"Joe Clement" <joe DeleteThis @spam.com> wrote in message
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> "deowll" <deowll DeleteThis @bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>> "Fred Burton" <fburton DeleteThis @starfire.mv.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> Offbreed wrote in message ...
>>>>Jeffrey MacHott wrote:
>>>>> Offbreed wrote:
>>>>>> But, rifles are complex?
>>>>>
>>>>> No context, just leaping in here.
>>>>>
>>>>> A rifle itself may not necessarily be complex, but the PRODUCTION of a
>>>>> rifle would be considerably more complex than for a smoothbore weapon.
>>>>> You have to devise a method of putting rifling inside the barrel,
>>>>> which
>>>>> would add considerably to the complexity of building the weapon (now,
>>>>> if
>>>>> you want a breech-loading weapon, then it gets even trickier to build,
>>>>> though, despite the extra complexity, easier to use)
>>>>
>>>>That's what the character was looking at, but he had no way of knowing
>>>>the steps needed to create the device, so I'm taking it as the device
>>> alone.
>>>>
>>>>The series began 39 years after a volcanic eruption that would have
>>>>killed a lot of people. Maybe 1850?
>>>
>>> The most famous volcano eruption that I can recall in the 1800's is
>>> Krakatoa
>>> in Indonesia.
>>>
>>> IIRC, "lots" perhaps thousands of people were killed, but if a similar
>>> explosion occurred today
>>> in that exact same region, the casualties would be in the millions. I
>>> saw
>>> an immensely interesting
>>> special on History or Discovery Channel on Krakatoa sometime last year.
>>> The
>>> eruption was so
>>> powerful that it created its own tsunami. (Krakatoa was actually a
>>> volcanic
>>> island.) The pyroclastic
>>> gases from the eruption skimmed across the surface of the water and
>>> affected
>>> land and people
>>> out to about 50-60 miles from the volcano itself. There hasn't been a
>>> volcanic eruption that can
>>> compare with the size, scope, and power of Krakatoa since that time.
>>> (Thank
>>> goodness.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That will be as nothing when Yellowstone blows. I hope that holds of
>> several thousand more years.
>>
>>
> Or at least until I get a chance to get out there and visit the park and
> then get out of the area <g>.
>
>
Would execpt crop failures and stock die offs all over North America due to
Dust though the extreme East Coast might miss most of this.
The nuclear winter would be world wide and nasty.
Major food shortages for as least a couple of years after which the
population ought to satabilize though not sure who would be the new world
powers. Things tend to come apart when the food runs out and huge number
die.
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