Posted on 09/02/2003 8:36:03 PM PDT by Dixielander
Yesterday afternoon, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake occurred just 9 miles southeast of the south entrance to Yellowstone National Park. According to the USGS, “It is unlikely that there is a connection or triggering mechanism of the earthquake with the increased hydrothermal activity at Norris Geyser Basin, which is about 35 miles from the epicenter or with hydrothermal features in Yellowstone Lake that have received recent publicity.” However, given the shallow depth of this quake, the volcanism model developed by Larry Park has suddenly lurched us a huge step towards a worst-case eruption event.
Simply put, anyone living within 600 miles of Yellowstone could be sitting in a modern day Pompeii. In addition, for those living outside this area and West of the Mississippi river, there could be grievous consequences as well because systemic processes are now building beneath Yellowstone, that paint a very clear picture of a major eruption event in its early stages
In this article, Larry Park will present the science behind his warning. However, as the publisher of YOWUSA.COM, I wish to put some context to all this in layman’s terms as now as I personally feel the time has come for everyone living west of the Mississippi to become aware and to begin making a calm and deliberate assessment of the facts. This especially applies to those presently living within 600 miles of Yellowstone. However, what does the USGS say?
USGS, 07-February-2003
(Excerpt) Read more at yowusa.com ...
Well DUH! There's a bulge under the lake...
Clinton is SOOOO there...
I'd say probably not. Our ability to measure bulges in lake bottoms and such is very recent. It may be that this sort of thing happens fairly often without a cataclysmic result.
Scientists who have studied mitochondria transmission in human generations note that a vast majority of strains of mitochondria just vanished just before 70,000 years ago, indicating a massive die-off of humans (and very likely higher mammals) in a very short period of time. If the Yellowstone volcanic caldera were to erupt again it could cause an extremely severe effect on the Earth's climate, and that could cause food production to drop to a tiny fraction of what we can currently produce. A 70-75% reduction of the human population within two generations would not be out of the question, sad to say.
Hopefully, such an eruption won't come in the next 200 years, so we'll have time to eventually have humans colonize the Moon, on large space colonies between the Earth and the Moon (using materials mined from the Moon), and even on Mars. So in 2203, if the Yellowstone caldera does go ka-blooey then, a large fraction of the human race will still be around because they'll no longer be affected by what a couple a hundred cubic miles of ash will do to the Earth's atmosphere. =)
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planets.html
It has a chart of the gravitational effect of the moon and the planets on the earth.
Moon = 1
Jupiter = .01
Venus = .006
Saturn = .0007
Mars = .0002
Three planets have more effect on the earth than Mars.
Mars pull is .02% (two one-hundreths of one percent) than that of the moon.
In other words, the moons pull is 5000 times stronger and the tide produced by Mars is one millionth that of the moon.
The odds are good you don't have to sell your home tomorrow.
"The Coming Superstorm" will put out any fires ignited by the volcano.
Considering a change of this magnitude occurs at least once each year you should have quite a large data set with which to work.
The fact that there's no clear reference to the United States but other countries can be identified in the text of the scripture?
EEEP!
This is true. However, it is not just a bulge in the lake bottom. It is accompanied by extreme rise in temperature of the lake, increase in earthquake activity, changes in periodicity of the geysers, increase in sulphur gases, and a bunch of park rangers changing their underwear more often.
I concede that the Gravitational pull of Mars is not what is causing the bottom of the lake to rise. At least not by itself. Also it may not be gravity that causes the increase of volcanic activity.
It's true the solar system/universe obeys mechanical laws, but does this mean that it therefore follows that it is all just mechanical? Our bodies follow mechanical laws but I suggest that our existence is much more than just a mechanical/chemical/scientificly explained existence.
In fact I would go so far as to say that we don't know squat. Everything we claim to know is theory, and all our theories will be someday replaced by even better theories, by those who think they know.
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