PANIC!! Button of DOOOOOM!

[Tin Halo]

I'm coming

Fresh batteries?

[lucky420]

I'm coming

Fresh batteries?

Snicker

[Tin Halo]

excellent...my work here is done... (shuffles off for more coffee)

[unjonharley]

I'm taking the mule train to the epicenter.. Just get it over with..

[theCryptofishist]

I'm coming

saddle up, the mule train is heading out!!

How could you! Da Mule is not trainable!

[^Rhino!]

I'm coming

saddle up, the mule train is heading out!!

Another load of borax this soon?

[lucky420]

I'm coming

saddle up, the mule train is heading out!!

Another load of borax this soon?

It's good stuff

[Roberto Dobbisano]

trending...

[H.G.Crosby]

[media]

[^Rhino!]

Big deal. Nobody knows why these quakes occur.

For all we know, it could be the Farallon plate buried under the North American plate. They do that, you know. Look up "LITHOPROBE", the Canadian geophysical traverse that went across all of Canada. They found out that plates stack atop one another when they finally subduct out of sight.

Similar quakes yielded a 5.0 in Reno in 2008 and a 5.0 in Adel, Oregon in 1968.

Read the CNN blurb on it.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/us/nevada ... &width=850

You might get edumakated yet.

[Simon of the Playa]

so, you're gonna "school" me, huh?


here's some reading material for you...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassen_Peak

[^Rhino!]

No, I'm not going to 'school' you. You've done a pretty good job yourself. I'm just trying to say that without additional evidence in Nevada, we really don't know what's going on with the earthquake swarm there and it would be best if people weren't worked up over a doomsday scenario that the current state of affairs doesn't support.

Earthquake swarms happened in advance of Mount St. Helens eruption, but they occurred all around the base of the mountain. Earthquake swarms are even happening in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota today, all seemingly caused by the reinjection of fracing wastewater. What's happening in Nevada? I don't know.

[1durphul]

two more pages of this crap? Does it actually get funny, or should I just add this to the car thread, baseball thread, and all the other threads I don't read?

Seriously, can we get back to our impending deaths?

What impending deaths?

People die every day. There's no reason to get all upset and start stirring up shit that's not even there. Unless one feeds on drama.

The point of this thread is to capture the scaremongering of modern American media with its never ending parade of doooooom. So please understand: We are all going to die, and according to the news it'll be this week, and it is vital that aliens that discover our dead society, and eplaya, know that the last thing posted in here was what actually killed us.

[Simon of the Playa]

too late.

nobody told me.


i'm dishing up the real doom...


sorry, that's how i roll.

[Roberto Dobbisano]

Thank goodness. I'm actually going to get to say it. Simon......you've WAYYYYYY overextended yourself now, you Venice Beach wannabe. (Why Venice Beach? So I can spell it out for you.)

D - O - O - D. Dude.

Not a fucking chance in hell. I call bullshit.

What's happening in Nevada? I don't know.

a little louder please, i can't hear you.

[unjonharley]

The sky is falling.. The sky is falling.. Are going to believe Rhino over Henny Penny (a.k.a.) Chicken Little (a.k.a.) Chicken Licken?? We are all Doomed...

[Simon of the Playa]

as you wish...

[GreyCoyote]

I strongly suggest everybody listen to Unjohn. (After all, he's a living fossil and he likely knew some of these techtonic plates back when they were part of some rogue asteroid. Hehehe)

[^Rhino!]

I strongly suggest everybody listen to Unjohn. (After all, he's a living fossil and he likely knew some of these techtonic plates back when they were part of some rogue asteroid. Hehehe)

Nope, the plates cooled as Earth did.

For living fossils try the ginkgo tree, cockroaches, Lingula the inarticulate brachiopod, and a few others that have 200 million year-plus pedigrees. unjohn woulda been dust after a fraction of that amount of time.

[^Rhino!]

Thank goodness. I'm actually going to get to say it. Simon......you've WAYYYYYY overextended yourself now, you Venice Beach wannabe. (Why Venice Beach? So I can spell it out for you.)

D - O - O - D. Dude.

Not a fucking chance in hell. I call bullshit.

What's happening in Nevada? I don't know.

a little louder please, i can't hear you.

OK, I'd be happy to.

What's happening in Nevada right now? I don't know! But I'm as sure as I can be that there will be no massive earthquake nor a catastrophic volcanic eruption there any time soon!

Good enough?

Thanks for letting me play.

[1durphul]

What's happening in Nevada right now? I don't know! But I'm as sure as I can be that there will be a massive earthquake and/or a catastrophic volcanic eruption some time this week!

I fixed that for you. You didn't sound definitive enough about the impending death and destruction that we will all experience by week's end.

All: Make sure you get the most out of this Veteran's Day, it'll be your last according to Rhino.

[^Rhino!]

What's happening in Nevada right now? I don't know! But I'm as sure as I can be that there will be a massive earthquake and/or a catastrophic volcanic eruption some time this week!

I fixed that for you. You didn't sound definitive enough about the impending death and destruction that we will all experience by week's end.

All: Make sure you get the most out of this Veteran's Day, it'll be your last according to Rhino.

Bullshit, 1derful. Still dealing in the drama, eh?

[1durphul]

Bullshit, 1derful. Still dealing in the drama, eh?

When did you get to be so humorless?

I suspect you're the only one in this thread without his tongue firmly planted in cheek.

[^Rhino!]

Bullshit, 1derful. Still dealing in the drama, eh?

When did you get to be so humorless?

I suspect you're the only one in this thread without his tongue firmly planted in cheek.

I've got a great sense of humor. But when you put words in my mouth that are contrary to those that my professional judgement would indicate (and I do this stuff for a living, mind you, and do it well enough to be recognized as an engineering geologist who deals with seismology and earthquakes), you're crossing the line. I have to pay money to the government annually to renew my licensure, and that's something that design professionals can be serious about, because making statements that are contrary to the profession's standard practices can wind me up in front of a review board. If I were Italian, NOT making some kind of statement might land me in JAIL. I happen to be eligible for a European license to practice, and don't want to endanger that eligibility.

As far as my tongue not being firmly being implanted in my cheek - you dip....I started using the crunchy and not the creamy peanut butter.

[Simon of the Playa]

you sure do know how to use a shovel, i'll grant you that.

[GreyCoyote]

Ok. New plan for this thread: Everything EXCEPT anything pertaining to geology is fair game for humor, hyperbole and DOOM.

Geology is serious stuff. Lets leave those poor rocks alone.

[Simon of the Playa]

oh HELL no.


that takes like, 30% of my Doom out of play.


you can't do that to me, how am i supposed to take over the world on 70% doom?

[GreyCoyote]

you sure do know how to use a shovel, i'll grant you that.

Shame on you, Simon! You should be gneiss to Rhino. He's not full of schist. Granite he doesnt have a Fourney bone, but igneous is bliss...

Q: What Is the proper term for a stoned Burner geologist taking a lot of heat and pressure?
A: Metamorphically rocked

[Simon of the Playa]

wait, does this mean i can't blow the fuck out of Lassen?

cuz that was going to be my show stopper.

[Roberto Dobbisano]

D-O-O-D !!!



you better text VULCAN asap and cancel that order.......seriously.