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To: Carry_Okie
Some expert info, please? And happy new year, C_O. You're one of my Freeper heroes. :-)
194 posted on 01/01/2004 10:07:30 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget)
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To: bootless; blam
Some expert info, please? And happy new year, C_O. You're one of my Freeper heroes. :-)

Thanks, you are most kind, and the same for you.

Volcanology isn't one of my strong suits. I know that some mountains are more predictable than others, but in the case of the Yellowstone caldera, with a frequency of 600,000 years and with the enormous scale of each eruption, deriving a history with which to predict the timing, scale, and damage due to the next eruption with a useful degree of accuracy is nigh on impossible. The number of eruptions whose effects we can detect don't make for much of a baseline.

The deaths from falling ash from a supervolcano are only the beginning. Suffice it to say that blam's characterization of the resulting changes in weather and crop production are likely. Here's an interesting take from Revelation 8 for all the millennialists out there:

REV 8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

REV 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

REV 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REV 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

REV 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Then comes the asteroid hit. What's the Mayan calendar predict for the end of the world, blam? Was it 2008?
222 posted on 01/01/2004 10:54:54 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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