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Eruption that could wipe out millions
Time (UK) ^ | March 09, 2005 | Mark Henderson

Posted on 03/09/2005 6:15:28 AM PST by burlywood

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To: randog

I should know better than to be drinking my coffee when reading replies on these kinds of threads...I gotta change my shirt.


61 posted on 03/09/2005 8:37:47 AM PST by scottywr (The Dims new strategy..."If we lose enough elections, we'll get the sympathy vote.")
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To: mc5cents

Well there you have it, the real research here is trying to find the right virgins that can calm the beast.


62 posted on 03/09/2005 8:41:00 AM PST by scottywr (The Dims new strategy..."If we lose enough elections, we'll get the sympathy vote.")
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To: jusduat
Psssst, I hate to tell anyone this, won't tell anyone, will y'a......

Nobody gets out of life alive.......

Keep it under your hat......I'm still betting on the giant space goat..
63 posted on 03/09/2005 8:42:48 AM PST by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: jusduat
Psssst, I hate to tell anyone this, won't tell anyone, will y'a......

Nobody gets out of life alive.......

Keep it under your hat......I'm still betting on the giant space goat..
64 posted on 03/09/2005 8:43:00 AM PST by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: jusduat
Psssst, I hate to tell anyone this, won't tell anyone, will y'a......

Nobody gets out of life alive.......

Keep it under your hat......I'm still betting on the giant space goat..
65 posted on 03/09/2005 8:43:00 AM PST by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: jusduat
Psssst, I hate to tell anyone this, won't tell anyone, will y'a......

Nobody gets out of life alive.......

Keep it under your hat......I'm still betting on the giant space goat..
66 posted on 03/09/2005 8:43:28 AM PST by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: lmailbvmbipfwedu

clickfinger trauma?


67 posted on 03/09/2005 8:50:08 AM PST by jusduat (I am a strange and recurring anomaly)
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To: burlywood

Ooops. Thought this had something to do with Ted Kennedy.


68 posted on 03/09/2005 8:50:26 AM PST by Mensius
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To: jusduat

sorry 'bout that...........


69 posted on 03/09/2005 8:54:59 AM PST by lmailbvmbipfwedu
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To: burlywood

In other news, we are due for Mount Vesuvius to explode again too.

Have that extra glass of wine this evening, you may regret not doing so later.

Regards, Ivan


70 posted on 03/09/2005 8:57:38 AM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: ravingnutter

Thanks! Turns out I had read it long before and posted on it.


71 posted on 03/09/2005 9:05:36 AM PST by technochick99 (Self defense is a basic human right ; Sig Sauer is my equalizer)
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To: JIM O

Better yet! The Bahamas.


72 posted on 03/09/2005 9:05:48 AM PST by rock58seg (The real enemy of good is perfect.)
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To: Savage Beast
Maybe we could make something like a gigantic cork to stop it up like a wine bottle.

Actually the problem is we have a "natural" cork in the bottle already. What we need to do is release the pressure before it can blow. I suggest we drill down to the magma and let it ooze to the suface before it reaches critical pressure. Of course drilling might be a problem what with the drills melting before we can get deep enough, but what the hey, americans are inventive I am sure we can figure it out!

In reality if this is on the menu of the future there isn't much we can do about it and if it happens, well it just will.

Besides, there are other places in the world where volcanos are building up to blow their stacks and it has happened before. Part of nature that the lefties are so fond of.

Witness Mt. St. Helen letting off a little steam yesterday and blowing it's top a few years ago.

So, lets all worry about this and start running in circles, like the old chinese proverb says, "when in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!".

73 posted on 03/09/2005 9:11:14 AM PST by calex59
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To: mc5cents
Oh, I don't know. How much can a couple of virgins cost to toss into the volcano? That should do it.

You are taking this very lightheartedly in an age when certain cities are cancelling their Christmas pageants/posadas, because they can't find three wisemen or a virgin.

74 posted on 03/09/2005 9:14:57 AM PST by rock58seg (The real enemy of good is perfect.)
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Ok, I just thought of something to add to my last post about drilling to ease the pressure at Yellowstone, but the technical aspects of drilling might stop us from doing that.

My solution is to use the ilegal immigrants to dig down to the magma level to ease the presure and forestall a volcanic eruption! Brilliant idea. We can give them amnesty and send them all to Yellowstone and pay them to work on the dig, we may lose a few million of them but so what, there are more where they come from, Right? We would be Solving two problems at once!

See? There is always a way if you just think hard enough.

75 posted on 03/09/2005 9:15:45 AM PST by calex59
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To: MadIvan
Have that extra glass of wine this evening, you may regret not doing so later.

That reminds me of a scene in Spike Milligan's war memoirs, I think it was Mussolini - His Part in My Downfall, I wonder if you have read it?

Spike was in a hospital camp for psychiatric patients in Italy in 1944 when Vesuvius erupted. He describes how, sat in a comfortable vantage point with several bottles of his favourite wine, he watched the eruption and enjoyed the surreal scene as assorted loonies from the camp ran around screaming with their pants on their heads. Hilarious.

76 posted on 03/09/2005 9:16:50 AM PST by burlywood
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To: Mr. K

"Then the anti-christ comes from a rocketship launched from Nibiru (Planet X) which approached unnoticed during all this commotion."

You don't think an advanced race such as the Nephilim still use rockets do you? HAH!


77 posted on 03/09/2005 9:17:00 AM PST by dljordan
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To: burlywood

Oops, make that Sicily.


78 posted on 03/09/2005 9:18:43 AM PST by burlywood
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To: burlywood

Doh! That's Etna... Geography, who needs it!


79 posted on 03/09/2005 9:19:42 AM PST by burlywood
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To: burlywood
I'm confused now!

We are now being told that Yellowstone was created by a super volcano.

Was the Grand Canyon created by glacier movement or super volcano?

80 posted on 03/09/2005 9:20:26 AM PST by TexasCajun
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