The ground is now literally shaking around Iceland's Mt. Katla. If that blows, look for Bund spreads to promptly catch up with Greek ones.
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on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:38
#307708
Yah, fire or ice? Choose and prep. This is amazing. And then Yellowstone? And then US airspace is shut down.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:27
#307872
Of course, that won't be a concern as half of the country would be airborne at that point anyways (a Yellowstone eruption is a near extinction level event for humanity).
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:21
#308019
- I believe another volcano close to Katla has just erupted, Hekla is the name, link to live cam;
http://www.ruv.is/hekla
- credit Herne the Hunter
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:39
#307710
We need to sacrifice a virgin!
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:42
#307716
We don't have virgins.
How about an investment banker?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:50
#307745
Considering how many people have bought into this "recovery" I'd say we could rustle up a few financial virgins.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:25
#307862
+1
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:46
#307951
The sacrifice ratio is 100,000 I-bankers = 1 virgin
And we're all out of virgins.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:26
#308034
+100,000
ok, scratch the virgin and do the bankers
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:43
#307720
would blankfein, summers and geithner satisfy the gods?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:52
#307752
No, they are the Gods. And they are sacrificing Charlie Brown. That would be us.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:53
#307758
I'm in the process of legally changing my name right now to "thegods", and let me say up front that yes, it would satisfy me.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:03
#307795
+1000 Chindit you are one sick puppy.
Carry on.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:55
#307764
No harm trying. Perhaps Bernanke could drop them into the smouldering crater of Mt. Katla from his helicopter, since it's not dispensing aerial ponzidollars at the moment.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:43
#307945
Na we need to find someone with a "brain cloud".
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:06
#307998
Thomas Friedman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFucVeBWUV4
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:40
#307713
If it blows, am I correct in assuming it's time to go all in on agricultural commodities and oil?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:28
#307875
You forgot railroads.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:01
#307994
And ash-wipe.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:30
#307883
Ag? Yes. Oil? Not so much--considering there won't be any air travel for some time, and the economic depression that follows will likely drive down the price relative to most other commodities. Rather than oil, I'd go for PMs, as that would usher in an era of uncertainty we haven't seen in 60+ years at least.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:03
#307993
Moved
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:42
#307715
Gaia is in the beginning throes of purging homo sapiens as an evolutionary mistake. Better luck next time.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:43
#307722
+10000000
The sooner the better i say. I hope there is an afterlife and that ZH is present there.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:22
#307853
perhaps. then again, maybe she's just giving her golden children a spanking to remind them who's boss.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:39
#307877
tip e. canoe, is that you?
You changed your avatar. Damn, I scan the comments by avatar so I almost missed you. What is it, lava? It's too small for my tired old eyes.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 15:11
#308526
lava & lightning courtesy of faustian's anon friend.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:43
#307721
anyone have any ideas what's the cheapest way to buy case lots of canned goods ?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:50
#307736
http://www.yourfoodstorage.com/
Not cheapest, but you want the nitrogen packaging.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:06
#307807
I have had really good luck with this stuff...dried, not canned, organic too!
http://shopping.maryjanesfarm.org/s.nl/sc.2/category.13/.f#Storage%20Food
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:49
#307959
Your local Aldi. Seriously.
For other storage goods, Walton Feeds or AAOOB.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:07
#308003
I can vouch for this myself:
http://www.waltonfeed.com/
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:45
#307726
Obviously, we are in the beginning stages of a wobble of the Earth's axis.
Either that, or this is Mother Nature's way of telling Iceland's creditors to go to Hell.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:54
#307759
you are correct yet again sir:
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Marching Toward Siberia At 37 Miles Per Year
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017531445#ixzz0lYPJWuxS
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:30
#308043
Nope, just Cthulhu dropping by for a visit.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:47
#307730
Does that top chart really say "god"? :>)
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:58
#307773
Sweet Sweet Sweet Irony
what a beautiful way to say
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:00
#307779
and the bottom says "ha u"
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:48
#307733
Time to stock up with 20kg bags of rice.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:55
#307766
and/or learn how to create mini rice paddies in wading pools.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:49
#307962
Rice is probably not what you want. A little research would be a good idea before buying.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:54
#307978
brown rice and beans, canned tomatoes, canned salmon and toiletries. Oh and guns, lots of guns and ammo.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:15
#308018
and enough baking soda to put out a volcano!
