A Mysterious Blob of Hot Rock Is Building Up Under America's Northeast

sciencealert ^ | 18 DEC 2017 | PETER DOCKRILL

[Calvin Locke]

...and it could 'travel' to other states...

Just wait until it goes to 'visit' Yellowstone.

[DNME]

I seem to recall reading that New England was once known for some pretty serious ‘quakes. One of them supposedly “knocked down all the chimneys” in the region.

I believe the last major ‘quake in New England was off the coast of Gloucester in 1755. Maybe the quiet times are ending?

Despite the hideous political atmosphere, I’m happy to live here. We only rarely get tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes or wildfires. Winter can be a long and messy ride but I’ll take it over the other disasters.

[Calvin Locke]

I think I once heard a geologist on Art Bell say that NH was the most seismically active state East of the Mississippi.

I once lived in MA, a town bordering NH, and I only remember one time that an earthquake was noticeable. Big "craaack" on a Sunday morning, eventually followed by a couple, three "bangs".

Epicenter was next town West.

[Calvin Locke]

The good news is that VT will have higher mountains. The bad news is that they’ll be too warm to support snow for skiing.

[BlueDragon]

... but I’ve often observed you can’t hurt one of our Offspring with anything short of nukes.

Well there goes the "i'm only raising you to eat you later" plan.

Too tough, would be better off gently boiling an old rooster for a few days (and it would still be hard rubber-chicken).

[Vermont Lt]

Its hell, getting ready to boil over and consume all of the liberals in the area.

Apocalyptic geology is not always bad.

[Nifster]

I just figured that dems were blowing more hot air

[Red Badger]

America’s Butt Pimple about to come to a head?........................

[SunkenCiv]

Gosh, can the polity and the culture take the hit? /sarc Thanks BenLurkin.

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[DaveA37]

“I’ve lived in MA my whole life. My neighbors happily voted for Ted Kennedy, Gerry Studds, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren and many others..............”.

How did you stand to live there your ‘WHOLE LIFE’, what year did you move?

[x]

Is it Ted Kennedy?

Or Julia Child?

Or DJ Andy Moes?

Or could it be Cthulhu?

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, I was born in MA. I haven’t died yet so I guess I was in error when I said I’ve lived my whole life in MA. And I have spent at least some time out of state.

[BlueDragon]

Ping to

get 'em 'for they get you

[Tax-chick]

Oh, my. I’ll make sure Tom the Son knows to hide my remains in the woods.

[BlueDragon]

They'd never to think to look here.

[Tax-chick]

LOL! I’d rather be eaten by wolves than baked in a pie.

[BlueDragon]

Yeah, but think of what would be "best" for the children (and possibly commerce, too)

eaten by wolves..?

you ain't turning all environmentalist-like on us, is ya'?

I hear PieTown is nice this time of year (actually, I don't. I just made that part up. It's probably a bit chilly, if not cold, and snow will be coming soon if not there already)

[nicollo]

Or could it be Cthulhu?

Okay, had to look that one up:


"The Call of Cthulhu"

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Resurrection of Ted Kennedy?

It said "hot mass", not "cold slimeball".

[Zionist Conspirator]

I’ve lived in MA my whole life. My neighbors happily voted for Ted Kennedy, Gerry Studds, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren and many others. You all would be better off if MA and the rest of New England slipped into the cold Atlantic. That is my selfless opinion.

What we often forget these days is that it wasn't always that way. New England was originally settled by Puritan "theocrats" when the South was populated by loose-living Anglicans. It was America's original Bible Belt and the home of America's first "red scare" in the days of the French Revolution. Rev. Timothy Dwight of Yale University (though it was probably still just Yale College then) put out a pamphlet attacking Voltaire and the Bavarian Illuminati. Plus New England Federalists (America's original conservatives) thought the South's slave-owning aristocrats were a bunch of Jacobins and that Thomas Jefferson was going to confiscate all the Bibles in the country.

Unfortunately the very children and grandchildren of the conservative Federalists were already becoming radicalized into (radical) abolitionism, Transcendentalism, women's rights, and such like. And ironically, the bridge from Federalism to radicalism were temperance, anti-Catholicism, and anti-Masonry--things now associated with the conservative Bible Belt.

Even after the spate of mid nineteenth century Yankee radicalism, New England was often seen as the ultimate down-home America. Its mystique inspired the creation of such characters as "Uncle Josh" and Longfellow Deeds.

I must confess to having a love affair with old, traditional New England (especially the now extinct Yankee accent best known through Parker Fennelley's radio character "Titus Moody"). It's really infuriating to me that NE has come to represent what it now does. The sort of thing happened to the Jews whose stereotype somehow went from Canaanite-killing religious fanatics to dirty stand-up comics.