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

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shabby said:
Duck and cover, lava will flow over you.

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Still my favorite scene in all of South Parkdom.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
Well yeah. A dinosaur extinction level event is possible. At minimum a famine such as we've never seen would result with billions of deaths due to that and disease is a virtual certainly.
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70,000 and 20,000 years ago a larger eruption than ones typically seen at Yellowstone occurred in Indonesia and New Zealand. Humanity continued on, and will continue on even after Yellowstone erupts again.
 
I thought the contingency plan was to build 8 big ships inside a Chinese mountain where the chosen few could survive the natural disaster so they could repopulate the earth....
 
spacejamz said:
I thought the contingency plan was to build 8 big ships inside a Chinese mountain where the chosen few could survive the natural disaster so they could repopulate the earth....
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Nah, that plan was scrapped on 12/23/2012 when it was determined that the Mayans were full of shit.
 
DCal430 said:
Actually no, the prevaling winds will make sure most of the western US is perfectly fine.
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Most of the western US doesn't exist any more if the caldera were to blow up, yes the winds would push the ash cloud the other direction, but the sheer scale of the ash cloud would still likely cover most of the western US (the part that wasn't blown up), it wouldn't be as covered as places to the east and north, but it would be covered.
 
DCal430 said:
70,000 and 20,000 years ago a larger eruption than ones typically seen at Yellowstone occurred in Indonesia and New Zealand. Humanity continued on, and will continue on even after Yellowstone erupts again.
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The human animal will continue, but civilization collapses depending on the magnitude of the eruption. You need to eat. You aren't a hunter-gatherer with a large potential food supply. Instead you depend on agriculture and transportation and will soon have 8 billion competitors and are actually worse off, but if 95% of the population died then we still have more people than a thousand years ago. In truth that enormous population is more frightening than any volcano.
 
LegendKiller said:
1 TEU (twenty food equiv unit) has 160sqft. Assuming you can put 20 people to a container you could press every container ship, and container, into service, you get 18mm TEU, or 360mm people.

I guess that's theoretically feasible. But you'd never have enough time to put it together.
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You are taking this way too seriously. If it goes, NA is toast.
 
BoomerD said:
Except lava flow eruptions aren't the kind of thing this volcano and others around the country are the most known for...they explode...like a messy, gassy case of diarrhea. Pyroclastic flows kill far more people world-wide than lava.

Next...there have been multiple warning signs that SOMETHING is going on in the caldera...some earth deformation, plenty of earthquakes...and clusters of quakes...not a sign that it's ready to go...but possibly a sign that something is going on...

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/09/researchers-ponder-whats-next-in-volcanic-yellowstone/

Unfortunately, the science of vulcanology (volcanology) isn't good enough to predict whether it's ready to go...or just...clearing its throat.
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The last eruption Yellowstone had was a lava flow eruption.

Here it is straight from the people monitoring it:

http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/volcanoqa.htm
 
Have I mentioned yet that mm is THE WORST abbreviation for million anyone has ever invented? No wonder mother nature is trying to off you numbnuts. I think I'm going to make a rainbow colored sign that reads GOD HATES BAD ABBREVIATORS and troll the Westbumbling Baptist Church with it. Maybe not. Definitely not.
 
Yellowstone would make Toba look small, and that wreaked havoc on the entire planet. The human bottleneck theory and the DNA evidence that we all decend from only 1000-10000 humans that were alive about 50000 years ago are both linked to the Toba eruption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_theory

I highly doubt any government would spend massive amounts of money on civilians for a super eruption, rather only plan on a continuity of government type plan.
 
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.
 
Fritzo said:
The last eruption Yellowstone had was a lava flow eruption.

Here it is straight from the people monitoring it:

http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/volcanoqa.htm
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like the dribble from an over-full zit...

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_hazard_47.html

Although very unlikely to occur, a caldera forming eruption would produce massive pyroclastic flows. The Yellowstone region has produced three exceedingly large volcanic eruptions in the past 2.1 million years. The pyroclastic flows from these eruptions resulted in rock formations called "tuffs."
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IronWing said:
The Yellowstone Geo-Zit needs lancing. I propose eleventy billion geothermal wells to cool it down. Clean, abundant energy! The Koch Brothers* are probably preventing this from happening.







*I had to stick with the spirit of a conspiracy thread.
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did dr. strangelove teach you nothing? all we need is one of those bunker buster nukes.
 
davmat787 said:
Yellowstone would make Toba look small, and that wreaked havoc on the entire planet. The human bottleneck theory and the DNA evidence that we all decend from only 1000-10000 humans that were alive about 50000 years ago are both linked to the Toba eruption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_theory

I highly doubt any government would spend massive amounts of money on civilians for a super eruption, rather only plan on a continuity of government type plan.
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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.
 
If there is a major Volcano eruption ANYWHERE in the world, I would like to be right on top of the volcano when it happens.

I would not want to live through it to see what happens after....screw all that.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
The human animal will continue, but civilization collapses depending on the magnitude of the eruption. You need to eat. You aren't a hunter-gatherer with a large potential food supply. Instead you depend on agriculture and transportation and will soon have 8 billion competitors and are actually worse off, but if 95% of the population died then we still have more people than a thousand years ago. In truth that enormous population is more frightening than any volcano.
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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.
 
Vdubchaos said:
If there is a major Volcano eruption ANYWHERE in the world, I would like to be right on top of the volcano when it happens.

I would not want to live through it to see what happens after....screw all that.
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You'd rather be 100% burned alive, rather than face down other humans for limited resources?
 
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