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Updated: 8:54 a.m. PT June 16, 2006

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming - Thermal vents in the Upper Geyser Basin here shot large clouds of searing hot ash and gas into the sky Friday, ending two thousand years of relative calm and underscoring the dangers facing millions of people living in Wyoming and surrounding states.

Geologists said the eruption appeared to be smaller than the mountain’s most violent sputterings two millenia ago, when ash and gas clouds surged around 20 miles from the peak and triggered earthquakes as far as 500 miles away.

Vulcanologists are keeping the mountain on 24-hour watch were not immediately available for comment on the eruption just after 5 a.m. local time (6 a.m. ET), which sent debris plunging down its western flanks.

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Explode!!!!!Explode!!!!!Explode!!!!!

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a minor earthquake in North Carolina.

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great commentary.

Explode!!!!!Explode!!!!!Explode!!!!!
If it does explode in a full eruption you'll die a more horrible death than anyone in the US.

It was going to happen sooner or later. I imagine local emergency services have evacuation plans in place for the eventuality.

Probably either Bush's fault, or an evil plot by Karl Rove to distract attention from Iraq policy.

Just thought I would say that before the moonbats shouted it.

There was a minor earthquake in North Carolina.

Oh noes!

Damn...I was planning to bring my kids there in the next year on a road trip. Hope it doesnt get worse.

Great commentary.
That was exactly what I thought. Are you stealing my thoughts? You're watching me, aren't you?! Get away from me you freak!!!!!;)

Probably either Bush's fault, or an evil plot by Karl Rove to distract attention from Iraq policy.

Just thought I would say that before the moonbats shouted it.
I'm glad you're finally admitting these things. :D

If it does explode in a full eruption you'll die a more horrible death than anyone in the US.
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I dont think it will hit my current location

Oh shit, seriously? Like right now? God damnit.

It was going to happen sooner or later. I imagine local emergency services have evacuation plans in place for the eventuality.
The Yellowstone volcano is fucking huge - the caldera is most of if not more than the national park itself.

So long, Western North America! It was nice knowing ya! I wish I could've spent more time with ya.

By the way, Rest of the World, if it really fully erupts, get ready for some serious tough shit.

I think many of you don't realize the potential here.

Lurking deep below the surface in California and Wyoming are two hibernating volcanoes of almost unimaginable fury. Were they to go critical, they would blanket the western U.S. with many centimeters of ash in a matter of hours. Between them, they have done so at least four times in the past two million years. Similar supervolcanoes smolder underneath Indonesia and New Zealand.
A supervolcano eruption packs the devastating force of a small asteroid colliding with the earth and occurs 10 times more often--making such an explosion one of the most dramatic natural catastrophes humanity should expect to undergo. Beyond causing immediate destruction from scalding ash flows, active supervolcanoes spew gases that severely disrupt global climate for years afterward.

Probably either Bush's fault, or an evil plot by Karl Rove to distract attention from Iraq policy.

Just thought I would say that before the moonbats shouted it.

Or God's retribution for the Supreme Court not supporting ID, or someone in Wyoming voting Democrat.


Just thought I would say that before Pat Robertson shouted it.;)

Hooray a supervolcano may erupt :eek: Repent your sins sinners :D

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I dont think it will hit my current location
It will drop the world into a deep freeze and kill most life all over the planet. Hot, poisonous gas will blanket the planet for years afterwards. When supervolcanoes erupt they cause devestating, planet-wide extinctions.

I hope Yogi Bear and Boo Boo are okay

I think this is either the 2nd or 3rd time they said Yellowstone was going to erupt. Until I see a full on eruption, I'm not too worried. Beside, Yellowstone is all the way on the other side of the country so hey I'm set.

It will drop the world into a deep freeze and kill most life all over the planet. Hot, poisonous gas will blanket the planet for years afterwards. When supervolcanoes erupt they cause devestating, planet-wide extinctions.
sweeeeet

gotta get in some of that action

I think many of you don't realize the potential here.
Not really the same scale as the Deccan Traps in Siberia, though, is it?

I think many of you don't realize the potential here.
Just think of the CO2 emissions from a supervolcano.

