Doomsday I Hope Not!!
Yesterday amongst reading about Beyond Petroleum's celebrating their apparently successful capping of their spewing Gulf Of Mexico oil well I read a most disturbing article at:-
http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-...-killing-event "Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions. 251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth"......... The bottom line: BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years. The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage for the eventual premature release of a methane mega-bubble. Ryskin’s methane extinction theory Northwestern University's Gregory Ryskin, a bio-chemical engineer, has a theory: The oceans periodically produce massive eruptions of explosive methane gas. He has documented the scientific evidence that such an event was directly responsible for the mass extinctions that occurred 55 million years ago Other reports on this speculation have been published in the last month or so and most recently the theory was debunked at:- http://io9.com/5585294/methane-bubbl...story-debunked and there is as is only to be expected a firm rebuttal from BP at:- http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06...i-bp-responds/ "BP's View BP America spokesman Robert Wine told Surge Desk that Matai's claims were unfounded, saying: "Of course there's natural gas down there. That's what's coming up, that's what we've been burning this whole time. It's what caused the explosion in the first place, after all, so where does this idea of another bubble or explosion come from? It is a bit difficult to comment on the claims of unspecified geologists." I am bringing this up for two reasons 1.While there is still time I wanted to say goodbye it's been good to know you 2.If you and I are going to be extincted in the near future before I go I would dearly like to hear Gord's Doomsday Song From what I understand Wayne no doubt has a recording of this but as it was obtained like others in his collection on the basis that he would no pass it on he is an unlikely source. http://www.lightfoot.ca/doomsday.htm However several fans have copies of the CDs made from the Skip Weshner tapes one of which included both vocal and recitation of this appropriate ditty There used to be an artwork site that had several items of CD artwork for the various Skip CDs, the site was run by the Bittorrent pioneering website http://easytree.org and I have an old bookmark linking to http://www.artwork.easytree,org but it is either down or gone and the various archived copies do not include the skip artwork. however I did save some items and here are two http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfo...r_1969_640.jpg http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfo..._party_640.jpg There was a third I think of another CD that included Gord's take on Elton John's "Your Song" but i do not seem to have it handy However Joveski must have some (or all) of the Weshner CDs because he did upload "Your song" to one of those (not recommended) non permanent storage sites see his posting at:- http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.p...13&postcount=6 A permanent copy may now be acquired from http://http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/extra_rare/gl-yoursong.mp3]download link[/url] Simply right click that link then "Save Target As" to download a 1:57 mp3 that is only 2.24MB (sampled at 160KBPS) Perhaps Mende you could now make an mp3 of The Doomdsday Song. you could then either upload it to sendspace.com as before or email it to me and I will add it to my uploaded collection I really must make a determimed effort to get those Skip CDs so if you are so inclined Mende could I suggest that you make a set of mp3s of the relevant tracks then make a compressed zipfile and upload it to rapidshare to share |
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that blue on blue can't be read by these old eyes Sir John..
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I have tried every which way until I am blue in the face I am completely brassed of about it but I simply cannot get it to appear correctly I have tried using the "insert link icon whereupon nothing appears I have drafted postings in wordpad but the link appears in pale blue therein then changes to darker blue on the forum I have sometimes won over the stoopid software by copying into notepad as that then removes the pale blue but this morning even that workaround failed to work around my problem. I have already wasted a good 30 minutes today but wanted to post before the Gulf exploded else my message would no longer have been topical let alone readable Goodbye all!! Hello again I tried again using the exact same sintaxt I had tried earlier and succeeded except the daft software insisted on screwing up the download link |
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Lol !!!
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it's not as if I were a noob after all |
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Lol !!!
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"members, it's been good to know ya!"
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LOL :) |
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I'd never even heard of "The Doomsday Song".
I took a moment, clicked the link. It made me sad, it made me think... About the Wherefore and the Why.. The sea farts and then we die????? :redface: Sorry, I couldn't resist. |
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and the more I read about this scaremongering the more reassured I am that I'll be around for a while yet try:- http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot...ne-eruption-no which ends with "In other words, we could all die from a massive earth fart." Another very good read is this wiki:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis If you do read that make sure to scroll down to read about the Bermuda Traingle too (although it makes no mention of any Tuna Fishes or Mermaids or sandbars come to that!!) Yippee I got the hyperlinks to show correctly in orange ,but only by using the "insert link" facility http://www.corfid.com/vbb/images_cor...createlink.gif |
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Well, in the Bible, it does say that the sea will be as blood (just as it is with all the oil in the ocean), but it also says there will be numerous shipwrecks. And I believe it also mentioned fire coming from the sky, (a meteor) and we haven't had that yet, so maybe it's not the end quite yet.
"Bless my soul, I ain't ready to die" -Mister Rock Of Ages |
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i'll have to check the disks again... i've got 4 cds (1 from '68, 2 from '69, and 1 from '70)
i especially love the Seabird song. i think i have all the Skip shows |
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further to two postings in this thread
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See my later posting at:- http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showpost.p...2&postcount=50 |
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