Is Yellowstone going to go "POP" ?

[knine]

Some interesting stuff floating in the news channels if you look around.

The supervolcano underneath Yellowstone national park has a history of a full scale eruption every 600,000 years. Supervalcano's are capible of total and near total extinction events. Yellowstones' last full scale eruption that formed the Yellowstone Caldera was 640,000 years ago. Recently (Since the end of December 08 until today earthquake swarms have demonsrated an increase in seismic activity ----scroll down on this link http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone_full.html )

Over the recent past few years some geysers in the park have changed schedules, some have become dormant, some have re-activated after years of being dormant indicating underground changes. Recently, a ridge in the bottom of Yellowstone Lake has been discovered (100 ft tall, 200 feet wide, 2000 feet long) and the caldera has rapidly been rising (like a baloon inflating) at several inches per year for the last few years, and one article (linked) quotes the chamber filling with magma at a rapid rate.

Question for discussion: What do you think is going on? Do you think this could ever lead to an "extinction event" sometime in the near 100,000 years or less? Some interesting links below, google a few searches for yourself and see what you find. Yea, I know it's a lot of links, but give them a quick check and let me know what you think.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Is-Yellowstones-Supervolcano-Coming-Alive

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


This diagram shows the potential range of the total destruction.
http://people.uwec.edu/ERICKSKM/yellowstone-volcano.gif

[finster101]

We're all gonna' die!

[Pat]

But I'm still not selling my Marauder.

With the Silver Birch paint I should blend right in with the ash. Of course in 100,00 years it may fall into the high milage category.

[Master]

As orders of magnitude go, I'm not too worried about something that could happen in the next thousand years or so. Maybe tomorrow is our unlucky day, but I've never won anything in a lottery, either.
Of course, that wasn't your question, was it?
I suspect it is building toward an erruption - big or small, who knows - and it should be interesting to see if it does go off in the "blink of an eye" that constitutes the small part of my existance in this world.

[O's Fan Rich]

I'd be more worried about Islamic terrorists nuking the World.....

But the worst part of this is that I've never been to Yellowstone.... need to get there before it's gone!

[Mike Poore]

I'd be more worried about Islamic terrorists nuking the World.....

But the worst part of this is that I've never been to Yellowstone.... need to get there before it's gone!

The real trick, Rich, would be to choose the very day of the eruption. Would that be cool, or what? :eek:

Just think of the stories you could tell to your grandchildren ....oh wait, they'd, be telling stories about you.

The scientific data have been compounding as more is being learned about the impending catastrophe, all kidding aside, which could occur in our lifetimes.

[N40GL]

I've seen those cartoons where he's tunnelling somewhere and pops up in the wrong place. I think he's going to Vegas, and took a wrong turn at Cucamunga.

[O's Fan Rich]

The real trick, Rich, would be to choose the very day of the eruption. Would that be cool, or what? :eek:

Just think of the stories you could tell to your grandchildren ....oh wait, they'd, be telling stories about you.



Wow!!!
I could be a museum piece!!!
https://webspace.utexas.edu/aps65/images/rome/campania/pompeii.jpg

[knine]

We're all gonna' die!
No, you're in Florida.....you may survive. :dunno:



But the worst part of this is that I've never been to Yellowstone.... need to get there before it's gone!
....or just wait and Yellowstone will come to you. :mad2:

[gcgarner]

This is completely weird that you posted this. I have been trying to keep up with the activity in Yellowstone ever since I heard of the "Mega Volcano". I always watch Good Morning America in the mornings. Well, this morning, I didn't watch it because my little girl was running a high fever and we had to get her to the doctor. As I was standing there brushing my teeth, a thought crossed my mind that "they're probably saying on GMA this morning that there is new evidence that the mega volcano that lies beneath Yellowstone could erupt in the coming days". Weird coincidence. I'm in western NC, so I might have a chance of surviving this, but it would be bad for everyone everywhere.

[Bluerauder]

So I guess that Marauderville will be east of the Mississippi again just in case. ;)

[Haggis]

21 Dec., 2012

[O's Fan Rich]

21 Dec., 2012

By then according to a Russian guy, we'll be involved in a Civil War here in the USA........:flamer:

[jgc61sr2002]

21 Dec., 2012




:D:rofl::laugh:

[Drewstang]

LOL at 21 Dec 2012. Maybe the Aztecs ran out of crayons for their calander.

[Dr Caleb]

This diagram shows the potential range of the total destruction.
http://people.uwec.edu/ERICKSKM/yellowstone-volcano.gif

*Whew*. Outside the zone, just barely.

Yes, it's going to *pop*. But geologic events are on a time scale far longer than I am. 'Soon' might be 100 years.

Remember, panty hose over the air filter helps prevent it from plugging up from the ash. Not too tightly, or the ash goes right through it!

[pantheroc]

It's probably a regular cycle with the earth. The Ocean levels rise causing pressure differences on the plates. Then the thing blows, skys darken, the earth cools off rebuilding the arctic and it starts over again.

