[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;27739791]Why is this?[/QUOTE]
Earth is a huge place and i doubt the entire world are gonna be covered with thick ash.
there might be some ash but i highly doubt places that are far away from yellowstone will get fucked too hard
[QUOTE=Matrix374;27750389]Earth is a huge place and i doubt the entire world are gonna be covered with thick ash.
there might be some ash but i highly doubt places that are far away from yellowstone will get fucked too hard[/QUOTE]
Yeahh....
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but if I remember correctly national geographic said that the force would be high enough to punch ash high enough into the atmosphere to hit the jet streams, so that shit WILL be everywhere and there will be a lot of it.
[QUOTE=Matrix374;27750389]Earth is a huge place and i doubt the entire world are gonna be covered with thick ash.
there might be some ash but i highly doubt places that are far away from yellowstone will get fucked too hard[/QUOTE]
We'll still see some minor consequences in far-away places, but no big deal. Maybe we would have a volcanic winter like in the Tambora eruption (The effects were felt in Europe, the Tambora was near Australia, practically the other side of the planet), but nothing more apart from that
[QUOTE=Jorori;27750476]We'll still see some minor consequences in far-away places, but no big deal. Maybe we would have a volcanic winter like in the Tambora eruption (The effects were felt in Europe, the Tambora was near Australia, practically the other side of the planet), but nothing more apart from that[/QUOTE]
unforeseen minor consequences
uh minor complications?
this will cause huge complications across the entire globe, average temp can drop up to like 5 degrees
i cant take you seriously with that avatar
i mean look at that face
it fits so well with "uh minor complications?"
[QUOTE=Superstormj;27701124]The ash will stay in the atmosphere for at least 2 years, making temperatures plummet for at least 5. Better start growing hydroponically indoors so you know how to when you really do need it.[/QUOTE]
Global warming solved
:science:
[editline]30th January 2011[/editline]
In geographical terms, "soon" could be within thousands of years, it's less than a blink of an eye.
[QUOTE=Jorori;27734137]People at the other side of the world could feel the consequences in that one: the sound of the explosion could be heard 8000 kilometers far away, the island was literally destroyed and volcanic ashes and other side effects (Odd-coloured dusk lights during a few days) reached even London (Krakatoa volcano was located on Indonesia)[/QUOTE]
I recall reading there was a higher than normal tide along the Thames river following the explosion. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;27665374]after the blast California will be king. Think about it, the ash will need to circle the world to come to California, meanwhile the farms of the midwest and then the world will be wiped out and people will need a way to communicate and movies for them to feel good in literally dark times. We got the Central Valley to feed fucking everyone, the Silicon Valley to maintain all world communication as other large tech centers get destroyed from ash messing with the computers, and we got Hollywood to entertain you all. Plus the Sierra Nevada Mountains will shield us from anything from the blast besides the ash which will circle around and come in from the west, only small amounts will come in over the mountains to lightly sprinkle ash, making the Central Valley super fertile.
TL;DR West coast is BEST coast and I'm not worried one bit.
[editline]25th January 2011[/editline]
but seriously I hope this doesn't happen in my lifetime[/QUOTE]
Well there's got to be at least one fucking advantage to living in this shithole. I guess immunity to volcanoes is a pretty good one.
But then there's the matter of fire and earthquakes.
This would cause more than weather changes if you live on the other side of the planet. Most likely the entire world's economy would be devastated after one of the most populated countries just blows up.
i'm more worried about that volcano in indonesia.
i live close to it and it s a super volcano
colonize the moon
laugh at volcano from space.
[QUOTE=Matrix374;27750389]Earth is a huge place and i doubt the entire world are gonna be covered with thick ash.
there might be some ash but i highly doubt places that are far away from yellowstone will get fucked too hard[/QUOTE]
your ignorance isn't a reason as to why it won't.
I'm pretty sure that when almost 5 states form the caldera of a volcano, that there's enough dirt and ash above that to more than cover most of the earth. you should try thinking.
[editline]30th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;27665374]after the blast California will be king. Think about it, the ash will need to circle the world to come to California, meanwhile the farms of the midwest and then the world will be wiped out and people will need a way to communicate and movies for them to feel good in literally dark times. We got the Central Valley to feed fucking everyone, the Silicon Valley to maintain all world communication as other large tech centers get destroyed from ash messing with the computers, and we got Hollywood to entertain you all. Plus the Sierra Nevada Mountains will shield us from anything from the blast besides the ash which will circle around and come in from the west, only small amounts will come in over the mountains to lightly sprinkle ash, making the Central Valley super fertile.
TL;DR West coast is BEST coast and I'm not worried one bit.
[editline]25th January 2011[/editline]
but seriously I hope this doesn't happen in my lifetime[/QUOTE]
not to rain on your parade, but wouldn't the tectonic plates under california get rocked with a massive earthquake after this goes off? it's a huge geological force after all.
This would be a cool way to die
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUT8g8_Yd2Y[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_YUwdiy8I&feature=related[/media]
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;27761341][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUT8g8_Yd2Y[/media]
This would be a cool way to die
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_YUwdiy8I&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE]Shame it doesn't work like that.
