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Post by droow2 on Aug 2, 2009 14:43:50 GMT -8
Not even remotely relevant to the purpose of this section, but I just saw this and thought it was amazing/ominous. Almost 126 years to the day Krakatoa erupted again. Last time it killed 36,000 people and changed the global climate for years.
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Post by commandax on Aug 2, 2009 15:02:04 GMT -8
Have you heard of the " year without a summer"? It happened in 1816, the year after the massive eruption of Mt. Tambora. The particulate it ejected into the atmosphere created a global cooling trend that lasted for years... causing global famine, among other things. It was also the year Mary Shelley and her friends spent the summer in Switzerland, but were housebound due to the weather... and as a result, they played a literary game which eventually resulted in her writing Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. However, I'm going to move this thread over into General, Droow2. Don't want to get this section off-track this early in the game.
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Post by bigstrunso on Aug 2, 2009 21:38:58 GMT -8
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Post by thecreep on Aug 2, 2009 21:54:43 GMT -8
One of the professors at my college has been freaking about volcanoes. Specifically Yellowstone. Since Yellowstone is listed as a Supervolcano, and if erupted would have the ability to cover half of the US in ash killing all life. It's cycle of eruption is thought to be every 600,000 years, and hasn't erupted for 640,000 years. Mini earthquakes in the area have been giving the impression that pressure is building. As far as I'm concerned, if it erupts, it erupts. Maybe I'll be one of the lucky ones and my body will be captured for future generations in the ash, like those from Pompeii, but I would have to be closer for that.
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Post by jemappellekat on Aug 2, 2009 21:55:11 GMT -8
On a much smaller scale, I spent one of my birthdays at Volcan Arenal with some friends while I was living in Costa Rica... I loved watching the lava flow at night through a telescope.
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