[Vortech347]

Oh hell...I'm like right next door..

Ever watch that movie on discovery channel about this exact thing.

I'm okay though, I've stocked up on ammo for looting purposes.

[finster101]

No, you're in Florida.....you may survive. :dunno:



You are just trying to lull me into a false sense of security. :cool:

[TiTo35]

Who needed some of those states away? AND it may take out Aren Jay:lol:

Looks like CAM will have some new members soon :D;)

[Dr Caleb]

Ever watch that movie on discovery channel about this exact thing.

You mean that 'The Sky is Falling!' melodrama? Yea. :(

The BBC version was much better. Less drama, more information.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/

[Mike Poore]

Apparently you youngsters sleep all night, and miss Art Bell/George Noory on Coast to Coast AM. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/art/about.html

They have the greatest collection of nut cases predicting the most awful calamities you could imagine. Time travelers, Wikens, remote viewers, abductees, Bigfoot chasers/catchers, crop circle experts, UFO chasers, and predictors of the future. Sometimes they have people who actually know what they're talking about ......It's where me and AJ get all of our information. :D

[Blackened300a]

Who needed some of those states away? AND it may take out Aren Jay:lol:

Maybe this volcano isnt such a bad thing after all! :D

[Joe Walsh]

Who needed some of those states away? AND it may take out Aren Jay:lol:

Looks like CAM will have some new members soon :D;)

Yeah, But when that thing 'POPS" CAMmers will be cleaning our K&N air filters every 10 miles!!

:mad:

[mrjones]

Just to be safe, we should start drilling for oil there and relieve some of the pressure.

[knine]

Just to be safe, we should start drilling for oil there and relieve some of the pressure.
Relieving the pressure may just be the wrong thing to do. It's the pressure that keeps the magma from expanding and the whole thing in check....kinda like opening a propane tank all at once. If a quake or other event should allow a "chimney" or other escape for the compressed gasses, the result would be a chain-reaction expansive explosion.......a really big noise and lotsa mess. :(

[finster101]

.......a really big noise and lotsa mess. :(


You mean like after Taco Hell?
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[Haggis]

.......a really big noise and lotsa mess. :(

Like Doom after eating ribs.

[TAKEDOWN]

Too close for comfort!

[CBT]

That's actually freaking scary. I find no humor in it whatsoever. Please delete this entire thread, or I'll be forced to post another picture of me face jamming a midget.

[BruteForce]

Omg! Onoz!

[knine]

That's actually freaking scary. I find no humor in it whatsoever. Please delete this entire thread, or I'll be forced to post another picture of me face jamming a midget.
No humor intended. I can be serious form time to time.

[Aren Jay]

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[knine]

That's 2 previous eruption tracts. Approx. 600 miles across.

[bob6364]

Soooo...I'm starting a new business ...paper mask vending machines I need guys to fill them and collect the money...they need to be self motivated have "Mad Max" like stamina,nerves and driving skills ... benefits are you maybe driving threw the wasteland and happen upon an old casino looking place and find a "Cherry 2000" in there,oh don't forget Melanie Griffith.

[Joe Walsh]

Soooo...I'm starting a new business ...paper mask vending machines I need guys to fill them and collect the money...they need to be self motivated have "Mad Max" like stamina,nerves and driving skills ... benefits are you maybe driving threw the wasteland and happen upon an old casino looking place and find a "Cherry 2000" in there,oh don't forget Melanie Griffith.


I'll pass on that old nag!

"Rode hard and put away wet."

[Mike Poore]

I'll pass on that old nag!

"Rode hard and put away wet."

Gaaaaaa! I was just as happy not knowing who Melanie Griffith is/was. :eek:

[knine]

Gaaaaaa! I was just as happy not knowing what an old nag looked like.

[cougar9150]

I'm moving to Australia. When it goes me and the German guys will have some of the only Marauders left. Think about the resell value then.

[bob6364]

Hehe she certainly has been thru the ringer ,actually she NOW looks like something from the wasteland....:D

[jfclancy]

IF it goes
There will be NO USA left, BUT that should end "Global Warming"
OH well just in case Buh Bye!!

Or maybe NOT
But as has been already stated I will still not sell my Marauder!

Joe Clancy

Will sell my condo in big Sky tho
(just outside of West Yellowstone)

[Aren Jay]

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[JohnPPD]

If that big of a volcanoe blows there wouldn't be a world left to sell your Marauder in. The ash would circle the globe and blot out the sun for decades, all the plants would die, with all the animals and the people. Only if we moved to Mars would we have a chance and Mars might be a nicer place to live.

So you're saying that I shouldn't get my windows tinted?

[larryo340]

I'll pass on that old nag!

"Rode hard and put away wet."

You mean like Goldie


http://www.methodshop.com/picts/powerofmakeup/goldie-hawn.jpg