Biggest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia - Part 2

[alva]

In Europe, the people will have to move to Africa. I wonder how they would do that. Beg?

Nah, we would go American style and just take it.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
Bosko, I live West of Yellowstone. Those to the East die.

You're forgetting the effect that all that dust in the atmosphere would have upon crops. You'd starve.

[Ned]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


You're forgetting the effect that all that dust in the atmosphere would have upon crops. You'd starve.

True. But at least we'd have time to plan. Those in the East would be covered in several meters of volcanic dust ala Pompey. Only the cavedwellers will survive that.

[Dis]

I would just eat humans. I don't need food.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by alva

In Europe, the people will have to move to Africa. I wonder how they would do that. Beg?

Nah, we would go American style and just take it.

alva, you're forgetting: the poor intellectually starved Eurocoms would have to wait for the scientifically advanced Murrkins to invent navigation and shipbuilding.

[Dis]

shouldn't this thread be topped? It will take years for them to rebuild from this.

[Docfeelgood]

OMG if Yellowstone erupted...........it might wake up Godzilla.

We will be in for some real trouble then.

[Mr. Harley]

It's been bugging me since it was posted earlier - I just couldn't remember the name. It came in a tall cylindrical clear bottle (it was dark brown due to the syrup) whose size I would not be reliable on due to context. I loved the stuff as a kid - it was Bosco that was the chocolate syrup you added to milk and ice cream. You could also use the bottle afterwards as an ersatz flask to mix methylene blue or copper sulfate to treat the tropical fish you were breeding when they got sick, and due to the shape you felt like a real chemist (though it was not as stable as a true flask).

Reference the genetic drift in humans - yes it's been measure quite accurately back I believe in the early nineties. However, the assumption was a single localized set of mutations with drift afterwards. Some other statisticians challenged that assumption, and showed that the current genetic variability could have occured if modern man arose multiple times from a geographically dispersed common ancerstor, i.e. Homo erectus or something quite close to them.

As I noted, both groups put out a convincing argument, and the statistics is the Ph.D. level stuff that lesser mortals like myself have to study for days or weeks just to comprehend what's been written, let alone the merits of the case. I don't know if further research settled the debate, or it became a greenhouse gases/global warming issue, where orthodoxy has prevailed due to acceptance but where the actual case has yet to be definitively proven.

Finally, the Nuclear Winter hypothesis was disproven. Sort of. It turns out you have a Nuclear Autumn, with a fairly substantial temperature drop and probable loss of all food crops for one, maybe two years depending on timing. That still kills most of the human race, and doesn't even look at the effects of the fall out on lung cancer rates, nor does it look at long term climate change and tipping points. At the time of that argument the computerized atmospheric models were quite primitive, and had substantially less computing power available. I don't know if anybody has revisited it in the last couple of years to get more accurate results.

[Dis]

would 1 to 2 years of crop failure really kill that many people? perhaps in the non industrialized third world countries. We have enough food storage, that I don't think it's that much a problem. We still have plenty of animal feed in storehouses, so we could keep the animals alive for a while. Though eventually most would have to be killed and frozen for later use.

[Ned]

Well, these supervolcanos seem to be linked with ice ages. So there must be something very valid about the nuclear winter scenario -- either that, or the supervolcanos do a lot more damage than several thousand nukes going off.

[Japher]

I'm more worried about Tsunami that can hit the east coast if that one mountain in the Canary Islands falls off...

[Dis]

Originally posted by Japher
I'm more worried about Tsunami that can hit the east coast if that one mountain in the Canary Islands falls off...

why? you live on the west coast.

[Japher]

Yeah, but then we'd have to be the ones giving all the aide... that would suck.. All the east coast prepy types washing up at our door steps!