Megavolcano at Yellowstone may be spent

According to a Wikipedia article, the Megavolcano at Yellowstone  that extends over the state lines of Idaho and Wyoming in the United States may be through with exploding. An excerpt from the extensive article says:

The appearance of light magmas indicates that the uppermost portion of the continental crust has been consumed, …. In this case Yellowstone could be expiring. It could be another 1-2 million years before a new supervolcano is born to the northeast, and the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field joins the ranks of its deceased ancestors in the Snake River Plain.

Yellowstone Hotspot

Now that my End of the World 2012 Movie is almost ready for distribution, I’m putting together a Kindle eBook version of the movie. In doing so, I looked up information about megavolcanoes and especially the megavolcano at Yellowstone.

In a previous post dated May 31, 2010, I had reported that Yellowstone usually erupts every 600,000 years. Since it’s been 640,000 years since it’s last eruption, it was due for another one at any time. However, the article quoted above is of the opinion that Yellowstone may be at the end of its megavolcanic activity. That sounds good to me.

I wanted to share this information with you, because you may have read, as I have, that, according to some sources, Yellowstone is overdue for a world-shaking megaexplosion. I like to find a balancing opinion. 

Possible Atlantis-destroying volcano swelling with magna

Santorini Volcano in the Aegean Sea, seen in this NASA satellite image, was the site of one of the largest eruptions in the last 10,000 years. The explosion of the volcano removed so much magma from below the Earth that the volcano collapsed, producing a large crater, or caldera.

The Island of Santorini has risen 5.5 inches in the last year and a half according to an article published September 9th in the journal Nature Geoscience leading to speculation that the volcano on Santorini may be getting ready to erupt again. On average, the Santorini volcano has a major eruption about every 10,000 years. The last major eruption, 3,600 years ago, created 40-foot high tsunamis and led to the destruction of the Minoan civilization. Some believe this historical eruption led to the legend of Atlantis since Plato said Atlantis went down in the ocean.

In the past 1.5 years, the magma chamber beneath the volcano island has ballooned by as much as 350 million cubic feet (20 million cubic meters), or up to 15 times the size of London’s Olympic Stadium.

Santorini volcano: Magma pooling below Atlantis-myth volcano

Wonderful visit with my Lemurian friend

Today I visited with Una Marcotte who is writing a fantastic book about Lemuria. Today we talked about the cover of her book and looked at images she had found online that looked like the kind of cover she would like. We had fun.

Humorous and sad Atlantis comment

I like this clever blog post on the subject of the lost continent of Atlantis:

Lost City of Atlantis Not Found Again

Once [a] year someone is claiming to be on the trail of Atlantis, a science-fiction in which super-smart people from the past were somehow wiped out and took a whole lot of cool technology with them.

Science 2.1

I like the humor. Even in the time I’ve been keeping this blog, Atlantis has been “found” in so many places.

However, I do feel sad that the general idea of Atlantis is that it was populated by super-smart people who got wiped out, especially since we consider ourselves super-smart people and we have a whole lot of cool technology. It makes you wonder . . .

“Have Your Heart’s Desire” added to Carol Chapman Books page

Have Your Hearts Desire: Tools for a Wealthier, Healthier, Happier Life or Change Your Life with Inspirational Prayers, Forgive, Help Relationships, the Law of Attraction and Body Mind Spirit Healing

Take a look: I’ve just added my new book to the “Carol Chapman’s Books” page of this blog, Have Your Heart’s Desire: Tools for a Wealthier, Healthier, Happier Life or Change Your Life with Inspirational Prayers, Forgive, Help Relationships, the Law of Attraction and Body Mind Spirit Healing. It contains the wonderful 40-day prayers, sometimes known as the “Edgar Cayce Prayer.” Have Your Heart’s Desire is now available on Amazon.

What is Mercury Retrograde?

The Roman God Mercury painted by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). This image is in the public domain and was retrieved from Wikipedia Commons.

Mercury is the planet closest to the sun in the Solar System. In astrology, Mercury is called the messenger of the gods and rules communications, travel, trickery, and healing. The mythological god Mercury is usually depicted with wings on his heels or head. The planet Mercury appears to go backwards when it goes around the sun. That’s Mercury Retrograde.

