Quakes shake loose fears about Yellowstone volcano
January 10th, 2009 By MEAD GRUVER , Associated Press Writer
In this Friday, Aug. 15, 1997 file photo, an unidentified pair of visitors to the Yellowstone National Park photograph the Old Faithful geyser as it rockets 100-feet skyward , in Wyoming. Hundreds of small earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park in recent weeks have been an unsettling reminder for some people that underneath the park's famous geysers and majestic scenery lurks one of the world's biggest volcanoes. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
(AP) -- Run for your lives ... Yellowstone's going to explode!
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I don't think you'd be able to evacuate fast enough. When it blows it'll probably be too late for just about anyone within a thousand miles or so.
Americans should feel free to swarm into Mexico and up here to Canada (assuming the winds don't carry much of the ash north) Both nations could use a large number of freedom loving capitalists. And when the skies clear and the planet warms you will have incredible farm land to return to.
So that brings my stated options down to some amazing feat of engineering or Captain Caveman.
Well, as the articleclaims that we probably have a couple centuries before it blows, you and I probably won't be around. It might be possible to contain it if there is some brilliant breakthrough in material sciences.
expect that he'll start talking about THAT problem
in about another three years, just like before.
oh and i suppose that'll be the last thing a number of us would see too...
There are worse ways to go. At least you get a really cool death.
Actualy, evacuation has been proven to work very well in volcanic eruptions. There's usually some warning before the actual eruption (smoking mountains, boiling mud slides, ect.) and usually most nearby residents are evacuated in time. For something this big, the warning signs will be even more noticeable. As for worrying about the next big meteorite, we already picked out a likely candidate, set a date, and even gave it a name.
Yeah but you're talking evacuation during a standard eruption where the lava flows down hill. Not an explosive eruption like Mt St Helens. Now take St. Helens and increase the displaced material a thousand fold. You're looking at millions and millions of tons of hot rock and blast furnace temperature ash being blasted into the upper atmosphere. Aside from that ash falling like snow you're getting pelted with volcanic rock, hundreds of miles away, which will start massive fires.
That and, we're not talking a few hundred thousand people driving 40 or 50 miles away, we're talking millions of people driving thousands of miles. It's like a sudden tornado, you're just screwed if you're in the wrong place.
What ever! I am not stupid enough to fall for that. I hate media hype.
Because Yellowstone experienced major eruptions in the past at widely separated, if approximately equal time periods doesn't indicate any likelyhood that this time period will be repeated.
We need a statitician here!
But you are stupid enough not to see sarcasm, and to also claim something is stupid without actually analyzing it. I'm not quite sure the millions of years of evolution have quite caught up with you yet.