Martin Luther King formerly known as "Lil Mike"

[Sisyphus]

Sysiphus dislikes me

Not true whitey. I can't dislike someone I've never met. You'd be surprised about how many of your views strike a real chord with my own beliefs.

What I have a problem with is a fairly persistent and (I know you'll agree) 'biased' presentation of a bit of history that is, or might be, of interest to some on this side of the Pond.
But not the drip, drip, drip of one [or a couple of] person's opinion on something which is, clearly, a real problem for them. But not for us. We [sorry, I've] got the message.

Unfortunately, I can't help. You'll need to fix whatever you think is wrong on your own.

If, for example, I was to visit one of your US sites and constantly bring up issues about the vile English oppression of the Scots, Welsh or Irish, (over millenia, not just as a result of one war) I think someone, sooner or later, might just get a bit brassed off with reading it; especially, if I initiated them all the time, rather than someone asking me about it. Don't you?

That's all.

So, if you don't mind I'd prefer a Kentucky instead of a Big Mac. I had one once in Hong Kong and it was 'orrible.

[Whitey]

Fix what? There isn't much left to fix, I say just feed the machine until the negative feedback system takes control. If you don't dislike me or like me that is no big deal. I dislike people I never met, maybe I'm just redneck that way.

Geology is fun isn't it. I like it anyway. Maybe if the Izzies and Arabs studied Plate Tectonics they'd realize there isn't much to fight for. In geologic time, the Himilayas are already gone.

So what in Geology where you going to specialize in? I'm minoring in Environmental Studies. I like it all over all, but Geography is my Major.
Me and Nbforrest have a psych friend, poor athiest, going to hell out of spite. Good guy over all though.

[Sisyphus]

If I ever got round to finishing it I'd like to get more into 'internal processes'. Apologies but I just posed a riddle for you on another post about Yellowstone. It wasn't long ago they found out it was actually a huge caldera. In fact it hadn't occurred to any Geologist it might be one until someone spotted it on a satellite picture. It's so big it can only be seen from space.

The Ngoro Ngoro caldera is 12 Km across (c.7.5 miles) - pretty impressive. But less than puny when compared to Yellowstone which (I think) is something over 3,000sq Miles

Apparently geologists have measured changes in height of it's surface of something like 20ft (or was it more?). So one day it's likely it will blow. If the magma is basaltic we could have the N.American equivalent of the Deccan Traps. But at least some people might survive. But if the magma's felsic
We'd have a plinian eruption that would make Mt St Helens and Krakatoa seem like a weak cow's fart in comparison (even if they were combined). It is absolutely mind boggling to even contemplate when you think of the size of it. One thing's for sure the US will be gone and so will Canada. I'm not sure how many of the rest of us would survive the 'nuclear winter'?

Sorry, I'm a boring old anorak. But it's a fascinating subject. (Well at least to me )

[Whitey]

Yeah I remember this now, isn't the gyser erruption time getting out of normal sync and some sort of poisoning like sulfur killing off segments of vegetation or was it the heat under the vegetation? my instructor was from AZ and was big into deserts and Jamaca. I had the same guy for 3 courses, we touched on Yellowstone, I don't think he'd been there so he hurried through it, then we spent alot of time on Mt. St. Helens and the Pacific "Ring of Fire". We got a 15 minute lecture on Yellowstone, I've never been there either. I did get to ride the North Ridge Earthquake in LA in 1994 though and could only imagine if that was exacerbated. When St. Helens errupted it did deposit ash I remember as far as where I lived in Oklahoma, not alot but it was found. Yellowstone being a caldera and active is scary I guess and isn't the crust in the area being stretched thin? I think he said that. Too bad we can't tap into that region and somehow produce energy from it.
So if it errupted what did your book say it would do besides probably cover the US in 100 ft of ash ? I wonder how much sulfuric gas that would produce? If that went down I think humans would be like the dinasuars, gone. Then insects would be the intelligent life.
I'll have to look in my books about Yellowstone, I wasn't ever to interrested before.

[Whitey]

Wouldn't the rock inside the volcano be mafic since it is on Continental crust? Then again that was an ancient sea bed wasn't it, so iron, felsic rock would be a possability.

