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Super Volcano: Veusius back in 79 AD when it destoryed and buried Pompeii and Herculum. We have not seen an explosion more destructive before or since.
Super Volcano: Veusius back in 79 AD when it destoryed and buried Pompeii and Herculum. We have not seen an explosion more destructive before or since.
QUOTE(Atlantis Rises @ Jun 6 2005, 11:23 AM)
Super Volcano: Veusius back in 79 AD when it destoryed and buried Pompeii and Herculum. We have not seen an explosion more destructive before or since.
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we havnt but our fellow ape cavemen have
QUOTE(Atlantis Rises @ Jun 6 2005, 01:23 PM)
Super Volcano: Veusius back in 79 AD when it destoryed and buried Pompeii and Herculum. We have not seen an explosion more destructive before or since.
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Yeah, there have been multiple extinction-level eruptions in the past. Yellowstone alone is said to erupt every 120,000 years or so. So certainly there were like eruptions "before".
Here we come volcanic-ash-nuclear-winter!! WOO HOO! Sledding every day for a decade! My crappy neighbors will be dead!
is it a decade or is it longer or shorter, well lets hope it just never happens but thats like asking for bush to stop invading iraq it wont damn happen anyways so ya, get ur winter jacket and sled and get ready for fun for who knows how many years!
I recently saw a special on Discovery Channel on this. yellowstone is actually made up of 3 craters and as of the most recent readings everything is fairly stable. They are thinking maybe at least a couple hundred years before the next eruption. But very scary stuff if u ask me as I live on the east coast.
no one and i repeat NOONE can predict a volcanos eruption, those are just theories itll go off in a couple hundred years, for all we know it could blow tomorow or next week or next year or something
QUOTE(Conspiracy @ Jun 12 2005, 10:35 AM)
no one and i repeat NOONE can predict a volcanos eruption, those are just theories itll go off in a couple hundred years, for all we know it could blow tomorow or next week or next year or something
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Conspiracy, I see you are keeping everyone entertained while we're away.
QUOTE(Conspiracy @ Jun 12 2005, 04:35 AM)
no one and i repeat NOONE can predict a volcanos eruption, those are just theories itll go off in a couple hundred years, for all we know it could blow tomorow or next week or next year or something
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Don't scare the customers...
Okay, back to seriousness. I have to agree with Conspiracy. No one can predict an eruption. A volcano that seems stable could possibly erupt the next day. A volcano that is predicted to erupt tomorrow possibly may not erupt for another hundred years. It all comes back to a 'who knows?' scenario. If it does, then a great many people are in trouble. If it doesn't, then hey, a great many people have it made.
Then again, looking on the bright side or whatever, it is a good thing that they don't think it will erupt. Despite the fact that it can go any minute, it is still good to know that it is starting to seem more stable. Thanks for the info, CTU_Recon.
hey you two are back 
lol
its my job to scare them tho
lolits my job to scare them tho
Yay! I'm not in the red zone...but I am close... 
same here, that red zone going into manitoba is like 2 hours from me lol
Well, at least I have a little bit going for me. I'm on the other side of the US. So maybe I won't be buried by lava, but now I have to worry about the ash, I believe.
ya cuz the ash will go all across united states
The ash would probably cover most, if not all, of the world. Not a fun concept.
no its been stated that most of the ash will just cover america, very little is going to go around the world, the one thing i fear most more then this cursed volcano is the volcanic winter itll bring, thats gonna be harsh to live threw..
Hey, guys, I just re-found a link I used on a different thread. It states that the lava could, in fact, cover the whole US. Wouldn't the ash exapand to cover even more area? In any case, yes, there will definately be a nuclear winter following this thing.
Here is the link to the site; the paragraphs are near the bottom. What do you guys think? Do you think it is exaggerating? Could it be true?
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Magma would be flung more than 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would cover places thousands of miles away. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano itself, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer a few inches thick. The explosion would have a force 1000-2500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard by man for more than 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands could be dead.
The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures fall dramatically. This is called a nuclear winter. As during the Sumatra eruption a large percentage of the world's plant life would be killed by the ash and severe drop in temperature. Effects world wide would cause massive food shortages. If the temperatures decline by the 21 degrees they did after the Sumatra eruption the Yellowstone super volcano eruption could truly be an extinction level event.
Humans could be pushed to the edge of extinction. Anthropologists suggest it won't be the first time.
The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures fall dramatically. This is called a nuclear winter. As during the Sumatra eruption a large percentage of the world's plant life would be killed by the ash and severe drop in temperature. Effects world wide would cause massive food shortages. If the temperatures decline by the 21 degrees they did after the Sumatra eruption the Yellowstone super volcano eruption could truly be an extinction level event.
Humans could be pushed to the edge of extinction. Anthropologists suggest it won't be the first time.
Here is the link to the site; the paragraphs are near the bottom. What do you guys think? Do you think it is exaggerating? Could it be true?
so if im outside and i all of a sudden hear a giant boom noise and see a giant ass mother ash cloud in the sky ill run and get my umbrella
soooo anyone hear any more news latly?
They said theyre more worried about a climate change out of all the things, can anyone say NEW ICE AGE??!!
This is a very scary thought i do not think it will matter where you are if this happens live as we know it is going to be alot different 
we might as well classify half the world extinct meanwhile all the governments are hiding in thier lil bunkers underground >.>
QUOTE(Conspiracy @ Jun 30 2005, 01:28 PM)
we might as well classify half the world extinct meanwhile all the governments are hiding in thier lil bunkers underground >.>
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Damn government facilities...
i say we all go hide there now and when the governments go down we lock the door xD
if this thing goes we are all going to be out of luck, the fall out will change the world as we know it for a very long time 
not unless were 50 feet underground with enough food and water xD
doesnt bother me
its gonna effect the whole world.
just north america is gonna get the worse of it
just north america is gonna get the worse of it
thats what i heard too consipracy. but still it doesnt bother me
I didn't read the past 15 pages.. But I watched the TV shows you're (threadstarter) talking about.
It'd trigger a climate change and we'd ultimately be living in an ice age, assuming there were survivors. I hope it doesn't go in my lifetime.
It'd trigger a climate change and we'd ultimately be living in an ice age, assuming there were survivors. I hope it doesn't go in my lifetime.
QUOTE(FreyKade @ Jul 9 2005, 10:19 PM)
doesnt bother me
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It would bother you, maybe a week or so after the first eruptions. Ash would begin raining down and it'd ultimately restrict you to your home for weeks on end. You'd have to stock up on a huge load of food and water if you've got any chance of survival.
we all better start headin to mars!!!!!!!!!! 
QUOTE(iac_tracker @ Jul 14 2005, 05:56 PM)
we all better start headin to mars!!!!!!!!!!
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what would be ironic is if there was a super volcano there to that was ready to go xD
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