Sumatra, Earth's sixth-largest island, spied from space. CREDIT: NASA.
Sumatra, Earth's sixth-largest island, spied from space. CREDIT: NASA.
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“However, there is wide disagreement about how early human were affected and whether large parts of the population were wiped out by the blast.”
Aren’t there theories that Toba wiped out all but about 12,000 of the human population of the planet?
Has anyone informed Al Gore about this?
Oh ... I remember, it’s all George Bush’s fault.
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Paging Al Gore, Mr. Al Gore, please pick up the white courtesy phone you have an important message from Current TV.
I would personally like to view the photo’s, charts & graphs from this event that happened, per the article, 74,000 years ago. Just for comparisons doctor!
“That Supervolcano was the result of the TEA PARTY, Bush and the Republicans in Congress,” Obama said today!!
Great thread! Thanks!
That’s anice big round hole in the lower right. Is that the volcano, asteroid hit, fishing pond?
I’m no scientist, so feel free to chime in here, but... wouldn’t this have caused the sort of “nuclear winter” they’re always talking about with reference to a nuclear war - the clouds eliminating all sunlight until all the plants died and so on?
I mean, so why wasn’t everything extinct after this?
