ptooey wrote: 
Hey tell California we may be catching the next flight out! 

Here's a little more information about the Yellowstone issue from the USGS.  This paper describes the efforts, to date, to image the deformation of the caldera.  It is inflating and has been for some time.  The earthquakes just add to the interest.


Caption - A new satellite-based technique known as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) allows direct and precise measurement of the vertical changes in ground level. This InSAR image of the area around the Yellowstone Caldera (dotted line) shows vertical changes during the 4-year period 1996–2000. The ringed pattern centered northwest of Yellowstone Lake is a prominent area of dome-shaped uplift. Each complete cycle of colors in the color bands represents a little more than one inch (28.3 mm) of vertical change. Yellow triangles are continuous GPS stations; white dots are locations of earthquakes in the period 1996–2000.

The good news is that the recurrence interval (time between) of large, cataclysmic eruptions along the Yellowstone hotspot track appears to be, on average, greater than 1 million years and the last major eruption was about 630,000 years ago.  The bad news is...it's an average.  There could be eruptions shorter than the average return period.

This is nothing new.  They have seen these clusters of earthquakes before.  Bob Smith, the geophysicist from Utah quoted in the article, IS the expert on Yellowstone.

*edit* - in saying this is nothing new, I don't mean that this is not news, it is.  It is also pretty damn exciting from the perspective of active tectonics.  It's just that this is not necessarily the precursor to a major eruption, which would be bad....quite bad.

 ptooey wrote: 
Gee... and I woke up in such a good mood! 

*boom*?

CHEEERS TO ALL FROMWYOMING!!!

 Lazy8 wrote: 
Pass. What is it with Miss Wyoming tho? This one got millions out of Penthouse because she had the good idea to hire Gerry Spence.

ScottFromWyoming wrote:
If she can get crowned Miss Wyoming...Scott, you've got a better than even chance. What's the entry fee? Should we take up a collection?

 Zep wrote: 

As a confirmed atheist, I can say without hesitation that I'd take the bible, thankyouverymuch. 

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting the link.
I wouldn't have believed it to be true, otherwise! 


The beauty queen turned international fugitive resurfaced at a hotel in Atlanta disguised as a nun, then dropped the charade to pose topless for magazines before U.S. authorities arrested her and then freed her on bail.

She disappeared again only to appear in 1984 in Salt Lake City where she was arrested for stalking her former Mormon missionary victim.

ScottFromWyoming wrote:
She looks like my fossilized high school home ec teacher, who hated me because I wasn't a cheerleader. Thanks for bringing up such a creepy memory. Next time, paper cut, lemon juice, k? ;)
Lynne!

ScottFromWyoming wrote:





Cloned?
Wow! They look just alike!
'cept for the blue eye shadow.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Does it seem like she might be applying a little too much love to the little pup?  Somebody call the SPCA ferchrissakes!

Zep wrote:

WWZD

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

This part is too rich to let go by:

McKinney tracked him down to Surrey, England. With the help of an accomplice, she held him up with a toy pistol, used chloroform on him and drove him 200 miles to a honeymoon cottage in southeast England, chained him to a bed using mink-lined handcuffs, and for two days read him the Bible while trying to persuade him to marry her.

That didn't work, so she and her accomplice tied him spread-eagled on the bed and she assaulted him three times.

So it's either the Bible, or I screw your brains out.

buzz wrote:
holy crap!

ScottFromWyoming wrote:
"It's a miracle!" McKinney repeatedly shouted when she saw the cloned Boogers.
That may be my favorite line ever.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
theres a rumor in the neighborhood that the gnome is really her illegitimate son. remember that "vacation" she took when she was 15?

Leslie wrote:

ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Nice shot of Nancy and Ronald Reagan.

zipper wrote:

You want scary, how about the gnome-lady from yesterday's news?