Is Yellowstone Going To Blow?

[RINGLEADER]

Lots of seismic activity that experts say is out of the ordinary. We're overdue for the eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano (which would pretty much wipe out the midwest before throwing so much soot and silica into the atmosphere we'd have snow in June and crops wouldn't grow for a decade).

On the bright side we wouldn't have to worry about global warming anymore.

http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

[BWillie]

I hope not, all my tax money has already gone to buyouts.

[RINGLEADER]

FWIW, Yellowstone normally registers between 3-6 seismic events per day. We're on pace to have 55 today and more than 300 for the week.

[Donger]

That's pyroclastic.

[Bob Dole]

Figures that we'll have a disaster just before we all get free gasoline and houses.

[Bwana]

If it goes, it was nice knowing you. Old Bwana is in for a quick dirt nap.

[kcfanXIII]

looks like shanahan got out of town just in time.


http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm

[Johnny Vegas]

if it does I hope I don't feel it and I also hope that I can get a few hours of COD in before it blows, oh and slam a bottle of Maker's Mark.

[Iowanian]

I'm not worried.

Movement of techtonic plates, geologic events and pyroclastic eruptions aren't scary. Obama is riding his tandem bike to Yellowstone as we type.

He's going to urinate into Old Faithful and cure the region of its ills.

[Delano]

That is one bigass caldera.

[Johnny Vegas]

If it goes, it was nice knowing you. Old Bwana is in for a quick dirt nap.

Heads or Tails. Heads it blows tails we see another tomorrow....

[jiveturkey]

It's a good thing that I've been playing Fallout3. I now consider myself fully prepared to deal with giant scorpions and ghouls. You fuckers better watch your back. :)

[Johnny Vegas]

It's a good thing that I've been playing Fallout3. I now consider myself fully prepared to deal with giant scorpions and ghouls. You ****ers better watch your back. :)

I'll see you at Rivet City!

[Demonpenz]

she's gone suck to blow sir!

[jiveturkey]

I'll see you at Rivet City!Just don't get caught fucking around in Megaton. I heard that someone's going to blow it up.

[DMAC]

Heads or Tails. Heads it blows tails we see another tomorrow....Set it up in the casino!

[Bwana]

Heads or Tails. Heads it blows tails we see another tomorrow....

Have you ever watched any shows about it on Discovery, or NAT GEO? If the thing does ever go off, we will be the lucky ones. All the thing is, is one giant super volcano. :doh!:

[Demonpenz]

keeping with my white trash roots. I hope I go out drinking jack danials and listening to Eddie Van halen Euruption!

[Donger]

Nice.

"The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor – almost 3 inches (7 centimeters) per year for the past three years – is more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurements began in 1923."

[StcChief]

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/12/31/earthquakes-swarm-yellowstone-supervolcano.html


At the other extreme is the Yellowstone eruption of 2.1 million years ago, which is described on the VEI as an eight: mega-colossal, with a towering ash cloud 10 miles high that pours out at least a thousand cubic miles of ash. That Yellowstone eruption had 10 times the ejected material as a VEI 7 volcano, which modern humans have never seen either.
In fact, the last VEI 7 eruption was in Toba, Indonesia, 74,000 years ago, and it caused such global cooling that some scientists think it nearly drove humans to extinction.

[Johnny Vegas]

Have you ever watched any shows about it on Discovery, or NAT GEO? If the thing does ever go off, we will be the lucky ones. All the thing is, is one giant super volcano. :doh!:

OH yeah and it freaks me out. I'd rather not live to see the clean up.

[Gonzo]

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/attachment.php?attachmentid=63092&d=1163482995

[Adept Havelock]

It's a good thing that I've been playing Fallout3. I now consider myself fully prepared to deal with giant scorpions and ghouls. You ****ers better watch your back. :)

Heh. I've got Lincoln's Repeater. I suggest it is you who had best watch out.

[raybec 4]

Well between this, the Aztec calendar ending the world in just three short years now (2012) and the fact that Clark Hunt has not hired a new GM yet, why bother to go on?

[Lzen]

Have you ever watched any shows about it on Discovery, or NAT GEO? If the thing does ever go off, we will be the lucky ones. All the thing is, is one giant super volcano. :doh!:

Yes, that is some scary shit.

