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I was looking at the tv guide for this week and came across this preview article for a BBC doco, called Supervolcano- The Truth About Yellowstone. There's also a follow "factual drama" simply called Supervolcano. The program hasn't aired yet, but it's pretty interesting stuff. Especially for people living in and around Wyoming. If it blows, we're all screwed, but them folks are really going to be in the shitter.
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I'd like to be standing on top of the mound when the thing erupts. That'd be a pretty spectacular way to die, pretty painless, I'd assume, and I'd definitely make the news. Assuming the volcano didn't knock out all the media outlets.
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I caught some of this on the National Geographic channel. I don't know if it was the same show or just the same topic, but the graphics of the whole park just exploding were pretty cool.
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fakeplasticdreams wrote:
Hinny
i think you and i have a bigger risk closer to us than Yellowstone.
Anak Krakatoa ( child of krakatoa), thats the one we should worry abt.
NGO is showing a documentary here abt a supervolcano which exploded sometime in the 1800's, near sumatra, which affected the world climate.
1873 or 74 I think. It put so much ash into the air that it affected the climate all over the world for well over a year. The following summer, it snowed in Boston on the fourth of July.
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punkdavid wrote:
fakeplasticdreams wrote:
Hinny
i think you and i have a bigger risk closer to us than Yellowstone.
Anak Krakatoa ( child of krakatoa), thats the one we should worry abt.
NGO is showing a documentary here abt a supervolcano which exploded sometime in the 1800's, near sumatra, which affected the world climate.
1873 or 74 I think. It put so much ash into the air that it affected the climate all over the world for well over a year. The following summer, it snowed in Boston on the fourth of July.
It snowed in Boston on May 18th about 3 years ago.
Which volcano caused El Nino? with the ~ (tilde), I think volcanic erruptions have been messing up the climate for quite some time now.
Also, I believe the Discovery Channel is showing the Supervolcano show
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malice wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
fakeplasticdreams wrote:
Hinny
i think you and i have a bigger risk closer to us than Yellowstone.
Anak Krakatoa ( child of krakatoa), thats the one we should worry abt.
NGO is showing a documentary here abt a supervolcano which exploded sometime in the 1800's, near sumatra, which affected the world climate.
1873 or 74 I think. It put so much ash into the air that it affected the climate all over the world for well over a year. The following summer, it snowed in Boston on the fourth of July.
It snowed in Boston on May 18th about 3 years ago.
Which volcano caused El Nino? with the ~ (tilde), I think volcanic erruptions have been messing up the climate for quite some time now. Also, I believe the Discovery Channel is showing the Supervolcano show
El nino is not related to volcanoes. It is merely a cyclical weather phenomenon. Americans like to give Spanish names to things they don't like such as marijuana.
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Saw an IMAX production of Yellowstone while living in Montana. Yellowstone is the largest cauldera that we know of. If that thing goes.....maybe I should say when....everything is toast.
Reminds you of just how Insignificant we really are.
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punkdavid wrote:
malice wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
fakeplasticdreams wrote:
Hinny
i think you and i have a bigger risk closer to us than Yellowstone.
Anak Krakatoa ( child of krakatoa), thats the one we should worry abt.
NGO is showing a documentary here abt a supervolcano which exploded sometime in the 1800's, near sumatra, which affected the world climate.
1873 or 74 I think. It put so much ash into the air that it affected the climate all over the world for well over a year. The following summer, it snowed in Boston on the fourth of July.
It snowed in Boston on May 18th about 3 years ago.
Which volcano caused El Nino? with the ~ (tilde), I think volcanic erruptions have been messing up the climate for quite some time now. Also, I believe the Discovery Channel is showing the Supervolcano show
El nino is not related to volcanoes. It is merely a cyclical weather phenomenon. Americans like to give Spanish names to things they don't like such as marijuana.
Where did I hear that these cyclic changes were related to volcanic activity?? surely my brain hasn't eroded that much, well, it's possible it has, but that's besides the point.
I'm sure I remember reading it was due to increased volcanic activity, and since it's a given that Americans also believe everything we read( ), it must have been at least a theory being tossed around.
At any rate, I'm willing to believe increased volcanic activity has played some role in climatic changes unless you want to tell me I'm high again.
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sleightofhandpj wrote:
Saw an IMAX production of Yellowstone while living in Montana. Yellowstone is the largest cauldera that we know of. If that thing goes.....maybe I should say when....everything is toast.
Reminds you of just how Insignificant we really are.
From what I remember, it's basically most of the National Park. We're talking hundreds of square miles. I saw a show about it once that said if it were to ever erupt, it would eliminate life on the earth completely. Crazy shit.
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fakeplasticdreams wrote:
Anak Krakatoa ( child of krakatoa), thats the one we should worry abt.
Is the Krakatoa overdue? In any case, that was just an ordinary volcano, not like this supervolcano in Yellowstone. Krakatoa was a single cone. Yellowstone is a bloody big hole in the ground.
Yellowstone is at the 640000th year of a 600-700k cycle. Lake Taupo in New Zealand, a fair bit smaller than Yellowstone, is due to go off soon, the article says.
The article says if Yellowstone was to blow, as it has done 2.1m, 1.3m and 640m years ago, the death toll would top 1 billion people.
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It was. They showed the programme a few weeks ago on BBC1. Very cool, show, although a little scary. But if it happens, it happens. We're fucked anyway.
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malice wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
malice wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
fakeplasticdreams wrote:
Hinny
i think you and i have a bigger risk closer to us than Yellowstone.
Anak Krakatoa ( child of krakatoa), thats the one we should worry abt.
NGO is showing a documentary here abt a supervolcano which exploded sometime in the 1800's, near sumatra, which affected the world climate.
1873 or 74 I think. It put so much ash into the air that it affected the climate all over the world for well over a year. The following summer, it snowed in Boston on the fourth of July.
It snowed in Boston on May 18th about 3 years ago.
Which volcano caused El Nino? with the ~ (tilde), I think volcanic erruptions have been messing up the climate for quite some time now. Also, I believe the Discovery Channel is showing the Supervolcano show
El nino is not related to volcanoes. It is merely a cyclical weather phenomenon. Americans like to give Spanish names to things they don't like such as marijuana.
Where did I hear that these cyclic changes were related to volcanic activity?? surely my brain hasn't eroded that much, well, it's possible it has, but that's besides the point. I'm sure I remember reading it was due to increased volcanic activity, and since it's a given that Americans also believe everything we read( ), it must have been at least a theory being tossed around. At any rate, I'm willing to believe increased volcanic activity has played some role in climatic changes unless you want to tell me I'm high again.
I believe La Nina was 3+ years ago.
I saw the Nat. Geographic special on Yellowstone. I highly recommend watching it.
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I dled this documentary a couple weeks ago, and am yet to watch it. Think I'll give it a whirl today.
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I recommend it.
), it must have been at least a theory being tossed around.
