PANIC!! Button of DOOOOOM!

[ygmir]

don't I remember Algore, sometime in the 70's, saying we were all going to be dead in 10 years?........

What if we're all dead now?

am I a butterfly, dreaming I'm a man?...........

[unjonharley]

That would a hell of a butterfly or dream

[^Rhino!]

earthquake swarm near Lassen peak?.............

This is definitely going to kill all of us by the end of next week.

We'll hold you to that as a further measure of your credibility.

I still say no chance. Look at http://www.usgs.gov, and you might learn something about real hazards. And the DATA that backs up predictions. Anything else than that, you're just blowing hot air and wasting the oxygen supply.

One week later. I'm still waiting and watching the seismographs. I was correct. Not too hard to do. The odds were heavily in my favor.

[GreyCoyote]

Yup, Rhino... you are SO RIGHT. Chalk a big-un up for you. ALL HAIL RHINO!!!

[1durphul]

One week later. I'm still waiting and watching the seismographs. I was correct. Not too hard to do. The odds were heavily in my favor.

What's important is that in countless alternate quantum eigenstates we were all right and are now dead.

[ygmir]

One week later. I'm still waiting and watching the seismographs. I was correct. Not too hard to do. The odds were heavily in my favor.

What's important is that in countless alternate quantum eigenstates we were all right and are now dead.

us butterflies are just fine.

[^Rhino!]

Yup, Rhino... you are SO RIGHT. Chalk a big-un up for you. ALL HAIL RHINO!!!

Thank you, Gray Coyote, but it's just an adventure. It's my job.

In fact, I've had more than a little experience with it. Ever heard of Iben Browning? He was a climatologist who predicted that the New Madrid seismic zone, out here in southeast Missouri was going to rupture and cause a 'great earthquake'. When the big day came, nothing happened. Still, it was interesting to see why Iben thought what he did. Iben was correaating the potential for seismicity with the lunar perigee (closest point that Earth and moon are, as the moon orbits the earth). By coincidence, lunar perigee also happened when Mt. St. Helens had its earthquake swarms. Iben believed that what he did was right and spoke up. However, there was no link ever established between lunar perigee and quake swarms or volcanic potential.

Have I ever given a forecast? Just once, and I'd do it again if it were really necessary. I told management that rockfall in a particular road would occur within the year if action wasn't taken. Sure enough, three weeks later on a Sunday night, they had a rockslide into the road. On Monday morning when I reported to work I was told that I would be the technical contact for the fix. Open your mouth ONCE, and they saddle you with running the job. We cut back the slope (plenty of right of way to do it, luckily) and benched the cut. I was proud of both the design staff and the construction crews, and said so. The designers had plans ready for bid in 11 hours flat. The construction crews did a good job. Sure enough, the local paper got hold of my quotes, and put them on the front page. The following morning I heard kudos from the very highest levels of management, on what I had said.

[1durphul]

Iben Browning? .

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Please tell me this is the name of a drag queen or Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.

[Simon of the Playa]

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[GreyCoyote]

Iben Browning? .

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Please tell me this is the name of a drag queen or Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.

Reminds me of an exchange in the movie "The 13th Warrior":

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad.
Herger: Eben?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: No, listen, My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan. "Ibn" means "son of".

Herger: [to the others] His name is "Eben".

Sorry. You had to see it, I guess.

[ygmir]

Iben Browning? .

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Please tell me this is the name of a drag queen or Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.

Reminds me of an exchange in the movie "The 13th Warrior":

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad.
Herger: Eben?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: No, listen, My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan. "Ibn" means "son of".

Herger: [to the others] His name is "Eben".

Sorry. You had to see it, I guess.

one of my favorite movies!! ha, yes a great scene.

[^Rhino!]

Iben Browning? .

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Please tell me this is the name of a drag queen or Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.

Nope, he was a climatologist.

The joke runs that he had to change his name to Iben Wrong.

[1durphul]

Iben Browning? .

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Please tell me this is the name of a drag queen or Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.

