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Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought
drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."
Wait until the global cooling due to the super volcano blowing!! Cool!!!
University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies
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Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Save this before it is mysteriously "disapeared" from the Word Wide Web. Haven't I always warned that the Italians were planting Volcanic melten rock underneath our Homeland in order to spread their Italian islamo-communist terror campaign through seismic blackmail?
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In what weird alternative reality is screwing up North America not the end of the world? You're either with us, or with the volcanoes.
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Probably not. Imagine this as being like a new oil well... A real gusher, stuff flies up hundreds of feet into the air.
Now imagine that oil is hot enough to melt the rock you're standing on, and the machinery you just used to dig the well.
Oh, and there's 800,000 cubic miles of it. (rounded from D x W x W (410*45*45) from article, not accurate).
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Ok, you've convinced me.
Where do we start the drilling?
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Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats
living together... mass hysteria!
This is because the hotspot now sits under a much thicker crust (the rocky mountains). But as I saw one geologist quoted, "I wouldn't bet on it either way".
OK, so I thought I was pretty safe from the Yellowstone Supervolcano where I live, and now you tell me I have to worry about a frikkin Rocky Mountain landing on me?
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Who cares as long as Bliz keeps the servers up. I never see the sun anyway, and all my food is frozen in my freezer.
Humans survived the 640,000 years ago eruption, they will survive again... how and in what shape... that's another story...
No need to survive. 640k years should be enough for anybody. :-)
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We need to strike preemptively. War On Seismology! Nuke Yellowstone today!
Despite our best efforts, man-made disasters are pitiful compared to what nature has managed to do.
We can do better! I know we can! We just need the drive and the will.
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Problem with that is that Yellowstone is a suicide bomber with a deadman switch.