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Mankind is F#@!ed (pg. 3)
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| MaRt |
| Well that's cheered me up no end, thanks! |
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| MERTON |
| that super volcan wont make me deaf will it? cus i want to listne to my headphones... it's a good things texas is so far south and has it's own power grid :D you're all screwed and i am no~t!! nah nah nah nah nah nahhhhh :) |
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| whiskers |
| we need a neutron star to come in contact with us - that way the whole earth will spread around the star in a shell no thicker than a thumb :D |
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| nrjizer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ste
it is nearly 10% overdue which is quite a lot when you think about it |
Not when its on a waning cycle. |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
300 sqr miles of the US of A gone in an instant  |
don't worry, east coast will still be there to annoy you ;)
and britain won't get away without a few bruises either, so i hope you live on the coast :D |
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| blazed it |
"Amfang November 1998
zug ein häftiger Storm auf über Mittelamerika
und es began zu regnen
zu viel Regen über dem Paradis
A comienzos de Noviembre de 1998
un huracán azotó Centro-América
y comenzó a llover
Demasiada lluvia sobre el paraíso
At the beginning of November 1998
a huge and strong hurricane approached central America
and it started raining
Too much rain over paradise" |
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| Trazedict |
| quote: | Originally posted by nrjizer [/b
I saw that article around the time it was posted, and yet, even at the time of its posting, I could find NO other stories on the web of closings in Yellowstone due to high ground temperatures.
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And I'm no geologist, but how does soil, of all things, reach temperatures of 200 F? Thats hotter than a pan frying an egg. Its dirt, I can't imagine that happening. Even if it did, you have to understand this is an area that shoots water out of the ground hundreds of feet into the air regularly, has bubbling mud pits, hot springs, and other absurd acts of geology. I wouldn't consider the occasional ground-heating too out of the norm.
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You'll also notice through a quick look of the USGS' website that earthquakes are quite common around the area, and have been so since we began recording them some 120 odd years ago. The article makes it sound as if they were a rare occurance - quite the contrary.
I wouldnt let the Yellowstone thing spook you. You've got to realize how large that Caldera is... when its getting ready to blow, the signs are going to become [b]blaitantly obvious. It wont suddenly one day start to go, geology works much much slower than that.
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Sadly, this falls under the typical human pattern of impending doom at every turn. All of these gobal hazards we've come to understand in the last century; meteors, nuclear weapons, global warming, global cooling, overpopulation, deadly viruses, aliens, supervolcanos, etc, have been ranted and raved upon that the end at their hand was impending. It's common for things that are only recently discovered to become the new buzz thing for our impending doom. I dont think yellowstone was common knowledge till that History channel documentary a couple years back. So dont start writing that will just yet :D
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If you read or heard the news lately, Yellowstone has been closing some parts to do very unusually hot grounds. I was at Yellowstone the last week in August and everything was fine and we got home and I can distinctly remeber hearing about the closings on the news and feeling lucky that we got to see it before they did so. I'm no geologist either, but apparently the ground does become that hot.
Secondly, about the earthquakes; Yeah there have been earthquakes within Yellowstone, but a half a mile from the surface? That's very very close to the surface, and it was said there was an earthquake just like that, close to the surface, maybe .6 miles from it, right before Helen exploded. So it may be a warning, may be just some random thing, I don't know.
I'm not letting the Yellowstone thing spook me, it's just very interesting IMO and I just heard about it recently, so I thought a discussion about it would be cool. I know it's very unlikely it'd happen within our generation, or even 1000 years from now, but it's just fascinating to think of havok it will cause if it decided to blow now.
Humans like to rant and rave about these types of these because frankly, the people have never experienced them before, and just the thought of it can make you them go :eyes:. It's quite an experience to comprehend and imagine what something is like to that big of a proportion that the entire EARTH will be affected directly and indirectly, or about all those other "doomsday" topics you mentioned. Or even that if you heard this volcano erupt, it would be the loudest noise you've ever heard. I can't even imagine that cuz I've heard some pretty loud things, and this would be 100x greater than that probably.
I hope I'm dead when and if it goes off again. :D |
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| hadi burpee |
it erupts every 600,000 thousand years but it probably wont erupt in our lifetime. we are studying this in geology and there are some major indications about when a volcano would erupt, i forgot though, that was at the beginning of the semester. since the time scale that it erupts over is so long (600,000 yrs), it could be another 1000 years before it erupts, 10,000 even. most likely, not in our lifetime though. even though it has been 640,000 years since it last erupted, it could go up to 700,000 years. dont think of it in terms of our years. they are very short compared to everything else on teh earth (volcanoes building up enough pressure to erupt, plates subducting and diverging and like that). takes a long in time.
btw, when it does erupt. it is going to be devastating, probably covering the entire global with ash in the sky. when mt pinatubo (spl?) erupted in the phillipines in 1990 i think it was, there was ash flying around the earth for 3 monhts i think, not 100% sure if it was that one, but it was a recent one |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by whiskers
don't worry, east coast will still be there to annoy you ;)
and britain won't get away without a few bruises either, so i hope you live on the coast :D |
Funnily enough I live a few miles from the most inward piece of land in the whole of England. A few bruises of Britain is a worthy enough sacrifice though :) |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
Funnily enough I live a few miles from the most inward piece of land in the whole of England. A few bruises of Britain is a worthy enough sacrifice though :) |
unfortunately your calculation which resulted in 300 sq. miles was nearly as moronic as what you are saying (no offense mikey). It is actually, much , much more tahn that.
THe blast epicenter is the center of a circle if you will (not a perfect circle mind you) and area = pi * r * r soooo
try, 282,000 square miles... |
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| Prodigy Child |
:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: SuperVolcanos, Tidal Waves, Meteors, I hope this isn't gotta effect my DJin.:nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
But seriously, we all know the main risk for armageddon, and thats Saddam Hussein building a nuclear arsenal in heaven.:nervous: :nervous: |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuperFarStucker
unfortunately your calculation which resulted in 300 sq. miles was nearly as moronic as what you are saying (no offense mikey). It is actually, much , much more tahn that.
THe blast epicenter is the center of a circle if you will (not a perfect circle mind you) and area = pi * r * r soooo
try, 282,000 square miles... |
no offense taken because fortunately it was not my calculation. I merely quoted the passage straight from the website. |
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