From:	Max Rible slothman@*********.org
Subject:	Crater Lake
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:02:34 -0700

At 14:14 7/29/99 -0400, Starrngr@***.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/28/99 11:04:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>slothman@*********.org writes:
>
>> Pompeii was just buried... Thera/Santorini *exploded*. Santorini
>> is about three or four islands right now...
>
>but the net result is the same: "destroyed by Volcanic Activity"

The net result is quite different. Pompeii could be excavated for
a great deal of useful information. Blowing something up makes it a lot
harder for the archaeologists to figure things out three thousand years
later...

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