Magma expanse under Yellowstone supervolcano more vast than thought

cnn.com ^ | 4/24/2015 | Ben Brumfield

[Night Hides Not]

The Looters & Moochers are looking to Yellowstone to solve the population and unfunded liabilities crises.

[FredZarguna]

What if a meteor hits it?

[FredZarguna]

"That's only going to be a problem if there are more than nine ninjas in the backseat whose asses I have to kick."

[Marcella]

My significant other is an Earth Scientist/Geologist and I’ve sent the CNN link to his computer to evaluate this and tell me how many more years we’ll be alive before we die due to this eruption. :o)

[TigersEye]

That’s how big a bang it was. It used to be east of Java. ;^)

[Drew68]

I thought there was some recent movie (”The day before yesterday”, “the week after last month” - or something) that explored this phenomenon...

I've often thought the unnamed cataclysmic event in Cormac McCarthy's The Road might've been a Yellowstone eruption. The world inhabited by the few survivors in McCarthy's novel (and film) fits the scientific description of what would happen.

[discostu]

Then that would seem to indicate the God is tired of our BS.

[Marcella]

“I’ve often thought the unnamed cataclysmic event in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road might’ve been a Yellowstone eruption.”

I have that book and have seen the movie. It is the ultimate in “no way” to survive. The family at the Galveston beach at the end of movie/book, MAY survive if the fish are still alive to be eaten.

[pepsi_junkie]

If she blows she could ash out pretty much the whole USA.

Yes. When Yellowstone goes, the USA is over. But can't control it, no point worrying about it. Hopefully it's really far down the road.

[MeganC]

We live near Cody about 30 miles from Yellowstone and we have an active hot spring that we use to heat our house, barn, driveway, hot tub, and pool. The temps usually are around 110F but sometimes it gets up to 120F.

And we’re 30 miles away from where most of the geysers are! So yeah the magma pool has to be pretty big!

[MeganC]

I thought there was some recent movie (”The day before yesterday”, “the week after last month” - or something) that explored this phenomenon...

"2012" touched on it.

[FredZarguna]

I really doubt that He’s going to do anything but allow us to live with the consequences of our stupidity.

[Arthur McGowan]

Reminds of an item Paul Harvey had. Giving a spelling test, a teacher said: “How do you spell ‘relief’?”

[Arthur McGowan]

A few inches under the surface, thermometers recorded a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit -- hot enough to boil water.

Government school.

[nascarnation]

Rounding to the nearest 100?

LOL

[jonno]

I thought Viggo did an excellent job in the movie. I haven’t read the book however. Did the book end with anything resembling hope?

The movie - as well as it was played - was depressing...

[granite]

At sea level, water boils at 212 °F. With each 500-feet increase in elevation, the boiling point of water is lowered by just under 1 °F. At 7,500 feet, for example, water boils at about 198 °F. Average elevation at Yellowstone is 8000’.

[EternalVigilance]

If she blows she could ash out pretty much the whole USA.

Might be a good time for the country to quit slaughtering babies and acting like Sodom.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That would not be a worry, it is blissfully moot, all the sinners and all the saints will be equally dead, not even an Abrahamic bargain this time.

Sometimes even "Christian" snarks are de trop -- dig?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Don’t ruin this with facts