Judy, you so mean. WTF? Shot my wad? Shot my wad? -- as if! As if I could be exhausted from merely spurting one fertile thought towards your mental orifices and call it a proper mindfuck.
And your haughty riposte seems to indicate that you completely have missed the "fragility of the crust" concept if you're not braced by the metaphor, and correct me if I'm wrong, and I know you will, but it seems you're even pooh-poohing these risks that are Swords of Damocles above all our heads. Seems to me you're a flat-earther type who thinks, just because she's never really been whacked goodly by a tsunami of lava, she's sure it won't happen "here." One small volcanic eruption and Europe comes to a standstill -- it just doesn't take that much more to really fuck up civilization and you're mindfully ignoring that -- so's to put me down for my "loose" prognostications. There is nowhere on Earth that cannot have an eruption or 8.0+ quake. The edges of the plates, of course, are where it's most likely, but the concept "relatively thinner than an egg's shell" means that "anywhere" means "anywhere." Your nitpicking about which volcano and how much has happened in the past is red herring -- shame on you. Fucking shame on you for purposefully diverting to lesser issues when this one volcano is so thoroughly teaching the world about its delicacies. Where's your Castaneda warrior attitude of always squarely facing death? Life is robbed if one is blind to the possibilities. Not that folks should be shuddering and pissing in their socks all the time, but that such information about the risks would serve to heighten our appreciation for what we have when we have it. It's like that often told story of the Zen monk hanging by a root over a cliff with a tiger at the edge and a precipice below and he eats a strawberry growing there -- and says, "Ah! Man that's one great strawberry." Wait, did I miss something? Were you disappointed that I shot my wad too quickly? Or was my wad disappointingly teaspoonish when you were hoping for something quartish? Are you in fact asking me to wad-sate ya? It's a question many here might ask about you, but I'm checking with you first. Wad ya think? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Too lazy to look it up, but I did read that Katla is able > > to be almost a world killer -- but that was about almost > > killing all life on Earth -- the lesser damage of "killing > > humanity due to mass starvation" is a much more possible > > result out of a Katla event. > > Conceivable, but unlikely. AS I SAID, Katla erupts about > twice a century, and it hasn't killed the world or killed > humanity by mass starvation yet. Icelanders living anywhere > near it should be worried, and depending on what it spews > and which way the winds are blowing, it could cause big > problems in Europe with air travel and maybe some crops. > > Iceland's Laki eruption in 1783 killed thousands across > Europe and caused a famine in France and a very cold > winter around the globe. Could that be what you're thinking > of? That was the worst one in recent history from Iceland. > > What you really need to worry about, of course, is the > Yellowstone caldera. Definitely a potential world-killer. > But apparently the uplift has slowed way down recently, > so geologists aren't as concerned as they were. > > <snip> > > > The crust is thinner than an egg shell and the inside of > > the egg is up to about 10,000 F degrees....hotter than the > > surface of the sun. > > > > There's your protection that volcanoes so easily pierce. > > > > Feeling a bit more at risk? My job is done here. > > Not even a tad bit. But you've shot your wad, so your job > is done here anyway. >
