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		Mount Fuji? Yeah, it might blow soon. Luckily, there are no cities or large population centers nearby that could be affected (newscientist.com)		72
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The Stealth Hippopotamus		2010-05-06 05:41:21 PM

well, none that matter

calbert		2010-05-06 05:42:02 PM

did you say Mountain Fiji might blow soon?

/giggity

rmz		2010-05-06 05:52:17 PM

If films have taught me anything it's that Japan will bounce back stronger than ever and Neo Tokyo will be awesome.

GAT_00		2010-05-06 06:08:26 PM

None of that means anything. We can't predict volcano eruptions and history has shown that the ones we think are about to go off never do.

Smokey the Bare		2010-05-06 06:10:51 PM

FTFA: "Using rocks ejected by previous eruptions geologists are figuring out what the volcano's internal plumbing looks like."

Geogynology?

OXO		2010-05-06 06:11:03 PM

What could possibly go wrong?

www.tohokingdom.com

Shostie		2010-05-06 06:57:41 PM

OH NO. GODJIRA! WHO WIR SAVE US NOW?!?!

seventypercent		2010-05-06 07:12:29 PM

Is there a sysop reading this board? I believe that this headline is mistaken. Unless I misremember my education, Tokyo is very close to Mt. Fuji, and Tokyo is a VERY large population center. I hope that there is a sysop reading this board.

GAT_00		2010-05-06 07:22:31 PM

yogaFLAME		2010-05-06 07:59:18 PM

I've never been fond of its apples, anyway.

brap		2010-05-06 08:09:45 PM

You Mount Fuji, you brought her.

Please don't die Tokyo I want to enjoy your bounty some day when I have the scratch.

dahmers love zombie		2010-05-06 08:43:33 PM

brap: You Mount Fuji, you brought her.

Please don't die Tokyo I want to enjoy your bounty some day when I have the scratch.

So you're saying that you want to visit, but right now you don't have Edo?

brap		2010-05-06 08:50:31 PM

dahmers love zombie: brap: You Mount Fuji, you brought her.

Please don't die Tokyo I want to enjoy your bounty some day when I have the scratch.

So you're saying that you want to visit, but right now you don't have Edo?

A good buddy of mine went over there on a family of a pilot pass in college and slept in the parks. Gawd I wish blogs had existed int that day in age he had some screamingly hilarious stories. Not so hilarious punchline: He came back looking ten years older.

OXO		2010-05-06 09:06:30 PM

brap: Not so hilarious punchline: He came back looking ten years older.

Was it ten years later?

Paris1127		2010-05-06 09:09:39 PM

Until harmonic tremors are sensed beneath Fuji, Japan can panic about other things, like the fact that Tokyo's long overdue for a major earthquake.

Should Fuji erupt for the first time since 1707 (new window), where will people go to commit suicide? (new window)

brap		2010-05-06 09:13:28 PM

OXO: brap: Not so hilarious punchline: He came back looking ten years older.

Was it ten years later?

No, I was there for the before and after. Apparently babyfaced tourist hobos don't do well over there.

studebaker hoch		2010-05-06 09:39:26 PM

No worries, I'm about to roll it up.

/nana....nananananananananananaaaaaaaaaa

Mayhem of the Black Underclass		2010-05-06 09:45:10 PM

Paris1127: Until harmonic tremors are sensed beneath Fuji, Japan can panic about other things, like the fact that Tokyo's long overdue for a major earthquake.

Should Fuji erupt for the first time since 1707 (new window), where will people go to commit suicide? (new window)

Black Mount Fuji (new window) Except they won't stay dead.

NuclearPenguins		2010-05-06 09:46:42 PM

Maybe Fuji can put an end to the anime/weeaboo scourge.

Nemo's Brother		2010-05-06 09:51:01 PM

If Japan goes, where will I get my tentacle porn from?

K. Dilkington		2010-05-06 09:51:21 PM

I've had my fill of nature for the year already.

Give it a rest, biatch.

DrMcNinja		2010-05-06 09:53:16 PM

calbert: did you say Mountain Fiji might blow soon?

/giggity

Oh my god, I came here to post this. Stupid nothing obscure on FARK

ChiliBoots		2010-05-06 09:56:42 PM

Paris1127: Should Fuji erupt for the first time since 1707 (new window), where will people go to commit suicide? (new window)

Walking into a volcanic eruption would probably still kill you pretty good.

jake3988		2010-05-06 10:06:04 PM

GAT_00 2010-05-06 06:08:26 PM None of that means anything. We can't predict volcano eruptions and history has shown that the ones we think are about to go off never do.
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Sure we can. And we have successfully many times.

It's REALLY difficult. But it's been done.

/And remember, things are on a geologic timeline. If we're off by even 10 or 50 years it's not that far off.

RockIsDead		2010-05-06 10:09:51 PM

GAT_00: seventypercent: Is there a sysop reading this board? I believe that this headline is mistaken. Unless I misremember my education, Tokyo is very close to Mt. Fuji, and Tokyo is a VERY large population center. I hope that there is a sysop reading this board.

