Yellowstone On A Volcano

[JimBeam]

Just read this posted on Joe Bob BRiggs site :

Yellowstone National Park sits on top of one of the largest super-volcanoes in the world and has been on a cycle of erupting once every 600,000 years, according to geologists. Guess how long it's been since the last one? Uh, 640,000 years. That's why park rangers were a little concerned this winter when extremely high ground temperatures were detected in the Norris Geyser Basin (well over 200 degrees, measured just one inch below ground level). Then there's the fact that everything in that area is dying: trees, flowers, grass, shrubs. Then there's the fact that animals are migrating out of the park. Then there's the fact that last July a huge bulge was discovered at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake, and it's risen 100 feet from the bottom of the lake, with mountain water that's normally extremely cold now reaching 88 degrees. And, oh yeah, one more thing--the lake is filling up with dead fish. Not that we have to worry too much about it. If the volcano does erupt, it will only be about 2,500 times the size of the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980. That would only kill every living thing within a 600-mile radius. As long as it doesn't reach Aspen, we're fine.

Joe Bob Briggs (http://www.joebobbriggs.com/)

I have balls !!!

[mdr55]

O&A on a volcano!!!! Damn those crazy bastards.

(What would MOE do?) paid for by Endangered Feces

[Furtherman]

Bump!

For today's show.

The rumbling appears to have abated, but University of Utah scientists are busy analyzing a "swarm" of 900 earthquakes that have struck Yellowstone National Park since Dec. 26. In the meantime, federal officials say the seismic activity, clustered around the north end of Yellowstone Lake, is no cause for alarm even as a swarm of alarmist warnings shakes cyberspace. (http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11409304)

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site297/2009/0108/20090108__yellowstonequakes_1109~1_Gallery.jpg

This images indicates Yellowstone earthquake from the past week. One of the most intense siesmic "swarms" in the national park's history has been shaking the north end of Yellowstone Lake. Since Dec. 26, 900 quakes, 111 measuring magnitude 2.0 to 3.9, have been recorded. Image by the U.S. Geological Survey.

[disneyspy]

they also say its 40,000 years overdue for its next eruption...

[Sue_Bender]

This figures.


I just bought a new toothbrush.

[mikeyboy]

I guess I shouldn't have renewed my Paltalk subscription.

[IMSlacker]

I guess I shouldn't have renewed my Paltalk subscription.

That reminds me. I signed up for Paltalk last week just so I could watch Fez not talk. Now what? Thanks a lot, Earl.

[Snoogans]

Seriously. 600 Miles? That shit wont reach us.

[biggestmexi]

itll be intersting

[Furtherman]

Seriously. 600 Miles? That shit wont reach us.

The ash will. A few feet of it, but that's nothing compared to the endless winter we'll have for years because of no sunlight.

[Snoogans]

The ash will. A few feet of it, but that's nothing compared to the endless winter we'll have for years because of no sunlight.

the ash cloud from the biggest one ever didnt cover half the country. NY would still have sunlight

[Snoogans]

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

[Furtherman]

the ash cloud from the biggest one ever didnt cover half the country. NY would still have sunlight

Mount Saint Helens is NOTHING.

No because the ash in the atmosphere will be everywhere and it will float up there for years. The entire planet will go dark.

[Snoogans]

No because the ash in the atmosphere will be everywhere and it will float up there for years. The entire planet will go dark.

the last time this happened humans were on the planet. They didnt all die off.

[mikeyboy]

That reminds me. I signed up for Paltalk last week just so I could watch Fez not talk. Now what? Thanks a lot, Earl.

For what it's worth, the studio cam is up right now. No idea why.

[disneyspy]

the last time this happened humans were on the planet. They didnt all die off.

mount st helens killed the detroit lions playoffs hopes tho

[Snoogans]

mount st helens killed the detroit lions playoffs hopes tho

Thats was actually Mount Matt Millen

[Freakshow]

Joe Bob Briggs. Is there's anything he doesn't know?

[disneyspy]

Thats was actually Mount Matt Millen

:lol::lol:

[Furtherman]

the last time this happened humans were on the planet. They didnt all die off.

