it's really the most plausible explanation...

Yeah, but they're discounting the threat of croctopus, or megashark doing the job.

/Syfy says so

serpent_sky: i used to work with a lady obsessed with supervolcanoes.

She also thought that if someone called her house "late at night", which for all I know, could have been 8pm, and hung up, it was Al Quaeda trying to send her messages. I think she once called he FBI about it, actually.

Needless to say, I'm really not all that worried about a supervolcano any time soon. And even if they did exist? What am I going to do about them?

I read that thinking the supervolcanos were calling her house after 8 PM. Of course, only the USGS is qualified to handle those sorts of cases.

If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

Crewmannumber6: If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

BWAAAAAAAAAAMM!

Crewmannumber6: If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

Trees!

Oh and according to that graphic I am safe since I am on the East Coast.

Crewmannumber6: If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

Witch! He's controlling my thoughts, burn him!

mctwin2kman: Oh and according to that graphic I am safe since I am on the East Coast.

We'll get ours longs before then, courtesy of Cumbre Vieja.

Crewmannumber6: If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

I'm usually thinking about boobies.

That's not what my uncle said.

/He's a real whiz with volcanoes.

theMagni: Crewmannumber6: If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

I'm usually thinking about boobies.

Whatever floats your boat, I guess...

That's like saying that Gynopomorphic Sexual Proxy Droids will not kill you in your sleep in 2012.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: serpent_sky: i used to work with a lady obsessed with supervolcanoes.

She also thought that if someone called her house "late at night", which for all I know, could have been 8pm, and hung up, it was Al Quaeda trying to send her messages. I think she once called he FBI about it, actually.

Needless to say, I'm really not all that worried about a supervolcano any time soon. And even if they did exist? What am I going to do about them?

I read that thinking the supervolcanos were calling her house after 8 PM. Of course, only the USGS is qualified to handle those sorts of cases.

Is your refrigerator running?
Yes.
Good, cause my pyroclastic flow is hot on its heels.

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it's really the most plausible explanation...

Like if those rapturists had to write their predictions in a fixed stone and eventually gave up because the stone ran out of room

Volcanoes cannot read calendars

Supervolcano won't destroy the world.. SuperGATOR will

When you read this you will think about the vicious champagne hangover you'll have Sunday.

trappedspirit: Volcanoes cannot read calendars

Then they should watch this: Link (new window)

It's ok, I have volcano insurance

Honest Bender: That's not what my uncle said.

/He's a real whiz with volcanoes.

I whizzed in a Volcano once...

/once

chechcal: It's ok, I have volcano insurance

In a big jar?

That's odd, because I just read that supervolcanoes predicted that researchers would destroy the earth in 2012.

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it's really the most plausible explanation...

Not a Mayan calendar; that's Aztec.

Also

We need to steer a giant asteroid straight at Earth. Plug that supervolcano right up.

Keigh: As a geology student, i became terrified of two things; Yellowstone, and North Korea.

now im just afraid of a magnetic reversal.

/and now you are too.


Hey fellow rock person - what do you think of taking a GIS certificate program? I find it fascinating (sp?) but have no geology / geography background. Have you used any GIS software?

Well, this this is MSNBC and liberal propaganda this can only mean one thing...

Obama is secretly building a volcano machine to blow up Yellowstone and rebuild a socialist utopia out of the USA's wreckage.

Keigh: As a geology student, i became terrified of two things; Yellowstone, and North Korea.

now im just afraid of a magnetic reversal.

As someone who took his science requirements in nothing but geology classes (my university has an internally infamous loophole that counts a 300-level seminar on dinosaurs through the geology profs as a life science), I'm not afraid of Yellowstone. Admit it, seeing that farker go up would be awesome.

What I learned to be more afraid of (than I already was, being a poly sci student) are oil companies.

theMagni: Crewmannumber6: If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

I'm usually thinking about boobies.

ahh, same here, my friend, same here....

hmmm boobies......

MBA Whore: Hey fellow rock person - what do you think of taking a GIS certificate program? I find it fascinating (sp?) but have no geology / geography background. Have you used any GIS software?

They offer certificates in Google Image Search? I think that comes standard when you sign up for Fark....

mctwin2kman: Crewmannumber6: If I say 'don't think about elephants' What do you think of?

Trees!

Oh and according to that graphic I am safe since I am on the East Coast.

Where does most food for those on the East Coast come from?

/Sitting safe in Washington, plenty of local, regional grub and loads of hops with which to brew beers to toast the misery of those back east.

You will notice that they said nothing about Octovolcanopus.

The funny thing about the 2012 thing is that it isn't even the end of the Mayan Calendar.

December 21st, 2012 is the start of 13th B'ak'tun (each b'ak'tun is equal to about 394.3 solar years) in the Mayan Long Count calendar. People assume that's the end point of the Mayan calendar simply because that's when the first cycle of creation ended, with us living in the second.

However it's much more likely they'd either just reset the calendar and move on into the 3rd cycle of creation (with no need for an apocalypse), or just keep the calendar counting past 13th b'ak'tun into the 14th, 15th, and so on. What we do know is that the Mayans made predictions for events past 2012, indicating they believed the world would still be around.


At any rate, a supervolcanic eruption would be devastating to modern society, but I think we'd get plenty of warning should that occur.

Well, just saying that if you live in the Pacific Northwest, it's lonnnng overdue.

And Rainier, Hood, Mt. St Helens and Mt. Baker were ALL erupting about 150 years ago. That kind of sh*t would majorly freak people out living in the populated areas near them.

MBA Whore: Keigh: As a geology student, i became terrified of two things; Yellowstone, and North Korea.

now im just afraid of a magnetic reversal.

/and now you are too.


Hey fellow rock person - what do you think of taking a GIS certificate program? I find it fascinating (sp?) but have no geology / geography background. Have you used any GIS software?

As a full time GIS monkey if you have the chance DO IT! Its a field that has tons of jobs and good paying ones at that. I work in an interdisciplinary office so what I do changes from day to day it keeps things from getting stale.

Keigh: As a geology student, i became terrified of two things; Yellowstone, and North Korea.

now im just afraid of a magnetic reversal.

/and now you are too.

No, not really. Just glad I never studied geology.

MBA Whore: Keigh: As a geology student, i became terrified of two things; Yellowstone, and North Korea.

now im just afraid of a magnetic reversal.

/and now you are too.


Hey fellow rock person - what do you think of taking a GIS certificate program? I find it fascinating (sp?) but have no geology / geography background. Have you used any GIS software?

You do not need a geography or geology background. Most universities teach GIS through their Geography or Earth Science departments, but that does not mean you need to know anything really about either field. I work with a utility who has a GIS department whose users are not even particularly computer-literate and they certainly do not have a background in geography. Learning something like ESRI's ArcGIS is more about learning the software program than it is knowing geography. If you can learn Word or Excel, you can learn ArcGIS. Now, there are extensions and functions in ArcGIS where it would help to have a geography background, but there are so many extensions now that cater so many different fields that there is no way you could learn them all.

A certificate should be enough to get your foot in the door as a GIS Technician. A few years of experience will get you to GIS Analyst. Pay is pretty good, as far as job openings, I haven't looked in quite awhile, but GIS is used in ALOT of areas: utilities, real estate, business, state/local/federal governement, military, universities, emergency management and insurance. Anything with a spatial component to it means GIS.

In fact, if you want to go deeper into GIS, it would be better to have a background in programming, database development or web design at this point. I started GIS via a geography degree, but all I do now is programming to expand the abilities of ArcGIS.