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Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings
Frosty Piss writes "Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent. One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park. Significant activity continues beneath the surface. And the activity has been increasing lately, scientists have discovered. In addition, the nearby Teton Range of mountains is somehow getting shorter. The findings, reported this month in the Journal of Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that a slow and gradual movement of a volcano over time can shape a landscape more than a violent eruption."
"Teton" is french for booby.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Last time I visited Yellowstone, I saw some people throwing half eaten burritos and other Mexican food loaded with refried beans into these blow holes, vents and what not. Told them it is dangerous, but no body would listen. People are senseless!
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I mean it, really hungry.
Judging by all the inflation, pressure and possible eruptions - scientists have concluded that Yellowstone really needs to get laid.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
> The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the
> equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Fortunately we're compensating with global warming
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This is obviously due to human activities. Probably the weight of all the SUV's people are driving there on vacation is compressing the magma resulting in increased volcanic activity. There's no way this is natural.
On the bright side, SCO would have front row seats.
Eat hot ash Darl!
The last time I got a traffic citation was about 1990.
The one before that was about 1985
And before that about 1980.
Does that mean that there is a cycle of 5 years between citations and that I'm overdue for another citation?
But I warn you, there will be casualties. Everyone but the romantic leading man and the vulnerable-but-tough woman will be in real mortal danger. But I know we can do it!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Imagine what it would take to turn over all the soil in Kansas. Oh... wait... that happens at the start of every planting. So. If this happens during the winter, they might need to scrape off some ash, pile it by the side of the field, or take and put it in a big pile someplace (which is what happens to grain a lot of the time anyway). The real concern is that it will happen during the growing season and interfere with growth and harvest.
You can't compare the clearing of a massive wreck of twisted metal and concrete full of remains to clearing a field. Obviously, interfering with growth and harvest is a major concern. If it's not raining, a strategy involving a blower attachment to a combine might still save the crop. Somebody should test that. If it rains though, your crop couuld end up encased in something with the consistancy of wet cement. Also, you've got to filter those engines really well. Somebody should test this, like FEMA... umm... ok, umm... yeah, we're fucked.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Just wait. The Yellowstone supervolcano and the New Madrid fault are both overdue. Comes 2036, asteroid Apophis hits the Earth, triggering the New Madrid fault which in turn pushes Yellowstone over the edge.
On the upside, we won't have to worry about the 2038 unix/linux clock rollover.
-- Alastair
So if I observe the volcano, than the cat is dead? Or the cat may be dead, in some universe? Damn it, I don't think I will ever understand this quantum mechanics stuff - every time I look into it I fear I will genocide cats.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
Move to Europe
I lived in Europe from 1980 through 1993. In retrospect, I'd rather go with the supervolcano.
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