Happy, Bilmore?
 

Fuck asteroids. Asteroids are for pussies. I saw a show on the Discovery Channel this weekend about caldera volcanoes that says that Yellowstone National Park is one enormous supervolcano that is overdue to blow sky-high and end human life in North America and probably life as we know it on Earth. A few miles underneath Yellowstone is one enormous fucking pimple of lava 53 miles long and 28 miles across. Yes, miles. The last time it burst it showered the entire midwest with two meters of ash and probably dropped global temperatures by four degrees Celsius. The last caldera supervolcano to explode was Toba about 75,000 years ago, and that explosion and resulting climate change probably dropped the prehistoric human population to less than 10,000 worldwide.

So, no, I'm not afraid of a little asteroid. But Yellowstone scares the shit out of me. Thanks a bunch, Discovery Channel. A-holes.

That whole alarmist Yellowstone thing is a crock. Any respectable geologist will tell you that we have nothing to worry about until the bottom of Yellowstone Lake starts to bulge significantly.

But, once that happens, run like hell.

Of course, with our luck the asteroid will hit in the middle of Lake Yellowstone and set off the supervolcano... Oh well, if you're gonna go, go in style.

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

At the end of the show, contestants from both FLO$ 1 and 2 got to vote on who she picked, Chad or Wade. Seemed pretty evenly split. Paige just said, whoever you picked, I hope you went with your heart (meaning Chad). Paige said over and over and over again that she thinks that Rob made the right choice. Surprise at the end when Chad and Wade both showed up as a teaser for next week.
At one point, Erin appeared to be on the verge of tears and neither Chad nor Wade looked glowingly happy. Maybe that was on purpose, because I can't really be sure whether this show was live, recently recorded or before or after the fact of Erin making her choice. If she has already made her choice, it appears that she picked Chad and he took the money. Because they're making it seem like Wade would go for Erin.

That said, they showed a quote from Wade that said Erin had better step it up because if he takes the money it's her fault.

Edited to add, oh yeah, I forgot about the cat fight. Chicks wrestling - wedgies, blah blah blah. See more here.

forloveormoney

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

They would have had to tape it after because they had a big sign with "For Love or Money" on it.

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

Well then she certainly didn't look like the happy recipient of $2mill.

SuperVolcanos
 

Pizza Dude
 

This poor guy, what a way to go.

ERIE, Pa., Sept. 2 — The bomb that killed a pizza deliveryman after a bizarre bank robbery was attached to his neck with a homemade collar containing “four separate locking devices” that prevented him from removing it, authorities said Tuesday. FBI Special Agent Bob Rush said the collar was unique in construction and had no apparent commercial application.
Wells left the restaurant to deliver a pizza to a mysterious address in a remote area about an hour before he turned up at the bank with a bomb strapped to his body. Police pursued him as he left the bank, and arrested him a short distance away.
WJET-TV of Erie captured audio and video from Wells as he sat handcuffed in front of a state police cruiser. “Why is nobody trying to come get this thing off me?” he asked.
The tape shows Wells telling authorities someone had started a timer on his bomb under his T-shirt, and that there was little time left.
“It’s going to go off,” Wells said. “I’m not lying.”
A state police spokesman confirmed Friday night that Wells had made a number of statements, including that he had been forced to rob the bank.
FBI Special Agent Bob Rudge called the case unusual, noting that while bank robbers sometimes claim to have a bomb, few actually do.

“It obviously was designed by the individual ... who carried out the bombing,” he said.
Rush and local authorities said they still have not determined whether 46-year-old Brian Wells was a victim or a willing participant in the bank robbery.
After his arrest on Thursday, Wells told police officers that that he had been forced to rob the bank after someone put a bomb on him.
He died minutes later when the bomb exploded as officers waited for a bomb squad to arrive.
The FBI and local authorities were continuing to analyze a multi-page robbery note that Wells handed to a teller during the robbery.

cite here

Pizza Dude
 

His last moments on earth must have been horrifying. In contrast, this pizza dude's agony will be ongoing. I'd say it's a tossup between them.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/tv/2076699

(spree: another story on Joe Schmo)

Monday Morning Scare
 

"The 77-year-old Lewis, his body bloated due to steroid medication he takes for pulmonary fibrosis..."

Now don't you feel mean.



Cite

Pizza Dude
 

I have a feeling that a lot more will come out about this. It almost seems like there _had_ to be someone else involved. Otherwise, why would the guy let himself die?

Also, the guy's friend and coworker overdosed and died the next night. Maybe he as involved, too. This should make a good true crime book.

Pizza Dude
 

Or by someone who watches CSI:Miami. They had an episode with locking bomb collars.

Pizza Dude
 

I could swear this was the plot in a movie. I don't normally watch broadcast television, anttwat.

Dua(too lazy to google on this dreary day)lit

Monday Morning Scare
 

No. Regardless of the reason, the fact remains that he has a gigantic whale-head.

aV