[ModSocks]

Well between this, the Aztec calendar ending the world in just three short years now (2012) and the fact that Clark Hunt has not hired a new GM yet, why bother to go on?

Go to the bathroom and hang yourself with toilet paper

[gblowfish]

If it blows, I hope it takes Cheney with it...

[bowener]

I'm not worried. If it blows, not much I could do/have done to avoid it. To look on the brighter side of a decade long winter, it is just the thing the Earth needs right now. It would remove the majority of us from the Planet. Big ones would go first in the extinction game. So, critters like bears would become extinct quite quick, not to mention large grazers like Elephants, Horses, Cows, etc...
But this could be the sort of thing that humanity needs to wake it up! It would force all those who are not laying around waiting to for the rapture to work together to figure something out. Once the majority of humans left got behind one task, it would move rapidly. But, thankfully, we have the seed vault just in case.

If it blows and you live, meet me in Pensacola, Florida. I figure we can get to the ocean and at least eat sea creatures that don't require photosynthesis or something. Or, if its real bad, meet me in CoMo and shoot me in the face, I can shoot you at the same time if you want.

[raybec 4]

Go to the bathroom and hang yourself with toilet paper

I would but the brand they buy here at work is not environmentally friendly so I would be indirectly adding to the woes of the world. I will wait until I get home and use the hemp rope I have in my doomsday shelter.

[Planetman]

:hmmm:

Yellowstone Is A Super Volcano Overdue For Eruption


Q: What is a super volcano?

A: A super volcano is the most destructive force on this planet. Only a few exist in the world and when they erupt they do so with a force tens of thousands of times greater than other eruptions. They lie dormant for hundreds of thousands of years as a vast reservoir of magma builds up inside them before finally they unleash their apocalyptic force, capable of obliterating continents. They threaten the survival of mankind.

Q: What happened during the last eruption of a super volcano?

A: The last eruption of a super volcano was in Toba, Sumatra, 75,000 years ago. It had 10,000 times the explosive force of Mount St. Helens and changed life on Earth forever. Thousands of cubic kilometres of ash was thrown into the atmosphere - so much that it blocked out light from the sun all over the world. 2,500 miles away 35 centimetres of ash coated the ground. Global temperatures plummeted by 21 degrees. The rain would have been so poisoned by the gasses that it would have turned black and strongly acidic. Man was pushed to the edge of extinction, the population forced down to just a couple of thousand. Three quarters of all plants in the northern hemisphere were killed.

Q: What causes super volcanoes?

A: Super volcanoes differ from normal volcanoes in many ways. The stereotypical volcano is a towering cone, but super volcanoes form in depressions in the ground called calderas. When a normal volcano erupts lava gradually builds up in the mountain before releasing it. In super volcanoes when magma nears the surface it does not reach it, instead it begins to fill massive underground reservoirs. The magma melts the nearby rock to form more extremely thick magma. The magma is so viscous that volcanic gasses that normally trigger an eruption cannot pass, so a massive amount of pressure begins to build up. This continues for hundreds of thousands of years until an eruption occurs, which blasts away a huge amount of ground, forming a new caldera.

Q: Where are there other super volcanoes?

A: Not all super volcanoes have been found, but one of the largest is in Yellowstone Park, USA. Scientists searching for the caldera in the park could not see it because it was so huge - only when satellite images were taken did the scale of the caldera become apparent - the whole park, 85km by 45km, is one massive reservoir of magma. The idyll landscpae of Yellowstone (below) could soon explode with devastating consequences.

Q: When will it next erupt?

A: Scientist have discovered that the ground in Yellowstone if 74cm higher than in was in 1923 - indicating a massive swelling underneath the park. The reservoir is filling with magma at an alarming rate. The volcano erupts with a near-clockwork cycle of every 600,000 years. The last eruption was more than 640,000 years ago - we are overdue for annihilation.

Q: What would be the effect of an eruption?

A: 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.

