At least that should take care of global warming ... !
On 10/13/17, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gad Zoocks!!!
This is better than the mystery planet that is on target to slam into
Earth any time between last November and who knows when. We'll know
it, when we come to a sudden stop and then get flung into Deep Outer
Space.
My elder sister tells me that this was given to her by a skinny Gray
Alien as he was leading her through her apartment wall and into the
"lift" that took her into the bowels of the Mother Ship. After doing
rude stuff to her private parts, she awoke in her own bed.
So Ha Ha Ha on you, old Mister Donald John Trump!
Carl Jarvis
On 10/13/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is a recent novel, the title and author of which I forget, in the
postapocalyptic genre about the survivors after that Yellowstone volcano
blows.
On 10/13/2017 11:10 AM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Friday, October 13, 2017
Forget Trump, This Huge Volcano Could Literally Wipe Out Life on Earth
Published on
Thursday, October 12, 2017
by
Common Dreams
Forget Trump, This Huge Volcano Could Literally Wipe Out Life on Earth
If only for a moment, this story is forcing many to put the current
political chaos "into perspective"
by
Jake Johnson, staff writer
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"This story will help you stop worrying about Trump for a moment," wrote
MoveOn.org's Ben Wikler. (Photo: Tom Murphy/National Geographic
Creative)
Yes, Donald Trump is president. And yes, he has access to the nuclear
codes—a fact that has become all too vivid in recent weeks. But many
allowed themselves to forget, if only for a brief moment, about the man
in
the White House on Thursday to hone their attention on what is
potentially
an even more horrifying development. As USA Today reported, new research
indicates that the supervolcano resting beneath Yellowstone National
Park
"may blow sooner than thought, an eruption that could wipe out life on
the
planet."
"We are all just living at the mercy of the super volcano under
Yellowstone. Puts things into perspective doesn't it?"
—Josh Fox
USA Today's Matthew Diebel notes that Arizona State University
researchers
have "analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent
mega-eruption and found changes in temperature and composition that had
only taken a few decades. Until now, the magazine reported, geologists
had
thought it would take centuries for the supervolcano to make the
transition."
"The discovery, which was presented at a recent volcanology conference,
comes on top of a 2011 study that found that ground above the magma
reservoir in Yellowstone had bulged by about 10 inches in seven years,"
Diebel adds.
Scientists believe that the volcano's last supereruption took place
around
631,000 years ago. As the New York Times notes, researchers "suspect
that
a supereruption scars the planet every 100,000 years, causing many to
ask
when we can next expect such an explosive planet-changing event."
Though no one is attempting to put a time frame on the next eruption,
Hannah Shamloo of Arizona State University observed that it is "shocking
how little time is required to take a volcanic system from being quiet
and
sitting there to the edge of an eruption."
Amid the perpetual chaos of the American news cycle and the looming
threat
of war between nuclear-armed nations, commentators on social media met
the
possibly dire new research with a mixture of alarm and somber humor.
"We are all just living at the mercy of the super volcano under
Yellowstone," concluded director and environmentalist Josh Fox. "Puts
things into perspective doesn't it?"
The possibility that Yellowstone does us all in--as opposed to Trump's
temper--is oddly soothing: https://t.co/nDK0pBenPl
— Mike Riggs (@MikeRiggs) October 12, 2017
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