Posted on 07/17/2018 8:16:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A 100-foot fissure has opened up in the Grand Teton National Park – not far from the potentially catastrophic Yellowstone volcano.
The giant crack in the Wyoming–based national park has prompted officials to shut down areas from tourists in case of landslides.
The Grand Teton National Park said in a statement: “The Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point areas are currently closed due to elevated potential for rockfall.
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If it was seismic activity beneath Grand Teton which caused the fissure, it could be a sign that Yellowstone is reawakening.
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
And since we cannot control it--I don't worry about it.
That’s funny, the earth’s volume is repeatedly listed as 1.084227366 × 10^27 cm3 according to the references I’ve found:
https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/KatherineMalfucci.shtml
Not being a physicist, I don’t feel qualified to quibble, but as far as I know, a loss of 10^12 cm3 would not deflate a sphere of 10^27. Maybe I’m missing something here.
From the references I glanced at, Krakatoa ejecta was ~10^10 cm3; Yellowstone’s historical estimates are around 10^12 cm3 or 2 orders of magnitude.
It’s been a few years since my college geology, but the eruption of Yellowstone would be cataclysmic on any scale.
That said, no one has any idea when it will occur. The only thing I’m certain of is that this will happen before all the catastrophic predictions of Al Gore and his disciples come to pass. Maybe we should start a campaign to eliminate volcanism—it’s a more imminent threat and just as Quixotic.
“If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.”
That’s nothing compared to Trump meeting with Putin.
LOL! However did I know this headline was from a British tab...
But I'm not worried about either. Nor am I worried about such things as a comet striking the earth or a massive earthquake that splits the earth in two. Whatever happens will happen. There are certain things in nature that mankind has no control over and that raising taxes will not prevent.
If any of the above happens, nobody will be around to post that they were right all along.
And since we’re talking about the Tetins, that’s not a crack. It’s cleavage.
Tetons...
I probably screwed up my numbers. I was just struck by what I read to be ten orders of magnitude difference.
“Maybe we should start a campaign to eliminate volcanism—it’s a more imminent threat and just as Quixotic.”
Absolutely! We could even stop lava bombs from hitting tour boats! There’s money to be made here, I’m sure. It just takes another P.T. Gore to figure out how to milk that cow.
This I gods way of taking the attention off of Trump.
Party pooper!
100 feet long.
I’m in the >1,000 area and have a pockmarked lava rock from then last explosion...it’s larger than a softball, smaller than a football.
It came from a excavation that went down 30 feet or so...deep for our area.
I also have a 32” Honda snow blower which would work for about two minutes until the engine would seize from the dust.
Never heard of that one, thanks!
What do you have against plumbers?
“There are certain things in nature that mankind has no control over and that raising taxes will not prevent.”
HERETIC!!!!!
The Government and taxes can fix anything. Everyone knows this from childhood. This can be proven empirically by gathering any number of Scientists and reaching the blessed state of Consensus by promising them revenue and peerage.
It’s best if you get Scientists from fields that are unrelated to the topic at hand. Some disciplines are harder than others, and it may be necessary to shun the rebels who refuse enlightenment, but such is the price of progress.
If all else fails, we can enlist the aid of a Science Guy. As everyone knows, Science Guys are the ultimate arbiters of all scientific inquiry. Once his decree is established, it becomes law as immutable as the law of the Medes and Persians, and all will be right with the world.
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Great article. I interviewed the lead scientist at Yellowstone on this issue. http://www.chrispryorshow.com/e/the-yellow-stone-caldera-extinction-or-exageration/
Thanks, JC! You did your homework and that made it very interesting. Good job!
This crap better not make me miss the meteor.
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