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Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:08:30 PM EDT
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Just returned from two weeks on the road through Yellowstone and Grand Teton Nation Parks. Loved every minute of it.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:10:25 PM EDT
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That looks so bad I would probably watch it.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:10:30 PM EDT
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For its part, NASA is working on a way to prevent the supervolcano from destroying mankind, including trying to cool the magma before it spills over.
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LOL, I'm sure a new tax will stop it!
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:12:02 PM EDT
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This is why we need to start colonizing the solar system.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:12:16 PM EDT
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That's the spot that Kim the Rocketman is targeting.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:13:34 PM EDT
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So Winter IS coming!
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:14:31 PM EDT
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We should regulate the fuck out of that "climate change"!
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:14:54 PM EDT
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That looks so bad I would probably watch it.
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That looks so bad I would probably watch it.
It's right up there in the Badfilm realm with Colossus: The Forbin Project.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:15:27 PM EDT
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At this point the only way to stop the eruption is to institute a volcano tax.
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LOL
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:16:21 PM EDT
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Can we move that down and a little to the left?
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Can we move that down and a little to the left?
Haha!! Yes, let's get California into the zone of doom.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:16:55 PM EDT
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Just misses me. Whew!
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:18:38 PM EDT
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so global warming would be solved?
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I think we'll need much more of it. Those who have fought against warming have sentenced us all to death by volcanic winter.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:24:35 PM EDT
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"Soon" in geologic terms could be 10,000 years.  Until I start seeing large scale uplift and deformation and clouds of deadly gas I'm not too concerned.
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It did lift up 10 inches over 7 years.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:26:47 PM EDT
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Create a committee first.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:27:45 PM EDT
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We in Florida will welcome the cool breeze it will create.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:27:46 PM EDT
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Dear Yellowstone,

Pleas take a number, step to the end of the line and wait your turn.

Thank you.
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Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:30:45 PM EDT
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Soon in geologic terms is just slightly different than soon in short modern attention span terms.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:32:15 PM EDT
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You might want to google what a volcanic winter is.  Granted, Yellowstone could just burp, and only Jackson Hole gets taken out.... but if it completely lets loose??

Only the people inside the circle die in the first hour or two.  The rest of the planet gets to slowly die over time.

This could all happen tomorrow... or in 87,000 years from now.  They have NO idea, even if they say they do.
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The odds of a total planetary "volcanic winter" aren't real likely... Probably serious global cooling and lots of issues, but it's not the end of the species. 
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:32:53 PM EDT
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Tomorrow would work for me. How's your schedule?
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:33:50 PM EDT
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Well good thing the aliens are ON our side!!

UFO's stopping erection
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Aliens stop erections? Is that the after effect of an anal probe?
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:34:06 PM EDT
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Obviously,  fracking caused this.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:34:18 PM EDT
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Hope it waits until I get my tax refund
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:38:22 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:40:42 PM EDT
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Heck yes! Bring it on...
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:44:30 PM EDT
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Why is it that liberal CA and NY are spared in that map?
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Deus vult
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:45:29 PM EDT
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So, sell off 401K and proceed with a motor home, cases of oranges, massive amounts of cocaine, vodka, and two hookers? Head East?

Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 5:49:25 PM EDT
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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/10/12/yellowstone-supervolcano-could-blow-faster-than-thought-destroy-all-mankind.html

Yellowstone supervolcano could blow faster than thought, destroy all of mankind.

According to National Geographic, the researchers, Hannah Shamloo and Christy Till, analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent eruption. What they discovered surprised them – the changes in temperature and composition only took a few decades, much faster than the centuries previously thought.

“We expected that there might be processes happening over thousands of years preceding the eruption,” said Till said in an interview with the New York Times.

The supervolcano last erupted about 630,000 years ago, according to National Geographic. Prior to that, it was 1.3 million years ago, per a report from ZME Science.