"EVIL US DOES IT AGAIN! FAILS TO CAP VOLCANO CO2 EMISSIONS! GORE'S UNDERWEAR IN A TWIST!"

It was going to happen sooner or later. I imagine local emergency services have evacuation plans in place for the eventuality.
Well if it was a full scale eruption, I would guess the local energency service plan would be to bend over, grab their ankles and kiss their ass goodbye.


Of course, I'd put the chances of a major eruption on the same level as finding the Yeti having sex with the Loch Ness monster while the Queen snorts coke off GWB's hairy butt.

Heh, yeah... when that place blows you are all going to be boned. It's going to be more successful at removing US hegemony than a thousand al-Qaedas...

I'm sure we'll take as many of you as environmental refugees as we can though :)...

PS: If we don't sink into the North Sea that is...

If the Yellowstone supervolcano did fully erupt, we would be in a world of shit. Of course, global warming wouldn't exactly be an issue anymore. Just the equivalent of nuclear winter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/supervolcanoes.shtml

If the Yellowstone supervolcano did fully erupt, we would be in a world of shit. Of course, global warming wouldn't exactly be an issue anymore. Just the equivalent of nuclear winter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/supervolcanoes.shtml

Meh.

Heh, yeah... when that place blows you are all going to be boned. It's going to be more successful at removing US hegemony than a thousand al-Qaedas...

I'm sure we'll take as many of you as environmental refugees as we can though :)...

PS: If we don't sink into the North Sea that is...

You'll be boned, too.

Substantial amounts of the world's food comes from the US. Aside from mass starvation in some countries, the weather changes will destroy the ability of other countries to grow food.

You'll be killing people in the streets to eat them.

Yall are getting excited over nothing. :rolleyes:

*goes into his bomb shelter and locks it.*

If the Super-Volcano erupts, I am fully prepared to blame George Bush.

This is an obvious attempt by the Bush Administration to shift attention from Iraq, it is so obvious!

Wanted to say that before anyone else could-

Actually I don't think so, just wanted to take a potshot at American politics ;) .

If the Super-Volcano erupts, I am fully prepared to blame George Bush.
Better to look for food, guns, and shelter.

Wanted to say that before anyone else could

You failed.

Just think of the CO2 emissions from a supervolcano.

"EVIL US DOES IT AGAIN! FAILS TO CAP VOLCANO CO2 EMISSIONS! GORE'S UNDERWEAR IN A TWIST!"
I see you're donning your hairshirt early tonight.
Just can't wait to jump on your high horse and flagellate yourself, can you?

Not really the same scale as the Deccan Traps in Siberia, though, is it?
Makes any volcano or potential eruption from that area look like a firecracker. This will kill most of humanity and destroy civilization.

Hooray for armageddon!


Right, I'm off to buy fifty thousand tins of food and a really BIG umbrella.

I see you're donning your hairshirt early tonight.
Just can't wait to jump on your high horse and flagellate yourself, can you?
It's your fault - I'm not in the UK anymore, and they don't sell Korenwolf here.

I NEED KORENWOLF!

Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where'd you find the article? I can't seem to locate a copy of it anywhere.

Makes any volcano or potential eruption from that area look like a firecracker. This will kill most of humanity and destroy civilization.
Oh, well, we needed the clean slate anyway.

Hooray for armageddon!


Right, I'm off to buy fifty thousand tins of food and a really BIG umbrella.
Better by something to reenforce that umbrella and make it unflammable and undestroyable bue uber acid rain.

More on the possible impact...
WHEN supervolcanoes blow they can cover entire continents with ash. But how this happens has been a puzzle because wind and the initial force of the eruption are not enough to carry the ash over such long distances. Now an examination of prehistoric eruptions has come up with an answer.

Supervolcanoes are classified as volcanoes that spew out more than a trillion tonnes of material when they erupt - equivalent to 30 Krakatoas. Such volcanoes cannot be studied directly as the most recent was Toba in Sumatra around 71,000 years ago.

So Peter Baines from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Stephen Sparks from the University of Bristol, UK, used geological records of ash volume and magma chamber size to estimate the energy of past blasts and model the plumes they would have generated. From this they deduced that the Earth's rotation fans ash out into a giant spinning cloud up to 6000 kilometres wide within one day. "It is a bit like a hurricane, but on a much larger scale," Sparks says.

