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re: Holy Magma - Yellowstone
Posted on 4/24/15 at 8:29 pm to spacewrangler
Posted on 4/24/15 at 8:29 pm to spacewrangler
My geology professor got very excited during his volcano lecture this semester when speaking of an eruption at Yellowstone. I got the feeling he wants to witness it. Anyway, some of the projections show close to a foot of ash all the way to Auburn. Most people wouldn't know to clear the ash from their roofs, so you'd have structure failures to go along with halted transit. Then comes the cycle of cold and low sunlight causing chronic food shortages.
It's funny though, all of these doomsday fanatics would be sitting pretty, even though this scenario probably never crossed their mind when they started hoarding. Yellowstone isn't an if scenario, it's when.
It's funny though, all of these doomsday fanatics would be sitting pretty, even though this scenario probably never crossed their mind when they started hoarding. Yellowstone isn't an if scenario, it's when.
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Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:08 pm to AUbagman
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It's funny though, all of these doomsday fanatics would be sitting pretty, even though this scenario probably never crossed their mind when they started hoarding. Yellowstone isn't an if scenario, it's when.
No.
Without sunlight, their bones would turn to dust.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:12 pm to spacewrangler
Definitely would be Hell on Earth for a very long time but humanity would live on. Humans are extremely adaptable, you'd be surprised what people can do when they're pushed to the limit.
Only way we go extinct is if the Earth is destroyed the climate is severely changed. I mean like the surface temperature is extremely hot
Only way we go extinct is if the Earth is destroyed the climate is severely changed. I mean like the surface temperature is extremely hot
Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:27 pm to AUbagman
I loved Geology at Auburn. It was taught at Petry Hall when I was in school by a little black man from Nigeria or somewhere like that. Only class I aced.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 10:10 pm to spacewrangler
The Yellowstone Caldera is the reason modern civilized human beings were non-existent on the North American continent until Europeans reached its shores.
North American evolution kept getting re-routed and set-back by the Yellowstone Caldera, while other continent's inhabitants were far more lucky and not having to deal with extinction events.
North American evolution kept getting re-routed and set-back by the Yellowstone Caldera, while other continent's inhabitants were far more lucky and not having to deal with extinction events.
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Posted on 4/25/15 at 3:44 am to Kentucker
Herschel Walker?
Posted on 4/25/15 at 10:37 am to spacewrangler
I suggest no fracking there
Posted on 4/25/15 at 10:48 am to AUbagman
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It's funny though, all of these doomsday fanatics would be sitting pretty, even though this scenario probably never crossed their mind when they started hoarding. Yellowstone isn't an if scenario, it's when.
Your so-called "doomsday fanatics" have known about the Yellowstone caldera for decades, if not longer. I remember people talking about Yellowstone blowing in the 50s when I was a kid. My Grandfather, who worked for the CCC during the depression, worked in Yellowstone and he talked about it blowing one day and the damage it would do.
As far as fallout is concerned, it all depends on where the jet stream is flowing at the time. It's far more likely that the midwest and northeast will be buried - but who the hell knows. It would be ugly regardless.
I am constantly perplexed, disappointed even, to be reminded that kids these days believe every scientific revelation, every major news event, is the result of some superior discovery by their generation.
There was an episode of The Twilight Zone that dealt with Yellowstone blowing back in the early 60s. Volcanologists were talking about Yellowstone blowing at the turn of the last century.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:02 am to spacewrangler
I still don't see why we don't turn that sucker into a gigantic heat exchanger and make some free energy.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:10 am to deeprig9
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No.
Without sunlight, their bones would turn to dust.
Why do you think that? I am assuming that you think we will run out of food?
I will not for a long time. I am a prepper and have enough food properly stored to feed 15 people for 3 years. I have a well inside my basement, so as long as the water table is not disturbed we will have water.
One of the problems I cannot get around is the toxic gases that will be released in an eruption. But my chances of survival are greater than 90% of you people who dont have a plan.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:13 am to TheDrunkenTigah
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I still don't see why we don't turn that sucker into a gigantic heat exchanger and make some free energy.
A lot of groups have tried .... but the environmentalists will not allow the park to be used like that and worse the paranoia driven segment of the environmentalists, basically the sames ones claiming fracking is causing earthquakes and ruining the water ... they fear drilling, to insert the pipes, in Yellowstone would cause an eruption.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:15 am to alphaandomega
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I have a well inside my basement, so as long as the water table is not disturbed we will have water.
You're one of the 1% of 1%. I'm envious.
Which pump did you use? Make and model.
How deep did you go? It must be pretty shallow huh?
What's your power source to run the pump? Must be pretty stout given the startup amps required.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:15 am to scrooster
It's painful to think you actually think the things you write.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:20 am to hipgnosis
I'm sure more than a few think the same about you.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:49 am to scrooster
WTF are you talking about old man? I didn't know I was delving into a generational smack talk session. When did I state Yellowstone is only a recent discovery?
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:52 am to spacewrangler
I worked there last year at Canyon Village. Absolute blast. Got a job lined up this summer there again. Can't wait to get back. Where'd you work?
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:56 am to CapstoneGrad06
Mesa falls is beautiful 
made the drive multiple times to there and the st Anthony sand dunes this past summer.
made the drive multiple times to there and the st Anthony sand dunes this past summer. Posted on 4/25/15 at 12:17 pm to scrooster
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Which pump did you use? Make and model.
How deep did you go? It must be pretty shallow huh?
What's your power source to run the pump? Must be pretty stout given the startup amps required.
I think the pump is a Red Lion, I dont remember the model number. Water table at the farm is about 70 feet, but well is 300 feet. It has never run dry.
I have a solar setup that would run it but if there is that much ash in the air, it would not work.
The guy that installed it also gave me a "manual lifter". He said in the SHTF situation where there is no power and the solar fails I can pull out the pump and use the lifter. The lifter is a piece of PVC with a weighted bottom that has para cord attached. He said I can lower it into the water and the weight in the PVC will pull it under water. Then you can pull it back up. I think lifter holds 2 quarts. It would take a long time to bring up water, but what the hell else will I have to do? Without power I wont be logging on here and posting.
Only drawback is that the water tastes like crap. I have a lot of limestone in my area.
I will drink filtered County water as long as it is available.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 1:11 pm to AUbagman
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My geology professor got very excited during his volcano lecture this semester when speaking of an eruption at Yellowstone. I got the feeling he wants to witness it.
Was it Professor Zou?
Posted on 4/25/15 at 1:42 pm to Kentucker
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Yellowstone would be an extinction event for the American way of life.
That has already happened since the age of the selfie. As for actual human life, west of the Mississippi to the coast is probably toast. East of the Mississippi probably survives but we go back 5,000 years in evolution with low populations and daily hand to mouth existence.
All the more reason to fund space exploration and colonization to create a spare repository for human survival.
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