Yellowstone Supervolcano Bigger Than We Thought it Was
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[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;29167728]Goodbye USA! :byewhore:[/QUOTE]
Picture earth and the air you breathe as a toilet bowl.
Now picture Yellowstone as your rectum shortly after a no-holds barred taco bell and indian food binge
What's the water gonna be like, when your ass finally blows? Is only the left half of the toilet bowl gonna be covered in shit while the other is perfectly clean?
[QUOTE=Warriorx4;29189903]"The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet" - Stephen Hawking.
There was another guy some 40-50 years ago who said it better, but I got Hawking because everybody knows who he is. Too long didn't read you're dumb.[/QUOTE]
That would've been Robert A. Heinlein.
How would an eruption affect england?
[QUOTE=jaykray;29207752]How would an eruption affect england?[/QUOTE]
I dont think you realize how huge this volcano is...
Well, I'm instafucked the time this thing blows if I'm still alive.
How would people in england die though? It can't be from lava. It's 5 am here so forgive me for dumb.
[QUOTE=jaykray;29208095]How would people in england die though? It can't be from lava. It's 5 am here so forgive me for dumb.[/QUOTE]
Ash covers the entire planet.
in the long term it blocks the sun and sends the entire planet into an ice age.
[QUOTE=beanhead;29208197]Ash covers the entire planet.
in the long term it blocks the sun and sends the entire planet into an ice age.[/QUOTE]
I don't see how that would kill everyone in the world.
Uh...
TAKE IT AWAY SOME ONE WHO KNOWS SHIT ABOUT VOLCANOS
[QUOTE=Matix;29169764]I hate things we can't really predict. :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
Really? I, for one, like surprises!
Also, would someone in england be able to hear the eruption? I guess that would be cool
[QUOTE=jaykray;29208302]Also, would someone in england be able to hear the eruption? I guess that would be cool[/QUOTE]
No it wouldn't be. If you could hear it all the way over there, we'd be royally fucked.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;29208362]No it wouldn't be. If you could hear it all the way over there, we'd be royally fucked.[/QUOTE]
Well yeah, it'd be cool for us I guess, not you though. That would suck. What would the problems be for places in America that aren't so near to the volcano?
What would be the effect of an eruption?
Immediately before the eruption, there would be large earthquakes in the Yellowstone region. The ground would swell further with most of Yellowstone being uplifted. One earthquake would finally break the layer of rock that holds the magma in - and all the pressure the Earth can build up in 640,000 years would be unleashed in a cataclysmic event.
Magma would be flung 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would coat places as far away as Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would have a force 2,500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands would be dead.
The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures plummet. This is called a nuclear winter. As during the Sumatra eruption a large percentage of the world's plant life would be killed by the ash and drop in temperature. Also, virtually the entire of the grain harvest of the Great Plains would disappear in hours, as it would be coated in ash. Similar effects around the world would cause massive food shortages. If the temperatures plummet by the 21 degrees they did after the Sumatra eruption the Yellowstone super volcano eruption could truly be an extinction level event.
[url]http://armageddononline.tripod.com/volcano.htm[/url]
[QUOTE=beanhead;29208389]What would be the effect of an eruption?
Immediately before the eruption, there would be large earthquakes in the Yellowstone region. The ground would swell further with most of Yellowstone being uplifted. One earthquake would finally break the layer of rock that holds the magma in - and all the pressure the Earth can build up in 640,000 years would be unleashed in a cataclysmic event.
Magma would be flung 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would coat places as far away as Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would have a force 2,500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands would be dead.
The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures plummet. This is called a nuclear winter. As during the Sumatra eruption a large percentage of the world's plant life would be killed by the ash and drop in temperature. Also, virtually the entire of the grain harvest of the Great Plains would disappear in hours, as it would be coated in ash. Similar effects around the world would cause massive food shortages. If the temperatures plummet by the 21 degrees they did after the Sumatra eruption the Yellowstone super volcano eruption could truly be an extinction level event.
