[aldo_14]

That would depend on which half.

[Nico]

Well, the other half, of course

[vyper]

It could be far worse, your planet could be scheduled for demolition.

[TrashMan]

In 500 Years Yellowstone prolly wouldn't be such a big problem as humanity will porbably move outside the solar system...Or at least outside just Earth.

If it erupts now, we're screwed.
Strangely, it allmost screams poethic justice.. Humanity has been fighting nature (to be more specific - polluted the enviromenrt, killed animals, etc..) for centuries.
to be dealt such a blow by nature..I kinda think we deserved it. America the most, so I'm glad it's there and not somewhere else.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by vyper
It could be far worse, your planet could be scheduled for demolition.

Who says it isn't?  Have you been to the local Planning Dept in Alpha Centauri?

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by TrashMan
America the most, so I'm glad it's there and not somewhere else.

Oh yeah, mean old America deserves a supervolcano eruption.  "Glad it's there"?  Wow, really enlightened of you.

[Bobboau]

you can tell he's smarter than us because he thinks humanity getting anihalated by a supervolcano is a good thing

[WeatherOp]

Was it on tv? I don't know why but things like, Cat. 5 Hurricanes, F5 tornados, 500 foot tall Tsunamis, MM.XII Earthquakes and Super Volcanos intrest me.  


*Looks at name.... Wait I do know why.
*counts down time till Tornado and Hurricane season.

[Ford Prefect]

Strangely, it allmost screams poethic justice.. Humanity has been fighting nature (to be more specific - polluted the enviromenrt, killed animals, etc..) for centuries.
to be dealt such a blow by nature..I kinda think we deserved it.

We are nature. We originated in this universe; everything we do is enescapably part of nature. If we destroy this planet, nature destroyed it, and I get the feeling that nature doesn't really give a **** if one of its planets gets taken over by one species.

[Nico]

Originally posted by TrashMan

Strangely, it allmost screams poethic justice.. Humanity has been fighting nature (to be more specific - polluted the enviromenrt, killed animals, etc..) for centuries.
to be dealt such a blow by nature..I kinda think we deserved it. America the most, so I'm glad it's there and not somewhere else.

To be fair, we've poluted nature for only about one century and a half., and been killing animals over reproduction rates for a bit more than two centuries
And as for the "I'm glad it's there and not somewhere else", don't dream, there's others in other parts of the world
WOuld be funky if one actually blew up and started some planet-scale chain reaction

[karajorma]

Originally posted by WeatherOp
Was it on tv? I don't know why but things like, Cat. 5 Hurricanes, F5 tornados, 500 foot tall Tsunamis, MM.XII Earthquakes and Super Volcanos intrest me.  

It was on British TV. Discovery channel gets it in April though

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect

We are nature. We originated in this universe; everything we do is enescapably part of nature. If we destroy this planet, nature destroyed it, and I get the feeling that nature doesn't really give a **** if one of its planets gets taken over by one species.

No, we are a PART of the nature...A rather misguided part.
So just like ahuman is part of humanity and can destroy humanity, so is humanity a part of nature and can destroy it...even if he destroyes himself in the process...

[Ford Prefect]

I think you're missing my point. If we are part of nature, it's impossible for us to be "misguided", because anything and everything we do is permitted by nature.

[Clave]

That is justification for breaking the planet?  We only have one you know, there are no back-ups...

[Bobboau]

what? you think were going to strip the oxygen out of the air or something, we might make it less pleasent, but short of the discussion in the other thread about colapseing the planet into a miniture black hole, there is no way were going to destroy all life on earth, or "break" it.
were just doing what come natural to us like every other liveing thing on the planet. just for some reason a few people in the last few decades have decided thats a reason to hate our selves over. animals go extinct all the time, oftine becase a new animal comes about and alters the environment, those animals incapable of adapting to the new environment die out, that's evolution, that's nature.

[Clave]

I think it's quite possible that we could destroy all life on earth by accident, or Nature could do it to us..

What I was trying to point out was that not everything we do is 'natural'  Like nuclear weapons for example, it's pretty unlikely that Nature would create them, so blowing up half the planet in a nuclear war would not be classed as evolution or a natural event.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Clave
Like nuclear weapons for example, it's pretty unlikely that Nature would create them, so blowing up half the planet in a nuclear war would not be classed as evolution or a natural event.

Well it's not a natural nuclear weapon but you might want to look at this

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I think you're missing my point. If we are part of nature, it's impossible for us to be "misguided", because anything and everything we do is permitted by nature.

Your point is - If we're part of nature everything we do is then natural?
Totaly flawed. You can just say that since a man is part of humanity, everything ANY man does is humane (like for instance, - concetration camps, mass executions and various crimes against humanity)

[Ford Prefect]

"Humane" is not an objective term; whatever a human does is not necessarily humane, but it is by definition human. There's also another important distinction. Humans are sentient, nature as a whole is not. What an individual human does will cause an emotional reaction from those around him/her. But what we as a species do with our surroundings isn't going to cause nature any distress because it's not a conscious being.

[Bobboau]

yeah nature doesn't ever dable in nuclear energy... I think I'm going to go outside now, its a nice suny day.