"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> 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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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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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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"somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote:

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

But they're usually accompanied on TV by some neat-o computer graphics. Give me
more!  (That's the only reason I watch that stuff--the 'doomsday scenarios' are
just filler; the CG is cool!!)

It's become clear to me that there really *is* no protection from/answer to
possible 'cataclysmic events.' The only practical thing to do is bend over and
kiss our arses goodbye. ;-P  Heck, if BP can't even stop a little bitty oil leak
under the ocean, we're in a sad state! The only solution to it all is..."Don't
worry, be happy!"

Ken

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>> Sure. We can stop worring over highly improbable doomsday sceanarios, for
>> starters.
> 
> But they're usually accompanied on TV by some neat-o computer graphics. Give me
> more!  (That's the only reason I watch that stuff--the 'doomsday scenarios' are
> just filler; the CG is cool!!)

IME, the CG is *terrible*. Like, "we filmed some smoke and then crudely 
genlocked it over the sky behind that mountain".

> It's become clear to me that there really *is* no protection from/answer to
> possible 'cataclysmic events.'

We're overdue an ice age. It's been an unusually long time since any 
nearby stars went supernova and irradiated the planet with deadly rays. 
One day the Yellowstone supervolcano will explode again. Pathogens will 
inevitably become resistent to every known biocide and kill us all. The 
list goes on...

> The only solution to it all is..."Don't worry, be happy!"

To quote THHGTTG, "Don't panic!"

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

> IME, the CG is *terrible*. Like, "we filmed some smoke and then crudely
> genlocked it over the sky behind that mountain".
>

AND they usually repeat the same scene 27 times--by which time, all the flaws
become oh-so-apparent, and I feel like even *I* could do it better.

Ken

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>> IME, the CG is *terrible*. Like, "we filmed some smoke and then crudely
>> genlocked it over the sky behind that mountain".
> 
> AND they usually repeat the same scene 27 times--by which time, all the flaws
> become oh-so-apparent, and I feel like even *I* could do it better.

Always makes me giggle when they repeat the same scene *in mirror image* 
to try to make it look like a different scene. :-P

Oh, wait - Star Wars Episode I did this too... o_O

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Invisible wrote:

> Always makes me giggle when they repeat the same scene *in mirror image* 
> to try to make it look like a different scene. :-P
> 
> Oh, wait - Star Wars Episode I did this too... o_O

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/goofs

1. Oh my God, somebody actually catalogued all these?? (Seriously, you 
noticed that the fan blades spin the wrong way? HOW??)

2. They found all these errors, yet apparently nobody noticed the same 
scene appears identically in mirror image?

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/trivia?tr0795044

:-D

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Invisible wrote:
> 1. Oh my God, somebody actually catalogued all these??

I saw one where someone even went to the extent of pointing out that the 
reflections in the side-view mirror didn't match what you could see behind 
the car when you looked in the windshield.  And that the license plate was 
the wrong color because the movie was shot in 1965 about events in 1963 and 
Spain had changed the color of their tags in 1964, or some such.

Some people have way too much time.

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