Posted on 02/25/2014 10:09:16 AM PST by Carbonsteel
The giant magma blob beneath Yellowstone National Park unleashed tons of ancient helium gas when it torched North America, according to a new study.
"The amount of crustal helium coming out is way more than anyone would have expected," said Jacob Lowenstern, lead study author and scientist-in-charge at the U.S. Geological Survey's Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. The findings appear in today's (Feb. 19) issue of the journal Nature.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Well, go get it! We need helium to cool our superconductors!
Hook a giant balloon to it, fill it with helium, then lift Yellowstone up and carry away and drop it on the middle east. That way when Yellowstone erupts, it’ll be there problem not ours.
Hey, hit it with a nuclear bunker buster...Send it down 700 feet and detonate it...
That’ll get the helium out.
In the absence of harmonic tremor, isn’t the presence of helium a bad thing?
I would love to be at that press conference. (Silly voices)
The article also reported find 2+ billion year old water in a deep mine somewhere in Canada. Does water aged that long taste better than newer water, or do they have find professional water tasters to distinguish the difference in bouquet between older and newer?
HA! And end life as we know it, at least, for certain, in the US. You are aware, (are you not?) that Yellowstone is the mouth of a gigantic volcano the size of three states, thousands of times larger than Krakatoa.
Oh, great. Now the entire earth is going to just float away in space. I blame Global Warming.
just in time for the new helium hard drives . . .
Don’t tell Al Gore…. his head will explode
“The amount of crustal helium coming out is way more than anyone would have expected”.
No way dude!
Way dude!
Oh wow, dude, that’s freakin awesome!!
So the goober in charge of the research just graduated from High School?
Way!
This would be an opportunity for an enterprising kids’ balloon vendor to set up shop ....
*Snort He said, “crustal helium”.
What in the world are they carrying?
No kidding - if that monster blows, kiss it all goodbye.
If the eruption is big enough it will seriously affect the entire world, as in “the year with no summer”. If it’s small it could be just ash downwind. The problem is that this thing is really, really huge.
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