What Do You Think About This...

[TheMusicMan]

Hiya,

I did see some news on TV and did a little research on the net and found some sources..

Let me know what you think about that:

End of the human race ? (http://www.thisisbristol.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=127638&command=displayContent&sourceNode=127637&contentPK=7002734)

From the sources:

The biggest threat to mankind was revealed yesterday to be a deadly supervolcano bubbling away under one of the world's most famous national parks. Vulcanologists say the seismic hotspot is ready to blow and will spell Armageddon for our planet.

The doomsday warning comes only a week after astronomers claimed an asteroid was on a lethal collision course with Earth and is expected to hit on March 21, 2004. The impact and aftershock was said to be enough to wipe out the entire human race.

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Check the link for more info

[RGX]

:o

[Gemby!]

If i die i want to be eating these luvly icepole things

they are luvly :o *dribble

[pol]

we've had our chance, and arsed it. let the gerbil's have a bash i say

[Gemby!]

what about the kitty.......... :'(

[Lilmiss]

:o

[TheDave]

i thought it was supposed to be an earthquake or nuclear haulocaust. :huh:

[3rd gen noob]

i suppose someone could just make a huge cork to stick in the volcano...:P

[TheMusicMan]

Well i am also not that worried about the asteroid thingy since they always can be wrong but umm the activity with this volcano is really a bad thing.

Scared me...

[pol]

Originally posted by gemby!@16 September 2003 - 19:14
what about the kitty.......... :'(


yep, the cats should get their chance too. if it wasnt for the dinosaurs being so kind as to roll over for us, we wouldnt be typing to each other now. you wouldnt get a cat worrying about when 'matrix revolutions' is out when there's big ass volcanoes in their gardens

[RGX]

someone will come up with something to stop it....wont they?

[TheDave]

maybe icp were right :o

[Snee]

How many dooms-day threats are we up to now?
Asteroids, War, Earthquakes, Asteroids, Asteroids and then this....

If every threat is as bad as they say we ought not be here still (it's what I tell myself anyhow).

(Almost forgot the smiley.... :o )

[TheDave]

http://www.aristotle.net/~bhuie/code20.htm

these will either scare you or reassure you depending on how you look at it

[Snee]

Btw, researchers say that the next Ice-age is very much overdue as well, maybe we should place bets.

You know, to see what hits us first.

[TheDave]

Originally posted by SnnY@16 September 2003 - 19:31
Btw, researchers say that the next Ice-age is very much overdue as well, maybe we should place bets.

You know, to see what hits us first.
do a poll

war?
ice age?
asteroid?
volcano/earthquake?
jesus?

[Snee]

I'd go with Jesus :lol: , I like an underdog.

Anyhow, this is just an observation, but how come all the doomsday threats I can remember right now have been detected by American scientists?

[TheDave]

cos all the others are doing useful things like looking for a cure for cancer?

[Gemby!]

and i think its the american hobo ''scientists' that are finding these things out :ph34r:

[thewizeard]

Originally posted by Darker@16 September 2003 - 20:02
Hiya,

I did see some news on TV and did a little research on the net and found some sources..

Let me know what you think about that:

End of the human race ? (http://www.thisisbristol.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=127638&command=displayContent&sourceNode=127637&contentPK=7002734)

From the sources:

The biggest threat to mankind was revealed yesterday to be a deadly supervolcano bubbling away under one of the world's most famous national parks. Vulcanologists say the seismic hotspot is ready to blow and will spell Armageddon for our planet.

The doomsday warning comes only a week after astronomers claimed an asteroid was on a lethal collision course with Earth and is expected to hit on March 21, 2004. The impact and aftershock was said to be enough to wipe out the entire human race.

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Check the link for more info
If that happens then we will have to rename the equinox to something like the equiknocks. :blink:

[Snee]

This is a little more positive (http://yowusa.com/Archive/Aug2003/volcanism4/volcanism4.htm), it still says that there might be a boom but not that it is regular as clockwork.

I did a bit more of research as well and it appears that there are indications of this being a waning cycle in analyses made on the zircon and quartz layers.