Unfortunately the findings don't offer a solution for surviving a future eruption, such as if the supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park in the US were to blow. "I'm not sure what we could do, except stay underground," says Sparks.

I already have an underground community that has a garden for food and pasture for cows. However, I am only allowing my family, my brother's wife family, my close friend and her family come along. Everyone else is screwed.

I still can't find this anywhere on the news. Could you give us a link the other doesn't work.

I still can't find this anywhere on the news. Could you give us a link the other doesn't work.

I can't find it either.

I still can't find this anywhere on the news. Could you give us a link the other doesn't work.
No. I lied. I edited a story about a volcano in Indonesia. I'm sorry. :( I'm bad. My mother always told me I would turn out this way. :(

This is about as close as you get.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13318067/

Could you supply a link to that story please?

No. I lied. I edited a story about a volcano in Indonesia. I'm sorry. :( I'm bad. My mother always told me I would turn out this way. :(

Naughty you.

Clicky. (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13318067/)

Not terribly worried. Apparantly the geyser they're talking about had a period of activity from 1970 - 1974 and then quieted down.

Besides, even if this is "it", ain't much you can do beyond your normal disaster preparations.

Uh... you *do* maintain some normal preparation for disasters, don't you? Doesn't take much, a few bottles of water, some portable camping equipment ready to go, a good non-electric can-opener and some tins. If it gets more serious than that can handle, you're either totally screwed anyway, or there'll be government assistance.

No. I lied. I edited a story about a volcano in Indonesia. I'm sorry. :( I'm bad. My mother always told me I would turn out this way. :(

Meh, I needed a new umbrella anyway :D

No. I lied. I edited a story about a volcano in Indonesia. I'm sorry. :( I'm bad. My mother always told me I would turn out this way. :(

Great! Now would you please tell me what I should do with the 5000 cans of Ravioli I just bought?

No. I lied. I edited a story about a volcano in Indonesia. I'm sorry. :( I'm bad. My mother always told me I would turn out this way. :(
That would explain why the times didn't match up! ;)

Clicky. (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13318067/)

Not terribly worried. Apparantly the geyser they're talking about had a period of activity from 1970 - 1974 and then quieted down.

Besides, even if this is "it", ain't much you can do beyond your normal disaster preparations.

Uh... you *do* maintain some normal preparation for disasters, don't you? Doesn't take much, a few bottles of water, some portable camping equipment ready to go, a good non-electric can-opener and some tins. If it gets more serious than that can handle, you're either totally screwed anyway, or there'll be government assistance.


Just imagine what little you could do if the Sun blew up. Or if a full-scale nuclear war started.

No. I lied. I edited a story about a volcano in Indonesia. I'm sorry. :( I'm bad. My mother always told me I would turn out this way. :(

Great, now what am I susspose to do with my underground city?

Great! Now would you please tell me what I should do with the 5000 cans of Ravioli I just bought?
hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

No. I lied. I edited a story about a volcano in Indonesia. I'm sorry. :( I'm bad. My mother always told me I would turn out this way. :(

I'm guessing you're trying to get a point across with this article, what would it be?

Evil Dan. I nearly started planning to build an underground society

shwew - you had me worried because I have family living practically right above it.

Great! Now would you please tell me what I should do with the 5000 cans of Ravioli I just bought?
Bring them to my house. We can take them to the shooting range and have fun with the 20,000 rounds of ammunition I have.

I'm guessing you're trying to get a point across with this article, what would it be?
Had to wake up extra early this morning to get to work. Needed a little entertainment. Someone did this to me on my website once. Thought it was funny.

shwew - you had me worried because I have family living practically right above it.
I'm sorry. I apologize for that. I'm a really bad, evil, stinky person with doodoo in my soul. :(

Funny.

When someone posts that humankind is seriously screwing around with the climate "everyone" goes "Oh, but I don't believe you!" and now that Yellowstone is burbing once again the "same people" go "OMG! We're all gonna die! Repent, sinners, EOW, etc.!"

