could this be the end of us all?
could this be the end of us all?
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Dupont666

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22,860 posts

221 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wy_yell...

if this lows then it could be us all in trouble.... largest one is 3.9 on the scale...

anonymous-user

83 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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If that program on the BBC a while ago had any basis on fact, then yeah probably...

merc_man

1,926 posts

231 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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More to the point, where is Yogi Bear going to get all his picernic baskets from now?

bigTee

5,546 posts

250 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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merc_man said:
More to the point, where is Yogi Bear going to get all his picernic baskets from now?
hehe beat me to it!

V8A*ndy

3,697 posts

220 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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So Yogi was right!

Jellystone Park here we come...............

V8A*ndy

3,697 posts

220 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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bigTee said:
merc_man said:
More to the point, where is Yogi Bear going to get all his picernic baskets from now?
hehe beat me to it!
And me smile

G_T

16,163 posts

219 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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According to your link (scare mongering aside) the "Volcano alert level is normal".

I remember seeing a documentary about the supervolvano at Yellowstone some years back. Apparently it will be an absolute fker when it goes off.

Don't forget though; (1)no one has ever seen one like this go off before so the proposed damage is purely speculative and (2) Yellowstone make most of their living from the fear and fascination of the tourists that visit the region so don't expect the local paper not to be biased...

Gun

13,432 posts

247 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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I though one of the precursors to an eruption there would a lots of small earthquakes, seem to remember hearing that on a programme I saw about the caldera there a while ago.

Dupont666

Original Poster:

22,860 posts

221 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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G_T said:
According to your link (scare mongering aside) the "Volcano alert level is normal".

I remember seeing a documentary about the supervolvano at Yellowstone some years back. Apparently it will be an absolute fker when it goes off.

Don't forget though; (1)no one has ever seen one like this go off before so the proposed damage is purely speculative and (2) Yellowstone make most of their living from the fear and fascination of the tourists that visit the region so don't expect the local paper not to be biased...
I quite fancy going to see it before it goes off.... so to speak

richyb

4,615 posts

239 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Thank god, an 'end is nigh' thread that is not financial!

Gun

13,432 posts

247 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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G_T said:
According to your link (scare mongering aside) the "Volcano alert level is normal".

I remember seeing a documentary about the supervolvano at Yellowstone some years back. Apparently it will be an absolute fker when it goes off.

Don't forget though; (1)no one has ever seen one like this go off before so the proposed damage is purely speculative and (2) Yellowstone make most of their living from the fear and fascination of the tourists that visit the region so don't expect the local paper not to be biased...
Oh yes, it will be massive, I think we'd be able to hear the explosion here in the UK. Santorini was a caldera and this was all that was left of the Island after the eruption:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14...

Edited by Gun on Thursday 8th January 14:02

G_T

16,163 posts

219 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Gun said:
G_T said:
According to your link (scare mongering aside) the "Volcano alert level is normal".

I remember seeing a documentary about the supervolvano at Yellowstone some years back. Apparently it will be an absolute fker when it goes off.

Don't forget though; (1)no one has ever seen one like this go off before so the proposed damage is purely speculative and (2) Yellowstone make most of their living from the fear and fascination of the tourists that visit the region so don't expect the local paper not to be biased...
Oh yes, it will be massive, I think we'd be able to hear the explosion here in the UK. Santorini was a caldera and this was all that was left of the Island after the eruption:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14...

Edited by Gun on Thursday 8th January 14:02
Can't wait to see that one on youtube then!

Christ the USA still hasn't even repaired the South after hurricane Katrina(Catrina?) they'll be proper fked after this 'un.

Fezant Pluckah

1,711 posts

240 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Gun said:
G_T said:
According to your link (scare mongering aside) the "Volcano alert level is normal".

I remember seeing a documentary about the supervolvano at Yellowstone some years back. Apparently it will be an absolute fker when it goes off.

Don't forget though; (1)no one has ever seen one like this go off before so the proposed damage is purely speculative and (2) Yellowstone make most of their living from the fear and fascination of the tourists that visit the region so don't expect the local paper not to be biased...
Oh yes, it will be massive, I think we'd be able to hear the explosion here in the UK. Santorini was a caldera and this was all that was left of the Island after the eruption:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14...

Edited by Gun on Thursday 8th January 14:02
Santorini wasn't a supervolcanic eruption. There hasn't been one for about 75,000 years, when Toba erupted on Sumatra and almost extinctificated the human race. When Yellowstone erupts (and it's overdue) everyone will be bu66ered.

Edited by Fezant Pluckah on Thursday 8th January 15:11

Steamer

14,173 posts

242 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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V8A*ndy said:
So Yogi was right!

Jellystone Park here we come...............
Wel he was 'smarter than the averrrrrrage bear!'

G_T

16,163 posts

219 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Can't they just tap into it to release the pressure or something?

Surely it's worth a go seeing as how it could wipe out the entire human race?.... You could even get Bruce Willis involved as I understand it.

Apache

39,731 posts

313 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Good! an end to bad news, worry, cold weather, MMGW, economic crisis, Gordon Brown, falling house prices, redundancy and Russell Brand

s2art

18,942 posts

282 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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G_T said:
According to your link (scare mongering aside) the "Volcano alert level is normal".

I remember seeing a documentary about the supervolvano at Yellowstone some years back. Apparently it will be an absolute fker when it goes off.

Don't forget though; (1)no one has ever seen one like this go off before so the proposed damage is purely speculative and (2) Yellowstone make most of their living from the fear and fascination of the tourists that visit the region so don't expect the local paper not to be biased...
Its hardly speculative when they can measure the debris from the last eruption. IIRC there was 10 feet of ash deposited up to 200 miles away.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

276 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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"red hot magma"

Puggit

49,790 posts

277 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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At least the greenies will have a real excuse for climate change! And we can all go and live in caves (I own one, do you?)

[AJ]

3,079 posts

227 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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I've been there and seen it. That thing blowing off would indeed cause a bit of a problem!