Slashdot | Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?

 

OMG!!! Where is my tinfoil hat?

 

 

And I could get hit by a bus tomorrow...So what's your point ?

 

how much is a ticket?

i wonder how yellowstone would compare to krakatoa??

granted due to the relative remoteness of the island the initial destruction and loss of life was minimized, but i have always been interested in the after effects. a year with no summer?

 

A year without a summer would be about as close to a major disastor as you want to get, but if Yellowstone goes, it's going to be worse than that. The cloud that it would send into the air could take more than a year to settle. And, it wouldn't just be here in the US, but all over the world. You would not have to worry about global warming anymore. One year without a summer would mean major food shortages all over the world. (and let the Arabs eat their oil.)

Yellowstone has been rising in altitude for a while now. In the last several months, the number of minor earthquakes has gone up sharply. What they do not know... Will it simply let off a little pressure or will it blow a 15 mile hole in the ground. A foot of ash settling 400 miles away would do a lot more than just kill people. Millions of acres would be covered in ash, and many of the crops that we use as our food source would be killed off for the season. Even corn might not survive because of acid content in the ash.

Quite obviously, there is something pushing the ground level upward, but how long it's going to go on before something breaks loose, no one knows. If you worry about it, it won't happen. If you go about your daily business like nothing's wrong, you'll get caught with your pants down. (A watched pot never boils.)

But, along with any eruption, there could also be some very major earthquakes along the west coast too. That could be when California sinks into the ocean. No one knows just what effects the release of pressure would have there.

All these things are "WORST CASE SENARIO". The experts will be able to tell you far more about it when it becomes hind-sight.

 

So what are you trying to say Windwalker:roll: yea, I'm being an :moon:

 

I live in FL, and it's just a short boat ride to Cuba:lol:
But, living in AZ, you might want to dig a big hole, fill it with supplies to be able to hide from the effects for about 5 years or so to allow the dust to settle.

The news articles I have read about it all say that it would be an eruption that has never been seen by mankind. That it could be an ELE (End of Life Event) because of all the smoke and dust that would be launched into the atmosphere. Blocking the effects of the sun would cool things off here on the surface, it would also affect the air currents, and a good share of life could be destroyed. Any particles that are above the clouds, and above the rain could be floating around up there for a couple of years. Rain only washes particles out of the air when they are at or below the level of the clouds.

Those that are monitoring the changes are expecting a very major event, but since so many of the so-called experts have been wrong about so many things, it could simply end with a HIC-UP.

 

Oh we got a big hole Wind.....the Grand Canyon :roll: (can't wait till they start filling it in and building homes there)
There was a made for tv movie I saw last year about this very subject.....Yellow Stone erupts so on and so forth......I'll believe it when I see it, just like global warming.....notice it snowed in Vegas and closed all roads leading south from there?

 

Well, you see... It's gonna blow in the next ten years. By then, I will have retired, spent my retirement, and passed away. I have absolutely nothing to worry about.:lol::lol::lol:

You young guys are the ones that are going to get caught in it.