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Posted on 03/08/2005 4:16:02 AM PST by AntiGuv
What I don't understand about that Lava Creek ash pattern is that prevailing winds blow from west to east due to coriolis forces that are unlikely to change. So, how would it be distored westward?
Damned straight skippy. With all that dust in the air don't even THINK about lighting off the BBQ.
But we face a dual danger in this here United States. On the one hand we face the dangers of volcanic ash. And then there's Hillary with her volcanic ass. We're DOOMED I tell ya, DOOMED!
of interest to you?
My turn, All your ashes belong to us.
mc:>)
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Soooo....do I have to go to work tomorrow, or not?
More like it will wipe civilization off the map in the affected area. When Tomu erupted the estimates were that about 70,000 humans survived worldwide.
"So let me guess: Now we need to shut down US industry to prevent this big volcano from erupting!"
These scientists aren't using scare tactics to try and push social engineering like the environmentalists, they just want more funding.
They haven't figured out how to make it sound like an urgent emergency yet, so they'll likely be ignored.
Ashes to ashes, bust to bust.
Volcanic eruptions frequently eject debris with such force that prevailing air currents have little initial bearing on the distribution pattern. In particular if the volcanic eruption is asymmetrical (as Mount St. Helens was, by example) then the resulting ash zone can easily end up extending completely against the wind direction.
That's settled. On to the next story.
When Yellowstone does erupt, will anyone be left to hear it say: "Thatsa spicy meatball!" ???
Sky falls again?
Chicken Little is tired.
Mighty tired.
The King no longer believes him.
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Actually, I have had thoughts along the same lines, except that it would be tunnels - many of them each hundreds of feet in diameter and tens of miles long - instead of just one. Each would leach off a portion of the outflow. The trick would be to create portals that could be both strong enough to resist the building pressure yet still sufficiently thin that they could be breached in a controlled fashion (probably using nuclear shaped charges) when the time came to directly tap the magma underneath the dome and draw it off laterally.
The problem is this would be the largest civil engineering project in history and it would be undertaken to prevent a catastrophe that is going to happen at some unknown time in the future. Tough sell to the taxpayers and corporations.
How do you pay for such an endeavour? What present benefits can be derived from the situation to make the project more appealing?
Pay for it by taping the radiant energy of the supersize magma pool to produce incredible amounts of electrical energy and selling it at a discount all over the world. This would involve sacrificing the visual beauty and natural environment of Yellowstone to erect the hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of geothermal energy plants needed to draw heat from the resource. What surplus energy that is not sold (or is otherwise allocated to the task) would be used to power other massive high energy cost projects like, say, filtering the atmosphere, oceans, and lakes of harmful pollutants, desalinating sea water on a massive scale, extracting dissolved minerals out of the oceans, converting the entire transportation infrastructure to electrical power. (A side benefit might be to leach off enough heat to thicken the cap over the magma chamber and forstall the eruption.)
The enginnering problems can be mastered if humanity has the will to think on the appropriately epic scale of effort.
Wow, an eruption here in Louisiana(Huckleberry Ridge).I hadn't heard that one before. Since the state's highest elevation is 535 feet above sea level that must have been one strange looking volcano.
All the more reason to build a space based civilization.
enginnering = engineering
I think that map indicates the ash fallout made it from yellowstone to the gulf coast.
EUREKA! You have hit upon the answer! If we were to stick Hitlery's a$$ in a volcano to absorb the shock and the ash, it would attenuate the effects of pressure and reduce the fallout of the volcanic ash. If the outgoing pressure becomes to high, she can fart to counter the effects of the titanic blast and return the pressure so the Yellowstone caldera doesn't collapse!
I would pity the wildlife that currently resides in Yellowstone though. We have enough flatulence emanating from the politico's as it is.
Well, in theory that should work. But that nagging little voice in the back of my head suggests that she might not have a suppresive effect, but rather a multiplier effect. Something like driving a tanker truck full of avgas into a burning building in the hopes the explosion will put out the flames.
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