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From: gregjohn
Subject: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 5 May 2010 21:50:00
Message: <web.4be21f35753d55fe34d207310@news.povray.org>
I suppose that in some future epochs, there could be volcano eruptions that
could do something like ground air travel over Europe not just for a month but a
year or a century.

Can humans do anything?


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 5 May 2010 23:42:12
Message: <4be23a94$1@news.povray.org>
gregjohn wrote:
> Can humans do anything?

"Hey, you fought these things before, didn't ya?"

"Yeah."

"So what did you do?"

"I died."

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 00:38:40
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gregjohn wrote:
> Can humans do anything?

Be happy that the solution to overpopulation was found? >:D


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From: Vincent Le Chevalier
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 02:08:56
Message: <4be25cf8@news.povray.org>
gregjohn wrote:
> I suppose that in some future epochs, there could be volcano eruptions that
> could do something like ground air travel over Europe not just for a month but a
> year or a century.
> 
> Can humans do anything?
> 
I guess at some point someone would say "screw that air diffusion model, 
I'm going to fly anyway".

Now the question is whether we have enough kerosen left to actually meet 
the situation. If interruption of air traffic as we know it is 
civilization-ending we are doomed already...

-- 
Vincent


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 04:02:05
Message: <4be2777d$1@news.povray.org>
gregjohn wrote:

> Can humans do anything?

Start walking?


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 04:05:01
Message: <web.4be277acd4ac06b26dd25f0b0@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> gregjohn wrote:
> > Can humans do anything?
>
> "Hey, you fought these things before, didn't ya?"
> "Yeah."
> "So what did you do?"
> "I died."

I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 05:22:45
Message: <4be28a65$1@news.povray.org>
Am 06.05.2010 10:02, schrieb Invisible:
> gregjohn wrote:
>
>> Can humans do anything?
>
> Start walking?

Heh - that would be something new indeed: Homo Sapiens Sapiens discovers 
the bipedal walk...


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From: somebody
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 07:15:32
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"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:web.4be21f35753d55fe34d207310@news.povray.org...

> I suppose that in some future epochs, there could be volcano eruptions
that
> could do something like ground air travel over Europe not just for a month
but a
> year or a century.
>
> Can humans do anything?

Sure. We can stop worring over highly improbable doomsday sceanarios, for
starters.


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From: Sabrina Kilian
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 07:18:01
Message: <4be2a569@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> gregjohn wrote:
> 
>> Can humans do anything?
> 
> Start walking?

Boats, dirigibles, bicycles. Working out doors may be bad for the lungs,
but people live in smoggy cities already.


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From: gregjohn
Subject: Re: Fighting a "civilization-ending" volcano
Date: 6 May 2010 07:30:00
Message: <web.4be2a7c6d4ac06b234d207310@news.povray.org>
Yall're missing the point.  I would suppose that a volcano which ruins air
travel for a century could make for some very interesting health hazards far
beyond that of urban smog for the country in its path.  Do you just emigrate,
have funny-looking kids for a generation, or fight it?

Pamela Gay was talking about how there was one eruption a century or three ago
that lasted a year. I think this would make a really cool TV show to interview
civil engineering and geology professors as to how this could be fought.


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