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    Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    01/03/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    It's hard to believe nobody's already made a movie about this.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    01/03/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    By my quick calculation, 240 cubic miles of ash would cover 1,267,200 square miles 1 foot deep.


    Unless the article was supposed to read 240 miles cubed, which would be a whole 'nother thing all together.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    "Hey-hey Boo-Boo, let's destroy North America with a pyroclastic cloud of searing death!"


    "I dunno, Yogi. Won't the Ranger get awful mad?"


    "Hey hey hey, screw that ursophobic bastard! Bären über allen!. Know what I mean?"

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    I don't if this would be such a bad thing. The ash would circulate in the atmosphere for a few decades and would cool the planet quite a bit. I mean, this is exactly what scientists are proposing to cool things down - inject absorbent or reflective particles into the atmosphere.


    In fact, maybe we should look into ways to make this happen on a smaller scale...

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    Image of Kakkoister Kakkoister
    01/02/09

    @twophrasebark: Then again, it might be good that we have warmed the planet up. We may have diverted another Ice Age from happening. And be able to keep it from happening. (Some scientist's are saying...)
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    01/03/09

    @Kakkoister:


    Exactly.


    I personally think global warming is going to be a disaster, but I think it's interesting when people say it's "unnatural".


    What is unnatural? We're natural. We're part of the Earth. Global warming is as natural as beavers damming a river. We are changing things. We might end up decimating ourselves, but... unnatural?


    I don't know about that.

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    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    What's with all the animosity towards Canada? You wanted Celine Dion and we fucking gave her to you. NO TAKESIES BACKSIES! Bitter assholes!
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    Image of RhodaCachophony RhodaCachophony
    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    since when is yellowstone in montana?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    01/02/09

    @RhodaCachophony: Partly in Montana, partly in Wyoming.
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    Image of Woden501 Woden501
    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    There's already one movie out about this called Supervolcano. Its, as one site put it, an edudrama, but it isn't half bad, and actually does a decent job of explaining about this entire thing. The IMDB page is here... [www.imdb.com]
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/02/09

    @Woden501: it was surprisingly informative and surprisingly good, which had me fearing an eruption for a long time after seeing it.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    It's been due for a long time, and could easily be due for a long time still.


    BTW, 240 square miles is pretty much nothing. It's not as if Yellowstone is in the middle of Manhattan.

    -Kle.

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    01/02/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: You're right, Klebert. 240 square miles is even less than the area flattened by Mt St Helens in 1980. The problem is that the article contains a typo.


    It should read "240 cubic miles of hot ash". Enough to cover the entire north american continent in a nice thick layer. The eruption before that ejected almost three times that much.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01/02/09

    @Matthew Hughes: That...that is a lot of hot ash.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    01/02/09

    @Matthew Hughes: D'oh! Fixed.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    more alarmist science looking for grants IMO
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    01/02/09

    @GreyHammer: Isn't that what they said about Pompeii?
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    01/03/09

    @neiana:
    Yeah, but Pompeii turned out fine! :V
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    Image of EmilioAtalanta EmilioAtalanta
    01/02/09

    In reply to Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America
    Surely the Bush administration will see an opportunity here to repair their tarnished repurtation and rescure mankind by placing 100 well-placed nuclear bombs to let the steam out.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    01/03/09

    @EmilioAtalanta: Nucular.
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