Posted on 03/13/2011 1:24:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Keep your suitcase packed always - you never know when you may be called upon to check out.
Not many things cuter than a baby Fur Seal. They get my vote.
Fortunately the underground Presidential golf course, funded with TARP, warmed and cooled with secret nuclear reactors paid for with Defense funds trimmed from missile defense, whose groundskeepers are Mexican Hamas immigrants, will be OK.
Aren't those just earlier events from the Yellowstone hot spot.
We are soft tiny bags of meat on a very hard planet.
Trouble is if the Yellowstone caldera goes pretty much all of the continental US, a good part of Mexico and Canada goes with it.
“The longer you live, the sooner you die’’.— old Irish saying.
Let it pile up. Sacrifice the park if thats what it comes down to because its for certain there won’t be a park after it eventually blows.
Well, crap.....I guess we should have them shut down the Nuke Power Plants there.....no, wait...um...um.....already taken care of ......TMI and the ecoweenies have fixed that..
Great. Just great. What am I supposed to do with these green bananas?
The ground in Yellowstone seems to be rising, the ground under Yellowstone Lake is rising and there are places in Yellowstone that were closed for a time. In a geological time frame it is a ticking bomb.
Bookmarking to read later.
“One thing that really troubles me is that the more recent tall buildings (1960+)are all concrete, with no structural steel.”
You may be looking at buildings appearing to be cement or masonry. But I think there is a steel framework, onto which the outer surface is attached.
In California, where we have history with quakes, a big effort went into reinforcing old masonry buildings.
(I am talking about 100+ year old red brick buildings, which in fact were originally not reinforced.)
“You may be looking at buildings appearing to be cement or masonry. But I think there is a steel framework, onto which the outer surface is attached.”
No.. I think you are referring
to “curtain” construction, where the siding hangs like a curtain.
When the 100 North Main Building was constructed, it was big news, as it was considered to be the first tall building constructed without structural steel, although it did, of course contain plenty of rebar.
Sorry - I say “Balderdash!”
“To put the situation in context, a typical, cone-shaped stratovolcano gets its magma from seawater melting rocks along subterrainean subduction zones”
Couldn’t stop laughing; but when I read lower down that trees were dying from too much CO2 (on which trees depend), I was laughing AND crying and couldn’t read any further...
That was good...”Bush’s fault”...
Me; “Did you mean to say that *just that way* on this thread?”
You; “Why yes, yes I did!”
Funny. Thanks.
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