Thanks for that link as well

Post #51,379 by ben_tilly 9/11/02 11:11:49 AM Reply	Thanks for that link as well Scary. I hadn't heard of that eruption before, but easily [link\|http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/southeast_asia/indonesia/toba.html\|verified] that it happened. (A skill that kids don't learn and should. Immediately sanity test anything that you hear. With Google it has become amazingly easy to do so, pretty much no matter what the topic is. If more of us had the habit then misinformation would have a much shorter lifespan.) Cheers, Ben "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]
Post #51,388 by deSitter 9/11/02 11:42:06 AM Reply	Re: Thanks for that link as well "Pyroclastic flows covered an area of 20000 sq. km" Let's put this statement into context: think of circle 175 miles across, in which everything has been rolled over by thousand degree gases and ash clouds. Imagine the entire state of New Jersey, incinerated and then buried. I saw estimates that ejecta were propelled up to 50 miles up. -drl
Post #51,389 by drewk 9/11/02 11:44:21 AM Reply	Yeeees, imaaaaaaaaaagine ... Imagine the entire state of New Jersey, incinerated and then buried. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #51,410 by altmann 9/11/02 1:32:32 PM Reply	if (font_size > NORMAL) sanity_test_required = true; // :) And if a volcanic eruption doesn't get us, perhaps the [link\|http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/010831tsunami/\|mega-tsunami] will. -- Chris Altmann
Post #51,421 by drewk 9/11/02 2:14:09 PM Reply	Were we watching the same shows? Saw the one about the mega-tsunami right before/after the one about the volcanos. Might as well have called it the "All scary shit, all day" weekend. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #51,424 by inthane-chan 9/11/02 2:18:39 PM Reply	Throw on top of that... ...wandering massive objects to peturb orbits, local cluster supernova, airborne versions of ebola hauled around the world by our efficient transport system, ice age/global warming, environmental collapse, etc. Gee, I shouldn't even bother gettin' up tomorrow, ya think? ;) End of world rescheduled for day after tomorrow. Something should probably be done. Please advise.
Post #51,432 by altmann 9/11/02 3:14:33 PM Reply	Yep. And I found transcripts of the shows. I first saw them back to back. They've shown them separately a few times since then. They were on the Discovery Channel. It looks like they are the same as these two BBC shows: [link\|http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml\|Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction] [link\|http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/supervolcanoes.shtml\|Supervolcanoes] A link to the transcript of each show is at the bottom of each page. I couldn't find any sign of the shows on the Discovery Channel's website or schedule for the next couple of weeks. -- Chris Altmann

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