Ohmigod we're all going to DIE!!!

airspirit · 09-11-2003, 10:21 AM

Just to cheer you all up this morning, many geologists are concerned by a sudden spike of activity at Yellowstone national park. For those of you that don't know, yellowstone park is almost entirely composed of one massive VOLCANO CRATER. Well, it looks like we may be in for another blast. The last blast of this magnitude was around 78000 years ago and almost caused mankind to go extinct, dropping northern hemisphere temperatures almost 21C in the summer. If Yellowstone goes off (which some believe will happen in the next 3-70 years from monitoring it), everything within 3-600 Km of that park will be annihilated. The next 600 Km would be buried under massive layers of ash. Heavy ash would fall as far away as the appalachians and the gulf of mexico. Rocks would fall across the plains. This is bad shit. Imagine a 50 Km vertical column of lava spitting from the rocky mountains ... just thought I'd cheer you up. And for you Euros among us, prepare to freeze your asses off in the next ice age ... I'll be a fossil, so I won't be able to share your pain.

Here are some links:
http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm
http://www.rense.com/general41/yellowstoneupdate.htm
http://zyx.org/TOBA.html
http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/volcanoes.html

Have a nice day!

Tempus · 09-11-2003, 10:45 AM

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Is it true that the next eruption of Yellowstone is overdue?

No. The fact that two eruptive intervals (2.1 million to 1.3 million and 1.3 million to 640,000 years ago) are of similar length does not mean that the next eruption will necessarily occur after another similar interval. The physical mechanisms may have changed with time. Furthermore, any inferences based on these two intervals would take into account too few data to be statistically meaningful. To say that an eruption that might happen in ten's or hundred's of thousand's of years is "overdue" would be a gross overstatement. On the other hand we cannot discount the possibility of such an event occurring some time in the future, given Yellowstone's volcanic history and the continued presence of magma beneath the Yellowstone caldera.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/faqs4.html#13

If our government says there is a small chance that we might be safe, then who are we to doubt them??

Tempus · 09-11-2003, 10:46 AM

http://www.seis.utah.edu/helicorder/...one/index.html

This is cool. It has realtime siesmic data from yellowstone.

jaydee · 09-11-2003, 12:34 PM

I say bring it on!!!!! Time for something like this to happen to get people back to the reality of the world. Not to mention I am boared off my ass. Tragedy, conflict, terror, chaos, destruction, WOOT!

sevisehda · 09-11-2003, 02:28 PM

The postive side is for those without AC ambient temps will be 21 degrees lower.

Phant0m51 · 09-11-2003, 02:31 PM

The downside is that there probably won't be any electricity in the US. Yay for us...

jaydee · 09-11-2003, 02:44 PM

It is a good thing terrorists are not up on this kind of science. Seems to me a well placed high power bomb could set that thing off. From one of those links it looks like a big zit waiting to be popped. They could take out large portion of the USA and then some! Hummm, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it...

Zhentar · 09-11-2003, 03:40 PM

high power bomb would have to be on the level of a nuke, if its even possible at all. Not anything you need to worry about.

satanicoo · 09-11-2003, 05:04 PM

Why am i laughting?

pilsn3r · 09-11-2003, 05:43 PM

a nuke is probably not enough. maybe several nukes drilled down deep in just the right pattern though...
can anyone say bond villain?

Boli · 09-11-2003, 06:09 PM

I wounldn't worry about all that crap according to the scientists we are overdue for:

- An Ice age
- A Super Volcanic explosion (Yellowstone)
- A extinction metor
- The second coming
- Elvis

So I won't worry

.

~ Boli

Phant0m51 · 09-11-2003, 09:07 PM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA if Elvis comes back, then we all know we're dead. Period.

Alchemy · 09-11-2003, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by Phant0m51
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA if Elvis comes back, then we all know we're dead. Period.

Vaguely on-topic.

http://www.bubbahotep.com/

Alchemy

Zhentar · 09-11-2003, 10:46 PM

I actually read the links just now...

the thing to remember here is we're talking a geologic timescale; 10,000 years is for many things completely insignificant.

By the time this thing erupts thwarting its damage will be trivial; just look at where we were a century ago, and that one century is completely meaningless on a geologic scale.

Tempus · 09-13-2003, 09:45 AM

Meaningless except for all those pesky nuclear tests and the fun damage they did/might have done do the planet.

FRAGN'STIEN · 09-13-2003, 10:39 PM

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Originally posted by jaydee116
I say bring it on!!!!! Time for something like this to happen to get people back to the reality of the world. Not to mention I am boared off my ass. Tragedy, conflict, terror, chaos, destruction, WOOT!

