Anyone ever hear of the super volcano?

[Actaeon]

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I'm not usually the one to believe in all this doomsday stuff, and I know we'll eventually all die out, but this one really got me curious. I never heard about it before today...

The predicted effects of a Yellowstone eruption are the immediate devastation of North America followed by several years of freezing weather for the whole world.

This is likely to happen soon, the area north of the lake has bulged upwards by almost a metre in 50 years. One side of the lake is creeping into the forest as the land rises. This type of rapid change cannot continue for long without something giving way, every year there are hundreds of small earthquakes.

Creepy.

 

[fredtam]

Calderas are old news man.

Actually about six years ago I thought about writing a book about it.

 

[neutralizer]

Wow... interesting... and creepy at the time. the last explosion left the human population at 5,000??! that's low...

 

[fredtam]

If you want to look more into what they can do Santorini was also a Caldera (super) volcano.

 

[etech]

So, which will happen first, the volcano or the new madrid fault letting go?

 

[Actaeon]

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Magma would be flung 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would coat places as far away as Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would have a force 2,500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands would be dead.

Hrm....

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: etech
So, which will happen first, the volcano or the new madrid fault letting go?

By far the second is most likely to occur "soon". The comparative (note comparative) damage is far less than the former.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Actaeon
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I'm not usually the one to believe in all this doomsday stuff, and I know we'll eventually all die out, but this one really got me curious. I never heard about it before today...

The predicted effects of a Yellowstone eruption are the immediate devastation of North America followed by several years of freezing weather for the whole world.

This is likely to happen soon, the area north of the lake has bulged upwards by almost a metre in 50 years. One side of the lake is creeping into the forest as the land rises. This type of rapid change cannot continue for long without something giving way, every year there are hundreds of small earthquakes.

Creepy.

We won't eventually die out if we get a space colonization program going. With enough foresight we can outrun anything except heat death, and we're not sure that's even coming.

I can't recall who said it, but

"The dinosaurs would still be around today if they'd had a space program"

 

[Kelemvor]

I think I saw something on this on the Discovery channel once a long time ago. Neat to think about but doubt it will happen...

 

[Nitemare]

The Mayan prophecies predict an end to the fifth stage of mankind in December of 2012. They have never been wrong.

Have a nice day :beer: