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sosumi wrote:

The Mayan calendar has an "End of the World" date of Dec 21, 2012.  Some people have interpreted this to mean that's when the world will end, and that there have been several "worlds" all lasting x years.  In reality, Dec 21, 2012 is the date of some grand celestial event, something about the sun and Milky Way lining up in a precise manner and that is supposed to signifiy the start of a new age of achievement and change for humanity.

uh oh, it sounds like earch is marked for a galactic thuway. I shoulda listened to those dolphins.

No. He spelled "Floor" wrong. It must be our tito.

Get better soon

i love cool weather.

To get his PhD

...um. Where's the pictures of the sad girls in snow?

Fried Chicken wrote:

Then why is it that we don't celebrate something on october 4th

That's a damned good question - we are wasting an opportunity to get totally plastered.

I don't know where your getting your information from, but 17 ice ages in the last 2 million years lasting for 100,000 years each would be 1.7 million  years out of the last 2 million  in ice ages. Just plain wrong.

The last ice age started about 1.3 million years ago and ended about 125,000 years ago, humans were around during it, be they early humans. Ice ages aren't that extreme, at the high point of the last one, about 30% of the earths surface was ice, currently it is about 10%, we are still coming out of the last ice age, or what some scientists and most hippies call global warming.

Sometimes there just isn't ice on the poles folks, it's a part of the earths natural cycle.

As for yellowstone, it erupted about 65,000 years ago, and the patterns show it blows about every 65,000 years. That doesn't mean it will anytime soon, it could be tomorrow, it could be 10,000 years from now, 65,000 years is the blink of an eye in geologic time. They did find ash 10 feet think in Iowa from the yellowstone eruption though.

There is a larger volcano under Sumatra.

Last edited by Stop the Robots (2005-05-09 10:01 pm)

Stop the Robots wrote:

I don't know where your getting your information from, but 17 ice ages in the last 2 million years lasting for 100,000 years each would be 1.7 million  years out of the last 2 million  in ice ages. Just plain wrong.

Well, LOL, it doesn't stop right at 100,000 years! "Well, the ice age ended today after 100,000 years.  Yesterday, it was 30 below and endless snow, today it is 90 degrees and and we're going surfing-good thing those ice ages stop right at 100,000 years exactly.", LOL.

Some were longer, some shorter. Those are estimates, and they're going to be variable. BUT...

If you re-read the post, I stated that there are  interglacial periods (we're in one now) that last 10,000 years (again, not exact-some scientists say 10000-12000 years) BETWEEN the 100,000+/- years (reread the original post-clearly stated).

Keep in mind that I wrote NONE of the articles I mention-they're written by science writers, scientists, etc. I'm just providing them as source material.
J.