I'm with Jaydee on this one.

09-11-2003, 10:46 AM	#3
Tempus Cooling Savant Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 456	http://www.seis.utah.edu/helicorder/...one/index.html This is cool. It has realtime siesmic data from yellowstone. __________________ Thou art God.

09-11-2003, 06:09 PM	#11
Boli Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Blackburn / Dundee Posts: 451	I wounldn't worry about all that crap according to the scientists we are overdue for: - An Ice age - A Super Volcanic explosion (Yellowstone) - A extinction metor - The second coming - Elvis So I won't worry . ~ Boli __________________ 1800+ @ 2247 (214x10.5) - STABLE, 512MB PC3700 TwinX Cosair RAM, NF7-S v2.0, GeForce3 Ti200 Parallel BIM, 120.1 Thermochill, Eheim 1048, Maze 3, Maze4 GPU, "Z" chipset, 1/2" tubing, PC-70: 5x120mm & 9x80mm fans. Internet Server & second machine (folding 24/7): 512MB DDR RAM, XP2000+

09-13-2003, 09:45 AM	#15
Tempus Cooling Savant Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 456	Meaningless except for all those pesky nuclear tests and the fun damage they did/might have done do the planet. __________________ Thou art God.

09-11-2003, 10:21 AM	#1
airspirit Been /.'d... have you? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Moscow, ID Posts: 1,986	Ohmigod we're all going to DIE!!! Just to cheer you all up this morning, many geologists are concerned by a sudden spike of activity at Yellowstone national park. For those of you that don't know, yellowstone park is almost entirely composed of one massive VOLCANO CRATER. Well, it looks like we may be in for another blast. The last blast of this magnitude was around 78000 years ago and almost caused mankind to go extinct, dropping northern hemisphere temperatures almost 21C in the summer. If Yellowstone goes off (which some believe will happen in the next 3-70 years from monitoring it), everything within 3-600 Km of that park will be annihilated. The next 600 Km would be buried under massive layers of ash. Heavy ash would fall as far away as the appalachians and the gulf of mexico. Rocks would fall across the plains. This is bad shit. Imagine a 50 Km vertical column of lava spitting from the rocky mountains ... just thought I'd cheer you up. And for you Euros among us, prepare to freeze your asses off in the next ice age ... I'll be a fossil, so I won't be able to share your pain. Here are some links: http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm http://www.rense.com/general41/yellowstoneupdate.htm http://zyx.org/TOBA.html http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/volcanoes.html Have a nice day! __________________ #!/bin/sh {who;} {last;} {pause;} {grep;} {touch;} {unzip;} mount /dev/girl -t {wet;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} {fsck;} echo yes yes yes {yes;} umount {/dev/girl;zip;} rm -rf {wet.spot;} {sleep;} finger: permission denied

09-11-2003, 12:34 PM	#4
jaydee Put up or Shut Up Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 6,506	I say bring it on!!!!! Time for something like this to happen to get people back to the reality of the world. Not to mention I am boared off my ass. Tragedy, conflict, terror, chaos, destruction, WOOT!

09-11-2003, 02:28 PM	#5
sevisehda Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2003 Location: NY Posts: 234	The postive side is for those without AC ambient temps will be 21 degrees lower.

09-11-2003, 02:31 PM	#6
Phant0m51 Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2003 Location: Utah Posts: 160	The downside is that there probably won't be any electricity in the US. Yay for us...

09-11-2003, 02:44 PM	#7
jaydee Put up or Shut Up Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 6,506	It is a good thing terrorists are not up on this kind of science. Seems to me a well placed high power bomb could set that thing off. From one of those links it looks like a big zit waiting to be popped. They could take out large portion of the USA and then some! Hummm, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it...

09-11-2003, 03:40 PM	#8
Zhentar Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 225	high power bomb would have to be on the level of a nuke, if its even possible at all. Not anything you need to worry about.

09-11-2003, 05:04 PM	#9
satanicoo Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: portugal Posts: 635	Why am i laughting?

09-11-2003, 05:43 PM	#10
pilsn3r Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: sweden Posts: 17	a nuke is probably not enough. maybe several nukes drilled down deep in just the right pattern though... can anyone say bond villain?

09-11-2003, 09:07 PM	#12
Phant0m51 Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2003 Location: Utah Posts: 160	AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA if Elvis comes back, then we all know we're dead. Period.

09-11-2003, 10:46 PM	#14
Zhentar Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 225	I actually read the links just now... the thing to remember here is we're talking a geologic timescale; 10,000 years is for many things completely insignificant. By the time this thing erupts thwarting its damage will be trivial; just look at where we were a century ago, and that one century is completely meaningless on a geologic scale.

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