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:22
#308030
LOL
And here I thought it was only good for killing that ugly smell coming from my refrigerator. :>)
Stock up now while you can. Yellowstone is just around the corner.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:33
#308047
Yellowstone has been pretty quiet lately. A lot of quakes in early 2009 and 2010, but not too much right now.
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html
I usually start to get nervous once they hit magnitude 3 and 4. It wouldn't take much more than that to let the magma out.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:25
#308033
Brown rice has an even shorter storage life than white rice.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:50
#307740
Very funny reading that this mountain is ready to blow along side an ad for Cougarlife.com
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:01
#307789
The synchronicity of randomly placed adds can be a joy to behold.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:34
#308049
I think we are getting those because Cougar posts here.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:45
#308064
Ah yes, Cougar, my all time favorite green Maine Coon cat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Coon
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 13:15
#308258
http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/family-parenting/article.aspx?cp-docu...
In the "parenting" section, no less...
Cougar Moms!
It can seem like it's your mom's job to mortify you. But a new wave of moms is doing more than making you blush: They act so sexy and flirtatious, they make you question their judgment — and your own sanity.
By Dan Koday
When Bri, 16, started high school, she thought it was cool that her mom was so much fun to hang out with. "My parents got divorced when I was 6, but high school is when it actually started to seem like a good thing — I was grateful to have a mom who wanted to shop at the same places and see the same movies I was into," she says. "I felt like we suddenly had so much in common, and I could tell her anything and she'd understand." But after a few months of sharing clothes and gossip, things started to take a turn for the worse: Bri's mom went from shopping at the same stores as Bri did…to flirting with the same guys. "Now I can't go anywhere without her flirting with every guy she meets. One of her recent boyfriends was 23. After that, she started going to my brother's hockey games to flirt with his coach — who's 12 years younger than she is — and they started dating." Bri says she wishes her mom would change — but not because it embarrasses her in front of her friends. "The truth is that my friends think my mom is so cool and pretty, and my guy friends think she's sexy. My ex-boyfriend used to joke about getting with her! But I don't want my crushes crushing on my mom. I feel like I have to keep her away from my new boyfriend to keep him from paying more attention to her than to me."
Bri's mom is the perfect example of a cougar: an older woman who's into (and almost seems to hunt down!) way younger guys. Lots of girls say their moms are on a cougar kick too: Meghan, 17, says her 46-year-old mom dated the same guy who'd dated one of her 18-year-old friends; Hunter, 18, sometimes feels as if her friends like her cougar mom more than they like her; and Jessica, 16, reports that ever since her parents got divorced last year, her mom "dresses up in short skirts and dates guys who are barely 25, then tells me everything about her sex life. It's so awkward." The truth is that you want to be open with your mom — but it feels unsettling if she's that open with you.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:50
#307743
I ma really starting to think 2012 is a real deal if we even make it that far
I saw a good video series yesterday on a supposed big planet or comet in an elliptical orbit which may be returning
and thats why a lot of advanced civilisations in the past were wiped out. The Mayans knew about this travelling in an orbit of 3600 years or simething like that
I'm really starting to think something is happening like that
see www.the-rabbitts-hole.com
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:55
#307980
Dont know about rabbit-hole stuff, but here is a scientist's say about Sedna:
"
"The last time Sedna was this close to the sun, Earth was just coming out
of the last ice age. The next time it comes back, the world might again be
a completely different place," Brown said.
"
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/16mar_sedna/
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:35
#308053
Sedna is much too far away to be an issue. Its gravitational pull is so faint as to be nearly nonexistent.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 13:27
#308293
Tend to disagree- very little is needed to disrupt the fragile equilibrium on the earth and break all hell loose.
And at 1.5 times the size of Pluto and quarter Earth’s radius Sedna is no small potato.
Undisturbed for tens of thousands of years the solar system has reached near perfect equilibrium. Then along comes the bully and pulls this planet this side and the other to the other side and then goes away but the solar system needs another thousands of years to settle down again. Meanwhile, as far as earth is concerned, with its crust as thick as an egg’s shell compared to its size, tectonic plates shift just slightly more, earth’s heavy metal core pushes just slightly here and there activating few volcanoes, few earthquakes, stuff like that…
"
Sedna's perihelion will be reached within this century, before Sedna moves back out and farther away from the Sun again for another estimated 12 thousand years.
"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 13:57
#308366
I call enough on this moronic discussion - maybe this highlights the poor state of American science education maybe not but before exposing your thoughts about anything astronomical and its geophysical relationships with the Earths crust and what not it would be best if you had some idea what you are talking about.