The retrograde periods last about three weeks and occur about three times a year.

The next Mercury Retrograde period will be in Scorpio from November 6th to 26th. Look out!

After all the trouble I had with my computer this last Mercury Retrograde period in Leo, I’m thinking that maybe in November I’ll play it safe and stick to cleaning my house and writing Christmas cards.

More Mercury Retrograde problems–from diverted mail to cancelled flights to computer viruses to threats of being “downsized”

Here are some communication/travel/technology problems I heard about from friends that occurred during the last Mercury Retrograde:

• A friend’s son was about to close on the purchase of his first house but a check he had been promised did not arrive in the mail as promised. It turned out that the envelope containing the check had been addressed incorrectly and had be delivered to someone else’s address.
• While flying back from a work travel, a friend’s flight became delayed and then cancelled at her connecting flight with the result that she had to stay overnight and arrived home a day late.
• Someone’s modem broke
• The guy who fixed my hard drive and helped me upload the operating system, utilities, drivers, updates, and software to repair my “injured” computer told me that 75 percent of the tech support calls he had been received in the last couple of weeks (during Mercury Retrograde) had been because of computer viruses, a much higher percentage than usual. He confided that at his home, one end of an electric cord he had bought only three months before blew up and turned black.
• Someone I know was shocked to receive a notice that his place of employment was trying to downsize him.

Did you have similar problelms between July 14th and August 7th?

Two computers failured during Mercury Retrograde

Yesterday I said that I would tell you about the problems I had during the last Mercury Retrograde period. Well, this is what happened.

Not one, but two of my computers broke. One of the them, it was the hard drive. That meant that I had to not only get a new hard drive, but also load the operating system, drivers, utilities, updates, and all my software!!!

It took over a week to get everything straightened out–coincidentally, just as soon as Mercury came out of Mercury Retrograde.

The other broken computer? I haven’t taken it on yet, but am spending my time catching up on a week’s lost work with the one that’s fixed.

More good advice in the case of a power outage–carry cash

Some more good advice in the case of a power outage, especially if you’re without power for a number of days, as we were due to the recent mid-Atlantic storm that resulted in 1.5 million homes without power.

How did I get on this power-outage, blackout kick? I guess that working on the End of the World 2012 Movie, and going without power in 100 F heat for three days, has got me looking at end of the world as we know it scenarios.

Here’s more good suggestions for when the world stops as a result of not having electricity:

* According to FEMA’s ready.gov website, preparing for a blackout requires preparing an emergency kit and a plan for family communication and how family members should meet up if they are separated. When planning for a power outage, be sure to include extra flashlights and batteries in your emergency kit as well as a battery-operated or hand crank radio to listen for instructions. One important tip for planning ahead for a power outage is to always have cash on hand and a half tank of gas in your car. Gas pumps and ATMs require electricity. Most store cash registers are electricity- and computer-driven so the need for cash is especially necessary to procure goods during a blackout.

 

Is there a country in which you’re more likely to have HIV/AIDS than in the U.S.?

Yesterday, I looked at a comparison between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, and Germany on this delightful website: If It Were My Home. I discovered that if you lived in all of the above countries, you would be much less likely to have HIV/AIDS than if you lived in the U.S.

Therefore, I asked myself: Is there any country where you’d be MORE likely to have HIV/AIDS than the U.S.? Sudan, which is the country just south of Egypt, came to mind. I’ve read (is it an urban legend?) that so many people in the Sudanese army are sick with HIV, that they often can hardly march. Maybe that’s an exaggeration. However, AIDS did start in Africa.

Here are the results of a comparison between the U.S. and Sudan:

• Die 25.72 years sooner
• Have 2 times more chance of being unemployed
• Have 12.7 times higher chance of dying in infancy
• Spend 98.93% less on health care
• Be 2.3 times more likely to have HIV/AIDS

So, there you have it, a country in which you would be more likely to have HIV/AIDS than if you lived in the U.S. Do I feel comforted? Not really.