[url]http://armageddononline.tripod.com/volcano.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
Without plant life, where would we get oxygen from?
[QUOTE=jaykray;29208417]Without plant life, where would we get oxygen from?[/QUOTE]
Exactly
[QUOTE=beanhead;29208430]Exactly[/QUOTE]
I guess algae wouldn't be affected
Why end it now, seems like were getting into our knowledge of everything, and surprise it would be a waste of having lives, if the volcano just suddenly want to erupt and kill our atmosphere. Are we suppose to just lay there, wait until our lives end without any meaning. Thanks life, I'm sure that's what life is all about, getting killed by a super volcano in the next century.
[QUOTE=jaykray;29208417]Without plant life, where would we get oxygen from?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://grandsolarpower.com/indoorgreenhouse/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/solar_greenhouse.jpg[/img]
Then just build some cool lamp as a substitute for sunlight and BAM plant life
[QUOTE=Chrille;29211410][img_thumb]http://grandsolarpower.com/indoorgreenhouse/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/solar_greenhouse.jpg[/img_thumb]
Then just build some cool lamp as a substitute for sunlight and BAM plant life[/QUOTE]
UV Lamps seem to do the job right.
I think you guys are highly underestimating the fact that this thing won't "blow" within our current lifetime.
Who know's ? it could or it couldn't but i highly doubt the volcano's thinking "oh shit they know what im planning fuck em all!" if its been dormant for that long its not to say it could be dormant for that long again ( we hope )
No we won't go extinct even if it blows tomorrow stop being defeatists. We won't have all the comforts we have today for quite a while though (lots of foods would be gone, no sun for quite a while, and a lot of other unpleasant stuff).
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;29166760]I think you underestimate humanities ability to adapt and survive. Fallout won't kill all of us.[/QUOTE]
i don't think you quite grasp the sheer gravity of this, that thing goes off and just about everything on earth except for NORAD and Yamantau and other nuclear bunkers with amazing air filtration systems and their own food supplies are going down the pisser.
[QUOTE=jaykray;29217510]What is the point of the volcano?[/QUOTE]
another way of nature telling us not to fuck with her.
[QUOTE=Source;29217528]another way of nature telling us not to fuck with her.[/QUOTE]
But we're not doing anything!
[QUOTE=Source;29211843]I think you guys are highly underestimating the fact that this thing won't "blow" within our current lifetime.
Who know's ? it could or it couldn't but i highly doubt the volcano's thinking "oh shit they know what im planning fuck em all!" if its been dormant for that long its not to say it could be dormant for that long again ( we hope )[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but Yellowstone erupted pretty regularly every 200,000 years or so and it's been over 500,000 years since the last full scale eruption.
We're kinda overdue for an eruption.
[QUOTE=tyanet;29221603]Yeah, but Yellowstone erupted pretty regularly every 200,000 years or so and it's been over 500,000 years since the last full scale eruption.
We're kinda overdue for an eruption.[/QUOTE]
If we're so overdue, isn't it likely that it's not going to erupt again? It's like when you don't give in homework to a teacher, they'll ask you regularly, but after so long they'll give up. Or you'll get excluded, which in this case is a metaphor for an apocalyptic eruption.
[QUOTE=jaykray;29229554]If we're so overdue, isn't it likely that it's not going to erupt again? It's like when you don't give in homework to a teacher, they'll ask you regularly, but after so long they'll give up. Or you'll get excluded, which in this case is a metaphor for an apocalyptic eruption.[/QUOTE]
The problem with the earth is that it's very hard to predict. It could be going dormant, not that much science promotes this, but it could be, but it could also erupt today or tomorrow with no warning. The signs that it's still active are pretty prominent seeing as yellowstone park is still actively changing through that process, so, something is still happening. That something is enough to make scientists research and say "it's kinda worrisome".
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