Fate of USA and the Whole World Depends on One pool

[snooper2]

of lava

Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 years, wiping out two-thirds of the U.S.?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1350123/Worlds-largest-volcano-Yellowstone-National-Park-wipe-thirds-US.html

"The super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004

It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980.
Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away.

Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable as toxic air sweeps through it, grounding thousands of flights and forcing millions to leave their homes."







Is America Headed for Yellowstone Super-Volcano Eruption Catastrophe?

"Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable as toxic air sweeps through it, grounding thousands of flights and forcing millions to leave their homes.

This is the nightmare that scientists are predicting could happen if the world’s largest super-volcano erupts for the first time in 600,000 years, as it could do in the near future.


Yellowstone National Park’s caldera has erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years and researchers monitoring it say we could be in for another eruption."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-america-headed-for-yellowstone-super-volcano-eruption-catastophe/

[Poll_Blind]

1. No foolin'. It would pretty much be "The End". I try not to think about it.

While I won't say there is no danger from it (that would be a lie), there are other things which are statistically much more likely to kill me. I try to prioritize those things appropriately, so I spend more consideration cycles on them.

But it would be real bad if it ever erupted.

PB

[TrogL]

2. Canada would also be affected

When St. Helen's blew, I had ash all over my windshield.

[DCKit]

10. OMG, where did you take refuge?

[dipsydoodle]

3. Subject gets theorised on from time to time

Not much point in worrying about it. Would sure solve the problem of global warming - we all miss out completely at least one summer.

[Journeyman]

4. "I am an old man, and have known many troubles, most of which never happened." ~ Mark Twain

Think I'll put "fear of super-caldera" on the long list of worries I don't worry about.

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. Call your congressman right fucking now?

[snooper2]

7. He never answers the damn phone, he's always out

getting fucked up on orphan tears

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[MineralMan]

6. While such a thing could happen,

the odds of it occuring during any particular individual's lifetime are minuscule. It's on the same order as an asteroid striking the Earth. While this caldera has erupted, and is an active volcanic area, it probably won't erupt anytime soon. Probabilities.

Any individual's chances of dying from almost any other cause are so much higher than this that it doesn't even warrant thinking about. Staying indoors during thunderstorms is a much better idea than fretting about the Yellowstone caldera. Truly.

[hobbit709]

8. Wouldn't be the first time that homo sapiens got culled.

Mt. Toba 74,000 years ago.

[Catbird]

9. Visit Ashfall

For a sobering perspective, visit [or at least read about] Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park in Nebraska. Grounded airplanes are NOT going to be the problem. http://ashfall.unl.edu/index.html