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joetato
07/16/09

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So realtors working for Super-Villains looking for a secret lair location will be falling all over each other in a mad bidding war, the likes of which have never been seen before?
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alphanumeric1971
07/16/09

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Yeah, I saw the Discovery Channel special all ready.
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stereobot
07/16/09

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If Yellowstone blows up, we all die.
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Charles Keila
07/16/09

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i have to say that your geo-porn is the third best porn on the internet.Behind the pirate and the midget variety that is
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Grey_Area
07/16/09

@Charles Keila: We have Space Porn and Chart Porn here too, because we are all big geeks. Stick around why don't you?
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acrobatic rabbit
07/16/09

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Coming Soon: Pierce Brosnan vs. Tommy Lee Jones atop the MOST DEADLY VOLCANO ON EARTH

yep, I'm taking scripts now.
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Belabras ate my dingo!
07/16/09

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Horay for the return of the new gallery!
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EhnoValemount
07/16/09

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I don't mean to get all republican here- but isn't it funny how worked up we're getting about global warming when something like this supervolcano going off (which is only a question of *when*) would alter the climate more than we could ever hope to?
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Pope John Peeps II
07/16/09

@EhnoValemount: What's bad about volcanoes? Rapid climate change. What's bad about global climate change? Rapid climate change.

I don't mean to get all logical here - but isn't it funny how problems sometimes resemble each other?
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Pope John Peeps II
07/16/09

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I hear Spider Man 4 will pit Emo Parker against the Supervolcano, played by Jim Carrey.
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92BuickLeSabre
07/16/09

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As noted by others below. Hey Yellowstone Supervolcano! You need to be careful here, cause your starting to sound a little too much like the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

"Ooh, I'm gonna explode and destroy everything! Oooh, I'm gonna explode and destroy everything!"

And then when you really are about to explode and destroy everything? Nobody is going to believe you.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Don't taunt it! You'll make it angry.
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icepick3383
07/16/09

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: I concur. You don't want to make it angry. You wouldn't like it when it's angry.

plus, I'm thinking about moving to colorado...please don't make my face melt with hot lava upon arrival!
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tetracycloide
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: i'm not sure i really by that story anyway. i don't care how many times a boy cries wolf, his mother comes running every time.
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Blue_Thark
07/16/09

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Just visited Yellowstone over Independence Day weekend (I currently live less than 3 hours away)... Some really fascinating things to see, and I think these photos capture it very well. I'm especially a fan of those vibrant mini-ecosystems which form near the geysers, made up of bright orange "mats" of extremophile bacteria.

But having read a few things about this (and after hearing a talk from one of the NPS rangers at Old Faithful, whom I'm pretty sure was the guy from that Metamucil commercial,) I think that this headline is probably a bit of an exaggeration. They seem pretty certain that the Yellowstone volcano, although still very much active, won't be due for another major eruption for at least another few thousand years. And even if it were "about" to erupt, we'd probably be getting strong warning signs for decades. So no, I wouldn't say Yellowstone is "about to shatter" anytime soon.

I will say though, the whole supervolcano thing is certainly neat to think about.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
07/16/09

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This is on my list of Things That Scare The Shit Out Of Me along with the Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands and 99942 Apophis.
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Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 07/16/09 9:06 AM

Briareosdx
07/16/09

@RandomFrequentFlierDent: Me, too. It's the weirdest thing, but despite all the other much more likely things that could cause mayhem and havoc, it's these kind of looming mega-disasters that just get me sometimes. Remember the last time everyone was talking about Yellowstone around the Winter Solstice Consumerism and Deforestation Festival? I kept checking up on the latest news about the "Earthquake storm" every day. Even though I know, logically, that it's probably the last thing I should be worried about.
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matthewabel
07/16/09

@RandomFrequentFlierDent:

Dammit, RFF, I didn't even know about Apophis. Thanks a lot. One more for the list.
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
07/16/09

@Matthew Abel: Happy to help :)

My friends call me a wiki of paranoia. Always glad to be spreading panic and anxiety through education.
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LittleDragon
07/16/09

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They thought it was going to blow about three years ago when they had ground swelling occurring. My and my mom are volcano fanatics so we were all over any news on it. I remember they had a movie about Yellowstone going. It wasn't that bad of a movie.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
07/16/09

@LittleDragon: So did it explode? (yes, sarcasm)
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Chris R
07/16/09

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Discovery Channel chose this to be their "Disaster of the Year" a few years back with specials and impending doom from which none of us will survive.

Meh. I don't see any real reason to get stressed out by it though, as I can't really pull out a "The Core" to save all of mankind.
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kosai
07/16/09

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I am going to have to start checking the yellowstone observatory page on a regular basis.
volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo

I can't believe 77 earthquakes is normal activity for yellowstone.
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LittleDragon
07/16/09

@kosai: I thought I had read that they usually have between a few hundred and a thousand earthquakes every year.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
07/16/09

@kosai: It's just being a snippy little bitch these days.
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kosai
07/16/09

@LittleDragon: 77 was normal activity for the month of June sorry, so thats close to 1,000 earthquakes a year
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driggity
07/16/09

@kosai: Well there were 79 in June 2008, and 73 in June 2007 so its been about the same for the last 3 years. At least for June.
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NerD: Blattella
07/16/09

@crashedpc /sarcasm: You say these things and one day she's going to have a full on meltdown.

I'll blame you for taunting it.
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RAHfanboy
01/03/09

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It's hard to believe nobody's already made a movie about this.
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