Cool I love this stuff.
Remember your Science Project?
1/730,000 for any particular year?
The probability goes way up when it has been 760,000 years since the last one.
Who knows that math?
Do we have a clue how many calderas there are in the world? This article cited Yellowstone and Sumatra. I believe the Bay of Naples in Italy is one. How many are there?
I'm watching.
would it destroy rich environmentalists' houses in jackson hole?
with any luck, yes!
would it scare their horsies?
sure. they might even gallop off without their masters and mistresses.
I can't wait until the end of the movie and I will hear Tom Brokaw talk to the scientists (sarcasm).
Just incredibly cheesy :)
BTW, anyone catch the black-pantsuited female prez...?
I'm watching it now, one thing that bugs me about all of this is they keep using the Metric system and I have to translate that into the English system for Mom. Kilometers, Centigrade, meters, dang. I really don't fall into my late maternal grandmother's camp of "The Metric system was a tool of Satan and if God wanted Metric, there would be 10 Apostles" but most people only know English units. Myself, I know some Metric but I still have to convert in my mind to English to get a rough idea. Maybe it ain't a major nitpick to some but I figure I wanted to pipe up about it.
We're watching it right now. Was actually pretty good.
No doubt. However, major eruptions have worldwide effects, especially on the weather.
Fascinating stuff. I would hope after this airing that many more Americans are aware that Yellowstone is a supervolcano.
I can't believe the amount of educated people who don't know it is.
Watching the replay on Discovery Channel.
Also there was a live chat tonight with Yellowstone's Geologists on Discovery channel that is now indexed fo viewing.
BTTT
This Supervolcano movie really was that terrible. The characters shown to be level headed in this movie are all Europeans. The ignorant American scientist complicit with the cover up was a Jew. (Europeans hate the Jews)
Other observations: the American govt. intentionally keeps information from its people and is slow to help its citizens. Americans in this movie are portrayed as being as wimpy as the Europeans. When the volcano threatens to erupt in Yellowstone, Americans start rioting all over the country. People are dying and we sit back doing nothing because the govt. told us to sit still until the eruptions subsided.
This was obviously a European (BBC) funded movie. They don't know anything about us and our natures. They could not imagine us doing everything possible to save as many people as we could.
Most predictable scene -- Black person leaves the danger area first, only to die when he stops at a motel instead of getting the heck out. There was also some gratuitous godless bashing of a believer.
The funniest scene concerned so called Americans trying to get into Mexico but getting turned away. One member of the disaster control team suggested using force to open the border. I could not control my laughter. The only people who would try to get into Mexico would be all the illegals and I really could see Mexico fighting to keep them from coming back.
I remember Mt. St. Helens. This movie did not come anywhere near showing the resolve of our people. It just reflected the sentiments of laissez faire Europe.
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As a Californian, I'm FAR more worried about Long Valley.