conjuror, by thrusting their
hands into molten iron, as it flowed from the furnace. The latter
describes the sensation as like what one might imagine to be felt
on putting the hand into liquid velvet. The reason why this
experiment proves so harmless is that between the skin and the
glowing substance there is formed a film of vapour, which acts as a
complete protection. It is this elastic cushion of vapour which
imparts that feeling of softness described by M. Houdin; for it is
with it alone that the hand comes into contact.
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I have added a series of photos of Strokkur (Great Geysir's very active next door neighbour), but I know little about page layout and HTML... can anyone with the necessary skills make it look better? Pete 08:55, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  A very hot Bath 

message: which effect has the climate? what kind of climate is necessary for the existence of geysers? --141.53.194.251 13:13, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Geysers exist in all climates. --MrGulli (talk) 00:05, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  and climate 

message: It seems a little strange that the article discusses the likelihood of geothermal activity on Triton. "Geothermal" seems like a word that could apply to Earth only. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the subject can comment.
:I get you point and agree with you. I do not know whom should i talk with on this. Maybe Geothermal relates to Earth but "geyser" (which the article is) has no restrictions. Indianescence (talk) 14:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geothermal activity on Triton 

message: Are the TOC and first section supposed to look like that?  --Thinboy00 talk/contribs @174, i.e. 03:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the Table of Contents 

message: Aren't undersea vents a type of geyser?  If so, the article needs to be massively overwritten. 
For example the article claims only 1000 but it seems that underwater there are significantly more
the article mentions two types of geysers, but wouldn't the undersea type be a third?
etc.,
Perhaps a comparison of geysers and undersea vents is in order?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.18.146.209 (talk) 05:47, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See hydrothermal vent.  They are different from geysers, particularly that most vents seem to have a constant flow of water through them, so they're more like a hot spring.  However, unlike a hot spring their motion seems to be due to heat-driven convection rather than gravity-driven water pressure. – SEWilco (talk) 05:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hydrothermal vents 

message: the article is currently maintained by User:Sushant gupta and User:Indianescence. pls. discuss before making any big change. thank you, Sushant gupta (talk) 14:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article under massive construction. 

message: WP:Good article usage is a survey of the language and style of Wikipedia editors in articles being reviewed for Good article nomination.  It will help make the experience of writing Good Articles as non-threatening and satisfying as possible if all the participating editors would take a moment to answer a few questions for us, in this section please.  The survey will end on April 30.
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replies: text: I'm hoping we'll have some good news for you there soon; there's a current proposal in front of the software developers (at bugzilla) to have the software handle many of those line-break issues so that we don't have to. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 13:08, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope so too. Things like these (  and others) become a reason for people to oppose during FAC and GAC etc., which i feel is not correct. If such things are made mandatory then the real matter in the article remains ignored. And many a times it is not easy to give special attention to such line-break things. Indianescence (talk) 17:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Survey 

message: Ans. 1 Yes, i will always welcome additional feedbacks as they help in improving the article.
Ans. 2 Well, i am a student and i currently study English as a subject, therefore there is a lot of writing practice done by me in the form of Essays, reports etc.
Ans. 3 I have learnt a lot about writing through wikipedia. I had initially started with Gwen Stefani related articles and the language used in them has influenced me a little bit. But overall, i still write with the language style i usually use.
I am still not comfortable with the use of   but i do put in the essential punctuations.
:I'm hoping we'll have some good news for you there soon; there's a current proposal in front of the software developers (at bugzilla) to have the software handle many of those line-break issues so that we don't have to. - Dan Dank55 (talk) 13:08, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope so too. Things like these (  and others) become a reason for people to oppose during FAC and GAC etc., which i feel is not correct. If such things are made mandatory then the real matter in the article remains ignored. And many a times it is not easy to give special attention to such line-break things. Indianescence (talk) 17:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Indianescence

message: FA does not look far now! A little expansion here and there with some more effort, FA will be easy to achieve! I feel the following are essential now:
1.A section explaning working of Geothermal energy plants (brief explaination) and how does it depend on Geysers, how much energy they produce, the future of geothermal energy, should not be very long).
2.Tourism and Geysers (i don't feel its a bad idea at all!)
3.A little more expansion of Major Geyser fields to make them decent paragraphs.
: I have expanded those lines to paragraphs. I have even added some more reliable references. I feel that section is done. I think the only thing which is remaining is a proper map. But if this is the only map we can afford, then we can keep this also. Indianescence (talk) 14:48, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requirements for FA

message: While Triton gets a mention, Enceladus also has (predominately) water geysers. Ref 'Cassini Observes the Active South Pole of Enceladus' DOI: 10.1126/Science, 1123013  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.237.117 (talk) 08:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Enceludus

message: “The world’s only hot soda[!?] water geyser” is allegedly to be found in Te Aroha, New Zealand. I wonder if somebody could add a passage about this and include it under the subdivision Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand (or under the main article Taupo Volcanic Zone. Soda water in connection with geysers is mentioned in neither of these articles, but is cropping up “everywhere” in tourist brochures covering the NZ region. Hirpex (talk) 11:55, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hot soda water geysers 

message: The article states that a geyser eruption begins with boiling at the bottom, and the surface waters are cooler (at least implied that they are not boiling). This does not appear to be the case for all geysers, and some of the more famous ones (such as Old Faithful) actually seem to reach the critical temperature near the top of the column. I need to dig at this a little more (this is my first wiki edit), but the "shock tube" model of Kieffer should probably be mentioned as a more modern alternative mechanism.
Brian 42 Davis (talk) 16:32, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  physics of geyser eruption 

message: Hi, I was looking for info on the Andernach Geyser, and naturally I came to this page.  It had a photo of the geyser, but a "page does not exist" tag on the Andernach Geyser name. When I clicked on the photo, I found a link in the description to a German language page on this particular geyser (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geysir_Andernach).  Is there a reason why this German page is not linked to the Geyser page?  Although it's a German page, I was still able to get the gist of it using the automatic translation.  I'm simply not sure of the rules regarding linking pages of different languages, or on different Wikipedia sites, and would appreciate it if someone could clarify standard practice, before I go adding a link.  Thanks, Resinguy (talk) 19:08, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no link to the Andernach Geyser page? 

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message: Under the "General Categorization" section the page says, "There are two types of geysers: fountain geysers which erupt from pools of water, typically in a series of intense, even violent, bursts; and musa geysers which erupt from not playing league or mounds of siliceous sinter." I suspect "not playing league or" can be deleted, but because I don't know much about geysers I left it up in case it was an awkward translation of some useful information. Can someone knowledgeable take a look? Alianoraree (talk) 10:42, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "not playing league or mounds"