I had hoped to see Yellowstone intact sometime soon - just like I wanted to get on top of the WTC in NYC and postponed it till my next visit (in which I went and saw a huge hole in the ground - wonder how huge the Yellowstone hole would be...).

Damn! I was looking forward to California sliding into the ocean! ;)

Had to wake up extra early this morning to get to work. Needed a little entertainment. Someone did this to me on my website once. Thought it was funny.

Shame. You could have made a point similar to German Nightmare's:

Funny.

When someone posts that humankind is seriously screwing around with the climate "everyone" goes "Oh, but I don't believe you!" and now that Yellowstone is burbing once again the "same people" go "OMG! We're all gonna die! Repent, sinners, EOW, etc.!"

Shame. You could have made a point similar to German Nightmare's:
Alas, I'm just not that deep. :(

I'm sorry. I apologize for that. I'm a really bad, evil, stinky person with doodoo in my soul. :(


Yes you are.

I really didn't fully believe it anyway because you didnt supply a link , I hadn't heard anything already, and doing a search produced no results. I knew there was a possibility that it was true though.

we know the ground is swelling right now, moving the lake a dozen or so feet in one direction. An inactive geyeser that recently erupted suggests that volcanic activity is pushing more water towards the surface. It is a fact that it is a super volcano and has the potential of sending us into another ice age.

I'd be interested in seeing the chaos that results from it. Besides the death and destruction brought on by the vocano I imagine that a large percentage of the deaths will be done by humans against humans as we riot, rape, steal and kill.

neat

You'll be boned, too.

Substantial amounts of the world's food comes from the US. Aside from mass starvation in some countries, the weather changes will destroy the ability of other countries to grow food.

You'll be killing people in the streets to eat them.

A bit of an exaggeration. Substantial amounts of the world's food only comes from the US because the US effectively pays its people to make its food cheap. It's actually cheaper for African nations to buy Western food than to grow their own... but this thread isn't about market flooding or globalisation so back on topic...

The 'Nuclear Winter' scenario will only come about in the absolute worst case scenario, in all likelihood the effects will fall below the threshold needed to affect the climate globally.

However, any significant wobble in the climate is likely to have terrible effects on the world's poorest people. That as why (as I said) we should be willing to take our fair share of environmental refugees, and, importantly, we should all reshift the focus of our agricultural economies away from protectionism (man, I can't seem to stay away from this topic) and "preservation of countryside idealism" and instead invest in more durable farming methods, methods that could survive global warming, even if it does mean diverging from the fad of organicism.

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for....

The Lunatic Goofballs award of insanity and practical jokes goes to:

PsychoticDan
Speech, speech!

Well I hope it does erupt. It will save me the hassle of doing this month's gross profit report.

This is why you should bring Res sig.

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for....

The Lunatic Goofballs award of insanity and practical jokes goes to:

PsychoticDan
Speech, speech!
Oh, jeez. well, this is unexpected. I, ummm... I wish I had prepared something. I guess I should thank some people. Okay, I'd like to thank the Associated Press, without taht article I wouldn't have any good material to work with. I'd like to thank MSNBC for archivin the original. I'd like to thank the all the guys and gals at NS general for being such gracious hosts... Aww, Hell, You all know your names!!!!

You like me! You really like me!!! :D

I wouldn't start breathing sighs of relief yet folks. It is still going to erupt, maybe not any time soon, but it is, and the longer it builds up steam, the bigger the eruption will be.

I wouldn't start breathing sighs of relief yet folks. It is still going to erupt, maybe not any time soon, but it is, and the longer it builds up steam, the bigger the eruption will be.

And when it blows it will cover the entire world in a 3 meter layer of Bird-flu, SARS, communist muslims and soft-porn.

And when it blows it will cover the entire world in a 3 meter layer of Bird-flu, SARS, communist muslims and soft-porn.

Soft porn?! NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Long live the new post-Apocalyptic soviet world order!!!

It was going to happen sooner or later. I imagine local emergency services have evacuation plans in place for the eventuality.
What would they be able to do?

"Lie on your back and reconsile yourself that you life probably was useful in some way to someone. That is all."

Long live the new post-Apocalyptic soviet world order!!!

All hail the nude bird-flu/SARS infected communist muslims!

What would they be able to do?

