Super-eruptions powerful enough to destroy

[jethrofloyd]

Super-eruptions powerful enough to destroy the Earth could only be predicted a YEAR in advance, study finds

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3701826/Super-eruptions-powerful-destroy-Earth-predicted-YEAR-advance-study-finds.html#ixzz4F52JY6OV

 

If a super-eruption were to occur, the blast would launch enough ash into the atmosphere to disrupt weather for years to follow, potentially causing famine, health crisis, and global civil unrest.

And leading up to the catastrophic event, the world would have just one year to prepare.

 

[XenoFish]

Awesome. Can't wait.

[jethrofloyd]

34 minutes ago, XenoFish said:

Awesome. Can't wait.

It's coming, on July 29'.

[XenoFish]

8 minutes ago, jethrofloyd said:

It's coming, on July 29'.

Doubt it.

[Doug1029]

Back in the 1960s the US maintained a three-year reserve of grain.  It was paid for by agricultural price supports.  But Congress decided that storing all that grain cost too much and besides price supports were that four-letter word:  SOCIALISM!.  So they did away with it.  So now if you starve to death, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you did so as a capitalist, albeit, one too poor to own any capital.

Doug

[SHaYap]

July 29th any minute now ... wait for it .... wait ... for ...

 

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[Why not]

Did the world end?    I think I missed it.

[Duke Wellington]

On ‎21‎/‎07‎/‎2016 at 10:20 PM, jethrofloyd said:

Super-eruptions powerful enough to destroy the Earth could only be predicted a YEAR in advance, study finds

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3701826/Super-eruptions-powerful-destroy-Earth-predicted-YEAR-advance-study-finds.html#ixzz4F52JY6OV

 

If a super-eruption were to occur, the blast would launch enough ash into the atmosphere to disrupt weather for years to follow, potentially causing famine, health crisis, and global civil unrest.

And leading up to the catastrophic event, the world would have just one year to prepare.

 

So all that would happen is for a couple of years we would have our energy consumption restricted as the juice gets used to power huge grow lamps all around farms. I suspect once we provide crops with 24 hours light to speed up their growing we wont go back, even when the dust has disappeared from the atmosphere. In fact we should do that anyway to increase food output.

[Thorvir]

On 7/21/2016 at 5:20 PM, jethrofloyd said:

Super-eruptions powerful enough to destroy the Earth could only be predicted a YEAR in advance, study finds

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3701826/Super-eruptions-powerful-destroy-Earth-predicted-YEAR-advance-study-finds.html#ixzz4F52JY6OV

 

If a super-eruption were to occur, the blast would launch enough ash into the atmosphere to disrupt weather for years to follow, potentially causing famine, health crisis, and global civil unrest.

And leading up to the catastrophic event, the world would have just one year to prepare.

Technically, that doesn't "destroy the Earth".  It just makes it hard for life forms to survive.  And most of us could very well survive it.

1 hour ago, Why not said:

Did the world end?    I think I missed it.

I'm still here.  But the day is young.