Edit: And add this, the BBC documentary allegedly mainly used data from 1973 to make their prediction, Yellowstone erupted once albeit in smaller scale 160000 years ago, and another pretty brutal volcano has gone off 28 times the last 40000 years or so Lake Taupo, new Zeeland. (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Taupo)

I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I'd say there's a fair chance of this not happening.

[TheMusicMan]

Well lets hope it's just some summer story for the press - you never know but they really start to report it on TV here lol odd.

Found another link:

http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/monitoring.html

if people want more info. I don't want to make panic etc - it's just very interesting what kind of dangers are "around us" ;)

[Snee]

This stuff is cool, just don't worry to much until it happens, or at least everyone who knows about these things says it will happen, and I mean soon, not some foggy "in the next mumblemumble years". Don't know about the astereoid, though. ;)

[thewizeard]

Well there is no point paying for my life-insurance anymore.....Darker, when I look at the place for your avatar, I see, ban, unban,rename and apply. Is that Your avatar or a joke?

[TheDave]

i saw a thing about the astaroid. the one thats closest to hitting us maybe in 2008, they were gonna nuke it but it might not work if its pouros

[Snee]

Another observation btw, it appears that the magnitude of the reported threat is is proportional to the the distance of the reporters to the volcano.

BBC talks about nuclear winter and America coated in molten lava, whereas I see American sites recommending you to stock up on filter masks and emergency supplies.

Edit: that wouldn't work very well against a stream of lava or far-below-zero temperatures, now would it?

Edit: i don't look at any religious sites btw, American or otherwise, if it says "the end times" and goes on about the bible, then I avoid it.

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

;) I am at peace with GOD.....even though I still do not think I will be going to Heaven(or whatever people want to call it).

There are People who have passed that I want to see.....and if we are all going to die at the same time and nobody will be left anyway.....well I have no problem with that.

FC B)

[TheMusicMan]

Originally posted by nigel123@16 September 2003 - 21:19
Well there is no point paying for my life-insurance anymore.....Darker, when I look at the place for your avatar, I see, ban, unban,rename and apply. Is that Your avatar or a joke?
Its some avatar that my little brother uses :) He hangs out in a lot of forums and picked that one up one day :P

I linked that "joke avatar" to a "user banned" page and believe me a lot of people did try to click it ;)

Btw. about that volcano stuff - I don't take it too serious but it's very interesting to see such things since normally people only talk about the NEO's (near earth objects) but it seems like such stuff is pretty scary too

[thewizeard]

Yes i :o clicked it too. I tried to rename you K-lighter...

edit: about a year ago there was a warning about a possible collision. The calculations turned out to be a little inaccurate and the asteroid missed us by a few million kilometers. BUT that's still pretty close on a cosmic scale....

[-Archwolf-]

we got all those nerds who are making plans to stop this vulcano


Right?? :( :unsure: :'(

[MUSLEMAN]

Originally posted by Archwolf-@16 September 2003 - 17:53
we got all those nerds who are making plans to stop this vulcano


Right?? :( :unsure: :'(
ya they are going to drop a huge glacier in it, but then.....

[clocker]

I'm not sure why folks are surprised...

People in the forum have been saying that the US is screwing up the world for a long time.

[Wolfmight]

Originally posted by MUSLEMAN+16 September 2003 - 18:25--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (MUSLEMAN @ 16 September 2003 - 18:25)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Archwolf&#045;@16 September 2003 - 17:53
we got all those nerds who are making plans to stop this vulcano


Right??&nbsp; :(&nbsp; :unsure:&nbsp; :&#39;(
ya they are going to drop a huge glacier in it, but then..... [/b][/quote]
the weight of that would just break it open

[MagicNakor]

I think the point was the glacier would melt, causing a giant flood. ;)

:ninja:

[hobbes]

Well, what do you do when a boiler is about to blow? You do a controlled venting. Maybe we could build a conduit to the Pacific and create a giant penisula made out of cooling lava.

[j2k4]

Originally posted by hobbes@16 September 2003 - 21:42
Well, what do you do when a boiler is about to blow? You do a controlled venting. Maybe we could build a conduit to the Pacific and create a giant penisula made out of cooling lava.
All for that, I am. :)

[lynx]

Have I got this right ?