Not sure if serious...

he said 'sysop'

NOT serious

Corvus		2010-05-06 10:14:56 PM

We all know Volcano monitoring is just a waste of government money.

davidphogan		2010-05-06 10:25:11 PM

I just want a good view of Mt Hood if it goes.

GranoblasticMan		2010-05-06 10:37:42 PM

rmz: If films have taught me anything it's that Japan will bounce back stronger than ever and New Neo Tokyo 2 will be awesome.

FTFY

/ and random link to a mostly-unrelated video

Harry_Seldon		2010-05-06 10:53:52 PM

davidphogan: I just want a good view of Mt Hood if it goes.

I love to look over Portland from th West Hills on a clear day (yes, I know what I just said); look at Mt. Hood, then at St. Helens.

red5ish		2010-05-06 10:58:13 PM

ramen_for_all		2010-05-06 11:09:01 PM

So far all of the rumblings and eruptions have been in other countries. We've gotten the storms and floods. But if it switches and the American faults start popping off or Helens or Yosemite blow, we are gonna be thrown into a new realm of Farked that we haven't seen before.

Luckily I'm not an alarmist and know that it couldn't happen here anyway.

K. Dilkington		2010-05-06 11:12:48 PM

ramen_for_all: But if it switches and the American faults start popping off or Helens or Yosemite blow, we are gonna be thrown into a new realm of Farked that we haven't seen before.

If Yosemite blows, the world is farked regardless.

"Hey Iceland, remember how your volcano shut down Ireland? This one's going to shut down the world..."

Crudbucket		2010-05-06 11:29:14 PM

OXO: brap: Not so hilarious punchline: He came back looking ten years older.

Was it ten years later?

I'm very amused by this.

Tymast		2010-05-06 11:34:05 PM

this proves that elvis' death was full of shiat!

DocJon		2010-05-06 11:35:23 PM

Wizzin		2010-05-06 11:44:50 PM

unashamed_peacemonger		2010-05-07 12:12:02 AM

Tempura?

tb tibbles		2010-05-07 12:14:41 AM

Everyone possibly panic?

It's how I read those "may/may not happen" scientific articles.

Must one of those slow days. Do we run the "volcano" story,or the "how much toilet paper Oregon produced last year" article?

/Props to my late dad saying this after hearing about the *possible* eruption of Mount Hood on the radio. That was around 1971.

Brick-House		2010-05-07 12:17:06 AM

has anyone considered this???

www.freewebs.com

Just sayin...

nealzebub		2010-05-07 12:20:02 AM

K. Dilkington If Yosemite blows, the world is farked regardless.

"Hey Iceland, remember how your volcano shut down Ireland? This one's going to shut down the world..."

Yosemite blowing it's lid? Do you mean the Yellowstone caldera? (If I'm right, this proves one thing, I really need to get a life.)

K. Dilkington		2010-05-07 12:25:25 AM

nealzebub: Yosemite blowing it's lid? Do you mean the Yellowstone caldera? (If I'm right, this proves one thing, I really need to get a life.)

If this is some elaborate semantic difference between a volcano and a sunken caldera that can erupt, it's lost on me. Anything that can blow magma into the sky is considered a volcano to me.

treesloth		2010-05-07 12:25:38 AM

They should just ask Microsoft to move it.

ThunderPelvis		2010-05-07 12:50:06 AM

Meh, most of Tokyo would probably be fine. It's not like it's hovering right on top of the city.

/I *can* see it from my balcony, though, which is awesome. Especially with a beer, righ around sunset.

King Something		2010-05-07 01:02:33 AM

This is bad news.... for Obama.

ThunderPelvis		2010-05-07 01:06:38 AM

~~righ~~ right. FTFM.

Paris1127		2010-05-07 01:08:50 AM

K. Dilkington: nealzebub: Yosemite blowing it's lid? Do you mean the Yellowstone caldera? (If I'm right, this proves one thing, I really need to get a life.)

If this is some elaborate semantic difference between a volcano and a sunken caldera that can erupt, it's lost on me. Anything that can blow magma into the sky is considered a volcano to me.

Alright, I'll clarify. Yosemite is not volcanic. Yellowstone is. Yellowstone is referred to as a "supervolcano" because it could potentially darken the skies and cause climate change should it have a super eruption. Luckily, humans have survived super eruptions before (barely, see Krakatau, 6th century).

davidphogan: I just want a good view of Mt Hood if it goes.

My money's on Rainier or Baker as the next non-St. Helens Cascade volcano to erupt. (St. Helens has erupted more times than any other volcano in the Cascades, making it the constant favorite to erupt next)

IC Stars		2010-05-07 01:16:33 AM

K. Dilkington		2010-05-07 01:22:30 AM

Paris1127: Alright, I'll clarify. Yosemite is not volcanic. Yellowstone is.

