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I watched a programme about the Yellowstone Volcano on the Smithsonian channel last evening.
The predicted effects, should the worst happen, were hair raising to say the least.
Food and water shortages almost immediately, land covered in volcanic ash and unable to support crops for years, sun obliterated, particles breathed in that were essentially miniature shards of glass causing respiratory failure and so it went on. All this on a global scale, not just the USA.
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Yes, I've read several takes on what would happen and they're all scary. It seems all these people agree if Yellowstone blows it won't be a fart and we can breathe a sigh of relief. If it blows it will be catastrophic. They've been measuring the size of the magma(liquid rock) chambers under Yellowstone and they are huge. More like a super soaker than a squirt gun.
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The steady upswelling of the terrain around Yellowstone is concerning, to say the least.
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And when it does go bang, where do I go to register a noise complaint?
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It's sort of surprising to me that we can't relieve the pressure somehow. We've got big drills.
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Carruthers wrote:
And when it does go bang, where do I go to register a noise complaint?
Apologizing in advance,
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Clodfobble wrote:
It's sort of surprising to me that we can't relieve the pressure somehow. We've got big drills.
It may be like relieving the pressure in a balloon with a pin.
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Somebody must be modeling options but you'd probably hate to be the person who blew the side off the planet.
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Clodfobble wrote:
It's sort of surprising to me that we can't relieve the pressure somehow. We've got big drills.
I think they call that playing with fire.
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griff wrote:
...but you'd probably hate to be the person who blew the side off the planet.
Man, I hate it when that happens.
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If you are going to blow a side off the planet, best to be on the other.