[ModSocks]

I'm not worried. If it blows, not much I could do/have done to avoid it. To look on the brighter side of a decade long winter, it is just the thing the Earth needs right now. It would remove the majority of us from the Planet. Big ones would go first in the extinction game. So, critters like bears would become extinct quite quick, not to mention large grazers like Elephants, Horses, Cows, etc...
But this could be the sort of thing that humanity needs to wake it up! It would force all those who are not laying around waiting to for the rapture to work together to figure something out. Once the majority of humans left got behind one task, it would move rapidly. But, thankfully, we have the seed vault just in case.

If it blows and you live, meet me in Pensacola, Florida. I figure we can get to the ocean and at least eat sea creatures that don't require photosynthesis or something. Or, if its real bad, meet me in CoMo and shoot me in the face, I can shoot you at the same time if you want.


I've always dreamed of a Mad Max type of sequence. Imagine how fun that would be? As long as we don't get into some sort of "I am Legend" deal everything should be alright.

[bowener]

Have you ever watched any shows about it on Discovery, or NAT GEO? If the thing does ever go off, we will be the lucky ones. All the thing is, is one giant super volcano. :doh!:


If it blows, it will also probably force fault lines to buckle as well, which we happen to have one of the biggest in our back yard.

Side note:

I know nothing of volcanoes, but could we tunnel a little ways down and blow a hole in the side of it under ground and direct all the lava/magma to flow out before it gets too big, just kinda sorta aim it at Utah or Nevada or something. Nobody really cares about those states except Mormons or Gamblers, and we could probably save Vegas....
Where is Tommy Lee Jones?

[KCChiefsMan]

lets all move to Brazil!

[btlook1]

I think bwana will be the lucky one if it ever does blow. He will be dust and ashes quickly where as some of us will just starve to death...you know that can't be fun!
I think I'm going to go rent a track hoe and start digging a bunker next week! Bring your shovels boys and I will let you help!

[bowener]

I've always dreamed of a Mad Max type of sequence. Imagine how fun that would be? As long as we don't get into some sort of "I am Legend" deal everything should be alright.

Deep down I like to imagine the Government has some kind of plan for such events. Problem is, I would imagine they all end in a bad way, such as military rule, and massive bombing by us upon the rest of the world to ensure we get all the goods the day the Sun comes back. Essentially, all those left living would be a slave of sorts that would be forced to join the military or work in factories and women would shoot out babies without any down time.

[btlook1]

I know nothing of volcanoes, but could we tunnel a little ways down and blow a hole in the side of it under ground and direct all the lava/magma to flow out before it gets too big, just kinda sorta aim it at Utah or Nevada or something. Nobody really cares about those states except Mormons or Gamblers, and we could probably save Vegas....

Good idea...do you think maybe we could aim it a little more towards the West?

[bowener]

I think bwana will be the lucky one if it ever does blow. He will be dust and ashes quickly where as some of us will just starve to death...you know that can't be fun!
I think I'm going to go rent a track hoe and start digging a bunker next week! Bring your shovels boys and I will let you help!

Can we have an underground pool please, dad? Please?!

Seriously, lets all meet up in Springfield, they have a lot of underground springs to drink from, that solves a primary concern.

[bowener]

I know nothing of volcanoes, but could we tunnel a little ways down and blow a hole in the side of it under ground and direct all the lava/magma to flow out before it gets too big, just kinda sorta aim it at Utah or Nevada or something. Nobody really cares about those states except Mormons or Gamblers, and we could probably save Vegas....

Good idea...do you think maybe we could aim it a little more towards the West?

Eh, yeah, fuck SF.

[ottawa_chiefs_fan]

NP, i have a snow blower that I can use to blow all the ashes out of my driveway.

[ModSocks]

Deep down I like to imagine the Government has some kind of plan for such events. Problem is, I would imagine they all end in a bad way, such as military rule, and massive bombing by us upon the rest of the world to ensure we get all the goods the day the Sun comes back. Essentially, all those left living would be a slave of sorts that would be forced to join the military or work in factories and women would shoot out babies without any down time.

Ahh Jeez, could u imagine? The stretch marks would be out of control!

[StcChief]

Ahh Jeez, could u imagine? The stretch marks would be out of control!and bigg o T1tties from constant breast feeding. No formula anywhere tobe found.

[Frazod]

Well, it would certainly shut all those global warming idiots up.

