• more about #geyser
    RAHfanboy: It's hard to believe nobody's already made a movie about this. more »
    RAHfanboy: 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 cube... more »
    Grey_Area: "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 he... more »
    twophrasebark: 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, ... more »
    Quilt: What's with all the animosity towards Canada? You wanted Celine Dion and we fucking gave her to you. NO TAKESIES BACKSIES! Bitter assholes! more »
    RhodaCachophony: since when is yellowstone in montana? more »
    Woden501: 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... more »
    Klebert L. Hall: 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... more »
    GreyHammer: more alarmist science looking for grants IMO more »
    EmilioAtalanta: Surely the Bush administration will see an opportunity here to repair their tarnished repurtation and rescure mankind by placing 100 well-placed nucle... more »
  • #disaster

    Yellowstone Due for Eruption that Could Obliterate North America

    Dozens of nearly-imperceptible mini-earthquakes have made Yellowstone National Park tremble over the past few days - they might be early warning of an eruption so huge it buries half the U.S. under hot ash.