The distances you describe are truly astronomical (pun intended) and the Mass of Sedna is many times less then our moon.
The only objects that has significant effect on our crust are the sun and moon and perhaps Jupiter.
I suggest you hit the books before you enlighten the rest of the zero hedge audience with your 'thoughts'.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:57
#307746
map: http://www.skimountaineer.com/ROF/Beyond/Katla/MyrdalsjokullMap.jpg
Webcam: http://www.123-cam.com/live-webcam.php?var=http://www.ruv.is/hekla/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35988484/ns/technology_and_science-science/
"A general expectation is that because of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption, the fissure would widen and in that sense, there's a greater risk of extending into or underneath the glaciers and prompting an eruption at Katla," said Andy Russell with Newcastle University's Earth Surface Processes Research Group, who went with a team to Iceland before the eruption. "From records, we know that every time Eyjafjallajokull erupts, Katla has also erupted."
Russell said past Katla eruptions have caused floods the size of the Amazon and sent boulders as big as houses tumbling down valleys and roads. The last major eruption took place in 1918. Floods followed in as little as an hour.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:51
#307747
It dIt doesn't matter if every volcano around the planet simultaneously blows, or 10 Richter scale earthquakes level every major city on planet earth, or tsunamis sink half of the developed world under water, or a giant black hole is devouring the Milky Way, or the sun goes supernova..............DOW UP.
This is America baby, the land of opportunity.(Is there anyone who still thinks there's even a semblance of a free market out there? And I mean anyone?)
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:00
#307780
Yep. Another day of non-existent volume and the market treading steady / slightly up.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:07
#308002
+36000
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:52
#307754
What do they say in Europe?
"We wanted cash and they sent ash"
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:53
#307755
Chinese superstition has it that natural disasters are sure signs that an emperor has lost the "mandate of heaven" and that only a new ruler can bring calm to the world. It was the Tanshan earthquake which killed over a quarter million people in 1976, for example, which "caused" the death of Chairman Mao and brought Deng Xiaoping to power.
Superstitious?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:01
#307785
After your little rant over at Ritholz site about ZeroHedge i expect you to fuck off.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:08
#307813
CB, this guy is a troll who posts on MarketWatch under the moniker "kinito". Same song, different day.
Telling him to fuck off will yield to nothing, so best ignore him and save your energy for more productive discussions.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:19
#307843
Yeah i know the dude from my days at MarketWatch.
That is until i was banned from that site when i told one of their columnist to fuck off.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:23
#307858
Yeah ignore him, "great earnings from C". What a bird brain!
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:42
#307938
Did an angel earn his wings that day? LOL
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:10
#307820
I was leaving TBP just as Harry Wanger began posting more. Summer to early Fall of 2008. Wanger is a troll and a sh*t stirrer. A lot of Barry's regulars thought Harry Wanger was Ritholtz using an alter to mess with people. Anyway, BR and Harry Wanger turned a lot of traffic away from ritholtz.com.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:02
#307793
Do you honestly think those are REAL earnings you are seeing there?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 13:44
#308334
as real as the FRN itself
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:07
#307809
tolerance and moderation, tolerance and moderation, tolerance and moderation
harry don't ever comment again
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:09
#307816
Just pointing out that the market is reacting to strong earnings and strong Leading Indicators this morning. Don't be distracted by the noise of something that happened two years ago. Look at what's happening now. The economy is obviously stronger and improving with each report.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:35
#307905
Don't worry, that's just the syphilis talking.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:56
#308073
LOL
I'm stealing that line.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:52
#307970
good nite Harry
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:10
#308008
Why don't you go over and close Guantanamo Bay, please. Our man O needs some help keeping his promises.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:09
#307811
Barry Ritholtz, is that you?
Thanks for talking about cockroaches on "Tech Ticker" this morning. I guess it takes one to know one.
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/%22there's-never-just-one-cockroach%22-can-bulls-survive-the-goldman-fraud-fallout-470111.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,C,GS,XLF,FAZ,BAC
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:12
#307824
@CD
+1 As I posted above, many TBP regulars thought Wanger was a BR alter.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:23
#307859
The writing styles are very similar. Regardless, Wanger is a roach. He's not trying to inform but to inflame.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=cockroach+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=22XMS4rWFIWKlwfc7cGqBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQsAQwAA
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:39
#307927
Please illustrate the depth of your financial ignorance Harry, and explain to us all what "earnings" mean in the context of C.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:49
#307960
These earnings:
8:33 a.m. | Updated The New York Times’s Eric Dash provides more details about Citigroup’s first-quarter results.
