[release]It's like something one of those disaster movie trailers with a basso profundo voiceover: Man, or perhaps woman, on a family vacation takes in the breathtaking scope of nature found in Yellowstone National Park--only to see the earth beneath their feet violently explode. Will our hero and his or her family be swallowed in the molten horror of -- "Supervolcano"?
But this scenario isn't the stuff of Hollywood fantasy--scientists caution that there's a chance that Yellowstone could blow. One day, anyway.
Yes, there apparently exists an underground volcano whose past eruptions -- the last one estimated at some 640,000 years ago -- have been, according to National Geographic, "a thousand times more powerful than Mount St. Helens's 1980 eruption." The supervolcano lurks a few miles underground and spreads out across an area roughly the size of Los Angeles. But here's the best part: It's taking deep "breaths," as the magazine puts it, causing miles of ground around it to rise dramatically. Since 2004, researchers say that the ground above the supervolcano rose as much as 2.8 inches per year.
So is the "swelling magma reservoir" ready to blow? Well, scientists say it will eventually--and when it does it could spew ash as high as 25 miles into the air, rendering an estimated two-thirds of the country inhabitable. Remember, it was a massive volcanic eruption that some scientists think wiped out the dinosaurs. And here we thought that Icelandic volcano last year was a major calamity. [/release]
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:ohdear:
This makes me glad I'm not going to be in the country for more than three more years. That giant caldera always scared the shit out of me, and this isn't helping...
We're all fucked! Dead by morning.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;27659704]We're all fucked! Dead by morning.[/QUOTE]
From what the article was saying, by the time this things goes, our grandchildren might be dead of old age.
Those of us who will [b]have[/b] grandchildren. :v:
By "Rendering 2/3 of the country uninhabitable" Do they mean uninhabited for plant and animal because they can't get any sunlight for food? Or because the ash and everything physically killed it all? Hoping it's the former.
[editline]25th January 2011[/editline]
I'm in that 2/3 of the country.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;27659815]By "Rendering 2/3 of the Earth uninhabitable" Do they mean uninhabited for plant and animal because they can't get any sunlight for food? Or because the ash and everything physically killed it all? Hoping it's the former.
[editline]25th January 2011[/editline]
I'm in that 2/3 of the earth.[/QUOTE]
It says country. Not Earth.
We must make a sacrifice to the volcano god. Justin Bieber should make a suitable offer.
[QUOTE=Super_Nova;27659865]We must make a sacrifice to the volcano god. Justin Bieber should make a suitable offer.[/QUOTE]
How dare you taint the volcano god with that filth.
[quote]rendering an estimated two-thirds of the country inhabitable.[/quote]
So it'll be twice as inhabitable?
Volcanic winter would be kinda neat except for all the lung cancer
[QUOTE=Xolo;27659885]Volcanic winter would be kinda neat except for all the lung cancer[/QUOTE]
No. Everything would collapse. You realize that those particles break most electric circuits, turn into a concrete like mixture in the rain, and oh god. It's not neat at all.
[QUOTE=Reel Hit Slim;27659875]So it'll be twice as inhabitable?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the U.S. is going to be a paradise after this thing hits. Brooklyn will stay the same, though.
[quote=Title]Yellowstone "supervolcano" continuing threatening behavior[/quote]
Also, quick, someone tell the U.N. to counter it's aggression with trade embargos.
Good thing I live on the other side of the world. Only problem is that it will affect other people who in turn will end up affecting me which therefore means this volcano is bad news for me.
Damn this stuff always get me scared stop it =[
Scary Thoughts i feel bad for all the wildlife that'll get screwed not to mention the Grey Wolf will be wiped out again ( almost ), that aside i bet it would be something amazing to see, knowing that how much ever we fuck the earth it can always bite us back 10 times over.
Although I do study Geography and I'm pretty sure this kinda stuff with the land rising in places happens quite fequently but people just try to turn it into something big.
It is scaremongering by the media?
Or something like that but thats what they did with swine flu and possibly the same here.
[QUOTE=Source;27660083]Scary Thoughts i feel bad for all the wildlife that'll get screwed not to mention the Grey Wolf will be wiped out again ( almost ), that aside i bet it would be something amazing to see, knowing that how much ever we fuck the earth it can always bite us back 10 times over.[/QUOTE]
It wouldn't be cool/amazing at all. It would, for the most part if not entirely - destroy humanity, directly or not. (Via pollution or war as a result of a damages to crops, infrastructure, etc.
[QUOTE=Super_Nova;27659865]We must make a sacrifice to the volcano god. Justin Bieber should make a suitable offer.[/QUOTE]
Better yet, 10,000 virgins. That always works.
Getting our hands on that number shouldn't be too difficult. We just need to track down and capture most of Facepunch's membership.
[QUOTE=iusehax;27660152]Although I do study Geography and I'm pretty sure this kinda stuff with the land rising in places happens quite fequently but people just try to turn it into something big.
It is scaremongering by the media?
Or something like that but thats what they did with swine flu and possibly the same here.[/QUOTE]
The Yellowstone volcano has been an active threat for decades, and it wont stop any time soon, it may be scaremongering to put it so bluntly, but they're right about the risks.
[QUOTE=Miskav;27660279]The Yellowstone volcano has been an active threat for decades, and it wont stop any time soon, it may be scaremongering to put it so bluntly, but they're right about the risks.[/QUOTE]
Yeah you said what I was thinking.
It just comes up now and again which anoys me.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;27659770]From what the article was saying, by the time this things goes, our grandchildren might be dead of old age.
Those of us who will [b]have[/b] grandchildren. :v:[/QUOTE]
Why would you want grandchildren? So you can send them checks for $15?
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;27660505]Why would you want grandchildren? So you can send them checks for $15?[/QUOTE]
So you can have revenge on your children. :v:
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;27660543]So you can have revenge on your children. :v:[/QUOTE]
I never thought it that way. BRB going back to straight.
Life will go on.
It where kim jong il conducts his secret nuclear tests.
This is stupid, it's just stating what we learned about fucking ages ago. We already knew the ground was raising and we already knew it 'could' blow.
[QUOTE=Big Ben;27661546]This is stupid, it's just stating what we learned about fucking ages ago. We already knew the ground was raising and we already knew it 'could' blow.[/QUOTE]
A++ post would read again.
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