Posted on 04/11/2005 10:15:24 AM PDT by runnerdog
Had it appeared on the SciFi Channel, “Supervolcano” would have received little attention other than a few random reviews. Instead, it was broadcast on Discovery and was hyped even to the point of having trailers appear in movie theaters. According to the advertising, “This is a true story. It just hasn’t happened yet.”
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OMG!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!!!
libs: gullible, sttupid and ignorant. AND they all think that we are too.
if you beleive this, I have a real nice bridge to sell ya. it's even in New YOrk City!
I watched the show last nite. It was interesting, but I never got the feeling that we're in imminent danger. According to scientists, the chances of something happening like this soon, is remote, although it has happened approximately every 640,000 to 800,000 years for the last three times. The last time the volcano erupted was nearly 600,000 years ago.
I live in Phoenix, I'm safe from the super volcano, and mega tsunamis. But Killer Bees will likely do me in, if the Fire Ants don't get me first.
--I thought I'd watch it for amusement but turned off after twenty minutes--it just kept getting worse--
I meant to watch that show last night. I'll watch it again when they re-run it.
Movies like that should be taken with a grain of salt. Linda like last year's "The Day After Tomorrow".
Why did Tom Brokaw led his credibility to the show?
I fell asleep during the flick!
Yellowstone does set on a huge caldera that has erupted in the past and is likely to erupt again in the future. Beyond that the story was typical fiction based on simple facts and cheesey characters.
If the caldera erupted tomorrow there wouldn't be anything we could do to stop it and huge numbers of people would die. It's one of those things not worth worrying about.
It is fact that there have been three eruptions, but it doesn't necessarily follow that there will be another. Made for an intersting 'what if' movie though. It was kind of refreshing to see a geological/climatological disaster movie that didn't blame the human race in General and America in particular.
Yeah, the government folks were kinda slow on the uptake, but you must admit, this kind of disaster would tax even the most efficient system, and we don't have one of those. ;o)
WATCH OUT! ..for the Giant Gila Monsters.
*LOL* Yep, Discovery channel should stick to stuff like "Blue Planet". I enjoyed that one.
Just take it for what it is - a "what if" scenario, not dissimilar to the 'documentary' on Animal Planet about dragons.
It appears to be down at this time.
If Old Faithful becomes less than faithful to it's spouts and goes Krakatoa on us then the cam will be blown to smithereens, won't it?
Oops, cam's all dark?! Run fo' yo' lives!!!!!!!
They probably fired on US citizens on sight.
Sooooo...Kyoto will actually do more harm than good by freeing the air of all those "greenhouse gases" that would have served to lessen the effects of a volcanic winter!
How insidious!
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was it at least entertaining? I was planning on watching but forgot... I was half-hearted about it anyway, expecting a lot of PC crapola and liberal agenda (like the 'day after tomorrow' piece of excrement)
Oh, and of course, as Americans fled the new menace of nature south, the Mexicans closed the border, just as it happened in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” (No movie ever mentions how the Mexicans accomplish this feat, since America is unable to manage the same on the other side of the border.)
They offer free access to Mexican medical care.
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