That’s still 2005, not “decades” ago, and it’s still a hype piece that’s been capitalized on by every other network because fear sells, excitement sells, disaster movies sell.

No serious geologist believes that there’s going to be a Yellowstone supervolcano, maybe ever because shit don’t necessarily work that way. The magma chamber is almost 80% solidified, and we’re talking 10,000 kilometers of rock. The worst case, we will see pressure vents forming and spewing ash, but likely not even THAT in our lifetime.

The contentious, almost impossible dilemmas being portrayed in DS9’s themes were a reflection of the times. By the time we got to DS9, we were on the tail end of a sudden recession, race riots in LA, police brutality coming into sharp focus as more and more people started carrying video cameras, Mike Tyson went from hero to convict for rape, and the world started to shrink and become scarier. The cocaine-fueled optimism of the late 80’s was morphing into the technicolor international stage of the 90’s, increased media exposure was showing a lot of people the darkness we spent decades trying to pretend wasn’t there. Terrorism, plane crashes, wars we saw in full color on the ground, dictatorships rising and falling. We’re still feeling the effects of this reconciliation/confrontation with our actual history and social norms.

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As did I, as well as other science fiction, as well as PBS documentaries and science programs… I was so sure that with all of these hopeful, positive influences and messages going into the world, that the future would be brighter and people would be more caring.

Holy shit I misjudged the way people interpret media. Most of the same people who were promoting peace and love are now threatening to kill other people over vaccinations and skin color.

One other point about the Star Trek universe though, is that in addition to almost dying to war, we also managed to create replicators that ended our scarcity-civilization. There was no more need for money and anyone could basically have whatever they wanted from then on. In our world, if you invented a machine that could solve all our problems and make all humans equal, someone would assassinate you because of it. Maybe many people would.

You have a fantastic moderation history, I’m legit honored to have someone like you tell me “goodbye” it means I’m doing something right.

Not even, there was a discovery channel documentary a number of years ago and it’s been constant hype and bullshit about a made-up crisis ever since. If you’re still taking TLC and discovery channel programming as science at this point, you’re unsavable.

Yellowstone is due to destroy itself any day now.

You are stupid.

It’s okay, I don’t mean that as an attack. I mean it as a challenge. Educate yourself and read actual science.

It’s cathartic to imagine, but we all know that even if there are dozens of environmental terrorist activities, that it won’t stop this. Wood is money.

This isn’t going to stop. It’s going to get worse even. We’re not accepting this, we’re still sitting with our thumbs up our asses wondering when it gets “bad enough” that someone comes in and saves the day.

Nobody is coming. Our world is collapsing. If we all realized this and got up and started marching we could at least stop it from getting worse.

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Would be a shame if the millions of people who cherish our national forests, such as outdoors-people, survivalists, veterans and preppers, just decided that they don’t want their woods chopped down.

Sure would be a shame if anything kept happening to that expensive logging equipment over and over.

I really hope to see him buried soon.

Under massive voter disapproval polls and impeachment proceedings.