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Old 04-20-2010, 08:00 AM   #151
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Old 04-20-2010, 08:13 AM   #152
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Well, I do hope people can manage to get back by then

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The airlines are in a real "between rock & hard place" - be cautious and lose billions, or chance a flight and risk an ash-induced crash -- and all the ensuing lawsuits, governmental inquiries, etc. I wouldn't want to make that call.
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I'm not sure if it's been posted here yet but I seen this on another forum, it certainly makes it a little less gloomy...

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...Anyway, this incident makes me wonder what sort of plans we can get together in the event of a MAJOR eruption like Yellowstone (it's got to happen sometime)
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Old 04-20-2010, 12:29 PM   #158
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...Anyway, this incident makes me wonder what sort of plans we can get together in the event of a MAJOR eruption like Yellowstone (it's got to happen sometime)
How essential is flying to most people? We may have become used to getting anywhere in the world in a day, but I'd guess that there are very few people who actually NEED to do so. Eg, you can get pretty much anywhere in Western Europe on the train in a day (24h); I'd guess that the same would be true in the US, too, with modern high-speed trains.
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How essential is flying to most people? We may have become used to getting anywhere in the world in a day, but I'd guess that there are very few people who actually NEED to do so. Eg, you can get pretty much anywhere in Western Europe on the train in a day (24h); I'd guess that the same would be true in the US, too, with modern high-speed trains.
In the greater scheme of things (as in, in the long term, we're all dead), we don't, but the whole economy is built, in part, on things and people flying from one place to another. I expect this will have to change slowly though, as fuel prices can be expected to go higher and the economic balance of the system will change.
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...Anyway, this incident makes me wonder what sort of plans we can get together in the event of a MAJOR eruption like Yellowstone (it's got to happen sometime)
A much better plan.
this event -> this plan
MAJOR event-> MAJOR plan

Or not?
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In the greater scheme of things (as in, in the long term, we're all dead), we don't, but the whole economy is built, in part, on things and people flying from one place to another. I expect this will have to change slowly though, as fuel prices can be expected to go higher and the economic balance of the system will change.
The overwhelming majority of goods, though, travel between continents by sea, rather than air. It tends to be only small, high-value, or highly perishable goods that are shipped by air.
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...Anyway, this incident makes me wonder what sort of plans we can get together in the event of a MAJOR eruption like Yellowstone (it's got to happen sometime)
In that sort of event, you're talking about a complete breakdown of societal structure over a huge swath of the planet. There isn't much in the way of a plan you could construct. Even were you able to reliably predict the event with, say, six months' advance notice, you're still faced with constructing a plan that would require evacuating pretty much the entire western two-thirds of the United States, Canada, and Mexico; and the global climate consequences would stretch on for years. I doubt with existing technology that we could possibly construct a "plan" that would be even remotely effective in preventing hundreds of millions of deaths from that kind of an event; a great deal of human society would undergo a monumental breakdown and rearrangement that would be basically unpredictable in its outcome. I hope I'm not here to see it.
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I've now had personal proof that the ash really is there: it rained here yesterday morning, and my car is now covered in a sort of very fine sandy residue; obviously the rain brought down a lot of ash with it.
One small consollation, my car is parked under a roof... In Bremen...

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How essential is flying to most people? We may have become used to getting anywhere in the world in a day, but I'd guess that there are very few people who actually NEED to do so. Eg, you can get pretty much anywhere in Western Europe on the train in a day (24h); I'd guess that the same would be true in the US, too, with modern high-speed trains.
this is the first time in a long time I took a plane. Believe me, it'll be a long time before I'll catch another one... I hate this. I really can't stand the uncertainty of not knowing when I'll be home. Even if I'll get home... I've heard people will have to wait for 2! weeks before they can get home (aka, the first plane with an empty seat will be in 2 weeks...).

Ryanair has suspended flight till at least Thursday, 13:00...
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