Does anybody else find this, ah, disturbing? Wired.com informs us that Drillers Accidentally Create First Live Magma Observatory.
That’s right: workers at a geothermal site in Hawai’i accidentally busted into a pool of live magma. Which, as we all know, is lava that has yet to come out.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh.
In other, totally, completely, utterly unrelated news, scientists claim that evidence suggests the Deccan Traps event was the primary cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. What caused the Traps was a colossal escape of magma to form what’s called a Large Igneous Province. How large? About half of India. Which constitutes an eruption way beyond a mere supervolcano.
It would probably look, you guessed it, a lot like the picture of Kilauea above. Only bigger. Much, much bigger.
So go right on ahead, boys! Poke that sleeping monster with a stick. It’s for Science, right?
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Interesting. Scary. A supervolcano would be bad enough. And the one at Yellowstone is about due…
Various psychics have been predicting doom & gloom & death & destruction for… well, I guess they always have been. In the spring of 1996, there was a prediction that soon. that summer, there would be sightings of large UFOs over world capitals and other major cities, and the governments would not be able to deny their existence any more. I waited eagerly to see how this would play out, whether it was an accurate prediction or a pile of male bovine feces.
As it turned out, that summer, there was indeed an appearance of massive extraterrestrial spacecraft over several major cities worldwide.
On July 3rd. In movie theaters across the nation.
“Independence Day.”
Maybe some psychics are getting valid premonitions, but they don’t realize that they’re just movie previews.
- M. \”/