[Reerun_KC]

We touched on this in oceanography this fall... This thing has the potential to just cave in this side of the country... Dear god, with that fault line and the pressure under it...

If that big bastard errupts, not even Herm lead defense could stop it...

[Frazod]

Two events we would not survive as a nation - another New Madrid quake, or a Yellowstone eruption.

Hopefully neither event will happen in any of our lifetimes.

[dirk digler]

That is fucking scary now that you mention it. I had no idea something like this existed.

[Ultra Peanut]

We're overdue for the eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano No, we aren't. The cycle isn't documented well enough to determine any sort of rate of frequency, and the last three times differed in span by hundreds of thousands of years. So sure, it could explode next week. But it could also explode in a few hundred thousand years.

And the seismic stuff just happens sometimes. In 1985, there was an earthquake swarm with thousands of earthquakes over the course of a few months.

[DMAC]

Cue the next summer movie blockbuster starring Will Smith.

[Delano]

Imagine a block of rock more than eight miles by eight miles at the base, and more than eight miles high -- a mountain far more massive than Everest -- ejected from the earth, rocketed more than twenty miles into the stratosphere, blasted down the mountainsides, pulverized, melted, and reformed as rock.

[Delano]

There is a phenomenal volcano/geology interpretive center in Yellowstone that I recommend to everyone.

[raybec 4]

No, we aren't. The cycle isn't documented well enough to determine any sort of rate of frequency, and the last three times differed in span by hundreds of thousands of years. So sure, it could explode next week. But it could also explode in a few hundred thousand years.

And the seismic stuff just happens sometimes. In 1985, there was an earthquake swarm with thousands of earthquakes over the course of a few months.

You can just stop with the voice of reason stuff right now buddy. We can't have any of that crap around here, now if you'll excuse me I have to put on my purple nikes and wait for my space ship.

[Bwana]

That is ****ing scary now that you mention it. I had no idea something like this existed.

A lot of people don't.

The way I look at it, is the way I look at most things in life, it is either something I have some control over, or it isn't. In this case, if the old bitch, decides she wants to blow her top, it is what it is. It's not something I worry about, or lose any sleep over.

[dirk digler]

A lot of people don't.

The way I look at it, is the way I look at most things in life, it is either something I have some control over, or it isn't. In this case, if the old bitch, decides she wants to blow her top, it is what it is. It's not something I worry about, or lose any sleep over.

I consider myself pretty well educated and I had absolutely no idea something this existed in the United States. Boy do I feel dumb.

Anyway I am heading out now to buy my lava boots and fire resistant clothes so I will be prepared

[Stewie]

...and I just went to the grocery store. Who knew I needed 10 years of groceries instead of 10 days?

[StcChief]

lets all move to Brazil!then just blame it on RIO

[Demonpenz]

You can just stop with the voice of reason stuff right now buddy. We can't have any of that crap around here, now if you'll excuse me I have to put on my purple nikes and wait for my space ship.

I don't know if that is from a movie but that was funny LOL

[Demonpenz]

then just blame it on RIO

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Her name is rio we are duran duran

[Reerun_KC]

I don't know if that is from a movie but that was funny LOL

Heavens gate cult..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(cult)

[Bwana]

I consider myself pretty well educated and I had absolutely no idea something this existed in the United States. Boy do I feel dumb.

Anyway I am heading out now to buy my lava boots and fire resistant clothes so I will be prepared

Don't forget the hotdogs, marshmellows and a very long stick. :D

[SAUTO]

No, we aren't. The cycle isn't documented well enough to determine any sort of rate of frequency, and the last three times differed in span by hundreds of thousands of years. So sure, it could explode next week. But it could also explode in a few hundred thousand years.

And the seismic stuff just happens sometimes. In 1985, there was an earthquake swarm with thousands of earthquakes over the course of a few months.

ACCORDING TO solcomhouse the activity averages 600,000 years and it's been 640,000 so...

[beavis]

No, we aren't. The cycle isn't documented well enough to determine any sort of rate of frequency, and the last three times differed in span by hundreds of thousands of years. So sure, it could explode next week. But it could also explode in a few hundred thousand years.

And the seismic stuff just happens sometimes. In 1985, there was an earthquake swarm with thousands of earthquakes over the course of a few months.

