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Yellowstone Volcano latest: 100-FOOT fissure sparks URGENT park closure
Express.co.uk ^ | 7/17/18 | Sean Martin

Posted on 07/17/2018 8:16:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker

A 100-foot fissure has opened up in the Grand Teton National Park – not far from the potentially catastrophic Yellowstone volcano.

The giant crack in the Wyoming–based national park has prompted officials to shut down areas from tourists in case of landslides.

The Grand Teton National Park said in a statement: “The Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point areas are currently closed due to elevated potential for rockfall.

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If it was seismic activity beneath Grand Teton which caused the fissure, it could be a sign that Yellowstone is reawakening.

If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Idaho; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: closure; doomage; grand; heybooboo; jellystone; park; supervolcano; teton; wyomin; wyoming; yellowstone
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To: pepsi_junkie
Problem is, nobody knows.

And since we cannot control it--I don't worry about it.

101 posted on 07/18/2018 5:50:29 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s funny, the earth’s volume is repeatedly listed as 1.084227366 × 10^27 cm3 according to the references I’ve found:

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/KatherineMalfucci.shtml

Not being a physicist, I don’t feel qualified to quibble, but as far as I know, a loss of 10^12 cm3 would not deflate a sphere of 10^27. Maybe I’m missing something here.

From the references I glanced at, Krakatoa ejecta was ~10^10 cm3; Yellowstone’s historical estimates are around 10^12 cm3 or 2 orders of magnitude.

It’s been a few years since my college geology, but the eruption of Yellowstone would be cataclysmic on any scale.

That said, no one has any idea when it will occur. The only thing I’m certain of is that this will happen before all the catastrophic predictions of Al Gore and his disciples come to pass. Maybe we should start a campaign to eliminate volcanism—it’s a more imminent threat and just as Quixotic.


102 posted on 07/18/2018 5:54:24 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: LibWhacker

“If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.”

That’s nothing compared to Trump meeting with Putin.


103 posted on 07/18/2018 5:56:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: LibWhacker

LOL! However did I know this headline was from a British tab...


104 posted on 07/18/2018 5:58:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: antidisestablishment
I agree that we need to be more worried about a super volcano destroying life on earth than the silly global warming scare.

But I'm not worried about either. Nor am I worried about such things as a comet striking the earth or a massive earthquake that splits the earth in two. Whatever happens will happen. There are certain things in nature that mankind has no control over and that raising taxes will not prevent.

If any of the above happens, nobody will be around to post that they were right all along.

105 posted on 07/18/2018 5:59:09 AM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: LibWhacker

And since we’re talking about the Tetins, that’s not a crack. It’s cleavage.


106 posted on 07/18/2018 6:00:17 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

Tetons...


107 posted on 07/18/2018 6:00:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: antidisestablishment

I probably screwed up my numbers. I was just struck by what I read to be ten orders of magnitude difference.

“Maybe we should start a campaign to eliminate volcanism—it’s a more imminent threat and just as Quixotic.”

Absolutely! We could even stop lava bombs from hitting tour boats! There’s money to be made here, I’m sure. It just takes another P.T. Gore to figure out how to milk that cow.


108 posted on 07/18/2018 6:04:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: LibWhacker
A bit more detail here, local coverage from Billings. Sounds like the fissure is in the rock face, not in the ground...

Growing rock fissures close Grand Teton tourist attraction

109 posted on 07/18/2018 6:07:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: LibWhacker

This I gods way of taking the attention off of Trump.


110 posted on 07/18/2018 6:10:13 AM PDT by jetson
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To: Reno89519

Party pooper!


111 posted on 07/18/2018 6:12:38 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: lee martell

100 feet long.


112 posted on 07/18/2018 6:19:56 AM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowboy)
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To: j. earl carter; ProtectOurFreedom

I’m in the >1,000 area and have a pockmarked lava rock from then last explosion...it’s larger than a softball, smaller than a football.

It came from a excavation that went down 30 feet or so...deep for our area.

I also have a 32” Honda snow blower which would work for about two minutes until the engine would seize from the dust.


113 posted on 07/18/2018 6:20:27 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: familyop

Never heard of that one, thanks!


114 posted on 07/18/2018 6:30:56 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: DannyTN

What do you have against plumbers?


115 posted on 07/18/2018 6:42:38 AM PDT by MisterArtery
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To: SamAdams76

“There are certain things in nature that mankind has no control over and that raising taxes will not prevent.”

HERETIC!!!!!

The Government and taxes can fix anything. Everyone knows this from childhood. This can be proven empirically by gathering any number of Scientists and reaching the blessed state of Consensus by promising them revenue and peerage.

It’s best if you get Scientists from fields that are unrelated to the topic at hand. Some disciplines are harder than others, and it may be necessary to shun the rebels who refuse enlightenment, but such is the price of progress.

If all else fails, we can enlist the aid of a Science Guy. As everyone knows, Science Guys are the ultimate arbiters of all scientific inquiry. Once his decree is established, it becomes law as immutable as the law of the Medes and Persians, and all will be right with the world.


116 posted on 07/18/2018 7:26:08 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: LibWhacker

bookmark


117 posted on 07/18/2018 8:14:52 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: LibWhacker

Great article. I interviewed the lead scientist at Yellowstone on this issue. http://www.chrispryorshow.com/e/the-yellow-stone-caldera-extinction-or-exageration/


118 posted on 07/20/2018 3:03:34 PM PDT by jcpryor (www.chrispryorshow.com)
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To: jcpryor

Thanks, JC! You did your homework and that made it very interesting. Good job!


119 posted on 07/21/2018 6:04:33 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

This crap better not make me miss the meteor.


120 posted on 07/21/2018 6:12:28 PM PDT by SIDENET
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