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TheyCallMeBruce · 04-04-2005, 11:53 AM

Here's something to cheer up your Mondays.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ndonesiavolcano

Another Volcano to worry about is the Yellowstone Park's supervolcano, and that one is delightfully over due.

Looks like we're all going to die. If this thing erupts, hilarity will not ensue.

habernac · 04-04-2005, 12:09 PM

I was in Yellowstone last fall, that thing is absolutely enormous! We would all be in some serious trouble if it decided it was time to erupt again.

Dynamic · 04-04-2005, 12:37 PM

Yikes!!........On a related topic I was listening to Late Night with George Nory about 3 weeks back and some freak that said he was the devil phoned in and said the end of humans would come in 2007 from a massive volcano that blocked the sun for years.

Bring_Back_Shantz · 04-04-2005, 01:35 PM

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Originally posted by Dynamic@Apr 4 2005, 12:37 PM
Yikes!!........On a related topic I was listening to Late Night with George Nory about 3 weeks back and some freak that said he was the devil phoned in and said the end of humans would come in 2007 from a massive volcano that blocked the sun for years.

Is that the guy that has the show on QR77 at like 2:00Am on saturday nigths. I listen to that guy on my way home from poker (when it's on Saturdays) and man is it good for a laugh.

stamps · 04-06-2005, 01:53 AM

The BBC did a documentary a few years ago on this subject, I remember being somewhat depressed after veiwing it....... http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/...volcanoes.shtml

Mr. Ski · 04-06-2005, 09:14 AM

The Discovery Channel is running a three hour Supervolcanoe special this Sunday. Starts at 6:00 and 10:00 in Calgary. A look at the Yellowstone situation from a 'ticking-timebomb' perspective. Should be depressingly captavating.

Here's a link.

Mean Mr. Mustard · 04-06-2005, 09:19 AM

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Yikes!!........On a related topic I was listening to Late Night with George Nory about 3 weeks back and some freak that said he was the devil phoned in and said the end of humans would come in 2007 from a massive volcano that blocked the sun for years.

Is that the guy that has the show on QR77 at like 2:00Am on saturday nigths. I listen to that guy on my way home from poker (when it's on Saturdays) and man is it good for a laugh. [/b][/quote]
I know what you mean there. Some things make you think but at the same time most of it seems to be crap that I could think up of with a night of heavy drinking.

But really I have what 70 years left max.... I think it should hold off until then, which is all right in my books.

TheyCallMeBruce · 04-06-2005, 10:55 AM

Makes you wonder why bother with anything? The Yellowstone supervolcano is said to require little effort to erupt. If that's the case, then it's any day now. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go off in our lifetime.

KevanGuy · 04-10-2005, 05:51 PM

Just a bump to remind anyone interested. The Discovery show starts tonight at 6.

TheyCallMeBruce · 04-10-2005, 07:32 PM

That's horrifying. We're all gonna die.

CaptainCrunch · 04-10-2005, 08:00 PM

got my umbrella, while you suckers are getting pelted by molten rock and hot ash, I'll be whistling as I plan my new society

All hail Captain Crunch the First.

Eddie Bronze · 04-10-2005, 08:06 PM

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"It could be in a few, 50 or another 1000 years but sooner or later one is going to go off."

Let's hope for the latter.

FlamesAddiction · 04-10-2005, 08:14 PM

Another quake today in Indonesia too. 6.8.

KevanGuy · 04-10-2005, 08:18 PM

and a 6.1 in Tokyo as well.

Hack&Lube · 04-10-2005, 08:29 PM

The program is on Discovery Now

Thunderball · 04-10-2005, 09:52 PM

so, people who got to watch it... was it as gloomy as we thought, or was it more like, well, it could trigger a massive earthquake that decimates Wyoming and Montana, or it could be a 7 year slow release type thing?

TheyCallMeBruce · 04-11-2005, 09:09 AM

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Originally posted by Thunderball@Apr 11 2005, 03:52 AM
so, people who got to watch it... was it as gloomy as we thought, or was it more like, well, it could trigger a massive earthquake that decimates Wyoming and Montana, or it could be a 7 year slow release type thing?

It's every bit as gloomy as we thought...actually worse. There are signs that are creeping into the picture...signs that are identical to the events of Mount St. Helen. The eruption isn't the worse part, it's dying slowing of ash suffocation and later starvation.

Happy Mondays!

BTW, It was my birthday over the weekend, I live to see 30

Hack&Lube · 04-11-2005, 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by Thunderball@Apr 10 2005, 09:52 PM
so, people who got to watch it... was it as gloomy as we thought, or was it more like, well, it could trigger a massive earthquake that decimates Wyoming and Montana, or it could be a 7 year slow release type thing?

Well, there was one geologist who was like: "well, just because it happened three times at the same interval, doesn't mean there's a pattern"