Where Ya Gonna Go When The Volcano Blows?

 

1. If this “super-volcano” ever blows up, we all might need to find another planet to “borrow” for a few decades. From what I’ve read about the possibilities, this one, at full-steam-ahead could make Tambora or Krakatoa look like a popped pimple by comparison. Yogi Bear and BooBoo would be definitely SOL. Discovery Channel recently did a mini-series on just this very scenario.

   Forget “glowball warming”, “green house gasses”, “ozone holes” and eeeeeevil freon, and all the rest of the usual enviro-nutz panic-mongering, this would render all of that to be meaningless drivel in very short order. Nuclear winter, hell, this would be a whole new ice age scenario, mass extinctions, etc…

   Posted by Rat Patrol       03/02/2006  at  02:47 PM  



2. I’m going to 3 Mile Island.

   I wanna see my skin afloat

   Karl Rove was the one who caused 3 Mile Island

   Posted by Z Woof       03/02/2006  at  03:02 PM  



3. I told OCM in a previous comment he wouldn’t be far enough away when this one blows.  The one in Siberia caused the PT extinction 250MM years ago.  Unlike the big metors strike, there ain’t we can do to prevent this one.

   Posted by Oink       03/02/2006  at  03:06 PM  



4. I saw the Discovery Channel special on this one. Scared the living hell out of ME! As Oink pointed out ... there ain’t   anyone can do about it, and I might add, nowhere to hide

   Posted by Carguy       03/02/2006  at  04:08 PM  



5. I find it a little odd that “they” are basing this 600KY eruption period on two or three intervals between eruptions.  The first one being 2.1MYA, if it really was 600KY that passed, the next one would be 1.5MYA, then 900KYA, then...300KYA. Hmm...something is rather fishy here…

   This is, of course, only counting caldera-forming eruptions...but those are the ones we are talking about here.

   Posted by Dac       03/02/2006  at  05:19 PM  



6. There’s no where any of us may go.  This would be the closest thing to a nuclear winter without popping nukes.

   Even stockpiling food and ammunition wouldn’t help.

   Posted by MAJ Mike       03/02/2006  at  05:20 PM  



7. I say again, Support The Space Program!—get some of us living off-planet.

   Posted by Oink       03/02/2006  at  06:14 PM  



8. We are all going to die   I might as well max out the visa and get that big screen tv and die happy

   Posted by kingaljr       03/02/2006  at  08:01 PM  



9. Ok ....... time to brush up on the old survival skills. Let’s see ....... start fire by rubbing old cliches together........ uh ...... do you have to skin the eco-weenies before you stick ‘em on the fire? ......... and just how long do you broil them for? Darn it, going to have get the manual out.

   Posted by bowshot4       03/03/2006  at  02:45 AM  



10. You are all fools, figures.

    My Father-in-law helped dig out those RINOs (Republican in name only) in Northern Nebraska.  A whole herd was smothered by 10 feet of ash.  It was so fast the babies were still sucking on their mothers.  This went down only 10,000 years ago.  I’ve seen cable TV programs about this site.  It was a little x-plozion that wiped out several states.  Atom bombs are itty bitty. 

    Missing link crouched upon a promontory rock
    Trying to figure out his biological clock
    No one around to announce his arrival
    So he?s got to get to work on his sense of survival (SOS)

    Oh, oh it?s a dangerous world

    Oh but in china they got smart real fast
    That?s where they invented the manmade blast
    They lost a few fingers and some bamboo shacks
    But they gave birth to a tribe of pyromaniancs

    Oh, oh it?s a dangerous world (dangerous world dangerous world)
    Fire in the sky, lava in the ocean
    Sitting around waiting for the next explosion

    Back in the 50s they thought it made good sense
    To teach all the school children ?bout civil defense
    Don?t be scared (don?t be scared)
    Do not cry (please don?t cry)
    Just dive under your desk and kiss your ass goodbye

    Oh, oh such a dangerous world (dangerous world dangerous world)

    It was a hell of a hustle
    Paranoia promotion
    Everybody duck and cover just waitin? for the next explosion

    Where?re you gonna be when it hits the fan
    Got a plan
    Whatcha gonna do if it lands on you
    Where?s your point of view (POV) - ..let’s get drunk and..

    Down at the beach club there?s a sales convention
    Night sky is the focus of that crowd?s attention
    It?s no cosmic collision just a fireworks show
    But they feel it in their hearts when those concussion bombs
    blow

    Oh, oh such a dangerous world (dangerous world dangerous world)

    Gunpowder?s louder than newton?s law of motion
    Everybody?s waiting for the next explosion

    Fire on the sky falling in the ocean
    Sitting around waiting for the next explosion
    (sitting around waiting for the next explosion - Jimmy Buffett

    That’s why I moved to the Sunshine State

    Less Volcanos - More Hurricanes (Except in Tampa Bay)    

    Posted by Z Woof       03/03/2006  at  04:50 AM  



11. And such a volcano explosion would pump more pollutants into the atmosphere than man ever has.

    Heck, the Mt St Helens eruption was what, ten years of pollution?

    Posted by Draven       03/03/2006  at  05:05 AM  



12. Just about any volcano eruption spews out more “bad stuff” than many years’(or decades) worth of industrial pollution and bovine flatulence combined. However, even the most massive eruption could never match the volume of hot air and toxic gasses produced by politicians and whining protesters

    Stand by, the ice age is coming :panic::panic::panic: :chicken little: :algore:

    Posted by Rat Patrol       03/03/2006  at  07:39 AM  



13. The only questions I have is, after the Super Volcano Blows, will the media blame George Bush for allowing it to happen?  And will anyone be alive to care?

    Posted by rudebadger       03/03/2006  at  07:48 AM  

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