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In response to "I've missed something. Cliff's Notes version of what's going on, pls? -- nm" by con_Kringle

Yellowstone National Park sits atop a subterranean chamber of molten rock and gasses so vast that the region is arguably one of the largest active

Posted by mara Dec 16 '09, 11:39

volcanoes in the world.

A modern full-force Yellowstone eruption could kill millions, directly and indirectly, and would make every volcano in recorded human history look minor by comparison.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/supervolcano.html (dsc.discovery.com)

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i.e. we are all going to die in a huge firey explosion -- nm - decline Dec 16, 11:42 9
- They should pour slushies down it to cool it off a bit. -- nm - Loyola Dec 16, 11:46 7
  - seriously, they should drill a big hole down to that caldera thingy and drop a bunch of ice down into it -- nm - decline Dec 16, 11:47 6
    - uh, have you seen any of the videos of dropping a frozen turkey into a deep fryer? -- nm - Zhu-Zhugeist Dec 16, 12:25
    - *starts writing tv-movie script* I'll call it "Fire and Ice"? "Super-eruption"? -- nm - Andie Cane Dec 16, 11:49 3
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        no, no, this is TOTALLY different. - Andie Cane Dec 16, 11:55
      - Superuption. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 16, 11:49
    - Or nukes. I'm easy either way. -- nm - Loyola Dec 16, 11:48
- no, relatively speaking, very few of us will die in the fiery explosion. many more will die from the suffocating ash cloud - znufrii Dec 16, 11:45
I love it when you talk geology -- nm - con_Kringle Dec 16, 11:42
and the last eruption there was 600,000 years ago, and scientist estimate that it erupts, on average, every 600,000 years... -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 11:40 5
- so like clockwork then? -- nm - Roger More Dec 16, 11:43
- (if I'm remembering my figures correctly...) -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 11:40 3
  - But at this hot spot's current position under Yellowstone there have been three massive eruptions: 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago. - mara Dec 16, 11:43 2
    - so, they're actually getting closer together, which means the next one's overdue *freaks out* -- nm - znufrii Dec 16, 12:04 1
      - Heh. -- nm - mara Dec 16, 12:06

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