some sites:

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/activity.html

http://www.montanaforum.com/rednews/2003/06/02/build/parks/activity2.php?nnn=3

http://www.hawaiinews.com/archives/volcano_watch/000211.shtml

http://www.snopes.com/science/volcano.asp

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020715-034220-8263r

Thanks again for the handy links, Skell!

Zoinky, you'll just have to read about Spain during the Civil War (I recommend "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell) to see that not all states are filled with corruption and/or seperate from the public. Being a "libertarian socialist" and an "anarchist", I can say that mine is the only political philosophy that has been both tested and has never fallen to corruption.

cool good links ... here's a book you may like. It's called, "Ain't nobody's Business If I Do", by; Peter McWilliams. if you don't already have it.... it's updated periodicaly.... It's on my computer desk next to my Dictionary and my Kurt Vonnegut Hard backs. thats how important it is to Me

"During civil wars plenty of idealist freaks like you lead losers to their deaths. I won't be one of them. I'll show up afterwards to carpet bag. You can't keep a war going forever, hero."

We all die - some of us die with our spines intact and our lives full of meaning and shaped by truth, and some of us will die tolerating all sorts of injustice thinking that material things will fill that empty hole at the moment of death. I choose to live before I die, not simply exist.

As well, anarchism was part of the pro-democracy movements of the late sixties and is even more a part of today's social movements .... are you sure you picked the winning side?







"By the way, Orwell admits in Chapter 5 of Homage to Catalonia that Spain's anarchism at that time, (which, much to Orwell's dismay, evaporated entirely by Chapter 11 when the war ended) was just another dose of heady christian idealism."

Quote him. I don't believe you've read the book - just a review of it.





"Due to all the need to clamp down on all the heady idealism, Spain ended up with the longest running fascist government in the West, lasting up until 1975."

I would blame it more on the cooperation between Fascist Italy and Germany, "neutral" Britian and America and the tratorous Soviet Union - all of which had a greater effect on the anarchist defeat than any of the idealism you blame.


"Then again, maybe the Spanish were going to get around to tossing fascism out, manyana... "

Now I KNOW you haven't read "Homage". You should really do some reading some time, it might broaden your horizons. It was a real battle, and for a year or two nobody knew what was going to happen.



"Do you have the guts to read this? "

Yes, but my computer won't open it - why don't you just cut and paste the good parts? And - to make this conversation more interesting - read a book or two on Spain during the civil war before you try and accurately relate to me what went on there. Half the country just gave up having bosses - most people would find that to be worth exploring futher (just bosses get nervous about it - you're not one of those, are you?).

David,

As a former employee of Yellowstone I can attest to this. The 4 years I worked there the average temps of certain geyser basins have dramatically increased. Hell, I even got to see Steamboat Geyser go off in 2000...it had laid dormant for years beforehand...Old Faithfull geyser hasnt got anything on that one.

Now about this time last year a friend still working in the park told me of a huge gassy-type bubble forming somewhere under Yellowstone Lake on the lake bed. Rumours circulated as to its size...hard to tell really but lets just say if she popped some serious flooding would have occured. The lake has an average year-round temp of around 44 degrees or so...just this activity raised it a few notches on the thermometer....THIS IS SERIOUS....cause that lake is gargantuan.

One more thing...hopefully I can sum it up into laymans terms here.. That caldera starts at the tip of Mount Washburn and runs all the way down into Grant Village...encompassing even the grand Hayden Valley, some serious mileage there even as the crow flies. Within that area there is nothing but lava underneath...so here we are with a lava chamber around 60-65 miles in length...and 30-35 miles in width...no idea on the thickness but I heard its deep. I dont care where you live in the world, when that bitch goes it will eventually get you, if not in the form of lava or the general explosion its-self a "nuclear" winter will dominate earth as we know it. Buhbye peeps.

I now live about 30 miles north of Yellowstone, and even I expect to be vaporised when she decides its time to go.

Serious stuff indeed folks...its gonna happen, just a matter of when.


ps--geologists theorize that around every 100,000 years give or take a century or two that Yellowstone has erupted...its been at least that since the last explosion. ...we are due.

100,000 years? Try 600,000 years. Didn't they tell you this when you worked there? Or were you employed by the reptillians working underground?

Oh yeah it was 600K, sorry bout that

thanks for caring, professor.

Don't mind Zookee - his momma never taught him how to be nice to people.

Thanks for your opinion - I knew someone out there had some first-hand knowledge.