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Posted: 4/18/2013 7:58:04 AM EDT

Yellowstones volcano is bigger than last thought.

If that blows we are all dead, life on earth will probably go extinct.

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Posted: 4/18/2013 7:59:11 AM EDT

[#1]

Why would all life go extinct?

The place has erupted before and shit is still here.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:09:20 AM EDT

[#2]

dont ruin my hopes. The world needs a good cleansing.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:11:12 AM EDT

[#3]

It'll cough up the core like a cosmic hairball

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:12:14 AM EDT

[#4]

Science once again predicting TEOTWAWKI?

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:12:23 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Why would all life go extinct?

The place has erupted before and shit is still here.

Humans wont survive it.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:15:39 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Why would all life go extinct?

The place has erupted before and shit is still here.

Humans wont survive it.

RESET

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:19:03 AM EDT

[#7]

I learned a long time ago not to worry about things I can't do a damn thing about. That said I chose not to live where predictable incidences of Nature's wrath can mess with me much.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:20:10 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Why would all life go extinct?

The place has erupted before and shit is still here.

Humans wont survive it.

RESET

Psh, I will. I've been building a rocket ship to take me to Kepler 22. Y'all are fucked though.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:23:52 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Why would all life go extinct?

The place has erupted before and shit is still here.

Humans wont survive it.

RESET

Mankind will live on, civilization will crumble.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:23:58 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Why would all life go extinct?

The place has erupted before and shit is still here.

Humans wont survive it.

Some will.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:24:49 AM EDT

[#11]

Long overdue.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:25:25 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
I learned a long time ago not to worry about things I can't do a damn thing about. That said I chose not to live where predictable incidences of Nature's wrath can mess with me much.

If yellow stone goes up its gonna do more than mess with you. The whole world is gonna be affected by it. The death of every human will be quicker than many realize. I hope im not alive when it happens.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:26:41 AM EDT

[#13]

I'm waiting for the earthquake that's due to hit around here that created Reelfoot. So long Memphis

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:27:40 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

dont ruin my hopes. The world needs a good cleansing.

If you feel so strongly about it, then why wait? Start the cleansing with yourself.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:28:15 AM EDT

[#15]

I live close, death will be quick.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:45:04 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Why would all life go extinct?

The place has erupted before and shit is still here.

Humans wont survive it.

RESET

Mankind will live on, civilization will crumble.

No volcano needed

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:47:51 AM EDT

[#17]

True.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:50:45 AM EDT

[#18]

From what I have read, we'd be in DEEP, DEEP trouble.

But eventually life would come back.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:51:04 AM EDT

[#19]

past Ash deposits

Jetstream

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:56:31 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:

I learned a long time ago not to worry about things I can't do a damn thing about. That said I chose not to live where predictable incidences of Nature's wrath can mess with me much.

If yellow stone goes up its gonna do more than mess with you. The whole world is gonna be affected by it. The death of every human will be quicker than many realize. I hope im not alive when it happens.

Even if you are, at least you won't be for long. You need to learn to look on the bright side more often.

Posted: 4/18/2013 8:57:37 AM EDT

[#21]

Two points:

1. The article references small and large eruptions. Small eruption would not be so bad,

2. Looking at the image above, it looks like the Huckleberry and Lava Creek calderas are more dangerous than Jellystons. Why are we not hearing anything about them? Dormant?

Posted: 4/18/2013 9:04:52 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Two points:

1. The article references small and large eruptions. Small eruption would not be so bad,

2. Looking at the image above, it looks like the Huckleberry and Lava Creek calderas are more dangerous than Jellystons. Why are we not hearing anything about them? Dormant?

Those are the last three eruptions of the Yellowstone caldera.

Posted: 4/18/2013 9:19:27 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

past Ash deposits

http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/YellowstoneFalloutAshBed.gif

Jetstream

http://virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov/weather/images/3_3.jpg

Woo-hoo! New Orleans will be fine!

Posted: 4/18/2013 9:26:22 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:

past Ash deposits

http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/YellowstoneFalloutAshBed.gif

Jetstream

http://virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov/weather/images/3_3.jpg

Woo-hoo! New Orleans will be fine!

The resulting tremors will crumble your levies and seawall and you be filled up quicker than 22 year blonde teacher chaperoning a ski trip.

Speed

Posted: 4/18/2013 9:30:23 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Two points:

1. The article references small and large eruptions. Small eruption would not be so bad,

2. Looking at the image above, it looks like the Huckleberry and Lava Creek calderas are more dangerous than Jellystons. Why are we not hearing anything about them? Dormant?

That is showing you the ash dispersion from previous eruptions from Yellowstone dude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera

The loosely defined term 'supervolcano' has been used to describe volcanic fields that produce exceptionally large volcanic eruptions. Thus defined, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is the volcanic field which produced the latest three supereruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot. The three super eruptions occurred 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago, forming the Island Park Caldera, the Henry's Fork Caldera, and Yellowstone calderas, respectively.

The Island Park Caldera supereruption (2.1 million years ago), which produced the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, was the largest and produced 2,500 times as much ash as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The next biggest supereruption formed the Yellowstone Caldera (640,000 years ago) and produced the Lava Creek Tuff. The Henry's Fork Caldera (1.2 million years ago) produced the smaller Mesa Falls Tuff but is the only caldera from the Snake River Plain-Yellowstone (SRP-Y) hotspot that is plainly visible today.[9]