Super-Volcanoes, Part 1: Yellowstone

The first video in my series on super-volcanoes. I take a dim view of the breathless, sensationalist, "we're all gonna die" style of Discovery Channel "documentaries." Many thanks to my friend skinnyjohnson for rescuing this video from oblivion. His channel is located at http://www.youtube.com/user/skinnyjohnsen
so, stop by and say thanks!

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Science & Technology

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• geology
• supervolcano
• super-volcano
• Rhymemaiden1
• Claire
• fatassed
• cats
• Yellowstone

[jrm404]

Mount Ranier would be a devastating eruption. Not from the eruption and ash but glacier melt. This will flood most of the rivers. Nuclear Power Plants will be at risk. Fukishima should teach us something.

[WildwoodClaire1]

@jrm404 An additional, and little known, threat from Mount Rainier is the danger of volcanic edifice collapse. The upper part of the north slope is weakened by thermodynamic alteration of the rocks. A large-scale collapse of the north face would create a devastating landslide and lahars.

[charliopal]

The pole shift theory is interesting. I'd look into it if I were you. There is a reason for all of the volcanic activity, tsunomies, ice cap melting, landslides and all of the hurricanes gaining in size and strength. Read the book called Crossing the Cusp. IF YOU DARE! Stop being blind people. This world is about to change drastically.

[WildwoodClaire1]

@charliopal OK, if you'll stop credulously accepting every pseudo-scientific bullshit fad you see and actually learn think critically.

[jennifer171986]

omg i hate your accent!

[WildwoodClaire1]

@jennifer171986 And?

[evilwatermelon]

70k years is a long time to build pressure... but as typical human behavior we look for patterns and correlation to predict the future. discovery is trying to sell ratings. they do this by scaring the shit out of people. humans like to be scared, and it makes the future much more exciting knowing the shit may hit the fan, rather than the idea that the rest of your life is going to boring as shit.

my 2 cents.

[11gege]

Thanks for this yellowstone video clip.

[jrm404]

The ash from the eruption will cover much of the breadbasket of the U.S. Probably killing over one third of the crops in the U.S. and dropping the temperature enough to kill most of the other two thirds of the crops for a couple of growing seasons. It will be devastating but won't kill all of us. Most of the U.S. population that survives starvation and the nuclear plant meltdowns will migrate south. As far as South America.

[jrm404]

With the continuous steam venting and release of toxic gasses at Yellowstone along with the seismic activity the volcano is going to erupt one day. It may be tomorrow or thousands of years from now. Nobody knows. The longer pressure builds under the caldera the more violent the eruption will be. It won't be an extinction event though. I would worry more about the nuclear power plants being buried in ash along the Missouri River and then melting down rather than the eruption itself.

[geonerd]

LOL@ 0:14

Claire (?) , burying your head in your hand will NOT save you when the SUPERVOLCANO comes for you! :)

[pigwigpa]

That pretty good. I don't know you made this one

[quintanafaj2009]

btw your talking to someone who doesnt believe in aliens

[quintanafaj2009]

@realfootage then explain why we have mountains and why we have the Mariana trench?