IC Stars: I think it would be really really really hard for Yosemite to erupt, since it is not a volcano.

Yeah, I'm retarded (but you knew what we meant).

Still willing to let you chalk this one down as a semantic victory.

/I'm still retarded though

srhp29		2010-05-07 02:28:30 AM

Almost forgot to set my watch for Volcano day.

Thanks article...So you say sometime in the future then? Thanks.

Mike_LowELL		2010-05-07 03:42:35 AM

seventypercent: Is there a sysop reading this board? I believe that this headline is mistaken. Unless I misremember my education, Tokyo is very close to Mt. Fuji, and Tokyo is a VERY large population center. I hope that there is a sysop reading this board.

You do not know what you are talking about. Tokyo was hit by an atomic bomb in 1945. Remember that Veloci-Rhinogator from Takeshi's Castle that generated fun for the entire family by eating the contestants? Many live there.

ugarte		2010-05-07 04:42:17 AM

K. Dilkington: Paris1127: Alright, I'll clarify. Yosemite is not volcanic. Yellowstone is.

IC Stars: I think it would be really really really hard for Yosemite to erupt, since it is not a volcano.

Yeah, I'm retarded (but you knew what we meant).

Still willing to let you chalk this one down as a semantic victory.

/I'm still retarded though

Due to your idiotic claim of victory, I get the feeling that you think Yosemite and Yellowstone are in the same place. They aren't, they are two totally different national parks. Yosemite is in California. Yellowstone is in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

albuquerquehalsey		2010-05-07 06:02:23 AM

It will Brow Frame all over the shiatty!

davidphogan		2010-05-07 08:42:41 AM

Mike_LowELL: Tokyo was hit by an atomic bomb in 1945.

It was? Really? Who dropped that one?

zunkus		2010-05-07 08:44:54 AM

Ooooooooohhh nooooooo, there goes Tokyo. Gawdzirra. Woooooo

buddyrtr		2010-05-07 08:57:13 AM

Feepit		2010-05-07 09:01:52 AM

ugarte: Due to your idiotic claim of victory, I get the feeling that you think Yosemite and Yellowstone are in the same place. They aren't, they are two totally different national parks. Yosemite is in California. Yellowstone is in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

Those are all in the same state, tho'; right?

One Thirty-two and Bush		2010-05-07 09:27:37 AM

How many Hiroshimas will it be if it blows? I always enjoy that as a useless unit of measure.

Bob the Internet Barbarian		2010-05-07 09:44:03 AM

"Do you like our fire-breather, gai-jin?"

/Obscure?
//Not on Fark...

schatzie		2010-05-07 09:59:59 AM

Nemo's Brother 2010-05-06 09:51:01 PM
If Japan goes, where will I get my tentacle porn from?

Via Ghastly, your tentacle-friendly farker.

Seriously, check Ghastly's profile for instructions.

Lt. Cheese Weasel		2010-05-07 10:34:25 AM

Ball of Confusion		2010-05-07 10:35:12 AM

So much for global warming. Enjoy the upcoming little ice age.

/will enjoy the yellowstone caldera eruption when it comes

kth		2010-05-07 11:23:09 AM

OK, I forget, it's gays = hurricanes, and boobies = earthquakes. What causes volcanoes again?

00 Lace		2010-05-07 11:39:47 AM

kth: What causes volcanoes again?

Ryumyos, omae.

www.shadowhelix.de

/hot like fire

--------------Lace

Fano		2010-05-07 12:06:23 PM

IC Stars: K. Dilkington: nealzebub: Yosemite blowing it's lid? Do you mean the Yellowstone caldera? (If I'm right, this proves one thing, I really need to get a life.)

If this is some elaborate semantic difference between a volcano and a sunken caldera that can erupt, it's lost on me. Anything that can blow magma into the sky is considered a volcano to me.

I think it would be really really really hard for Yosemite to erupt, since it is not a volcano.

Yosemite blows all the time 4.bp.blogspot.com

Brick-House		2010-05-07 12:12:10 PM

kth: OK, I forget, it's gays = hurricanes, and boobies = earthquakes. What causes volcanoes again?

Well Hung Manly Men with large hairy balls that cause great eruptions.

priapic_abandon		2010-05-07 01:17:16 PM

BorgiaGinz		2010-05-07 01:22:38 PM

It's Volcano Day.

/watch out for the Pyroviles

cefm		2010-05-07 01:56:10 PM

That's OK - they don't feel pain like we do.

radioman_		2010-05-07 02:05:24 PM

With Japan's luck the only thing that will survive are those vending machines that dispense used schoolgirl panties and Rodan.

jvl		2010-05-07 02:11:49 PM

GAT_00: None of that means anything. We can't predict volcano eruptions and history has shown that the ones we think are about to go off never do.

That is no longer correct. It's been found that stratovolcanos like Fuji give off very distinctive waves when "filling up" for the big badda boom. It's basically water hammer.