Posted on 12/30/2008 3:42:22 PM PST by maquiladora
Over the Sierra Club's dead body, thus a doubly good idea. However we should first try a more liberal solution. We have a subculture that worships volcanoes, in our newest state. They practised the liberal art of appeasement. They appeased the angry volcano gods by throwing in their nobility. Yellowstone is arguably the worlds largest volcano so it we'd probably need to sacrifice the world most noble person for this to work. How fortuitous that he claims to be both very attuned to his roots and Hawaiian. A Messiah who really can fix anything, by giving his life to save ours.
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“In what time frame? In the last year....two....five?....55? I was there in Jan 2007, and with guides....don’t recall any saying lake had been tipping....they did talk about the timing of past major eruptions....and the poor wolves...oh, that’s for another day”
Figures they’d be worried about the stinkin wolves...but they forget that wolfie, guides and other humans that live around there ( including me )will be turned into volcanic dust blowing all over the USA. wheee!
“Cool it off by using it as a huge geothermal plan”
It would make one great incinerator, under the right conditions. NY would finally have a great place for it’s trash. Instant ash. I bet the NY libs would even stop complaining about CO2.
I actually watched it on YouTube last night — If you’re referring to the BBC “Docu-Drama” Supervolcano... If you are one that worries excessively I would suggest waiting to view this until this latest activity dies down. :)
Here’s a link to the playlist (if you use this link all the parts will automatically load and play after the first section is done...)
Supervolcano part 1 1/6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-RKzqNtz0&feature=PlayList&p=83F6492FA7EACDEA&index=0&playnext=1
“Yellow Stone Lake:
n recent years (as of 2004), the ground under the lake has started to rise significantly, indicating increased geological activity, and limited areas of the national park have been closed to the public. As of 2005, no areas are currently off limits aside from those normally allowing limited access such as around the West Thumb Geyser Basin. There is a ‘bulge’ about 2,000 feet (600 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) high under a section of Yellowstone Lake, where there are a variety of faults, hot springs and small craters. Seismic imaging has recently shown that sediment layers are tilted, but how old this feature is has not yet been established.”
According to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Lake
How come no-one cries over the elk, coyote and bear populations that are being decimated by the wolves??? (UGH!!!) Learned a lot about Yellowstone in the last 24 hours... Leave it to the environmentalists to completely miss the big picture and how much harm has been done allowing the wolf packs to literally take over the park - not enough land for that many wolves (they are taking down full-size bulls in their prime now — not even just injured ones...).
bm
placemarker
Great comparison Vermont...
I think deliberately misunderstanding what I wrote is stretching my credulity over the intents of your posts. I wrote included in those things from my first post: 666, the Antichrist. You deliberately ignored that part of my statement.
One more time: TAKEN ALL TOGETHER they are signs of the end times. Unless you want to call Jesus a liar in Matthew chapter 24.
RE biblical references to earthquakes, pestilence, war, etc., I don't figure we can outguess the Antichrist, especially considering that the bible's time scale seems open to interpretation. To me, the bible is the text, the guidebook, the Darwin adapt-or-perish key to human survival on this and every other world the universe and God may put before us in the -- who knows, 2,000, 200,000 years -- that await us as material critters.
Its worldly, material explanations of our origin aren't nearly so crucial as its spiritual lay-out of laws that transcend the material world and show us how to thrive as a blessed thing on this world. Judeo-Christianity's simple laws of dos and don'ts, and the consequences of ignoring them, are as fixed as ignoring the consequences of gravity and liquid in our worldly reality.
The weather has always called the shots on planet Earth. God calls the shots on the weather. We're just here for the ride -- at His pleasure and glory. He's got to be brilliant and benevolent for such a great plan as Judeo-Christianity -- that alone makes me think atheism is fundamentally mistaken.
Yeah, but that Accutane can make Yellowstone suicidal, so we need to be careful.
I agree. In fact, any of the Cascade Range volcano's.
YellerStone is going to blow again, no doubt, but I think we would have to see a lot of 'little' signs - over a very long period of time.
Not so with the Cascade Range. How long was the run up to Mt. St. Helens? Fairly quick, in the geologic time scale.
The bad part about Mt. Rainier is that it is cooking itself, from the inside out, chemically altering volcanic rock into clay. Not good.
Mt. Rainier may not be very big, compared to YellowStone, but, as they say, location is everything. An eruption, a good one, from Mt. Rainier, would be devastating.
Another little 'ankle biter' (no press) is over in the Azores (or in that area, forget...), this one is doing the same thing, turning itself into clay. It has already developed a "rift" (like Kīlauea has), a huge chunk of the island is going to slide off into the ocean.
Unfortunately, they know it has happened before (again, like Kīlauea) and the unstable part is on the west side of the island, the side facing the USA. The brainiac's estimate the tsunami height in hundreds of feet when it hits the east coast of the US.
Following some of the links posted on several of these "YellerStone" threads, I learned something I did not know. The three biggest volcanic events on the North American land mass: #1 and #2 came from Yellowstone. #3 came from the Long Valley Caldera - 'bout 200 miles from me.
And the Long Valley / Mono Lake area has been active, less than 300 years to the last event.
I love this stuff, btw!
Really?
Any particular reason?
Great post, by the way! Thanks for fun education, here!
Great idea! Very progressive!
The main thing to be taken from geology:
Everything -- everything -- that is or happens on this planet is temporary. Permanence is an illusion.
“How come no-one cries over the elk, coyote and bear populations that are being decimated by the wolves??? (UGH!!!) Learned a lot about Yellowstone in the last 24 hours... Leave it to the environmentalists to completely miss the big picture and how much harm has been done allowing the wolf packs to literally take over the park - not enough land for that many wolves (they are taking down full-size bulls in their prime now — not even just injured ones...).”
I hear ya, In once sense, I feel sorry for wolves...they were airlifted here (relocated)from the plains in Canada...If I were a wolf..I would claim I was abducted..just like X-Files...The wolves in Yellowstone very much revolve into their natural predatory state when they cross over into Montana...they have no natural predators (since man was outlawed from hunting them)so they prey upon the weakest...calves, lambs...a rancher that lives nearby had a “tagged” wolf come into his sheep herd and kill... not once...but twice..and that is after the wildlife managers took that wolf and relocated it way back in the park..once its tasted easy prey...its smart enuf to find its way back.
I think it was a stupid and costly idea to bring them back to YNP
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