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Yellowstone Supervolcano "Even More Colossal" Than Thought
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| 12-10-2013
| Rebecca Morelle
Posted on 12/13/2013 6:20:25 PM PST by TroutGuy
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To: CincyRichieRich
One thing about volcanoes— they never listen.
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posted on
12/13/2013 6:42:36 PM PST
by
gusopol3
To: All
BTW, the previous hot spot eruptions blew apart mountains as it trailed to its current at Yellowstone. Check out the path it made through the mountainous terrain in post 12.
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posted on
12/13/2013 6:45:50 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
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posted on
12/13/2013 6:47:21 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: CincyRichieRich
How about a massive sideways drilling project starting way up in Canada to vent the magma off in about 40 different directions across the northern territories, producing a bunch of smaller and short lived volcanoes, relieving the pressure in Yellowstone and priming Canada for some great volcanic soil during the next interglacial about 100,000 years from now?
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posted on
12/13/2013 6:47:44 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: TroutGuy
Yellowstone volcanos explodes!!!! Women, children and minorities hit hardest!!!! Film at ELEVEN!!!
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posted on
12/13/2013 6:50:24 PM PST
by
Forrestfire
(Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Calvin Coolidge)
To: aruanan
Yeah, you eventually get good soil from volcanoes. Eventually. Initially, however, any ashfall greater than several inches will suffocate the living organisms in the soil and leave it sterile. So say goodbye to much of our agricultural production for a few generations if it blows.
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posted on
12/13/2013 6:52:16 PM PST
by
TroutGuy
To: aruanan
How about a massive sideways drilling project starting way up in Canada to vent the magma off in about 40 different directions across the northern territories, producing a bunch of smaller and short lived volcanoes, relieving the pressure in Yellowstone and priming Canada for some great volcanic soil during the next interglacial about 100,000 years from now?
You are on to something; and, prior to 0bummer, that would be a noble, rally the US project like man on the moon...but, 0bummer turned NASA into a Muslim outreach project.
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posted on
12/13/2013 6:53:03 PM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(“Some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell)
To: Mastador1
The whole Earth groans, and cries because of the sin of the people that live on it’s crust. An ancient book speaks about the Earth vomiting out its inhabitants.
To: CincyRichieRich
Surely, surely the PhD, 6-figure superheros as the EPA can put their collective heads together to solve this...I figure if 1000 Priuses drive around the volcano for 10 hrs straight, and utter, Ummmmm and spin around some crystals and vibrating rocks and smoke some weed, the volcano will listen to their pleas.
Didn't ancient cultures offer sacrifices to volcanoes? How about a few hundred liberals a day. To start.
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:00:16 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: rovenstinez
The whole Earth groans, and cries because of the sin of the people that live on its crust. An ancient book speaks about the Earth vomiting out its inhabitants.
Really? Because I thought that there was this ancient book about a benevolent being who created the earth than put man, it’s inhabitants, upon it to use it for “their” good. or was I mistaken?
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:00:46 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: CincyRichieRich
OoooooKAY, how about a sideways drilling project to vent it all in Mecca?
Would that be enough muslim outreach?
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:03:11 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: ETL
How can that be if the Earth is only 6000 years old?
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:03:42 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: TroutGuy
Yellowstone magma/lava is generally rhyolitic. In other words, it’s made of the same stuff as granite, rich in silica. I think good soils only come from basaltic and possibly andesitic lavas. Andesitic is a combination of the two.
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:05:05 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Moonman62
Perhaps Einstein had the answer: time is relative. :)
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:07:02 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: TroutGuy
"Just drop the worlds biggest TUMS down there and we should be fine. :)Nah, toss in popcorn!
To: TroutGuy
Well heck, let’s just start fracking there. Pump the molten rock up and make bricks.
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:14:29 PM PST
by
Usagi_yo
To: ETL
its made of the same stuff as graniteWhen it blows, it should lower the price of counter tops! ;-)
To: Right Wing Assault
I wouldn’t take that for granite...
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:37:47 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: gusopol3
One thing about volcanoes they never listen. Not according to traditional believers in our newest state. Pele, the volcano god, can be appeased. Find the most important Hawaiian you can and feed him to the volcano.
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:40:50 PM PST
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
To: doc1019
Well yeah , a supereruption will kill most of us.
Could happen tomorrow, could happen in a thousand years.
Nobody knows. But based on past history it’s overdue and
Statistically will happen again.
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posted on
12/13/2013 7:42:03 PM PST
by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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