Yep. Even the ones most well versed in it admit they have absolutely no idea when it's going to blow.

[Raiderhater58]

pretty scary shit for sure. Guess I better go buy some ammo and some Gas masks, maybe move a little further east

[Johnny Vegas]

if it does I hope I don't feel it and I also hope that I can get a few hours of COD in before it blows, oh and slam a bottle of Maker's Mark.

oh I get a neg rep from KCChiefsMan for this comment? what a closet fag

[Ultra Peanut]

ACCORDING TO solcomhouse the activity averages 600,000 years and it's been 640,000 so...We've only had two intervals to study, so any "average" is a) irrelevant and b) more along the lines of 700,000 years. It's a fascinating topic, but there's no need to talk things up by pretending we're living on borrowed time when it comes to a phenomenon we don't know a lot about.

[ZootedGranny]

If the Chiefs looked like Super Bowl favorites, I'd expect the caldera to blow.

I think we're safe for now.

[RINGLEADER]

No, we aren't. The cycle isn't documented well enough to determine any sort of rate of frequency, and the last three times differed in span by hundreds of thousands of years. So sure, it could explode next week. But it could also explode in a few hundred thousand years.

And the seismic stuff just happens sometimes. In 1985, there was an earthquake swarm with thousands of earthquakes over the course of a few months.

Just passin' on what the AP's-experts are saying!

[RINGLEADER]

A lot of people don't.

The way I look at it, is the way I look at most things in life, it is either something I have some control over, or it isn't. In this case, if the old bitch, decides she wants to blow her top, it is what it is. It's not something I worry about, or lose any sleep over.

True. Kind of like giant killer asteroids and flu pandemics. They're going to happen some day but what can you do?

[RINGLEADER]

ACCORDING TO solcomhouse the activity averages 600,000 years and it's been 640,000 so...

What's a few hundred thousand years between friends...

[Rain Man]

Maybe I should trade my convertible for a hardtop.

[KCChiefsMan]

oh I get a neg rep from KCChiefsMan for this comment? what a closet pillowbiter

I just dont like you

[RINGLEADER]

We've only had two intervals to study, so any "average" is a) irrelevant and b) more along the lines of 700,000 years. It's a fascinating topic, but there's no need to talk things up by pretending we're living on borrowed time when it comes to a phenomenon we don't know a lot about.

If it blows I'm so neg-repping you...

[VonneMarie]

No one else is talking about this, so I won't worry. Now if the Chiefs get Cowher and Pioli... now that's a different story. :doh!:

[Bwana]

Maybe I should trade my convertible for a hardtop.

ROFL

That may not be a bad plan if it goes boom boom.

[Ultra Peanut]

ROFL

That may not be a bad plan if it goes boom boom.Yeah. The Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho would be devastated. Literally dozens of people would die instantly.

[Reerun_KC]

Dude that would make a nice fishing pond....

Could we stock it with some delicious bass?

[Johnny Vegas]

Yeah. The Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho would be devastated. Literally dozens of people would die instantly.

no no a half a dozen...ROFL

[Bwana]

Yeah, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas would be devastated. Literally dozens of people would die instantly.

Hey bitch cakes, you would be hard pressed obtaining a first class Idaho potato for a long time. :eek:

[rockymtnchief]

A lot of people don't.

The way I look at it, is the way I look at most things in life, it is either something I have some control over, or it isn't. In this case, if the old bitch, decides she wants to blow her top, it is what it is. It's not something I worry about, or lose any sleep over.

Ditto for me.

IIRC, you can't drill down and release anything from Yellowstone. Any drill would melt before it reached it and the magma moves so slow that it would cool and seal the hole before reaching the surface. Those aren't my words. Just what I've read.

[Rain Man]

Y'know what would be weird, would be if instead of spewing lava it spewed something like hamsters.

[Johnny Vegas]

Yeah. The Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho would be devastated. Literally dozens of people would die instantly.

oh and think of all the beef that would be taken off the map....no more prime rib.

[Bwana]

Dude that would make a nice fishing pond....

Could we stock it with some delicious bass?

Not unless all the tree huggers kick the bucket. If they don't, you will have to stick to cut throat trout.

