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Sure Glad I don't live near Yellowstone National Park

Discussion in 'Safety valve' started by haymarket, Mar 15, 2005.

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  1. wild77

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    That super volcano will probably go off when our troops leave Iraq and we start getting all that cheap Iraqi oil from all of Bush's friends in the oil buisness!!!
     
    wild77, Mar 17, 2005
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  2. ddp

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    oil won't be cheap but bloody expensive!!!
     
    ddp, Mar 17, 2005
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  3. haymarket

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    Well we don't want to polute the air with Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide - what would all them sheep In Kiwiland breathe?
     
    haymarket, Mar 17, 2005
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    us Americans don't have to worry about oil for now. Bushy convinced congress to pass the Bill to start drilling for oil in Alaska. They won barely, by a 51 to 49 vote. So lets go destroy a wonderful un touched environment just for oil. The real kicker is that scientists only estimate there to be 16 billion barrels of oil up there...and the US consumes 7 billion per year! Do the math on that one! Man I hate Bush
     
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    I just saw a preview on discovery channel - they're doing a sequel to the supervolcano documentary. This one is a whole program about what would happen when Yellowstone erupts. It airs sometime in April I think.
     
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    Learned about this in my GEO class a while ago...yellowstones first eruption that we know of was 2MILLION years ago...the second one was 1.2MILLION and the third(the latest one to go off) was 600THOUSAND years ago.. so the guess that it will go off soon is correct only if you give or take 200thousand years...

    The supervolcano in yellowstone also grows about 4inches a year...in other words the ground in yellow stone rises as much as 4 inches each year!

    However, there is another supervolcano that is closer to erupting than the one in yellow stone. It is in California. (sorry I dont remember the name of it) they have actually found sediment from the last eruption where i live in south texas (thats a long ways from cali for those of ya who dont know!)

    but no matter where you live in the U.S. if one of these goes off we are all screwed because the ash from these will practically cover most of the earth. MT. ST. Helen's ash measured .1 cubic mile. Thats enough to cover 10 city blocks in 50 stories worth of ash. Now think of this. the ash from a supervolcano will probably measure 600 cubic miles!!! yea i would say we are all screwed...

    This is what I was told in my GEO class at least

    Hope this informs some people who are interested.
     
    josp03, Mar 21, 2005
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    The next one to erupt will probably be the one in the Canary Islands.
     
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    & a tidal wave to follow that would put the dec. tidalwave to shame
     
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    do you remember where in California? I thought I'd be in trouble with Yellowstone, but now that there's one in my state, I'm really f*cked
     
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    started with an S i think....two words
     
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    isn't there 1 under LA like in the movie "Volcano" with tommy lee jones & if so, crispy critter djscoop you will be!!
     
    ddp, Mar 21, 2005
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    san diego or san fransisco
     
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    I just googled it...Long Valley, eastern California and there's one in Taupo New Zealand also
     
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    lol I hope not, ddp. not that it would matter where in california it is, cause I'm toast either way
     
    djscoop, Mar 21, 2005
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    Why proper english of course!
     
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    I was thinking of booking one of those Shuttle Flights - if I win the lottery - build a place on the moon.

    Do they have volcanoes on the moon?
     
    haymarket, Mar 21, 2005
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    nope as no teutonic plates to worry about but do have asteroids & such that impact the moon to worry about!!
     
    ddp, Mar 21, 2005
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    haymarket

    You wouldn't want to live on the moon, too dusty, you’d be sweeping all the time! LOL
     
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    or sneezing all the time because of the dust
     
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    Just saw this it is crazy! don't think it is going be. But I live in seattle and that would suck if it was to go down!
     
    philipman, Apr 16, 2005
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