Yellowstone Volcano Eruption: Report Claims That US Has Contingency Deals Worldwide!

[cyclohexane]

You'd rather be 100% burned alive, rather than face down other humans for limited resources?

I would form my own militia - declare myself king, and rule my land with an iron fist.

 

[dank69]

Good news is GOP will be crippled even more than they are already.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Good news is GOP will be crippled even more than they are already.

Dave, is that you? 😱

 

[RearAdmiral]

I for one welcome the idea of charging $2500 a week for my spare bedroom to someone.

 

[momeNt]

Yellowstone is the Earth's contingency plan for the human race.

The USA thinks it's going to win this one? Not likely.

 

[Jeff7]

I am not sure if it's correct but couldn't drawing a ton of geothermal power from yellowstone prevent it over time?

Granted it would take a ton of time and resources to build something like this and to reduce the pressure enough to stop it from happening although it would eventually ruin a lot of what people go to visit there now.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this would require sucking a lot of energy out of there. Probably enough to satisfy the country's power needs.
(And then just watch: Drilling all those holes into it to access the heated rock will end up weakening it enough for the pressure to blow it open.)
Then if the magma bubble is being continuously circulated and reheated from below, it would be pointless anyway. Though you would then have a ton of geothermal power to distribute across the country, and a perforated cap of rock.



Other option: Find a nice granite mountain somewhere else, grind it all up, send it along huge fluid-filled pipelines, and make a new mountain over top of the Yellowstone hotspot.

Yet another option: Tunnel a huge panel of tungsten down to the bottom of the magma plume and seal it off.


Dozens of trillions of dollars later, problem solved.

This is true, back than we were all very primitive hunter gathers, the vast majority of us today would starve to death if we had to hunt and gather our own foods.

Largely because there's not enough food available now to sustain Earth's population if it were based on hunter/gatherers. Hell, the majority of the planet's population right now lives in poverty.

Even just confined to the US, that's 300+ million people that would be roaming across the country, trying to find food, sweeping it clean of anything edible.
Our definition of "meat" would expand to include just about anything that has muscles, insects included.

Only the strong will survive this, and by "strong" I mean "people who have mutated the ability to digest grass, tree leaves, and bark." There's at least plenty of that available.


The 300M population would dwindle pretty quickly though, due to lack of access to clean water.


"Billy has died of dysentery.
His body can provide 145 pounds of meat.

Cook and eat Billy? Y/N"

 

[Newell Steamer]

The gigantic volcano in Yellowstone has erupted three times over the last two million years,

Shit,... I'm going for drinks this Friday!!

I doubt anything big will happen - that we can avoid. Our understanding of disasters from earthquakes/volcanos, etc, is pretty weak and usually late - unless things start bellowing before hand and we get out of dogde.

Usually, shit hits and then people die.

 

[IronWing]

Shit,... I'm going for drinks this Friday!!

I doubt anything big will happen - that we can avoid. Our understanding of disasters from earthquakes/volcanos, etc, is pretty weak and usually late - unless things start bellowing before hand and we get out of dogde.

Usually, shit hits and then people die.

Volcanoes usually give plenty of warning. It starts with "Say, that's a large volcano over there, maybe we shouldn't build a city here" (waves at Seattle). Then there are the hot springs, tremors, vaporous clouds, etc. Earthquakes can sneak up on us but volcanoes are pretty straight forward mountains of doom.

There are tradeoffs, of course. Java has been one of the most densely populated places on earth for thousands of years. The rich volcanic soils make the risk of instant incineration worth the gamble.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Volcanoes usually give plenty of warning. It starts with "Say, that's a large volcano over there, maybe we shouldn't build a city here" (waves at Seattle). Then there are the hot springs, tremors, vaporous clouds, etc. Earthquakes can sneak up on us but volcanoes are pretty straight forward mountains of doom.

There are tradeoffs, of course. Java has been one of the most densely populated places on earth for thousands of years. The rich volcanic soils make the risk of instant incineration worth the gamble.

And, there we go - my doubt is doubted.

 

[Jeff7]

Volcanoes usually give plenty of warning. It starts with "Say, that's a large volcano over there, maybe we shouldn't build a city here" (waves at Seattle). Then there are the hot springs, tremors, vaporous clouds, etc. Earthquakes can sneak up on us but volcanoes are pretty straight forward mountains of doom.

There are tradeoffs, of course. Java has been one of the most densely populated places on earth for thousands of years. The rich volcanic soils make the risk of instant incineration worth the gamble.

But then how are we supposed to make hot soup?

 

[davmat787]

WOW the ignorance is very strong in this post.

1. The Toba eruption was larger than ANY eruption ever at Yellowstone.
2. The Taupe eruption in New Zealand 20,000 was of similar size to the typical Yellowstone eruption.

Their will be no giant explosion that will destroy most of the U.S, and yes much of the U.S will remain free from ash.

While large eruptions have occurred at Yellowstone every 650,000 years or so, the eruption that occurred 1.3M years ago was dwarfed by many many other eruptions that have occurred since then, and isn't even in the top 10 of the largest eruptions, since then.

Yellowstone matched Toba 2.1 million years ago. They erupt more than once of course, and I think the discussion of Yellowstone is in the context of the worst case supervolcano eruption type.

Retract your "ignorance is strong" callout you dumbass.