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Old 09-02-2003   #3
Dravyk
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That's ok. I learned on the Discovery channel over the weekend that Yellowstone Park is ground zero for the largest "super volcano". Apparently (for all those excited in such details -- yeah right) super vocanos don't form those normal cones we're used to seeing, they form deep depressions. The one in Yellowstone is so wide it can only be detected from space. Apparently this thing has a 600,000-800,000 year cycle with three previous eruptions. The last time it erupted was, yep, 600,000 years ago, so we're due. LOL Or to put it more accurately they said it could happen anywhere between 200,000 years from now or tomorrow. Oh and pretty much such an explosion wouldn't just make the US dead, but would destroy all life on the planet.

To make matters worse, our Earth is going to be swallowed up by an engorged large sun in 10 million years! We're all doomed!
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