Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock
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The End of the World
A series of volcanic eruptions occurred around five 36. One might have been in iceland, another somewhere in the tropics and one was definitely at ilo pango,. A ilopango alone produced 87 cubic kilometers of ejecta and had devastating effects on the myans. At the same time, up in scandinavia, a culture was dying out. This was a precursor culture to what we later called the vikings. For them, the end of the world would come, not in fire, but in ice, a terrible winter called the fimbl winter, or the mighty winter.
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