[Wholley]

Glad you two have found some common ground.
All kissed and made up then?
No frenching of course.
Whollye.

What this has to do with MLK is beyond me.

[Sisyphus]

Wouldn't the rock inside the volcano be mafic since it is on Continental crust? Then again that was an ancient sea bed wasn't it, so iron, felsic rock would be a possability.

I think it all depends on the 'intermediate rock' whose chemical composition d-ctates which type of magma will be produced. But, hey, I am on a sabbatical My guess is that basaltic magma is a result of oceanic constructive spreading. Granite is a felsic rock type so would be associated with continental subduction zones (plates). So....... Well, just getting boring.

Kissing? Wel that depends. My cousin (naturalised in 1968) married a Texan who chawed tobacco. How on earth she could bring herself to kiss him heaven only knows???? I trust you don't chaw, whitey?

[Whitey]

I ain't kissin no man, even though you english are known to have a good shave. No really I can see the caldara is a potential doomsday device of nature. Wonder if Nostradamus saw that one? Felsic, Mafic, the size either way would be the end of me. I wonder if we could cool it off by piping in sewage to it? Who knows, but I do remember they said something about vegetation disappearing due to some gas or something escaping.

[nbforrest]

Maybe we could have a world wide MLK day on top of this earth boil you two are gushing about /no pun intended/. that would solve the whole mess. Get rid of loud booming annoying freaking music from a tricked out toyata celica at the traffic lights and reduce freshmen college students work load considerably.

[Whitey]

Nb,
Where is your sense of multi-culturalism? The Soul Brotherhood of man?
The socialist embracing tenets of democracy, your Judeo-Christian-Muslim-Wiccan ect... values this grand nation is based on?
After today when I was told by a professor that there is no room for God in evolution, Sysifus an his comfort level concearning "Democracy" and his actually firm grasp of geology is like a cup of hot chocolate to me. I'd rather hang out with my nemisis anyday than listen to old Dr. Palmer lecture me on why I can't believe in evolution and God both. Oh well I dropped the class, I figured another Physics class would be better than that crap. Liberal college instructors? I haven't met one yet.

[nbforrest]

Well, to be honest I haven't much use for a culture that accepted slavery, is a few hundred years removed from cannibalism and living in mud huts and letting flies formerly crawling around on big piles of elephant shite rest peacefully on thier mouths.
I appreciate cultures diverse from mine but I still like mine best. If I didn't I'd move to thier country, learn to speak thier languge, adopt thier customs and courtesies, learn to eat thier food and not whine about being different.
I have two brothers and several friends I count as brothers, no more than a hand full, these brothers of mine serve me quite well.

College profs? I suppose one needs them but then I can pick up a book or two and figure most shit out on my own. I would have stayed in the class just to mess with his head but nowadays I take college courses for fun and don't have to worry about a GPA. The bastard put you in a no win situation. He sounds like a narrowminded intelectual bully of Nazi stripe and disposition. You should have stood up and given him the old one arm salute. Hell, maybe you could have asked him to sign your copy of the communist manifesto. Maybe, just maybe you could have asked him if he was aware that attempting to harrass and humiliate you for your religouis beliefs was a federal offense under the 1st and 14th amendments to the Constitution. I suppose he is just an angry little man with a small little tallywacker who at some point realized that anthropologists don't pull much top shelf poontang and that he will most likely keep having to purchase massive amounts of dungeon porn to get his rocks off. who knows.
You should send him gift subscriptions to Biblical Archaeology Review and Hustler's Barely 18 magazine. I also recommend going by the local Jehovah's Witness hangout andd giving them his address on a weekly basis as one who is seeking spiritual help and guidance.

[Whitey]

The guy is just an self proclaimed scientist. The guy has grey hair, ape like chest hair poking out of his shirt and thinks he is a monkey. He probably tosses to planet of the apes episodes. I don't care, I don't need the class, and chose it by mistake.
In the end he'll die a disappointed man.
His argument centered on the Bible which scientifically can be picked apart, but when I said just because the book had mathmatical errors that God still exist's, he couldn't handle it. To be honest I didn't want to listen to him run his man pleaser either and the girls in the class all looked like butch field observers, the ones that live among monkeys with ratty hair and stank arm pits.