I know. I didn't say it would kill us all. But the last time a supervolcano popped, we almost didn't make it as a species.

LAKE TOBA, SUMATRA, INDONESIA

The 1,080-square-mile Toba caldera is the only supervolcano in existence that can be described as Yellowstone's "big" sister.
About 74,000 years ago, Toba erupted and ejected almost three times as much volcanic ash as the most recent major Yellowstone eruption (Lava Creek, 630,000 years ago) and about 12 percent more than Yellowstone's largest eruption (Huckleberry Ridge, 1.8 million years ago). That comes to several thousand times more material than erupted from Mount St. Helens in 1980.

Some researchers suspect that Toba's super eruption and the global cold spell it triggered might explain a mystery in the human genome. Our genes suggest we all come from a few thousand people just tens of thousands of years ago, instead of from a much older, bigger lineage — as the fossil evidence testifies. Both could be true if only a few small groups of humans survived the cold years following the Toba eruption.

[Snoogans]

and that one was bigger. Ill take my chances

[Howard Stern]

Mount Saint Helens is NOTHING.

No because the ash in the atmosphere will be everywhere and it will float up there for years. The entire planet will go dark.


so then whitey will be a minority, right?

[SouthSideJohnny]

What's all this talk of 600,000 years ago? I thought the plant was only 6,000 years old.

[Furtherman]

so then whitey will be a minority, right?

We already are.

[tanless1]

where do you get 6000 years?
perhaps we could burn a whole thru the ash to let the sunlight in.

[tanless1]

perhaps we could start drilling fevereshly to difuse the pressure.

[Freakshow]

where do you get 6000 years?
perhaps we could burn a whole thru the ash to let the sunlight in.

That book written by that King--Lebron James...

[tanless1]

That book written by that King--Lebron James...
oh,i get god, the infinite being w/ and equaly infinete time line created the hevean and earth blah blah. the 24hr time solar is specific to the earth. i see the earth could very well be millions + . dont know why thelord wld pressure himself to comply w/ a solar schedule.

[brettmojo]

the last time this happened humans were on the planet. They didnt all die off.

I know. I didn't say it would kill us all. But the last time a supervolcano popped, we almost didn't make it as a species.
Yeah I remember learning about that in college. It was called something like the bottlenecking of our species or something.

[high fly]

where do you get 6000 years?
perhaps we could burn a whole thru the ash to let the sunlight in.


That book written by that King--Lebron James...



I was thinking more of responding with a 5th Dimension reference.....

[pennington]

I'm sure once Obama is sworn in, everything will be fine.

[tanless1]

now if he can just get kenya to refrain from installing that historical marker at his birthplace

[scottinnj]

And BOOM! goes the dynamite.

[sr71blackbird]

Well, if it cools off the world, what will we do to stop the global warming? Oran is this how nature balances things? Hmmm?

[sr71blackbird]

Well, if it cools off the world, what will we do to stop the global warming? Or is this how nature balances things? Hmmm?

[Furtherman]

Today 08:36 AM
Well, if it cools off the world, what will we do to stop the global warming? Oran is this how nature balances things? Hmmm?

Today 01:25 PM
Well, if it cools off the world, what will we do to stop the global warming? Or is this how nature balances things? Hmmm?



That might be the longest time delayed double post ever.

[JimBeam]

I used to love reading Joe Bob's page but now he only updates it w/ old stories.

That SOB actually owes me a prize for guessing one of the movies he had posted.

Maybe on my deathbad I'll receive total consciousness.

So I'll have that going for me.

[Furtherman]

When Yellowstone Explodes (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/yellowstone/achenbach-text)

Beneath Yellowstone Park a monstrous plume of hot rock is causing the earth to heave and tremble. Past volcanoes have erupted with a thousand times the power of Mount St. Helens. The future is anybody’s guess.

http://s.ngm.com/2009/08/yellowstone/yellowstone-615.jpg

New article in next month's National Geographic, with updates and cool pictures.

[biggirl]

It better not erupt before I get my son to visit the park. He has been asking for about 2 years now. We've been many times, but he hasn't.

[sr71blackbird]

Its not like that half of the continent is needed anyway.