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Re: Stop it all ! It's a case of emergency !

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Thursday, April 29, 2004, 20:26
--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Philippe Caquant wrote:
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> >But wait ! Yellowstone, in the USA, is also a > >super-volcano, similar, or worse, than the Sumatra > >one. Scientists said it erupts every 600.000 > years... > >and the last time was 600.000 years ago. > > > > If it's Yellowstone - The most likely place to > survive would be around > the opposite side of the world. Or surrounding it. > Thus, It'll be the > south pacific. So, maybe Bahasa Indonesia, English, > and Tok Pisin will > be the last language to survive...
The opposite side of the globe is one of the worst places to be. According to one study I read the debris carried high in the atmosphere propigates outward from the blast and gets spread more thinly until it gets halfway to the antipode. Then the expanding ring of debris actually becomes a contracting ring of debris which comes together again directly over the antipode. Thus the best place to be is 90 degrees of latitude or longitude away (where the density of debris reaches its minimum), not 180 degrees away (where it again becomes concnetrated in a small area). --gary