Nope, he was a climatologist.

The joke runs that he had to change his name to Iben Wrong.

Also a good drag name...

[Simon of the Playa]

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[1durphul]

http://www.endofworld.net

[Simon of the Playa]

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[^Rhino!]

Simon, look who it stars, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. I can SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL what The Rock has done and made a real stinker of a movie. Full of gloom and doom. It reminds me of that film produced by Asylum Films, "Megafault". Films like these are great when it comes to the wizardry of special effects, but their storyline is FAR from the truth.

I have never yet seen an earthquake movie that approaches the reality of the truth, other than a documentary or two. Even a SERIES of earthquakes couldn't produce the damage depicted in this short clip. AND, if a series of earthquakes struck, it would be over the course of years, maybe even tens of years.

Ever heard of Amos Nur, from Stanford U.? Nur came up with exactly the same scenario that I'm attempting to illustrate to you when he theorized the sudden abandonment of Mycenae around 1200 B.C had contributed to the end of the Bronze Age. Archeologists chuckled at Nur, but Nur was the seismologist. He had done his homework. If you look at history of the Mediterranean, an increased period of seismic activity started in A.D. 343 in northeastern Turkey. Others followed in 362 A.D. and 368 A.D. Then, between 394 and 412 A.D. SIX major earthquakes occurred near Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). Similar clusters of earthquakes that appear to be related have occurred in the late 4th and early 5th centuries in the southern Italian peninsula and the island of Sicily, as well as in Libya in north Africa. Clusters of quakes, Simon, NOT the single event.

[GreyCoyote]

Amos Nur. (snicker)... Backwards thats Run Soma.... ZZzzzzz.....

[1durphul]

It has come to my attention that the storm coming to Northern California is going to kill everybody north of San Luis Obispo.

http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2779

[^Rhino!]

It has come to my attention that the storm coming to Northern California is going to kill everybody north of San Luis Obispo.

http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2779

***crickets chirping***

[1durphul]

It has come to my attention that the storm coming to Northern California is going to kill everybody north of San Luis Obispo.

http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2779

***crickets chirping***

I attribute that to the fact that everybody has probably already died. That's how bad this storm is, it kills before it even arrives.

[robbidobbs]

I'd be good if the rooster I've been pampering for two weeks survives the next two days.
He. May. Die.
Put that pumpkin into perspective.

[Tin Halo]

It has come to my attention that the storm coming to Northern California is going to kill everybody north of San Luis Obispo.

http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/2779

Excellent. When the sky clears, maybe I can find some good real estate up for grabs. Probably cheap, too. Just clear the bodies.

[pink]

I'm still here dammit!!

Just a lotta rain. A whole lotta rain. Still raining in fact.

My poor lil feral cat just came to the door; finally so hungry she came out and got soaked before I got food up on the porch for her. It's a tiny porch and I'm feeding outside doggy there as well as feral kitty. Doggie will eat kitty's food if I just leave some there.

[Patsh]

Excellent. When the sky clears, maybe I can find some good real estate up for grabs. Probably cheap, too. Just clear the bodies.

Tin Halo, before you dispose of all those bodies, think of all the soups and stews you could make! (two birds with one stone and such...)

this from a long-time vegetarian; take with a grain of salt... a BIG grain of salt

[Tin Halo]

(...slowly backs away from laptop...)

[Ratty]

Patsh...........scared of you.

[Tin Halo]

(...inadvertently backs into Ratty while backing away from laptop, mumbles apology, continues backing away...)

[Patsh]

please note, you two, the fine print...
I'm a lifelong vegetarian.

with a wry sense of humour.

didn't mean to scare anyone.
(maybe.)

[^Rhino!]

please note, you two, the fine print...
I'm a lifelong vegetarian.

with a wry sense of humour.

didn't mean to scare anyone.
(maybe.)

Since you're a lifelong vegetarian, let's make it a RYE sense of humor.

[The pun was wide open for it. I took the shot. Sorry, couldn't help myself.]