If another eruption were to take place, the researchers found that the supervolcano would spare almost nothing in its wrath. It would shoot 2,500 times more material than Mount St. Helen did in 1980 and could cover most of the continguous U.S. in ash, possibly putting the planet into a volcanic winter.

The new discovery, which was presented in August after a previous version of the study, comes after another study in 2011 which found the magma reservoir in Yellowstone has moved considerably, gaining about 10 inches in seven years.

"It's an extraordinary uplift, because it covers such a large area and the rates are so high," the University of Utah's Bob Smith, an expert in Yellowstone volcanism, told National Geographic six years ago.

Despite the concerns about an eruption happening relatively soon, Shamloo told The Times that more research needed to be done before a definite conclusion could be drawn.

In June, the supervolcano was hit with more than 400 earthquakes in one week, though researchers cautioned it was nothing nothing to be alarmed about.

For its part, NASA is working on a way to prevent the supervolcano from destroying mankind, including trying to cool the magma before it spills over.
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I think what we need is for congress to pass a law prohibiting the Yellowstone Caldera from erupting.

That should solve the entire problem.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:01:51 PM EDT
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Doubt it infringes upon sovereign Texas soil.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:04:01 PM EDT
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Very first post nails it!


God knows we need it.......
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:04:02 PM EDT
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Fuck that, I like cable, internet and booze. And boobs.
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And you're going to choose not to participate in the volcano festivities? I don't think that's how it works.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:24:38 PM EDT
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Meh. I've had a good run. 

www.sortofwant.jpg
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:30:29 PM EDT
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Maybe the "FRACers" can save us.    Setup a hydroelectric generator aways away, directional drill until you get to the hot part, use that for steam etc.   PROFIT!    
That lets off pressure and saves the world!
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The heat would most likely kill the MWD tool...hhaha I am sure there are some Hot hole tools, but not for dealing with magma...
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:35:02 PM EDT
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I'm ready.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:46:56 PM EDT
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Can't wait 
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FPNI
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 6:47:52 PM EDT
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Probably doing each other 
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 7:00:04 PM EDT
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"For its part, NASA is working on a way to prevent the supervolcano from destroying mankind..."
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 7:02:55 PM EDT
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Hope its not for another 3yrs.  My son should be out of Colorado by then
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 7:08:40 PM EDT
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Doubt it infringes upon sovereign Texas soil.
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  Mess with TEXAS ??
SuperVolcano would not dare.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 7:24:29 PM EDT
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Get it over with already, this planet is fucked.

Do the universe a favor and destroy it. Please
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 7:48:05 PM EDT
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I pray for a strong Westerly wind when it happens.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:00:21 PM EDT
[#41]
Zero we can do about it or any other natural cataclysmic event. Stay Zero
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:04:51 PM EDT
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Haha!! Yes, let's get California into the zone of doom.
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No, no... he was talking about your avatar.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:06:19 PM EDT
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That looks so bad I would probably watch it.
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I loved that movie when I was a kid.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:11:13 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:15:21 PM EDT
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Kill all mankind, lol.  No.

Previous eruptions didn't cause anything to go extinct.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:17:37 PM EDT
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Or just drop a big fucking nuke down the hole and get this shit started.

I didn't stockpile all that ammo for nothing.
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the Russians have a plan to do just that.
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:26:54 PM EDT
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Drill some holes to release the pressure.
What could possibly go wrong?
Google the mudvolcano in Malaysia...
Lapindo
...caused by dumb drillers, toxic and cost a whole village.
I’m not wholly opposed to bioengineering (GMOs have brought more good than bad, increased crop yields prevent statistically significant numbers of people from starvation), but we better have some idea as to the 2nd order effects before we go lancing mother Earth like a boil...
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:29:04 PM EDT
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No more taxes!  No more work!
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:33:41 PM EDT
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Fuck, thats like all the best parts...
Link Posted: 10/12/2017 8:38:27 PM EDT
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I am glad I play fallout new vegas. I am ready
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