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Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, Yellowstone National Park has been having a very unusual number of earthquakes. Many of the most recent tremors have been deeper underground, an ominous sign. Combine that with a rapid rise in elevation over the past three years, and the possibility that earthquake activity from surrounding areas could trigger such an eruption on its own, and you've got the possible warning signs of a supervolcano eruption that would wipe out half to 2/3 of the continental US, plunge global temperatures, and wipe out a very significant chunk of world food sources. Here's a little more info to make your New Year brighter!"
I wonder if this could be caused by drilling. There have been cases of volcanic activity triggered by drilling. Of the top of my head, I remember that the Air Force got caught pumping waste chemical weapons into the subsurface under Rock Flats, CO without a permit. They were detected by the increase in earthquakes. Couple that with George Bush's legislation to allow drilling in preserved areas, that Republican mantra of Drill Baby Drill may not have been so smart after all...
Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the war room!
it most likely will not blow but it does. Say good bye. Yellowstone is measured 2,5090 times more powerful than St. Helens and would most likey place molten lava over 20,000+ square miles of land. St Helens is not even in the same category as Yellowstone, Toba, Taupo, Black Tail etc. Yellowstone is a VEI 8 (mega-colossal) where Helens is a VEI 5 (large). If you surve the initial firebombs, earthquakes and lava, then you will have about 200 300 feet of ash to look forward to.
No because the really problematic stuff shows up in the followers of later additions. What did the Jews every do to anybody besides run Germany into the ground and charge interest?
...and the Americans' charming habit of bombing things like wedding parties isn't backfiring. At all. The Pakistanis living in those areas don't mind the US screwing up and killing innocent civilians, women, and children, even wiping out entire extended families, because they're doing it to prevent terrorism, and they understand that's more important than little things like a few dead Pakistanis. There's no way this could increase support for the terrorists.
(That was sarcasm, by the way.)
Should I have put sarcasm tags on it to make my meaning clearer? I was sarcastically saying they were guilty of what the nazis accused them of. Meaning, I meant they weren't guilty, even thought I was literally saying they were. Clear now?
Was the car made by Microsoft?