zidd: You'd be one of the lucky ones. The rest of us will be stuck bartering Jack Daniels or sex for food.
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Is the Yellowstone caldera safe? You decide...
by Nathan Natas infrom: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/12890.
scientists on alert after hundreds of earthquakes daily rattle yellowstone national park.
over the course of the past two weeks, more than one-hundred mostly small earthquakes per day, on average, have shaken up a remote area of yellowstone national park in wyoming.
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Is the Yellowstone caldera safe? You decide...
by Nathan Natas infrom: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/12890.
scientists on alert after hundreds of earthquakes daily rattle yellowstone national park.
over the course of the past two weeks, more than one-hundred mostly small earthquakes per day, on average, have shaken up a remote area of yellowstone national park in wyoming.
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daniel-p
Check this article out for Yellowstone fallout: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/article.shtml
Supervolcano The world's biggest bang
A global disaster never witnessed by modern man may one day mushroom above the pine forests and hot springs of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
While ordinary volcanoes can kill thousands of people and destroy entire cities, it's thought a supervolcano could claim up to a billion lives and devastate continents.
Heavy stuff: Ash from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines settles on the tail section of a World Airways DC-10, causing it to tilt onto its rear wheels.
It's very likely a super-eruption would shutdown airports worldwide.
"A super-eruption is the world's biggest bang", says Prof. Bill McGuire of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at the University of London. "It's a volcanic explosion big enough to dwarf all others and with a reach great enough to affect everyone on the planet".
Considering their destructive potential, it's a good thing super-eruptions are so rare – the last one happened in Toba, Indonesia, about 74,000 years ago. Geologists think these eruptions take place about every 50,000 years, which suggests one is overdue.
About 40 supervolcanoes are dotted across the globe. There are two in Britain – one in Glencoe, Scotland, the other in Scafell in the Lake District. However, most supervolcanoes, including those in Britain, burned out long ago.
Yellowstone, located in the western state, Wyoming, is a dormant supervolcano, which means a major eruption could happen in the future. But before you get worried, it's important to remember that most volcano experts say a Yellowstone super-eruption is probably a long way off, or it may never happen at all.
Super size: About 2.1 m years ago the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted 2,500 times more ash than Mount St Helens (pictured).
Read about the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption on BBC On This Day.
"It's far more likely, if there is an eruption, it'll be on a small scale, perhaps comparable to Mt St Helens," says volcano expert Prof. Steve Sparks of the University of Bristol.
Although they're called 'super', most people would have trouble spotting a supervolcano. Their main feature is a large magma chamber, which is an underground reservoir filled with flowing, hot rock under huge pressures.
Some stats on the Yellowstone supervolcano:
- A super-eruption would equal the force of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs exploding every second.
- You could fit Tokyo, the world's biggest city, in Yellowstone's super-volcanic crater.
- Three super-eruptions at Yellowstone appear to have occurred on a 600,000-700,000 year cycle starting 2.1 million years ago. The most recent took place 640,000 years ago – suggesting Yellowstone is overdue for an eruption.
Ash
US television networks would probably bring the first news of a Yellowstone super-eruption to the UK. It probably wouldn't take long for the first physical signs to appear.
Within 3-4 days, a fine dusting of ash could fall across Europe, according to a UK Met Office computer forecast commissioned by the BBC. The computer model predicts how ash would spread following a nine-day June eruption of 1000 cubic km of ash and gas from Yellowstone.River of fire: Lava streams from the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea in 1959.
Although it may look bad, geologists consider such eruptions to be 'quiet'. Explosive eruptions like supervolcanoes pose a much greater threat to humans.
The model shows that the fallout from a Yellowstone super-eruption could affect three quarters of the US. The greatest danger would be within 1,000 km of the blast where 90 per cent of people could be killed. Large numbers of people would die across the country – inhaled ash forms a cement-like mixture in human lungs. Even the US East Coast could be paralysed by 1cm of ash.
Many people think that lava flows are the most dangerous volcanic hazards, but ash is often the biggest killer. Because supervolcanoes are highly explosive, much of the magma doesn't get a chance to become lava. Instead it is blasted into countless airborne ash particles – tiny scorching particles of jagged rock.
Ash can:
- Kill and sicken humans and animals
- Reduce sunlight
- Trigger rainfall causing mudslides known as lahars
- Severely disrupt air, road and rail transport
- Crush buildings – 30 cm of dry ash is enough to collapse a roof
- Contaminate water supplies
- Kill crops and other vegetation
- Clog machinery such as air filters.
The worst of these effects would not be experienced in Europe where the ash covering would only amount to a dusting.
Useful stuff: A Washington State resident sweeps ash from his roof after the eruption of Mount St Helens.
Ash creates numerous hazards, but it also has positive uses. Fertilisers, soaps, household cleaners, metal polish and cement often contain volcanic ash.
Climate change
The most wide reaching effect of a Yellowstone eruption would be much colder weather.Volcanoes can inject sulphur gas into the upper atmosphere, forming sulphuric acid aerosols that rapidly spread around the globe. Scientists believe sulphuric aerosols are the main cause of climatic cooling after an eruption.
Aerosols in the upper atmosphere would also scatter sunlight making the sky look like a cloudy winter morning all day long. The skies in Europe would appear red in the days after the eruption.
To predict how the climate may be affected, the BBC relied on historic data from the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago and computer model forecasts commissioned from the UK Met Office and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg.
Experts believe a Yellowstone eruption would inject 2,000 million tonnes of sulphur 40-50km above the Earth's surface. Once there it would take 2-3 weeks for the resulting sulphuric acid aerosols to cloak the globe – with devastating effects.