Citigroup on Monday reported a $4.4 billion profit for its first quarter, as the banking giant continues to strengthen nearly two years after the financial crisis.
Citi’s profit, which amounts to 15 cents a share, was a sharp reversal from the $7.6 billion loss it reported during the same time last year.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:58
#307986
All their money made trading, not from loans to consumers or businesses. You know, people in the real economy. Any chance you understand that?
Go away.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:00
#307989
Amazing what a company can achieve without accounting standards and massive government subsidies.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:59
#307776
God Bless them. Iceland. We are with you. Erupt away. The only way this could get anymore poetic is if GS long oil blows up in their faces. And the demand for shipping capacity to offset air freight pushes crude off the ocean and into land based infrastructure. Yeah yeah yeah. Wishful thinking. They probably found away to short volcanic eruptions too.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:01
#307784
Looks like Volcano’s, Goldman or Greece aren’t going to affect Mutual Fund Monday
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:01
#307787
what would actually sink the market?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:06
#307804
GS computer breakdown.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:03
#307794
Being I work in Manhattan and live on Long Island......Anyone have any ideas as to the potential tsunami an explosion of this magnitutde could have???? Especially in the NorthEastern US.......
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:10
#307818
tsunamis generally occur when an earhquake strikes
at sea and the sea bed moves upwards at a subduction zone
usually. Unless the volcano eruption causes a huge mountainside to slip into the sea then I doubt it will cause
one. Again its the movemnet of the sea bed generally upwards
which causes tsunamis
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:13
#307827
I have two questions for you.
Do you ride the subway to work?
What floor do you work on?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:34
#307900
6th Floor near the Chrysler Building.
I take 1 subway to work....2 stops...thats it.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 11:56
#308157
Ha, not far from yours truly! Plus, I live on the East River, so if we get a serious tidal wave, the foundation of my building is probably going to go! Oh well, I'm on Mother Earth's earth, so what will be will be.
If you see a guy drinking heavily at an East Side bar, big, shit-eating end-of-world type grin on his face, it's probably me.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 11:56
#308158
Ha, not far from yours truly! Plus, I live on the East River, so if we get a serious tidal wave, the foundation of my building is probably going to go! Oh well, I'm on Mother Earth's earth, so what will be will be.
If you see a guy drinking heavily at an East Side bar, big, shit-eating end-of-world type grin on his face, it's probably me.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:24
#307855
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami
I urge you to buy some form of a floating device if something brakes like this in Iceland.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:36
#307908
Curb - what Mr. Bastard highlighted above is what you have to look forward to if this little mofo decides to break bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 15:16
#308535
mind-boggling...2000 ft high wave moving at 621mph.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:05
#307800
the good news is that we can now blame the bad april jobs number on the volcano!
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:07
#307810
They didn't take gold down for long this morning, climb back up again.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:13
#307825
They say every Icelander born before 1918 is deaf because this was the year of Katla's last eruption.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:18
#307839
I do not get this
I thought the Gs scandal was an excuse to take the market down and thye wouod profit by shorting the market?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:22
#307856
On a positive note, Katla is easier to pronounce than Eyja....
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:37
#307914
They shortened it after its last explosion. Its kinda hard to scream "Oh my God look at Katlamylogerhaboptipoojoo..." while you're running for dear life.Rumor has it that Eyja.. will be renamed to 'Bob' in a few days.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:40
#308059
LOL!
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:27
#307874
You serious?...wow
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:32
#307891
Poetic justice?
Instead of Iceland paying out the Brits, the Brits will have to come to the aid of the Icelanders due to this catastrophe.
How sweet it is...
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:34
#307894
I am beginning to understand why Icelanders are putting up such a brave fight against the creatures that inhabit the side streets of the City of London and elsewhere.
They must be made of stern stuff to remain on such a cold fiery lump of pumice.
But it does help if the Gods of the underworld are on your side.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:34
#307899
Following the unexpectedly good earnings anouncements from C -- "Balance sheet? We don't need no balance sheet! We don't have to show you any stinkin' balance sheet!"
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:39
#307920
I wonder if C's balance sheet is worth the cocktail napkin its written on ...
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:55
#308070
Is that Telly baby? God I miss that bald head and smirk. And the Kojak lollipop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telly_Savalas
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:36
#307910
Pardon?
