Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

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Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by alphacat » Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:58 pm

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/23977 ... -to-erupt-
A sleeping super-volcano in Germany is showing worrying signs of waking up.

It's lurking just 390 miles away underneath the tranquil Laacher See lake near Bonn and is capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma.

This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years and last went off 12,900 years ago, so it could blow at any time.
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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by wub » Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:59 pm

alphacat wrote:capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma

Fuck sake Si, sort it out.

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by particle-jim » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:00 pm

alphacat wrote:This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years
that's quite an error margin... :6:
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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by alphacat » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:06 pm

particle-jim wrote:
alphacat wrote:This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years
that's quite an error margin... :6:
Must be government run. ;)

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by DRTY » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:10 pm

all that water will put the fire out :6:

but no

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by jameshk » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:11 pm

WE'RE ALL GONA DIE.

I'm surprised the mail havn't got hold of this yet.
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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by HamCrescendo » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:17 pm

particle-jim wrote:
alphacat wrote:This monster erupts every 10 to 12,000 years
that's quite an error margin... :6:


and this volcano calls itself German...

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by Backslang » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:33 pm

jameshk wrote:WE'RE ALL GONA DIE.

I'm surprised the mail havn't got hold of this yet.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -blow.html :4:

Edit 2 add-

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... y-to-blow/ :lol:

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by autobot » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:43 pm

Actually my worst nightmare

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by wolf89 » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:46 pm

Could happen in one day or one hundred years really no way of knowing.

either way we should definitely be hysterical/taking as much coke and banging as many hookers as possible just in case we all die.

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by ketamine » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:46 pm

autobot wrote:Actually my worst nightmare
Really? Volcanoes don't scare me but Earthquakes to my head in.

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by apmje » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:53 pm

North of England doesn't seem to badly effected.

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by wub » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:58 pm

apmje wrote:North of England doesn't seem to badly effected.

How could you tell if it was?

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by autobot » Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:59 pm

ketamine wrote:
autobot wrote:Actually my worst nightmare
Really? Volcanoes don't scare me but Earthquakes to my head in.
Used to earthquakes but nuclear winter for two yrs after one of these explodes - agghh

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by wolf89 » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:01 pm

^^^ Watch the film The Road and think about being plunged into ash induced winter...

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by horsefeather » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:30 pm

don"t believe that shit it will erupt one day but tbh i think that can take some years, the media is just trying to scare us again.
It's about dropping a track at the wrong speed, and it sounding better than the real thing.

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by pikeymobile » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:31 pm

wolf89 wrote: either way we should definitely be hysterical/taking as much coke and banging as many hookers as possible just in case we all die.
way ahead of you :w:

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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by LACE » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:52 pm

A sleeping super-volcano in Germany is showing worrying signs of waking up.

It's lurking just 390 miles away underneath the tranquil Laacher See lake near Bonn and is capable of ejecting billions of tons of magma.
HOLY SHIT, billions of tons of magma! think of all the reading material, humanity just won't be able to cope! FFS IT'S THE END I TELL U, THE END!
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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by lloydnoise » Wed Jan 04, 2012 6:56 pm

Backslang wrote:
jameshk wrote:WE'RE ALL GONA DIE.

I'm surprised the mail havn't got hold of this yet.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -blow.html :4:

Edit 2 add-

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... y-to-blow/ :lol:
the article Alphacat posted was actually taken straight from the Mail, it says so at the top.
pretty sensationalist but interesting nonetheless
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Re: Is a super-volcano 390 miles from London about to erupt?

Post by kay » Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:01 pm

But the last time it erupted it only covered 659 square miles! How does that even allow it to be counted as a supervolcano?

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