Sample article from the May 2000 Star Beacon

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Opinion by Torner

Well, there is something that the government doesn't want you to know. But I have just recently come up after watching a rather disturbing TV show called Horizon that is shown here in the UK. It was about super volcanoes.

These volcanoes are bigger and tend to build up differently than normal volcanoes, and why you haven't heard of them is because no one in living history has seen one as yet. But if you live in the Yellowstone National Park area, I would warn you, you are sitting on a sleeping, ticking time bomb.

Scientists have discovered something that will blow the socks off of you. One scientist couldn't figure out why one part of the woods was always covered in water and killing the trees. So he looked at some old records and did a survey of the area. The last one was done in the '40s and they thought that the figures of this modern survey would be the same. They didn't match. The lake was being tipped in a way that only proved one thing þ that something large was building up under the ground and raising it.


Now the lava builds up differently than the normal way of a volcano. This lava will, in fact, spread out under the rock and slowly spread out and then the pressure builds up that would result in the lava being pushed out with the gases that have built up there, too. And in the process you will get an area that would collapse and a big eruption. They found out that it covers a large area of Yellowstone and when it blows it will take most of the park up with it, and most of the surrounding area, killing thousands of people. It will be like a nuclear bomb going off.

Now, what is even more disturbing is that the last time it went off was 65 million years ago, and it is overdue.

It will affect the globe in a big way. Now where will it be safe? In fact, we could suffer a big freeze, a volcanic winter. When the volcano in the Philippines blew, the globe dropped three degrees because of it.

But what is more disturbing is the U.S. government has failed to warn the public that it would blow one day, or even that there is a super volcano in the country. There are, in fact, a number of areas around the globe that could produce one of these monsters and they don't know where it will happen, but they are keeping a tight eye on the one in Yellowstone. When you visit the area, remember, you are walking on a sleeping monster and it could blow any day. They are monitoring the signs with earthquake instruments so they can tell when it would blow a signal and to see how big it really is.


The program also covered another section in the human race. They could look at a gene that the mother passes on and they found something that was interesting. The last super eruption happened and caused a bottle neck. The human race almost became extinct in a big way. There were just 1,000 humans left and we all carry that gene of the last eruption. We are all more related than you think. We stemmed from just the 1,000 individuals.

What I have told you seems shocking and you may think that I am just making this up to frighten you all, but I am not. What this means is that we are not here for good. War may not kill us, but our own planet can rip us in one day with a super volcano. It almost happened once. It could happen again.

Torner resides in Hertfordshire, England. Her art is often scattered among the pages of this newsletter.

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