Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."
You think global warming is a problem? (Score:0, Funny)
Multitalented! (Score:3, Funny)
University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies
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More evidence (Score:1, Funny)
Save this before it is mysteriously "disapeared" from the Word Wide Web. Haven't I always warned that the Italians were planting Volcanic melten rock underneath our Homeland in order to spread their Italian islamo-communist terror campaign through seismic blackmail?
Re:I'm gonna miss yellowstone.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Controlled release? (Score:5, Funny)
Now imagine that oil is hot enough to melt the rock you're standing on, and the machinery you just used to dig the well.
Oh, and there's 800,000 cubic miles of it. (rounded from D x W x W (410*45*45) from article, not accurate).
Re:Controlled release? (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, you've convinced me.
Where do we start the drilling?
Re:Release Some Steam (Score:4, Funny)
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats
living together... mass hysteria!
Re:Is there any way to avoid disaster? (Score:5, Funny)
This is because the hotspot now sits under a much thicker crust (the rocky mountains). But as I saw one geologist quoted, "I wouldn't bet on it either way".
OK, so I thought I was pretty safe from the Yellowstone Supervolcano where I live, and now you tell me I have to worry about a frikkin Rocky Mountain landing on me?
Re:I'm gonna miss yellowstone.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is there any way to avoid disaster? (Score:2, Funny)
Humans survived the 640,000 years ago eruption, they will survive again... how and in what shape... that's another story...
No need to survive. 640k years should be enough for anybody. :-)
Re:I'm gonna miss yellowstone.. (Score:4, Funny)
We need to strike preemptively. War On Seismology! Nuke Yellowstone today!
Re:I'm gonna miss yellowstone.. (Score:4, Funny)
Despite our best efforts, man-made disasters are pitiful compared to what nature has managed to do.
We can do better! I know we can! We just need the drive and the will.
Re:I'm gonna miss yellowstone.. (Score:2, Funny)
Problem with that is that Yellowstone is a suicide bomber with a deadman switch.