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

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Philippe Caquant wrote:
<snip>

> >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