Forget your petty Y2K concerns, check this out!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/supervolcanoes_script.shtml

-- xyz (exforumregular@lurker.com), February 19, 2000

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With all due respect, xyz, this is one of those "speculative" disasters. Note the use of all the if...then statements. I would be more concerned about sunspots, which is more of an immediate threat.

--I'm off to pull on my tinfoil hat, now.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), February 19, 2000.

Actually, I was being "tongue in cheek" about this one....but speculative, it ain't....It's for real...It's like the California superquake,....just a question of when??

-- xyz (exforumregular@lurker.com), February 19, 2000.

Yeah. I don't dispute that, but it's on my worry list at the same levels as concern as:

killer earthquakes from the New Madrid Fault (the Midwest is due -- last major one in 1811 (or 13?)

Getting skin cancer from the thinning ozone layer (I do wear a sunscreen with 30spf in the summer, now)

Getting poisoned by fat substitutes (e.g., Olen)

Getting poisoned by Canola Oil

Getting a brain tumor from Nutra Sweet

All of these things are possible, and I even had a chat with one of the managers at the local Wally World about not piling the Sauder furniture display up on platforms, lest we have an earthquake.

I probably should've been wearing my wool hat, instead of my tinfoil one, when we had that discussion.

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), February 19, 2000.

Thanks--very interesting. (So I guess we are closer relatives than we thought)

-- jeilee (tjfarrar@bellsouth.net), February 19, 2000.

Heh, another piece of the puzzle.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), February 19, 2000.

And let's not forget asteroid impacts. A dinosaur debacle.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), February 19, 2000.

Dinosaurs? Look here:

www.reptiods.com

-- Longshot (longshot911@email.com), February 19, 2000.

Dinosaurs? Look here:

www.reptoids.com

-- Longshot (longshot911@email.com), February 19, 2000.

Ge I thought I was the only rental fingers functionally illegible typist on the foraum

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), February 19, 2000.