From: mloy@iupui.edu (Mark Loy) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: Peace on Earth - U2- Superbowl Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:57:32 -0500 Organization: Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis,IN In article , "Sandy Pratt" wrote: > Mark Loy wrote in message > news:mloy-1802021522500001@134.68.134.43... > > > Oh and, I'm also in the market for some reasonably priced meteorite impact > > insurance and some all-inclusive supervolcano coverage. > > Just to take this in a new direction, anyone else ever read about what would > happen if a gamma ray burster went off in our galactic neighborhood? > Ionized ozone and cosmic rays, oh my... Fuck that shit. I tell you the supervolcano in the very geologically active Yellowstone basin will erupt within the next few years--the ground is already rising at a predigious rate--and the "detonation" of the massive liquid-hot magma cauldron will be sufficient to kill every living thing within about a thousand mile radius instantly--of course that's only like...nine or ten people but still--and then alter the worldwide climate for decades causing the extinction of a whole metric buttload of critters on a global scale including, most probably, the armadillo. I believe it was said best in _Them_--"I'm tellin' you that man, as the dominant species on this planet, will be extinct within...a year, general?" Be afraid. Be very afraid. Mark "Chicken Little" Loy