Big astreroid impact

[pwd72s]

Good thinking Will...it's best to think long term about things like these...

[Jim Bremner]

And the Dem's will ALL blame G.W.Bush!

[porsche4life]

Ok... To answer the question about why its a molten ball in space... its not... In space it is a big cold ROCK... It becomes a molten ball b/c of all the friction associated with entering our atmosphere....

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Well, I live in the near immediate blast zone, so I'd go pretty quickly. You folks back east, though, would live long enough to deal with the nuclear winter, crop failure and worldwide famine. It WILL happen. Could be tomorrow, could be in 50,000 years, but it's a guarantee and there's nothing we can do about it.

Yup...like he said. The Super caldera under the park is huge and moves along a fault line much like the way the Hawaiian island were formed. They blow through weak spots every so often.



everything in the shaded area,,,,gone.

[cwiert]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

And...please twll me why you need to worry about it? In other words, what could you do?

Gee, I've had a pretty good run of 66 years...so, guess I'd feel sorry for you young pups. If I had time to feel sorry about anything, that is...

no, i just meant that i hadn't heard about it before. maybe i've been living under a rock.

anyway, i was just inquiring about it... wondering magnitude disaster would ensure if it blew. apparently pretty big! i'll have to google it tomorrow. goin' to bed now.

[cl8ton]

Lemme guess...impact will be Dec 2012
Dude the Mayans ran out of beer when they were carving that dam calendar!

[onewhippedpuppy]

Dude, that's nothing compared to the zombies.

[Rick Lee]

And Yellowstone is far from the only super volcano on the planet. Look at this way - all of human history is a blink of an eye between ice ages. We think we rule the Earth, but we are just brief visitors. In a million years, there will be no sign of our existence and probably not any fossils either.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

And Yellowstone is far from the only super volcano on the planet. Look at this way - all of human history is a blink of an eye between ice ages. We think we rule the Earth, but we are just brief visitors. In a million years, there will be no sign of our existence and probably not any fossils either.

Kind of makes you hope that the next species to dominate the planet does a better job than the human race, eh?

Like I said, gotta think long term about these things...

[widgeon13]

That was made by Al Gore.

[s_morrison57]

Those super volcano's will blow in time with polar shift, it's happened every 500,000 years on average and the last one was 750,000 years ago. We are long over due. When polar shift happens there will be no worries cause all life will cease, ice age will happen, 2000 ft. tidal waves, hundreds of volcanic eruptions, hundreds of earth quakes, and all basically at the same time, the sun won't be seen for 200 years, not that anyone will be here to notice that, I'm not talking about a couple of degrees here, I'm talking Alaska at the equarter. Don't believe me, talk to a geoligist. Don't worry about it, nothing anyone can do, use it as an excuse to drive the P-car more often.

[GH85Carrera]

I figure the odds of that happening are about that same as me winning the lottery. Since I don't buy lottery tickets the odds are very low. I guess I will win the lottery the day before the asteroid smacks earth down.

[Sunroof]

Yep, what he is saying is all true..................."its the end of the world as we know it".

Bob
Registered GyneGeologist

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Kind of makes you hope that the next species to dominate the planet does a better job than the human race, eh?

Like I said, gotta think long term about these things...

Super volcanoes have nothing whatsoever to do with our behavior. We didn't cause them and we can't fix them. They really rule the Earth, we just think we do. It would be nice, however, if humans were honest with themselves about how small and insignificant we are in the big picture. As the Van Halen video says, "Right now is just a time between ice ages."

[cwiert]

Originally Posted by Sunroof

Yep, what he is saying is all true..................."its the end of the world as we know it".

Bob
Registered GyneGeologist

"...and i feel fine."

[p911dad]

Why can't science and technology relieve the pressure under Yellowstone like a kid squeezes a giant zit? Has anyone looked into that solution? Shhhpluuuuck! All relieved, maybe a scar is all.

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by gmeteer

Why can't science and technology relieve the pressure under Yellowstone like a kid squeezes a giant zit? Has anyone looked into that solution? Shhhpluuuuck! All relieved, maybe a scar is all.

It's not like lancing a boil. That caldera is 40 or so miles across and the magma chamber underneath it is way bigger. There's a vent (forget the correct term for it) going from the big one on the bottom to the smaller one on top. The chain of craters from previous eruptions is pretty much a straight line, but each crater is many miles apart. The caldera moves with the N. American plate, but the magma chamber is below the mantle. So we can drill, but would only be touching the smaller one. That mountain is moving a few inches up each year due to rising pressure underneath it. It will blow. We are about as important as ants in this whole thing.

[Rick Lee]

Check out the map of previous eruptions from the same caldera, but at different spots on the N. American plate. If this doesn't make you feel like an ant, I don't know what would.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by gmeteer

Why can't science and technology relieve the pressure under Yellowstone like a kid squeezes a giant zit? Has anyone looked into that solution? Shhhpluuuuck! All relieved, maybe a scar is all.

That would be like trying to move a large mountain range. It would take a thousand years for humans to do it.

[cwiert]

video of it...