"Lie on your back and reconsile yourself that you life probably was useful in some way to someone. That is all."

"Duck and cover" more likely. :p

All hail the nude bird-flu/SARS infected communist muslims!

Yes, but with NO penetration! Do you know how annoyingly frustrating that is?!!

Yes, but with NO penetration! Do you know how annoyingly frustrating that is?!!

Yeah...You'll never be able to see their crotches because by some strange coincidence a bird-flu infected chicken or a copy of the communist manifesto will always be in the way at exactly the correct angle.

Whats up? Tunami in 2004. Big volcano erupting. Mt. St. Helens erupting. Yellowstone erupting. And thare is the threat of a super tunami wiping out the entier Atlantic basin. It's the end of the world!

Long live the new post-Apocalyptic soviet world order!!!
No!! America must win! I will not allow a mine-shaft gap!

*snip* It's the end of the world!
...as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
And I feel fine!

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - The Yellowstone caldera has been classified a high threat for volcanic eruption, according to a report from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Yellowstone ranks 21st most dangerous of the 169 volcano centers in the United States, according to the Geological Survey's first-ever comprehensive review of the nation's volcanoes.

Kilauea in Hawaii received the highest overall threat score followed by Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier in Washington, Mount Hood in Oregon and Mount Shasta in California. Kilauea has been erupting since 1983. Mount St. Helens, which erupted catastrophically in 1980, began venting again in 2004.Just Google it!

...as we know it.
:) Yay, Great Big Sea! :)

Meh. Stupid natural disasters. Why can't the natural just let us be? Not like we've ever done anything to it. Much.:rolleyes:

So long, Western North America! It was nice knowing ya! I wish I could've spent more time with ya.

By the way, Rest of the World, if it really fully erupts, get ready for some serious tough shit.


Lol yeah i was watching a show on this and it was said that it might make another ice age, and all the ash would go southeast if the conditions were right(Im assuming this is worst case senerio) and millions of people would die from the ash, and pretty much the whole earth would be covered in ash, but lets just hope that dont happen.

No!! America must win! I will not allow a mine-shaft gap!

I only watched that film a few months ago, pure genius.

I only watched that film a few months ago, pure genius.
"He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

"He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
What movie?

What movie?
Dr. Strangelove (a Stanley Kubrick film)

Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(yes, that is the full title).

I have it on DVD.

My favorite quote from the movie:

[after learning of the Doomsday Machine]

President Merkin Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador! Why should you *build* such a thing?

Ambassador de Sadesky: There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.

President Merkin Muffley: This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that.

Ambassador de Sadesky: Our source was the New York Times.

Think NUCLEAR WINTER !


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I dont think it will hit my current location

I think this is either the 2nd or 3rd time they said Yellowstone was going to erupt. Until I see a full on eruption, I'm not too worried. Beside, Yellowstone is all the way on the other side of the country so hey I'm set.

They had a documentary on Discovery not to long ago that dealt with the Yellowstone. The projections for an eruption said that 2/3rds of the US would be covered in ash. The deathtoll would start at around 80K from mudslides and magma.

They don't mention what it would do to a large portion of Canada, though I assume it would hurt them just as bad.

*sips tea*
Bring it on.

Ok, I gonna call BS on this one. I did a search and no other source can confirm this.

Well if it was a full scale eruption, I would guess the local energency service plan would be to bend over, grab their ankles and kiss their ass goodbye.


Of course, I'd put the chances of a major eruption on the same level as finding the Yeti having sex with the Loch Ness monster while the Queen snorts coke off GWB's hairy butt.



I'll make sure to scour the National Enquirer for such occurances :o

It will drop the world into a deep freeze and kill most life all over the planet. Hot, poisonous gas will blanket the planet for years afterwards. When supervolcanoes erupt they cause devestating, planet-wide extinctions.

It will curb global warming however

Think NUCLEAR WINTER !

That was the last big climactic scare. We are now on global warming. Do keep up.

I hope it doesn't erupt anytime soon. But if it DOES erupt, could it at least wait until the 26th? By then, I'll be on my way to Israel. And on the other side of the world from the blast.

*sips tea*
Bring it on.

I peed in your tea.

Sorry.