Posted on 05/01/2018 10:47:59 AM PDT by rktman
Reuters picked up a quirky science story this weekend which caught my attention and it has to do with Yellowstone National Park. Steamboat Geyser, the largest “active” geyser in the world, erupted on Friday. The typical response should be along the lines of so what? It’s Yellowstone. The place is full of geysers.
All true, except Steamboat also erupted on April 19th. And it erupted on March 15th. Still doesn’t sound unusual to you? Before that, the last time it erupted was in 2014. It’s a very inactive geyser. 2003 was the last time that it had three eruptions over the course of one entire year, say nothing of three in six weeks. But scientists are quick to point out that this absolutely doesn’t mean that a supervolcano eruption is about to hit. Well… at least not definitely.
The Yellowstone Caldera is estimated to be capable of an explosion up to 10,000 times more powerful than what St. Helens produced.
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If it goes hope a East wind will drop its ashes & rocks on DC!
Wherever I go I hope there’s Rum!
Awww Jeeeeez, not this again . .
kabooooom..
probably won’t be as bad as everyone will make it out to be...
the rains will clear the atmosphere, and the oceans will store the carbon...
East wind?
Short answer is NO.. the US, nor the world is ready and prepared for what this will do when it blows....
LOL! Yup. Anyone bound for equatorial regions?
Eventually... but you will have 1-2 years of global crop failures in the northern hemisphere at least.... It will not be a very good day if this thing blows
Well, we live west of it so we’re okay. LOL!
Ready? If it happens, its allegedly going to kill millions, do tens of trillions of property damage and drive the country into the deepest depression that it has ever seen. The only way to be ready is to buy plenty of guns and ammo and a year’s worth of those survival meals.
Yeah, just don’t use a credit card to buy your weaponry.
I don’t know.
I don’t know.
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go when the volcano blow!...................
And a year's worth probably won't be enough.
Me, I have a large broom to rake the ash off my roof. You have to survive the initial event to get to the next problem.
If it goes, there is no planning that can help long term.
We’ll mash it with fines for excessive emissions. That’ll stop it.
A full eruption puts the nation’s bread basket under so much ash that it would be years before it could be used. That is, if the global temperature does not drop too much. One year probably will not be enough.
Years ago there was a fiction story written about efforts to overcome or mitigate a Yellowstone eruption. The scheme involved first creating a Mississippi sized river from Canada, south to several enormous dam reservoirs. When the dams were full, excess water would go southwest to northern Nevada.
Then when it looked like Yellowstone was getting ready to erupt, several nuclear explosives would be detonated near the perimeter of the hot zone, making giant underground caverns just before a vast amount of water flooded into them.
This would in turn generate incredible amounts of steam that would blow through the roof of the caverns, which would continue for perhaps hundreds of years, substantially increasing the rainfall over the states east of there.
Still far superior to the consequences otherwise.
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A Yellowstone eruption would produce levels of “global warming” gases orders of magnitude greater than what man has produced in his entire existence.
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