An asteroid is going to smash into Yellowstone National Park, creating a hugh volcanic eruption. The lava flow will create a land bridge to Hawaii. The US, believing it is under attack by terrorists will launch it&#39;s nuclear missiles at random. The increased heat will melt the polar icecaps causing widespread flooding. The resulting dust cloud will blot out the sun, and trigger the next Ice Age.

Sounds like an interesting plot for a movie.

[thewizeard]

Originally posted by lynx@17 September 2003 - 11:47
Have I got this right ?

An asteroid is going to smash into Yellowstone National Park, creating a hugh volcanic eruption. The lava flow will create a land bridge to Hawaii. The US, believing it is under attack by terrorists will launch it&#39;s nuclear missiles at random. The increased heat will melt the polar icecaps causing widespread flooding. The resulting dust cloud will blot out the sun, and trigger the next Ice Age.

Sounds like an interesting plot for a movie.
No as usual you have got it wrong. The ingenuity of the Americans will create the land bridge to Hawaii&#33;

[TheMusicMan]

Originally posted by lynx@17 September 2003 - 11:47
Sounds like an interesting plot for a movie.
Yup the combination of all this would be in fact an interesting movie

[lynx]

Originally posted by nigel123+17 September 2003 - 11:24--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (nigel123 @ 17 September 2003 - 11:24)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-lynx@17 September 2003 - 11:47
Have I got this right ?

An asteroid is going to smash into Yellowstone National Park, creating a hugh volcanic eruption. The lava flow will create a land bridge to Hawaii. The US, believing it is under attack by terrorists will launch it&#39;s nuclear missiles at random. The increased heat will melt the polar icecaps causing widespread flooding. The resulting dust cloud will blot out the sun, and trigger the next Ice Age.

Sounds like an interesting plot for a movie.
No as usual you have got it wrong. The ingenuity of the Americans will create the land bridge to Hawaii&#33; [/b][/quote]
Sorry, Middelburg is one of the first places to go when the icecaps melt. It&#39;s no good throwing rotten tomatoes.

[thewizeard]

Sorry, I thought you could use those rotten tomatoes for your bolognese sauce. That&#39;s what they are normally used for.....

[Spock4]

THIS IS BULLSH&#33;T

[gdsb]

Originally posted by Darker@16 September 2003 - 19:02
Hiya,

I did see some news on TV and did a little research on the net and found some sources..

Let me know what you think about that:

End of the human race ? (http://www.thisisbristol.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=127638&command=displayContent&sourceNode=127637&contentPK=7002734)

From the sources:

The biggest threat to mankind was revealed yesterday to be a deadly supervolcano bubbling away under one of the world&#39;s most famous national parks. Vulcanologists say the seismic hotspot is ready to blow and will spell Armageddon for our planet.

The doomsday warning comes only a week after astronomers claimed an asteroid was on a lethal collision course with Earth and is expected to hit on March 21, 2004. The impact and aftershock was said to be enough to wipe out the entire human race.

------

Check the link for more info
I think thats false, I always herd that

[Rip The Jacker]

Originally posted by Spock4@17 September 2003 - 17:02
THIS IS BULLSH&#33;T
I sure hope so. :o :unsure:

[MUSLEMAN]

well we got the hurricane coming thru so if you guys notice the # of post drop dramtically you know why :( hope i can live thru this hurricane so i can burn with the hot ashes of the volcaino or maybe i will be lucky enough to be around for the astroid :lol: :lol:

[MUSLEMAN]

Originally posted by Darker+17 September 2003 - 07:36--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Darker @ 17 September 2003 - 07:36)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-lynx@17 September 2003 - 11:47
Sounds like an interesting plot for a movie.
Yup the combination of all this would be in fact an interesting movie [/b][/quote]
well what are we waiting for lets produce it and make more money :lol: that way i won&#39;t have to work the 2 long hours a day i work now :lol: :lol: :lol:

[MediaSlayer]

Was it an "American Scientist" that discovered the plaque?