[blueballs]

Isn't this how Super Heros are made

[Reerun_KC]

Y'know what would be weird, would be if instead of spewing lava it spewed something like hamsters.

Claythan would probably ask his parents to move closer...

[RINGLEADER]

ROFL

That may not be a bad plan if it goes boom boom.

Imagine...the Chiefs will instantly be 50% better!

[Bwana]

Ditto for me.

IIRC, you can't drill down and release anything from Yellowstone. Any drill would melt before it reached it and the magma moves so slow that it would cool and seal the hole before reaching the surface. Those aren't my words. Just what I've read.

I saw something pertaining to that as well. Indeed when she is ready to go boom, there's not much that can be done. I'm all about probability, and the odds are with us. :D I'm sure if it's going to cut loose, it will wait until I'm up in Cooke City, swinging a fly rod and I will land some place just north of Denver.

[Thig Lyfe]

Y'know what would be weird, would be if instead of spewing lava it spewed something like hamsters.

The most adorable apocalypse ever!!!

[rockymtnchief]

I saw something pertaining to that as well. Indeed when she is ready to go boom, there's not much that can be done. I'm all about probability, and the odds are with us. :D I'm sure if it's going to cut loose, it will wait until I'm up in Cooke City, swinging a fly rod and I will land some place just north of Denver.

I always said I wanted to retire in Cooke City. Maybe this will drive down land prices! :)

[Bwana]

I always said I wanted to retire in Cooke City. Maybe this will drive down land prices! :)

Land up there really has taken a jump in the last 15 years. Perhaps you can start an internet page claiming you have "indisputable proof" that it is going to blow its top in the next five years. Hang out on talk shows with the wild eyed, this is no bullshit look and get all the wacko's talking about it. Yeah, that should get it back into a affordable range really fast, if you can sell that pitch. :D

[rockymtnchief]

Land up there really has taken a jump in the last 15 years. Perhaps you can start an internet page claiming you have "indisputable proof" that it is going to blow its top in the next five years. Hang out on talk shows with the wild eyed, this is no bullshit look and get all the wacko's talking about it. Yeah, that should get it back into a affordable range really fast, if you can sell that pitch. :D

If you can get me booked on Oprah I'll do it. Maybe she'll give me a new car while I'm there!:)

[stevieray]

big one in russia is expected to blow also..last time was 3000 years ago, and the prediction is this time tje eruption will be massive..

[Delano]

Not unless all the tree huggers kick the bucket. If they don't, you will have to stick to cut throat trout.

Yeah cause they are native and all..

[Delano]

Ash fall from previous Yellowstone events:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/images/caldera_yellowstone.gif

Cool 3D map of the current caldera:
http://www.earlham.edu/%7Ebrowngr/graphics/yellowstone-caldera-usgs.jpg

[bowener]

Ditto for me.

IIRC, you can't drill down and release anything from Yellowstone. Any drill would melt before it reached it and the magma moves so slow that it would cool and seal the hole before reaching the surface. Those aren't my words. Just what I've read.


I wasnt posing that as a true technique, just pulling shit from my ass. But, the hole would be drilled to aim it at a city/state we dont really need, then run a big bomb down there and blow open the remaining rock that is acting like the flood gate... just figured if the magma is plugging up and getting ready to bust a nut out of the top of old faithful, give her another release aimed somewhere else.... In all actuality, we are fucked, get the marshmallows and weiners and stare toward the big ploom and wait for your chance to roast.

[StcChief]

Ash fall from a previous Yellowstone event:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/images/caldera_yellowstone.gif

Cool 3D map of the current caldera:
http://www.earlham.edu/%7Ebrowngr/graphics/yellowstone-caldera-usgs.jpgWe are on the highest hill around just on lip of Eastern edge by STL......

[Johnny Vegas]

wouldn't the hot spot now be in Idaho more because of the moving plates?

[Bwana]

Yeah cause they are native and all..

Yep

[el borracho]

Cool. Maybe I won't have to repay those student loans after all.

[alanm]

I consider myself pretty well educated and I had absolutely no idea something this existed in the United States. Boy do I feel dumb.

Anyway I am heading out now to buy my lava boots and fire resistant clothes so I will be preparedYou went to public school didn't you? :D

[Extra Point]

I know which CD I'll be playing when it happens:
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[petegz28]

I'm not worried.

