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2009-12-21 Science & Technology

Yellowstone supervolcano Plumbing Exposed

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Posted by 3dc 2009-12-21 01:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 War on terrorism related how exactly? Is this the return of the NASA barrage?

Posted by gromky 2009-12-21 02:40|| 2009-12-21 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 They must have moved it for you gromky.

Posted by tipover 2009-12-21 03:16|| 2009-12-21 03:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't want to be alive when this goes off.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-12-21 05:23|| 2009-12-21 05:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I saw this on the Science Channel last week. There's gonna be an earth-shattering kaboom.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-12-21 07:49|| 2009-12-21 07:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Palmetto bugs are an odds-on favorite to survive. The rest of us, not so much.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-21 08:05|| 2009-12-21 08:05|| Front Page Top

#6 But it WILL end the corruption in DC.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-12-21 11:16|| 2009-12-21 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Erupts every 200-300 thousand years, on average. Average human life span is 80 years.

The odds are good.

Posted by mojo 2009-12-21 12:36|| 2009-12-21 12:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually Mojo, the average time interval is 600-700 thousand years, the last at about 645000 ago. Statistically we're in the zone but I agree, the odds are with us...never the less, the north end of the lake is rising indicating uplift due to magma injection. If we see harmonic seismic quakes, time to watch out..

Posted by Warthog 2009-12-21 12:55|| 2009-12-21 12:55|| Front Page Top

#9 I figure when the next Alvarez dinosaur killing asteroid hits, it'll set off sufficient seismic disturbances to trigger Yellowstone, Tambora and Santorini creating a solar occluding shroud that will move the whole place back into another Ice Planet state. So, don't sweat the small stuff.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-21 13:59|| 2009-12-21 13:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Guys, Yellowstone blowing up won't be a earth ending event. It went 600,000 years ago, and life on North America survived. A super volcano went off in NZ some 70,000 years ago and shrunk the human population to some 5-10,000 people. There will always be survivors. Life will just really suck for them.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-21 15:32|| 2009-12-21 15:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Pro2K - Does this mean my carbon offset investments are worthless? Dang! and ALGore just talked me into buying more 'cause Hopenhagen used up so many

"It ain't easy being Green" - Kermit

Posted by Warthog 2009-12-21 16:34|| 2009-12-21 16:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Ona separate note, HISTORY CHANNEL > had an expose on MOUNT VESUVIUS' MASSIVE MAGMA CHAMBER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-12-21 20:02|| na 2009-12-21 20:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Gonna ask my prog friends:
"We have the technology not only to delay, marginalize, or even prevent a volcanic eruption of catastrophic proportions and at the same time generate a massive amount of clean geothermal energy. However in order to do so, the infastructure and equipment necessary would for all practical purposes will section and level nearly all of Yellowstone NP. What should be done?"

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-12-21 20:23|| 2009-12-21 20:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Well duh, swksvolFF. Die in the dark. Anything else would be tampering with Nature¡ /sarcasm

Posted by rammer 2009-12-21 22:26|| 2009-12-21 22:26|| Front Page Top

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