Agreed. BTW, the CNNIC cert is not included in the Firefox 3.6 package in PCLinuxOS. "Government Root Certificate Authority" (Taiwan) is included (despite a more sinister name) and a few other foreign companies are, but none are to be seen from CNNIC.

While a supervolcano explosion would kill hundreds of millions of people, mostly indirectly, it doesn't take such a large eruption to rain on the earth's parade. A Tambora- or Taupo-sized eruption would lower temperatures a few degrees causing famine in the developing world for years and killing millions.

I think the electronics in the Copperhead anti-tank round are built to handle 7000 Gs, according to what I read long ago.