Here is a better vide
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vn6kxfD3Ek[/media]
Ten years later
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqJ8hFgYwVg[/media]
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;27761341]This would be a cool way to die
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUT8g8_Yd2Y[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap_YUwdiy8I&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE]
I dunno, if I'm going to die in some ridiculous natural disaster, I'm going to ride an exploding subway car into an abyss like in the earthquake scene...
[i]"About 75,000 years ago, this Indonesian volcano released about 2,800 km3 DRE of ejecta, the largest known eruption within the Quaternary Period (last 1.8 million years) and probably the largest explosive eruption within the last 25 million years. In the late 1990s, anthropologist Stanley Ambrose[1] proposed that a volcanic winter induced by this eruption reduced the human population to about 2,000 - 20,000 individuals, resulting in a population bottleneck (see Toba catastrophe theory). More recently several geneticists, including Lynn Jorde and Henry Harpending have proposed that the human race was reduced to approximately five to ten thousand people.[2] Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75,000 years ago."[/i]
Source: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera[/url]
I once did a research project on this, it's supposed to be of the same class/caliber as Yellowstone.
Pretty scary when you think humanity as we know it could easily have never existed.
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Worst page king ever.
[QUOTE=SirQuacks;27768686][I]"About 75,000 years ago, this Indonesian volcano released about 2,800 km3 DRE of ejecta, the largest known eruption within the Quaternary Period (last 1.8 million years) and probably the largest explosive eruption within the last 25 million years. In the late 1990s, anthropologist Stanley Ambrose[1] proposed that a volcanic winter induced by this eruption reduced the human population to about 2,000 - 20,000 individuals, resulting in a population bottleneck (see Toba catastrophe theory). More recently several geneticists, including Lynn Jorde and Henry Harpending have proposed that the human race was reduced to approximately five to ten thousand people.[2] Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75,000 years ago."[/I]
Source: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera[/URL]
I once did a research project on this, it's supposed to be of the same class/caliber as Yellowstone.
Pretty scary when you think humanity as we know it could easily have never existed.[/QUOTE]
Back then there werent 6 billion people. I would be surprised if the population then amounted to even a few million.
For some reason this entire thread sounds like:
ITT: Americans think America is the world.
I would like one informed and unanimously accepted estimation of the impact this explosion could possibly have.
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;27772002]Back then there werent 6 billion people. I would be surprised if the population then amounted to even a few million.
For some reason this entire thread sounds like:
ITT: Americans think America is the world.
I would like one informed and unanimously accepted estimation of the impact this explosion could possibly have.[/QUOTE]
That's good that there is a much larger population on Earth. We won't come so close to extinction then.
Also, it's more like ITT: Other countries think America is fucked but we're all fucked
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;27772002]Back then there werent 6 billion people. I would be surprised if the population then amounted to even a few million.
For some reason this entire thread sounds like:
ITT: Americans think America is the world.
I would like one informed and unanimously accepted estimation of the impact this explosion could possibly have.[/QUOTE]
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The caldera of the volcano is massive, crossing 4 or 5 state lines, the amount of rubble entailed in that is enormous. Not to mention, that the amount of force behind that will blow it all clear. EVERYWHERE will feel this. You're not isolated from this event.
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[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;27772002]Back then there werent 6 billion people. I would be surprised if the population then amounted to even a few million.
For some reason this entire thread sounds like:
ITT: Americans think America is the world.
I would like one informed and unanimously accepted estimation of the impact this explosion could possibly have.[/QUOTE]
The largest volcanic eruption observed by humans ejected 180 cubic kilometers of volcanic material.
When Yellowstone erupts, it will eject well over 1 000 cubic kilometers of material, possibly as much as 2 500 - the amount ejected by its largest eruption.
[img]http://imgkk.com/i/q5nd.gif[/img]
This map shows the areas immediately affected by ash fall in the previous three eruptions, as well as the ash fall from the Mount St Helens eruption.
It looks like the direct effects will be felt only in the eastern and southern United States - wrong. The gulf stream will carry ash into the atmosphere and towards Europe, where it will lower the temperature and significantly affect weather for years. Similar effects will be felt in Central America due to prevailing southern winds.
In a near-future eruption, U.S. economy and infrastructure would be devastated, and, if the United States were still a superpower, the world economy would crash like never before; the loss of so much property and life in the richest country in the world would dwarf The Great Depression.
All planes would have to be grounded across most of the Americas and Europe, and possibly Africa and east Asia, for a period of weeks, or perhaps months. This would lead to supply problems - no airfreight in the entire developed world. Export out of the United States would be decimated, and food shortages in the Americas would compound this - riots and looting would be plausible in many countries.
I can't be bothering continuing. I'll just add that no one really knows EXACTLY what would happen - it could be much worse, or slightly (but only slightly) better than this. Civilised humans have never observed a supervolcanic eruption, so even the "experts" know pretty much nothing, compared to what would be expected from "experts" in other fields.
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