New developments at Yellowstone - Harmonic Tremors? (Merged Threads)

[S. Williamson]

Well, it's one way to go.

Nothing can be done about it, so why worry? 

[Balog]

Personally, I don't give a **** about the species, I care about me and mine.  Other than that, hey, whatever.

You realize that "you and yours" will likely be having a bad day if 90% of all mankind dies, right?  :rolleyes:

[seeker_two]

Well. It'd definitely cause global cooling.

...and, according to the map, my wife will have to dust more often....

[MillCreek]

I remember vividly seeing the eruption of Mt. St. Helens as I walked to Bagley Hall on the UW campus.  Some of that ash made it all the way to Seattle, and locations closer to the mountain were buried under literally tons of ash.  A very impressive display.

[Scout26]

Seems like it's been a while since any significant eruption anywhere, doesn't it?

IIRC, according to the "OMG We're all gonna die" TV show, we're past due by a couple thousand years.  My prediction for the eruption: 21 Dec 2012. 

[Strings]

If that's when it goes, I'm not gonna worry about it: I'll be sitting on me bum, getting totally bollocksed...

[Bogie]

20 Jan 2009
 
It'll be triggered by vibrations of our forefathers spinning at rapidly accelerating speeds, until Mt. Rushmore is propelled through the atmosphere into the crater, opening the plug...
 

[stevelyn]

The good news is I'm completely out of reach of it.
The bad news is I'm well within reach of three nearby. One which was pukin' last fall.

[MechAg94]

IIRC, according to the "OMG We're all gonna die" TV show, we're past due by a couple thousand years.  My prediction for the eruption: 21 Dec 2012. 

It sure seems like there are more and more of those shows on.  If it ain't super volcanoes (not red heads) then its asteroids or viruses. 

[BridgeRunner]

You realize that "you and yours" will likely be having a bad day if 90% of all mankind dies, right?  :rolleyes:

Um, my point was that the persistent talk of "preserving the species" through off-world colonizing or some other mechanism (see Dr. Strangelove) is less than appealing.  If we're all gonna die, then just freaking die for pity's sake, my biological imperative is not really served by a group of a couple hundred representatives who have nothing to do with me or my family. 

[Manedwolf]

Um, my point was that the persistent talk of "preserving the species" through off-world colonizing or some other mechanism (see Dr. Strangelove) is less than appealing.  If we're all gonna die, then just freaking die for pity's sake, my biological imperative is not really served by a group of a couple hundred representatives who have nothing to do with me or my family. 

Some of us see a bigger picture.

Humanity, the ones who are not being backward savages, have created some magnificent things. I would like that legacy to continue and the search for knowledge to keep expanding.

[Mabs2]

Some of us see a bigger picture.

Humanity, the ones who are not being backward savages, have created some magnificent things. I would like that legacy to continue and the search for knowledge to keep expanding.

Yea, but if such a program ever begins you just KNOW everyone in it is going to be peace loving sissy men who love socialism.

[Manedwolf]

Yea, but if such a program ever begins you just KNOW everyone in it is going to be peace loving sissy men who love socialism.

Like...uh...NASA? 

Buzz Aldrin would punch you in the jaw if you said that to him.

[Mabs2]

Like...uh...NASA? 

Buzz Aldrin would punch you in the jaw if you said that to him.

Nah, I'm picturing some Federation style thing coming along.

[Manedwolf]

Nah, I'm picturing some Federation style thing coming along.

Doubtful. It takes people who have guts and resolve to be astronauts. Watch how quickly and calmly they deal with crises on their own in a resourceful manner.

I forget what writer said that..."The meek may inherit the earth, but the strong will go to the stars."

[charby]

Bigger quakes happened in the past, shut a few gysers off, turn a few new ones on. Maybe Lake Yellowstone is going to get a new hot spring or geyser. I'll be out there in June, some maybe I'll have some thing cool to see different from last fall when I was there.

It intersting to google american super volcanos. Looks like Arizona, Colorados and California has had one in the past. California's is in the active fault area, maybe LA or San Fran will get buried in hot lava on Dec 21, 2012.

