Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

Idaho Observer ^

[InterceptPoint]

She's gonna BLOW!!

Only if George Bush is re-elected. This would never happen if Dean becomes President. In any case, we need the Congress to pass an emergency measure outlawing Yellowstone blowing itself up even though we know that it will be vetoed by Bush.

[lawdude]

Another senseless Bush FU!

[RichInOC]

Okay, guys...which ranger drew the short straw to pour in the jar of Metamucil?

[Waco]

Nuther massive magma release may not occur for,,,glub,,glub,,,glub,,,glub

[CWOJackson]

This is all Bush's fault!

[null and void]

All I wanted was a good day of fishing at the park.

Dude! It doesn't get better! They come prepoached!

[Elliott Jackalope]

The inverse-square law states that something twice as far away from an energy source receives only one-quarter the amount of energy. So, an object that is ten feet away from a light bulb gets four times as much light as something that is twenty feet away.

[the invisib1e hand]

bulging magma

thought provoking.

[bd476]

A Kiss the Ground We Live in California Bump

[NYTexan]

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/isq.html

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Some truth, but mostly normal. I'm far enough away to say COOL if it uncorks! See the Snopes site:

http://www.snopes.com/science/volcano.asp

[Porterville]

All of the crazy crap that has happened around the world in my lifetime... I wouldn't be surprised if aliens landed on the White House lawn.

[Hank Rearden]

I'll bite...what is the inverse-square law? Be nice, I'm just a housewife.

It means that the energy of the blast (like radiation, heat, light, lots of things adhere to this law) diminishes by the square of the distance you are from it.

In other words, at two miles away the energy is 1/4 of that at one mile. At 10 miles, it's 1/100th etc. So by the time you get 600 miles away, the energy is much less than at ground zero. It'd have to be pretty damn impressive to kill something 600 miles away.

[Porterville]

Or it could be a much smaller blast with a continuous weeping of magma, with little or no effect.

[PAR35]

This story misses the good news - the eruption would cancel out "global warming'.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I suspect you've never heard of a supervolcano such as Yellerstone.

[John H K]

This article is VERY much overhyped and seems written by a kook.

[leadpenny]

They did. In January 93.. Stayed until January 01.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not the blast, but the FALLOUT! 5 inches of volcanic junk dumped on our head in a few hours would suffocate just about everything.

[Lucy Lake]

Yellowstone ping.