{"id":2288,"date":"2015-05-05T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:42:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:42:04","slug":"tuesday-5-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/05\/05\/tuesday-5-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 5 May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:42 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I wasn&#8217;t feeling very well yesterday, so I took the afternoon off. Among other things, I decided to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supervolcano_%28film%29\">Supervolcano<\/a> with Shaun Johnston (Grandpa Jack from Heartland) on Netflix streaming. I was expecting it to be pretty cheesy, but it was surprisingly well done. I&#8217;m not a geologist, let alone a volcanologist, but there weren&#8217;t any big scientific clangers that I noticed. Unusually for such a film, it looks like they tried hard to get the science right, or at least right enough not to be intrusive.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I&#8217;m always amused by people who think they&#8217;re preparing for such an event. A VEI 8 or 9? Give me a break. In the first place, the probability of such an event is probably less than 0.00001 in any given year. In the second place, how does one go about preparing for an extinction event? The last such event, about 73,000 years ago, almost wiped out H. sapiens. By some credible estimates, the surviving human population was only a few thousand in Iberian caves. A VEI 8 or 9 occurring today would kill billions of people in the first year after the eruption. Even a VEI 7 event like Tambora 200 years ago would kill hundreds of millions of people from starvation resulting from crop failures.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">More science kit stuff today.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:42 &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t feeling very well yesterday, so I took the afternoon off. Among other things, I decided to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supervolcano_%28film%29\">Supervolcano<\/a> with Shaun Johnston (Grandpa Jack from Heartland) on Netflix streaming. I was expecting it to be pretty cheesy, but it was surprisingly well done. I&#8217;m not a geologist, let alone a volcanologist, but there weren&#8217;t any big scientific clangers that I noticed. Unusually for such a film, it looks like they tried hard to get the science right,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/05\/05\/tuesday-5-may-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 5 May 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prepping","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}