Movement of techtonic plates, geologic events and pyroclastic eruptions aren't scary. Obama is riding his tandem bike to Yellowstone as we type.

He's going to urinate into Old Faithful and cure the region of its ills.

ROFL

[HolyHandgernade]

I chose this video because you know how I love to tie natural disasters and religion together. Despite the "end of the world" tie ins, the actual scientific information is pretty good:

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[petegz28]

It is man's own ignorance that makes him think this planet is not supposed to change the lifestyle we currently enjoy.

[Discuss Thrower]

Nuke the fucker. That's my advice. Drop a small scale nuke and try and relieve pressure somewhere.

[CosmicPal]

Nuke the ****er. That's my advice. Drop a small scale nuke and try and relieve pressure somewhere.

It's just farting. Let it fart some more.

[Discuss Thrower]

It's just farting. Let it fart some more.

Seems like the farts (geysers) aren't doing enough.

And, to quote the movie the bucket list, one thing an old guy (caldera) must do is never trust a fart.

[petegz28]

Seems like the farts (geysers) aren't doing enough.

And, to quote the movie the bucket list, one thing an old guy (caldera) must do is never trust a fart.

Well, perhaps this is nature's way of letting us know we are pissing her off? I mean, how dare something that was here millions of years before us rear it's ugly head now when we are so comfy as a species?

[Discuss Thrower]

Well, perhaps this is nature's way of letting us know we are pissing her off? I mean, how dare something that was here millions of years before us rear it's ugly head now when we are so comfy as a species?

Well, if mother nature wanted me to care, she wouldn't have allowed us the ever present desire to preserve ourselves now should she?

[petegz28]

Well, if mother nature wanted me to care, she wouldn't have allowed us the ever present desire to preserve ourselves now should she?

You are making the gross assumption that we can preserve ourselves! ROFL

1 rock from outer space hits this planet and we are done as a species. We are far from able to preserve ourselves. If anything we will be our own destruction.

[JOhn]

First off, I really hope not, as I'm less than 50 miles downwind from it. Of course if it does blow, I won't be around to bitch about it.:eek:

But all BS aside, , and all of local scientist I have talked to say that the chances of it erupting in our life time or our kids is less than 1%.

All you see on the TV and such is nothing but hype for ratings.

[JOhn]

If it goes, it was nice knowing you. Old Bwana is in for a quick dirt nap.

ROFL
Well if we have any warning, you can join me for a brew and we'll die drunk and beating the crap out of donkie fans

[JOhn]

No, we aren't. The cycle isn't documented well enough to determine any sort of rate of frequency, and the last three times differed in span by hundreds of thousands of years. So sure, it could explode next week. But it could also explode in a few hundred thousand years.

And the seismic stuff just happens sometimes. In 1985, there was an earthquake swarm with thousands of earthquakes over the course of a few months.

:clap::clap::clap:

[RJ]

I don't know if it means anything but a marble just rolled off my computer desk while I was reading this thread. So that was sorta weird.

[JOhn]

I don't know if it means anything but a marble just rolled off my computer desk while I was reading this thread. So that was sorta weird.

That or you got a low tire on your house trailer? ROFL

[RJ]

That or you got a low tire on your house trailer? ROFL


Definitely not. I've been following the Prez Elect's advice and keeping the tires on my house properly inflated. My fuel efficiency has improved by about 2.5 mpg.

[Delano]

Check out this .pdf if you have any interest in supervolcanoes and the Yellowstone situation or lack thereof.

supervolcano.pdf (http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/publications/2008/ElementsJBL_SH.pdf)

*Oooooh, and this: Yellowstone Volcano Observatory webpage (http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/).

[beavis]

Ash fall from previous Yellowstone events:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/images/caldera_yellowstone.gif



You know, I maps similar to this one a lot and I'm always curious how much of an effect the prevailing winds at the time of the eruption would affect the ash fall. Like, is it possible that the majority of it would all push north over Canada, or any other direction for that matter?

[beavis]

big one in russia is expected to blow also..last time was 3000 years ago, and the prediction is this time tje eruption will be massive..

Which one is that?

