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Started 3 years ago by UncommonSense
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UncommonSense
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Anyone ever heard of supervolcanoes? Well, we have one. It's called Yellowstone. It erupts, on cue, every 600,000 years or so, and the last one was 630,000 years ago. So it is overdue. And it might be waking up.
Not sure why the geophysicist in the article states the last eruption there was 70,000 years ago. Either he is confusing it with a blast near Sumatra at that time (which nearly drove humans to extinction), or he is referring to a smaller eruption. Anyway, such an event would cover half the United States in ash 1 meter deep, and probably kill almost everything within 500 miles. And that's before volcanic winter sets in. So crops fail, economies collapse, panic ensues, etc.
If you have a lot of accrued vacation time, you may want to think about taking it sooner rather than later. And here I thought the Large Hadron Collider would do us in. :roll:
And here is a cheesy BBC take on the coming apocalypse...
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Rockmastermike
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Kinda puts that whole "recession" thing into a different perspective, eh what?
Quake swarm does not definitively mean "impending eruption", but if this thing blows anytime in our lives we're going to get piles of ash all the way into Ohio. Big mess.
End of the world? Doubt it. People are tough. A LOT of people would die, though, certainly.

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Manatee
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Just add it to the pile, heh... heh.
It's sort of like giant-disaster Russian roulette now.
Hilarity ensues.

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Rockmastermike
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Manatee wrote Just add it to the pile, heh... heh.
It's sort of like giant-disaster Russian roulette now.
Hilarity ensues.
keep in mind this is nothing new, but every time anything happens out at yellowstone people start predicting impending doom.

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UncommonSense
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I guess I should have wrote "End of the World for people who don't know how to grow or hunt their own food, and are squeamish about having to shoot marauding looters", but it wouldn't fit. I will miss you guys. :lol:
End of the World as we know it, would also work. And no, not many would survive. People may be tough (and I think you give the current generation too much credit), but there will be worldwide famine. Not to mention war over dwindling resources. And I don't think breathing volcanic dust is good for the lungs either. :wink:

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Rockmastermike wrote
Manatee wrote Just add it to the pile, heh... heh.
It's sort of like giant-disaster Russian roulette now.
Hilarity ensues.
keep in mind this is nothing new, but every time anything happens out at yellowstone people start predicting impending doom.
Oh, I just meant, on top of economic collapse, and on top of climate change, and on top of etc. etc. etc.
Oh, well, no one can take away my will, what I know, and as of yet I'm able-bodied. So I suppose that's about all anyone could ask for. Still not too much to complain about.

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Rockmastermike
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by the way... here's the word from the yellowstone volcano observatory folks.
http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/activity/status.php
This quake swarm is bigger than has happened in years, but still nothing to be that alarmed about yet.
here's the active volcanos in the U.S.
http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/activity/elevated.php

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joev
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All of this predicting the end of the world seems very Baptist to me. I'm going to keep believing in the power of tomorrow. What can we do about it anyway?

Posted 3 years ago #
catnfiddle
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joev wrote All of this predicting the end of the world seems very Baptist to me. I'm going to keep believing in the power of tomorrow. What can we do about it anyway?
Giant anti-ash tents?

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UncommonSense
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joev wrote All of this predicting the end of the world seems very Baptist to me. I'm going to keep believing in the power of tomorrow. What can we do about it anyway?
I think you just need exposed to more religions/cultures then. Most have doomsday prophecies. And this one can actually happen. And most likely, it will. Probably in 2012.

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UncommonSense wrote And most likely, it will. Probably in 2012.
:lol:
Jan. 4th on the History Channel explores this exact thing!

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Rockmastermike
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UncommonSense wrote Probably in 2012.
The end of the world happened at 7am July 5th 1998.
but not very many noticed.

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UncommonSense wrote
joev wrote All of this predicting the end of the world seems very Baptist to me. I'm going to keep believing in the power of tomorrow. What can we do about it anyway?
I think you just need exposed to more religions/cultures then. Most have doomsday prophecies. And this one can actually happen. And most likely, it will. Probably in 2012.
:roll: we will see !
I like how the article says
"There doesn't seem to be anything to be alarmed about," Vallie said.
which really means everyone panic ! LOL

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Rockmastermike wrote
UncommonSense wrote Probably in 2012.
The end of the world happened at 7am July 5th 1998.
but not very many noticed.
Church of the SubGenius FTW!!1!

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UncommonSense wrote
I think you just need exposed to more religions/cultures then. Most have doomsday prophecies. And this one can actually happen. And most likely, it will. Probably in 2012.
Oh no, not 2012! The Mayan calendar actually both ends and starts over in December 2012, being cyclical (much like our calendar starts over on January 1.) The only "prophecies" associated with that are New Age, not Mayan. If anyone here does really believe in it, feel free to turn over your pets and bank account to me prior to the occasion. :P
I do occasionally exclaim about the fimbul winter (which occurs prior to Ragnarok), but I think I'm joking. Mostly.

As for supervolcanoes... I am crazy-weird interested in them. I think I've watched every docudrama that has been made on the subject (Supervolcano was awesome.) They terrify me, but at the same time I find lahares and pyroclastic flow to be utterly intriguing.

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Rockmastermike
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AnneD wrote I find lahares and pyroclastic flow to be utterly intriguing.
Now you're talkin!
I've seen pyroclastic flow deposits in a couple of different places and it's the WEIRDEST kind of rock. The violence recorded in those solidified chunks of cliff face must have been staggering if anyone had been there to see it.
Here is a photo I took of one in southern Utah. When it was active it must have been huge to create a rock layer that thick after it settled. (well... huge by the standards of someone standing near it and trying to RUN)

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The Hegemo
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When I was about seven or eight (around 1981-82), the guy who lived next door to us told me that the world was going to end in 1986. I was already scared shitless of nuclear war at that point, so I was convinced it was true and we were all going to die in nuclear armageddon in '86. And here we are, 23 years later...

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UncommonSense wrote
joev wrote All of this predicting the end of the world seems very Baptist to me. I'm going to keep believing in the power of tomorrow. What can we do about it anyway?
I think you just need exposed to more religions/cultures then. Most have doomsday prophecies. And this one can actually happen. And most likely, it will. Probably in 2012.
Oh, I have plenty of exposure. But in my experience, Baptists tend to predict doom within the forseeable future, leaving them proven wrong time and again. At least those Maya preist-astronomers picked a date that was so far in the future that they wouldn't be around to get ridiculed.
I have to make a disclaimer here: not being a Protestant, I'm pretty ignorant of the variety of their faiths (Lutherans, Episcopalians and Methodists, United Church of Christ, I get), but I'm talking about the "crazy" Baptists here - not the regular ones. I believe this is a different church altogether, but I don't know the name of it - Bible Baptists, maybe? Anyhow, "crazy Baptist" is how they were described even by the regular Baptists in my hometown.
And lots of natural and manmade disasters could happen. It's just a lot better and more productive to worry about the manmade ones. We can't do anything about the natural ones. I'm also confident that Earth will still be here in 1,000,000,000 years.

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misskitty
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I think people put too much thought into the Mayan calendar. Really I think they said fuck it were not going to be around then lets stop doing this :P

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Rockmastermike wrote Kinda puts that whole "recession" thing into a different perspective, eh what?
Quake swarm does not definitively mean "impending eruption", but if this thing blows anytime in our lives we're going to get piles of ash all the way into Ohio. Big mess.
End of the world? Doubt it. People are tough. A LOT of people would die, though, certainly.
Volcanic Ash is pretty fertile...

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