Global annual average temperatures would drop by up to 10 degrees, according to computer predictions. And the Northern Hemisphere could cool by up to 12 degrees. Experts say colder temperatures could last 6-10 years, gradually returning to normal.
Scientists predict that the Monsoon would fail as a result of even larger temperature changes in the Southern Hemisphere, causing mass starvation in the Asian countries that depend on these life-giving rains.
Temperatures in Europe could be at least 5 degrees cooler the summer after the eruption.
The actual effects of a Yellowstone super-eruption could be different depending on the size of eruption, the time of year and any number of other factors.
How likely is all of this?
An event as massive as a super-eruption would change the Earth and our society forever. It's difficult to predict the full devastation that would follow. We know there would be great loss of life and ill health, changes to our planet and major economic losses.Scientists believe another super-eruption will happen someday. They can't completely discount a Yellowstone eruption in the near future, but the chances of this happening are extremely remote.
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Is the Yellowstone caldera safe? You decide...
by Nathan Natas infrom: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/12890.
scientists on alert after hundreds of earthquakes daily rattle yellowstone national park.
over the course of the past two weeks, more than one-hundred mostly small earthquakes per day, on average, have shaken up a remote area of yellowstone national park in wyoming.
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daniel-p
Oh and y'all should watch this if you haven't yet: http://www.amazon.com/Yellowstone-Battle-Blu-ray-Peter-Firth/dp/B002EWD0D6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1265141206&sr=8-3
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Priceless gems from JW Match
by highdose inhighdose is still putting in the preaching hours so to speak;) and had come accross these little beauties on the above website, read em and weep.... .
baboushka: i need help with learning the new songs, please help me please help me please help me... i was considering that the best person looks wise could be a soloman lookalike but with the nature of peter.. chogg84:heys jehovahs!
want some chogg in your life?.
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daniel-p
"the lords seed is in me" lol
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Is the Yellowstone caldera safe? You decide...
by Nathan Natas infrom: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/12890.
scientists on alert after hundreds of earthquakes daily rattle yellowstone national park.
over the course of the past two weeks, more than one-hundred mostly small earthquakes per day, on average, have shaken up a remote area of yellowstone national park in wyoming.
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daniel-p
If Yellowstone blows we're all fucked. So visiting Yellowstone shouldn't present any more quantifiable risk than stepping outside your house and getting hit by a meteor.
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What happened to your marriage after you stopped believing?
by JerkhovahsWitless ini know some posters here went through or are going through some painful things right now because of no longer believing when they have a husband / wife that still does.
others were able to free the minds of their spouse.
i'm assuming the latter is a lot more rare.. anyone that wishes to share their story, please do.. i'm looking to pass the info on to someone who doesn't totally believe, but may marry a jw.
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daniel-p
Nice to hear your stories, Yippy and Sacolton, especialy to see there is "life" after the death of a marriage. I am out, my wife is in, and we have had our ups and downs. I have learned to not talk about religious things with her, and I try to emphasize common ground whenever I can. I think key to this is doing it, not with the goal of getting her out, but in just having a happy and supportive relationship. If I was to do it merely to get her out, I would make her and certainly make myself less content.
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Is It Important To You To Have A Religion or A Certain Belief System?
by minimus ini've mentioned before---i'm all "religioned" out!.
i don't have a certain set of beliefs yet i still hope there is a god and contrary to what some have assumed, i'm not an agnostic or athiest (yet)..
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daniel-p
I think everyone needs a moral code, but an entire "belief system" seems too retrictive to learn from life as you go along.
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JW Tall Tales
by lancelink inrecently i was cleaning my bookcase and found an old book that i enjoyed as a child.
it had stories in it such as paul bunyan, pecos bill, and john henry.
while these stories are fictional, i enjoyed them because they were entertaining, and easy to understand.. fast forward to the late 70's when i was a teenager sitting at the ca hall in janesville wisconsin.. the speaker was explaining the great sacrifice god made in sending his son down to earth to die for all mankind.
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daniel-p
Could we be overlooking the greatest JW Tall Tale of all, the Smurfs Walk Out of Kingdom Hall story?
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JW Tall Tales
by lancelink inrecently i was cleaning my bookcase and found an old book that i enjoyed as a child.
it had stories in it such as paul bunyan, pecos bill, and john henry.
while these stories are fictional, i enjoyed them because they were entertaining, and easy to understand.. fast forward to the late 70's when i was a teenager sitting at the ca hall in janesville wisconsin.. the speaker was explaining the great sacrifice god made in sending his son down to earth to die for all mankind.
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daniel-p
How about the murderer on the run (or other random violent criminal) who opened the door to a little old JW lady with two big guys behind her who later turned out to be angels from heaven sent to protect said little old lady.
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Why Do I Not Care Anymore? Possibly a Rhetorical Question
by cantleave inthere was a time, not so very long ago, when a purpose in life was so important to me.
it mattered to me what i believed as to how we came here.
it mattered to me what happens after death.
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daniel-p
I think I understand what you're saying, and I've felt the same things recently. I think that a lot of us are in a state of transition, and it's a glorious state when we shouldn't try so hard to figure the entire world out and the secret to life and happiness and everything else.
In a way, it's a relief to just take it one day at a time, live in the moment, and leave the rest for later. Ironically, I think it just comes down to what Solomon said: beyond working, living day to day, spending time with family and eating good food, what the hell does anything matter? The entire universe is in a whirling state of shifting matter, and our atoms simply go back into everything else.