-C

[Sindawe]

Nah, I'm picturing some Federation style thing coming along.

Never forget that the veneer of niceness on the Federation is just that, a veneer.  This same (fictional) organization has folks who give advanced weapons to primitives; destroy the computers of advanced civilizations so they have to face realities of war; travels about in space craft that can turn the entire surface of a planet to glass; lies and murders Senators of competing empires to bring them into a war on their own side; makes treaties with its deadliest enemies for the sake of getting home a little bit sooner; created diseases to wipe out their adversaries and is very subtle in its seduction...

Quark and Elim Garak both despised root beer, calling it "vile" and considering it a metaphor for the "insidious" pervasiveness of the Federation; Quark remarked to Garak that root beer was "so bubbly and cloying, and happy... just like the Federation," also noting that "if you drink enough of it, you begin to like it – just like the Federation." Quark asserted that Nog's acquired taste for the beverage heralded the end of Ferengi civilization. (DS9: "Facets", "The Way of the Warrior")

Yellowstone Caldera?  Naught I can do about, if/when it blows I'm pretty well hosed. So why worry?

maybe LA ... will get buried in hot lava on Dec 21, 2012.

Hopefully Tommy Lee Jones will be around to save the day.

[Mabs2]

Doubtful. It takes people who have guts and resolve to be astronauts. Watch how quickly and calmly they deal with crises on their own in a resourceful manner.

I forget what writer said that..."The meek may inherit the earth, but the strong will go to the stars."

Yes that is true.  But wait til it becomes easy like it is in the movies. :(

Never forget that the veneer of niceness on the Federation is just that, a veneer.  This same (fictional) organization has folks who give advanced weapons to primitives; destroy the computers of advanced civilizations so they have to face realities of war; travels about in space craft that can turn the entire surface of a planet to glass; lies and murders Senators of competing empires to bring them into a war on their own side; makes treaties with its deadliest enemies for the sake of getting home a little bit sooner; created diseases to wipe out their adversaries and is very subtle in its seduction...

I'm mostly thinking of The Next Generation.  That show was so boring and peacenik that I almost fell asleep watching a few episodes recently.
I have NEVER fallen asleep watching anything...and I never fall asleep when I don't want to.

[Tallpine]

I wonder if we will be able to hear it from here

According to my rough calculations, it will take about 12-15 minutes for the sound of the blast to reach us.  I'd expect a really strong "gust front" wind at least.  Then black snow falling.

We're on the north side of a hill and out of the Yellowstone drainage (where floods and pyroclastic flows are possible), so I expect the ash fall to be the killer at our place.  How much of that does it take to collapse a house?

It's nice to have something else to worry about besides the economy.

I hope I can get some good pictures 

[Manedwolf]

We're on the north side of a hill and out of the Yellowstone drainage (where floods and pyroclastic flows are possible), so I expect the ash fall to be the killer at our place.  How much of that does it take to collapse a house?

Six inches, AFAIK. Less if it gets wet, then it turns into cement and becomes heavy enough to take the roof down easily.

And keep in mind what I said, the last explosion there was 875000 megatons. The Tsar Bomba was 50 megatons. ALL of Yellowstone is a caldera. The scale is hard to comprehend at a glance. Scientists didn't even realize it for a long time, that the whole area is one supersize caldera.

[Scout26]

The good news is that when Yellowstone goes KABLOOIE, it will break off California and knock it into the Pacific.......

[PTK]

Well, I'm likely within the nearly immediate kill zone 

(about 150 miles away)

Me too. Doesn't really bug me any more. Not like we'll feel it!! 

[charby]

Maybe they can make a big enough Kevlar tarp to to cover and contain the explosion in the park.

Tie it off to the surrounding mountains.

[roo_ster]

Four Words:
Airborne Laser Volcano Lancing

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTU2ODZhNmU1NzMxYTBiNDY1ZDY4YWM5MzIwY2ExNTA=

[charby]

Four Words:
Airborne Laser Volcano Lancing

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTU2ODZhNmU1NzMxYTBiNDY1ZDY4YWM5MzIwY2ExNTA=