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Funny... Someone else has the same thing on their mind.
/¯/¯/ed
If the text is that big and in a color that is hard to read, it is false. :P
Well, 13cm... Hmmm... Ah! Those scientists!
13cm is scary stuff. It is one of the strongest indicators of a possible eruption. Then again it could mean that the air is just slightly thinner around yellowstone these days.
Says a scientist who works with MELONS not Watermelons. Cucumis melo not Citrullis lanatus The guy who works with thoses sits behind me.
My sister-in-law's uncle knows a guy who went to school with a girl who's aunt is the secretary to the boss of the U.S. Geological Department. She said she read a top secret note on his desk last week that said Yellowstone is going to blow very soon. Back in the 90s she saw a top secret note about the earthquake in Northridge, CA three weeks before that happened. So I know she's not making this up.
But, don't worry proud_gaminggeek....she said the note says there's only about a 40% chance it's going to blow this year.
With evidence like that you can't be wrong.
^^ lol!
So much for global warming.
Pray to GOD for him to reveal himself to you.
I'm thinking you shouldn't be worried about stuff that you can't control.
What you should worry about is the fact that I am going out for Hot Wings and Beer tonight to watch Monday Night Football, and there is a 100% chance that my arse will be erupting in the morning!
I've got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell.
I sure hope so! ;)
Honestly, I sometimes think this is the only thing that's going to make some people happy, that is, the total annihilation of the US of A.
But seriously, why worry about it? Either take action (such as moving to a "safe" southern country to ride things out on your stockpile of supplies) or just live your life. If it does blow, stand in awe during the big explosion and say, "Well, that's that.". Oh, you may finally want to say or do all those things you've bottled up over the years, but you had better make it quick. ;)
Would not the next logic step be to force a controlled eruption.. By drilling a vent hole for the laval.. Relieving the pressure? I may be WAY off here but it certianly does seem to make sense..
Doc,
Yellowstone is actually one of 4 known Mega-volcanoes and is by far the largest in the world. It has a massive magma chamber that erupts with cataclismic force on average every 60,000 years. It has been over 60,000 years since the last time it blew. When it does blow it will push ash just about into orbit and send the earth very quickly into an Ice Age (think 10000 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens).
Drilling a small hole into the magma chamber at this point would probably intiate the explosion.
(PBS Rules)
^ right on ther money. And even if you could manage to safely drain the magma, where would it go? There is enough magma inside the chamber to take out a 50 mile radius. Grantit, it would be better than the alternative, but who knows how that would effect the ecosystem? I agree w/ the others: lets just let it run it's path.
Pardon my rudeness, I cannot abide useless people.
Hmm, so the makings of an interesting terrorist attack. :S
See, there's no way to protect against everything that might happen, so might as well not worry about it. I just wonder if there's a plan in place somewhere that will insure the continuence of the American way of life (or any life for that matter).
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I was just wondering you thought on this topic. We all know (or most of us) that yellowstone is capable of a super eruption that could easily send the world into an ice age. I am kinda worried, but with all the other crap going on in the world, it may be not as much of a threat.
Satellite images acquired by ESA's ERS-2 revealed the recently discovered changes in Yellowstone's caldera are the result of molten rock movement 15 kilometres below the Earth's surface, according to a recent study published in Nature.
Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry, InSAR for short, Charles Wicks, Wayne Thatcher and other U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists mapped the changes in the northern rim of the caldera, or crater, and discovered it had risen about 13 centimetres from 1997 to 2003.
InSAR, a sophisticated version of 'spot the difference', involves mathematically combining different radar images, acquired from as near as possible to the same point in space at different times, to create digital elevation models and reveal otherwise undetectable changes occurring between image acquisitions.
"We know now how mobile and restless the Yellowstone caldera actually is. Ground-based measurements can be more efficiently deployed because of our work," Thatcher said. "The research could not have been done without satellite radar data."
http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm
Pardon my rudeness, I cannot abide useless people.