>Steed, John Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Is everyone aware that there is a super-volcano underneath Yosemite National Park in the United States, and that due to a recent increase in tremour activity scientists now believe that it has the potential to explode at any moment? Just thought, seeing as the resulting chain of events could wipe out all life on this planet, that you should know. Ta-ta for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 uhmmm.. didn't everyone know this? I'm certain they've had the sign stating that on there since the 70's (that it was a volcano atleast) But yeah. oh well, I've lived a somewhat fullfilling life, kind of sucked along the way but all in all it was pretty good. I'm prepared to die, I shall wait for the day it comes to get me, but in the mean time *spins in chair yelling wee* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Yep, I've known about it for a long while now. There was a 'Horizon' programme about it on Brit TV a while ago. I'm not sure that it's eruption will be the end of all life on earth, frankly. I mean, according to estimates it last erupted something like 600,000 years ago. It must have been pretty devastating, but our ancestors certainly survived and spawned the human race - and there were probably far fewer of them on the planet at the time. Nevertheless, North America will certainly be devastated when it blows, and there will be a massive global environmental impact that will no doubt last for many years, if not decades or centuries. All the more reason to live life to the full, and in the moment. You never know when death will come knocking on the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Well supposedly it's supposed to be a much larger eruption and shockwave this time. Or so they estimate, not to mention the nuclear arms facilities that are near that area could pose a possible problem, since nuclear weapons... well any exploding device of anykind is very sensitive it could possibly explode at anytime during the quakes. So I believe that's another reason of why it could mean doom. Just some thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jed Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Bah, I can't die, I've got too many video games to play, so many desktop computers to build, and crappy threads to close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 The scale of the eruption will make a nuclear explosion look like a pimple bursting. But I can see where harmful radiation could become a compounding factor. Such a large event is also likely to trigger other natural 'disaster' events around the globe, I would imagine. The expected land slip in La Palma (sp?) in the Atlantic, for example. And isn't there a chunk of Hawaii due to collapse into the Pacific? A bad day indeed, when it blows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 I'd say that...hm...what would I say on that day? Oh yea. ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topshot Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 This information, I had no idea about. Thanks, John. Hopefully, this said 'eruption' won't happen for some millenia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Welshman Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 I wish they could tell us a more accurate time. If it is going to be in the coming few years, I wont hold any feelings back from my friends. If it's in more like 20 years then It wont bother me as much. If it's not in my life time then i'm screwed. I don't mean to sound selfish. But I don't want to be a comma in the book of the human race. I'd rather die in a big huge event like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Ehh, all bull-****! 15 years ago they said that we were going to have global cooling and the the whole ****ing planet would freeze Its the end of the world when Half-Life 2 is canceled! What we have to worry about now is global warming **** and AIDS and damn cancer ****, I hate cancer Three wishes 1-No cancer 2-global prosperity 3-Wish granting machine:D (You heard it here, folks), Edit: 09/1/04 This is my first signature ---->>>TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joetheeskimo Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 There have been way too many horrors like that that eventually die out. Like the meteorite headed for earth? It was in every magazine at first, then everyone forgot about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Ohh yeah, 3 weeks ago I heard on the radio that there was I giant meteroite heading for Earth in 2014- and this is no **** God help us build a nuke TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joetheeskimo Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Ah, I'll just stab myself with the kitchen knife when I see it coming. Sorry Do they know where exactly it'll hit? Like will it hit China, or North America? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 A glancing blow to Florida, thank god I live in Washington TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Please excuse my doudle posting, but. the chances that the big ****ing rock hits us is I belive 125,000:1 I just like making you sweat joetheeskimo5 *MuWaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!* TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insane Monkey Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Hey insane sith that song has some deep lyrics ... what style of music would u like it to be sung in????? im thinkin something like linkin park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Torque Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Originally posted by Tie 23 A glancing blow to Florida, thank god I live in Washington TiE You live in Washington ehhh. What city are you in.? I can imagine something like this happening but its seems logical, that it would take longer than 600,000 years for a phenominom like this to occur. I mean based on other huge events, such as this. like Haleys Comet stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Originally posted by Father Torque You live in Washington ehhh. What city are you in.? What, u live here? Lake Forest Park, about 10 miles north of Seatle Its the end of the road TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 What about those flesh eating beatles that escaped from the Sphinx that were artificially created through dark magic to destroy all of man kind because Ra dosen't like us? Anyone remember that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XERXES Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 is there an official USGS report on this? The entire earth would feel its effect trust me, pyroclastic clouds and dust and other material ejected from the volcano gets into the atmosphere and blocks sunlight. Back when Mt. Pinatubo in the Philipines erupted the global temperature of the earth was lowered by 2 degrees for a period of about 5 years...from one volcano. It was a big volcano but certianly nothing compared to whats under yellowstone. Pinatubo covered the landscape with ash in a 50 mile radius...thick ash that caused buildings to collapse under its weight, even modern buildings at the local US Air Force Base. And the pyroclastic flow itself covered a 15 mile radius. As if the immediate effects arent bad enough, imagine cleaning all that crap up. And then all the economic losses from farms and production etc etc... Also there is no real and efficent way to predict volcanos, mostly what the USGS does is put seismic sensors around the volcano, they monitor gasses in the air near it and look for physical changes. And take their best guess of how unstable it seems and put out warnings that mean like "eruption possible within 2 weeks, 48 hours etc etc" edit: even you englanders best get yer umbrellas out cause its gona rain ash on you if this mother blows. (and yes I am a Geology minor...but eventually gona be a Geology major since I dont think Computer Science is gona get me anywhere in life.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neverhoodian Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 I have a theory that mankind is always on the verge of destruction. Think about it. Back in our earliest days, we had to fend off infections and wild animals. In Mideival Europe, the Bubonic Plague killed off practically half the population of the continent. Massive floods, storms, volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters have wracked every continent. Ever since the nuclear buildup, humans have had the power to obliterate life from the earth. Even with the Cold War over, some of the computers in the nuclear silos in Russia are getting old and accident-prone. Now extrememely resiliant viruses and the dissolving of the earth's environment due to pollutants are just two of the myriad problems plaguing humanity. Earth has had a few encounters with devastating meteors, particulary one that, if you believe the theory, killed off the then-dominant species of the world, the dinosaurs. Only through dumb luck and perhaps the grace of God have humans as a race survived this long. I tend not to dwell on our species' end, as I don't let fear govern my life. Still, though, it's something to think about. (life on earth WILL end someday, after all) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XERXES Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 looks at blob of words above...no offence, but that is not at all pretty to read. Look up the word paragraph and apply it, makes reading 500 times easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Torque Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Originally posted by Tie 23 What, u live here? Lake Forest Park, about 10 miles north of Seatle TiE Ya, I live on Mercer Island:p . I go through there all the time:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Hmm..if a volcano that hasnt erupted in 600,000 will suddenly explode in the following centurty...then call us damned. Literally. Really, the probability of a natural catostrophe is nigh. Really, the major thing we have to worry about is a nuclear ending. Too low of a chance for anything really big to happen. Except some man-made disease wiping us all out. Damn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorganfloss Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Spam Portion: Bahahaha! Blaine can kick all your other Washington towns hands down! *flashes gang sign* On-Topic: I doubt the world will end any time soon, seeing as there have numerous near misses almost leading to our little planet's destruction. Edit: Ha! Check the titles XERXES! I was only on a partial spam that time, making the tap void! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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