Regards.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:43
#307942
I think Hekla just blew. Seeing a plume that wasn't there just an hour ago. http://www.ruv.is/hekla/
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:00
#307991
Holy fucking shit, your right, I was monitoring it earlier this morning, HEKLA'S BLOWING.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:40
#308014
Maybe theyt have pointed the cam at the active volcano. Google Translator is a little, er, rough...
Still time for Sven and Inga to throw their sleeping bags, tarps, and dried fish in the shopping cart and set to walking South. I hear Greece is cheap this time of year.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:23
#308032
Tremor meltup continuing: http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/Katla2009/stodvaplott.html
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:33
#308045
My HAU 1-2Hz 12-12 leaps are in the money!
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:51
#307966
I am wondering as the ice melts pressure/weight lessens and the rate of ejection increases.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 15:27
#308562
Yes, it does.
More earthquakes caused by the land rising, and more magma production.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:54
#307979
Every graph should be viewed in some reasonable perspective.
Here is the most terrible one:
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/god.gif
So what?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:55
#307982
It's time to think outside the box. There needs to be a missle strike on
Eyjafjallajokull.
Blow the top off the volcano and melt the surronding ice to stop this. The bunker busting bombs that the US has will do the trick.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:00
#307985
I scoffed at the dire 2012 cataclysm predictions until recently. Now I respond with a nervous chuckle.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:08
#308007
hekla another icelandic volcano?
we have three going off?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:13
#308015
Roll up roll up, get yer early-bird piece of Iceland real estate; because given a long enough time-line, everybodies a f**king Continent
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:19
#308023
wanger
those "earnings" are through trading/manipulation and accounting fraud ie mark to fantasy
maybe you should join Cramer and liesman
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:38
#308056
usty I cannot make head or tail of that site
it shows hekla blowing
?
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:51
#308065
No - it's caused by insufficiently controlled women...
Ornery Bastard: Apparently Sluts Cause Earthquakes
Silly me...I thought earthquakes were caused by the movement of tectonic plates and the sudden release of energy from pressure and stress built up along fault lines. Turns out they're caused by Iranian sluts in tight coats and flimsy headscarves and layers of skilfully applied makeup. Who knew? I stand corrected.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 11:44
#308145
So we can use this as a war device if we can figure ou the geometry of it. Sluts in iran cause eruptions in iceland. Let's see. a squared + b squared times the sine of alpha. Ok this isn't working according my math brazil should be causing 20,000 eruptions a second in florida. So there must be a counter slut component. We're going to need a million hookers in iceland stat to fix this.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 16:22
#308647
Sluts have caused powerful eruptions throughout history.
And remember, a slut and a hooker are not the same thing. Sluts give it away, hookers you pay. Mix them up at your own peril.
I think there is some serious counter-party risk in this hedge you propose.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 16:41
#308668
Ya I was just thinking the positions they slut in might affect the vector mechanics. If you loaded a place with too many doggy style sluts when you needed girl on top sluts you could mount sheer forces the wrong way. Anyway I more intellectually curious about what happens when enough ice melts from the volcanic material to put florida under water. Then the sharks go in and eat young people hopped up on illegal drugs and old people hopped up on prescription drugs. Then you got millions of drug crazed sharks trying to attack party boats in the med to get their next fix.
I think unintended consequenes could possibly be the next king of event driving.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 11:02
#308077
Can't be true otherwise the Uk would have loads of earthquakes
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 11:25
#308111
There's this, too:
Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is nothing to 'Angry Sister' Katla
which concludes: As Iceland's glaciers thin, their weight upon the island's volcanoes will lighten, making it easier for magma to rise from the earth's depths, they say.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 12:29
#308199
The data in the graph is from Eyjafjallajökull. There absolutely no activity near Katla.......yet.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 13:07
#308252
Yellowstone is the big one, and it's getting ready to rumble IMHO. Massive earthquake swarms occurred in 2009 and 2010 (Jan/Feb). Instead of considering those swarms as a warning of the coming eruption, our idiot linear-thinking "scientists" assume everything's back to normal (since its quiet right now) - just like they ignored the earthquakes occurring prior to the Eyjaf... eruption.
And from what I'm reading, Katla blowing would be a real game changer.
on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 13:19
#308281
I hear some people are complaining that volcanic ash is nuthin to worry about, the Eurocontrol folks are idiots and lets fly, fly, fly right thru that goddamn ash, here are some sobering pics of Finnish F-18 engines who did just that:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/volcanic-ash-gives-jet-engine-a-turbocharge.html