Posted on 04/01/2005 3:01:49 PM PST by DannyTN
Sure. These things have happened and will happen. On our watch? Hah! The Red Sox will win the World Series first.
No, no when the Detroit Lions win the Super Bowl, then it really will be time to panic.
DannyTN just showed you one in the USA.
Bummer mate.
Yellowstone is a supervolcano. Seriously, what is all the steam and sulfur and frequent earthquakes all about? And that is when it is quiescent.
Well, that ought to take care of Global Warming ;O).
Enjoy the day, Mate.
BFD - So what can anybody DO about it?
Woo haw! Another gloom & doom we're all gonna die article.
Smoehow I figure if they keep writing them, it won't happen.
No it won't. It is scientific fact that the moon is moving away from the earth. It will someday be gone but it will never collide with the earth.
The biggest badest volcano of them all is right here in the good old USA,Yellowstone, and it goes off large about every 600,000 years. And the last large eruption was, you guessed it, 600,000 years ago.
Oh, sure. These things have been happening for millions of years and will happen again.
Maybe tomorrow, maybe not for another 10,000 years. But 10,000 years is but a blip on a geological scale.
We need to start bleeding off the excess energy at these supervolcano sites.
In the beginning the moon was only 40,000 miles away. can you imagine that the tides must have been like! yikes!
Well, actually, we are all going to die.
Volcano by JIMMY BUFFETT
I don't know
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
Let me say now I don't know
I don't know
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Ground she's movin' under me
Tidal waves out on the sea
Sulphur smoke up in the sky
Pretty soon we learn to fly
Chorus:
Let me hear ya now I don't know
I don't know
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Now my girl quickly say to me
Mon you better watch your feet
Lava come down soft and hot
You better lava me now or lava me not
Chorus:
Let me say now I don't know
I don't know
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
-- Spoken: "Mr Utley..."
No time to count what I'm worth
'Cause I just left the planet earth
Where I go I hope there's rum
Not to worry mon soon come
Chorus:
Now I don't know
I don't know
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
One more now I don't know (ah he don't know)
I don't know (he don't know, mon)
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
But I don't want to land in New York City
Don't want to land in Mexico (no no no)
Don't want to land on no Three Mile Island
Don't want to see my skin aglow (no no no)
Don't want to land in Commanche Sky park
Or in Nashville, Tennessee (no no no)
Don't want to land in no San Juan airport
Or the Yukon Territory (no no no)
Don't want to land no San Diego
Don't want to land in no Buzzards Bay (no no no)
Don't want to land on no Ayotollah
I got nothing more to say
Chorus:
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
Just a one more, I don't know (he don't know)
I don't know (I don't know, man)
I don't know where I'm a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Not as bad as the instability when the moon is gone though. Apparently it will make the earth uninhabitable.
I would love to have seen Krakatoa when she blew. My father spent many years retelling me the story of how a ship in English waters heard the explosion and thought it was a nearby ship in distress.
I'd also would've love to have seen Vesuvius when she blew. Pliny the Elder did, but then he and his little boat were 'bye bye' after he saw it, so I guess I will just have to postpone my Sumatra vacation and ask those living there to
GET THE HECK OUTATHERE!
The Ring of Fire is not just a Johnny Cash song.
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