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Yellowstone earthquake swarm continues into third day, intensifies

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Why can't we make a gigantic drill and drill into this sucker and run a relief pipe into space? I should win the Nobel Peace Price for this forward thinking.
 
SSSnail said:
Why can't we make a gigantic drill and drill into this sucker and run a relief pipe into space? I should win the Nobel Peace Price for this forward thinking.
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Fool! That would only work if Bruce Willis and Aerosmith are somehow involved.
 
Anonemous said:
So if a disaster of this magnitude occurs who would help the US?
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we will all die within at most a couple moths for the outerlying areas, the closer would be much faster - the rest of the world would probably die later the year due to issues w/ food production.

we would not walk away from it and it wouldn't "buff out"
 
SSSnail said:
Why can't we make a gigantic drill and drill into this sucker and run a relief pipe into space? I should win the Nobel Peace Price for this forward thinking.
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Can you release some of the pressure at Yellowstone by drilling into the volcano?

Scientists agree that drilling into a volcano would be of questionable usefulness. Notwithstanding the enormous expense and technological difficulties in drilling through hot, mushy rock, drilling is unlikely to have much effect. At near magmatic temperatures and pressures, any hole would rapidly become sealed by minerals crystallizing from the natural fluids that are present at those depths.
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http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/yvo/about/faq/faqactivity.php#drilling
 
El Guaraguao said:
"WE ARE GOING TO DIE!" - Indy
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I actually just went there last summer. The interesting thing is that these earthquakes can actually change the patterns and locations of geysers and hot springs. Some can become dormant and other could reopen. In the hot springs locations, some sources can completely shut off but the total activity in the surrounding area remains the same. These shifts can happen quite often (in geological terms) and I think around 15 years ago, some earthquakes shifted a lot of stuff around.

I think I also remember that Old Faithful is going slightly longer between eruptions. It's at about 92 minutes right now.
 
I'm about an 1.5 hours north of Yellowstone and if it ever decides to blow, i'll let you guys know when it starts
 
too bad we don't have a record of the seismic activity last time it went kablooey. Then we could prepare by buying a lot of umbrellas.
 
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