Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings

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Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings

Steam rises from hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, in a 2002 file photo.

Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent.

One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park, which spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Dan, get out of there, while you still have a chance!

Yes, the scenery is gorgeous, but other places aren't a bad consolation prize.

[SunkenCiv]

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[COBOL2Java]

"Doom, doom, doom! You're all doomed!"

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Near as I can figgure. We are all going to die sometime. I will be curious how the MSM blames Bush for a super volcano eruption since that caldera last erupted several hundred thousand years ago. But I am sure they will find a way.

[TChris]

I think Dan is being sarcastic as in everyday we are closer to our deaths, which is true.

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[COBOL2Java]

If--hypothetically--this supervolcano explodes, it would probably cause a mini ice age in the northern hemisphere for some years, and would destroy much of the immediate area.

"Wouldn't it be wonderful? I'm tingly all over, I tell ya!"

[Pharmboy]

Excellent move. Time to have the Glenlivet during the week now as well as on the weekends.

[MediaMole]

Global warming zealots remind me of my old boss.

Every Thanksgiving she would begin to get more and more excited as sales climbed. "If it keeps on like this, we can expand in February or March," she would squeal.

Of course, sales would plummet on Dec. 26 and she would predict imminent bankruptcy.

[AppyPappy]

"Excuse me, infidel Stewardness, but I speak Jive. Right on, my soul brutha of anotha mutha"

[SF Republican]

At that rate by 5:07 we're all toast. A very interesting phenomena occurred. Around 5 rather than toast we started to cool down. I am scared we are facing another ice age - we are still doomed though. It is as if the climate changes not only daily but throughout the day. I think I need a couple of million $ to study this.

[Jaded]

Oh, that movie. Low budget.

[Eastbound]

Hi, Dan. Is it true (according to a report I heard a couple of years ago) that all the animals around Yellowstone are leaving because of ground heat? If so, how wide is the perimeter?

[null and void]

Hubris, arrogance, I'm the center of the universe...always gets recycled as DIRT...and the meek shall inherit the earth.

The meek can have what's left of it when we're done with it...

[dforest]

I have a son living in Montana. What are you noticing?

[Dan(9698)]

all the animals around Yellowstone are leaving because of ground heat?

No, the ground heat just makes the grass grow faster along the Yellowstone river. Animals stay along the river because the snow isn't as deep.

The reason for their being fewer animal's is because they put wolves in there and they are eating the other animals.

They also made Grizzly bears protected around the whole area, so elk are disappearing throughout the park and national forests surrounding the park.

Also many of the ranches that had grazing leases in the national Forest are abandoning them because the wolves and bears are eating all the cattle.

[Quix]

nO, TIMER,

I think that has to be a huge meteor.

HOW'S MOM?

[Quix]

thanks.

[IamConservative]

Happen to know the coordinates so we can see it on Google Earth?

[Dan(9698)]

Happen to know the coordinates so we can see it on Google Earth?

I don't. Its North West Wyoming, and should be able to be found by word references. North of Jackson, South of Livingston, Montana, West of Cody, Wyoming, East of West Yellowstone, Montana.

Another thing, the snow over the whole area gets to be up to ten feet deep, so the elk migrate to lower areas outside the park. They return in the Spring.