[Carry_Okie]

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?

[Syncro]

Portable Volcano

[Lucy Lake]

I know you asked blam, but I found this on google:

"The Classic Mayan civilization was unique and left us a way to incorporate higher dimensional knowledge of time and creation by leaving us the Tzolkin calendar. The Mayans invented the calendars we use today. The present calendar ends in the year 2012."

[rwfromkansas]

I think it was like Dec. 11, 2012 or so.

[rwfromkansas]

IIRC, they predicted the date of their own demise, so I will probably go through the last date on their calendar wondering if something will happen. Probably nothing will and I will be fine.

Dec. 21, 2012 is the date their calendar ends for some reason. Apparently, there is some major astronomical event that will happen then that may be why they chose the date. We will see if anything happens then I guess.

[MissAmericanPie]

The Myan calander places the year of the end at 2012, the same date that the bible codes place the astroid impact.

The codes also place a massive earth quake in California in 2010.

[Quix]

Great post.

[bootless]

Thanks for that, Carry_Okie. I agree with you about the 600K year frequency, but that's only what common sense I have talking, not any expertise.

[Well, as my pastor often says, "I've read the end of the Book, and you know what? We win." :-) ]