[VonneMarie]

First off, I really hope not, as I'm less than 50 miles downwind from it. Of course if it does blow, I won't be around to bitch about it.:eek:

But all BS aside, , and all of local scientist I have talked to say that the chances of it erupting in our life time or our kids is less than 1%.

All you see on the TV and such is nothing but hype for ratings.

This sure made me relax.

[dirk digler]

ROFL

That may not be a bad plan if it goes boom boom.

Is that the kill zone?

[T-post Tom]

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/01/01/earthquakes-at-yellowstone-supervolcano-update-.html

"Lowenstern: The most likely "bad" things that could happen would be triggering of a larger earthquake or some sort of steam explosion set off beneath the lake. At this point, any kind of volcanic eruption is a long shot. That's why we haven't called for a volcano advisory. None of our other monitoring indicators show anything that is nearly so anomalous as the earthquakes. At this point, the most likely thing is that the swarm will continue, perhaps for weeks, and then will end without any other related activity."

[Bwana]

Is that the kill zone?

Indeed

[Calcountry]

I'm not worried.

Movement of techtonic plates, geologic events and pyroclastic eruptions aren't scary. Obama is riding his tandem bike to Yellowstone as we type.

He's going to urinate into Old Faithful and cure the region of its ills.We cannot affect something like this, how in God's name, do we have the hubris to believe that we can affect atmospheric temperature by any significant amount?

[Calcountry]

The most adorable apocalypse ever!!!You would be interested in something else spewing besides hamsters.

[Bwana]

OH yeah and it freaks me out. I'd rather not live to see the clean up.

It looks like your folks may feel the same way? :doh!:

http://www.loopnet.com/property/15649523/209-Highway-212/

[Delano]

You know, I maps similar to this one a lot and I'm always curious how much of an effect the prevailing winds at the time of the eruption would affect the ash fall. Like, is it possible that the majority of it would all push north over Canada, or any other direction for that matter?

Impossible to know where the jetstream was and what the upper level winds were doing at the time of the last two major events.

I would guess the ash would go South and East again, based on weather patterns that general go from the Yellowstone area and dip south and east onto the plains and midwest.

In all reality, it wouldn't matter where the majority of the ash falls initially, it's the fact that the ash would cover the globe in the upper atmosphere and block out the majority of the sunlight.

[JOhn]

You know, I maps similar to this one a lot and I'm always curious how much of an effect the prevailing winds at the time of the eruption would affect the ash fall. Like, is it possible that the majority of it would all push north over Canada, or any other direction for that matter?

See the big black dot? I live right at the SE side of it, it goes BOOM I'll probably never know. :doh!:

[JOhn]

I really have no concern, as it seems every year someone new yells "The sky is falling".:rolleyes:

Few years ago it was the new mud volcanoes in the the Norris basin, then it was the bulge in the bottom of the lake. Next year it will be that some old gyserquit erupting.

There just isn't enough statistical data to draw any hard conclusions.

[Johnny Vegas]

It looks like your folks may feel the same way? :doh!:

http://www.loopnet.com/property/15649523/209-Highway-212/

Yeah my Dad wants to sell the place and buy a liquor license in Billings and open a bar. If it goes to plan my Dad, brother, and I are going to co own the bar and work in it. I will always visit Cooke City if my Dad does sell the place. I could never turn my back on that place. I've spent many Christmas's and New Years there.

[RINGLEADER]

Here's an ongoing update on events. They talked to some Poindexter who said that the chances of a super volcanic eruption are low and there are many events that could occur between nothing and an all-out super volcano.

But he also says that the current swarm of earthquakes under Yellowstone is out of the ordinary and the highest level of quake activity since 1985. But there have been other times when there have been quake swarms with no super volcano.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/01/01/earthquakes-at-yellowstone-supervolcano-update-.html

[007]

she's gone suck to blow sir!Stock up on Perriare.

[007]

First off, I really hope not, as I'm less than 50 miles downwind from it. Of course if it does blow, I won't be around to bitch about it.:eek:

But all BS aside, , and all of local scientist I have talked to say that the chances of it erupting in our life time or our kids is less than 1%.

All you see on the TV and such is nothing but hype for ratings.

This thread was actually getting to me until I got to this post. Thanks.