Pax Romanus

[bardiphouka]

Wondering idly what this continent will be like when the US and Canada fall. Not that I am suggesting it, or that I know how, just remembering history. The average of an Empire, I remember reading, is about 200 years. Which means the US has hmm..roughly 150 years left? It actually did not become an 'empire'per se until WWII. And Canada, for better or worse, is tied together with the US in however it does fall. War? Famine? Plague? short circuit in the internet? No idea. But we have a choice I think to make it something to be remembered fondly in legend or as a tale to frighten children.

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Yellowstone is oddly stable in its instability. What geologists and seismologists seem to be worried about these days (again) is the New Madrid Fault, which is the 2nd largest set of plates in North America, stretching across much of the midwest and mideast. The last time it fully erupted it changed the course of the Mississippi River near St Louis and created a new ridge in the Smokies. A full size eruption along the lines of the 1811 quakes could effectivly split the US. But even that could possibly be overcome.