Could they not have found a couple of pieces of wood?
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So I think a week or two ago I posted a video in the Volcano thread due to all of the eruptions that are happening or about to happen that compared erruptions through history.
This one is better, and in the end gives us a loot at the last yellow stone and India super eruptions and what they looked like
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I looked at it, and even one as massive as Krakatoa (sp) wouldn't have much of an effect because the redistribution of mass needed doesn't happen because the mass ejected by the volcano doesn't reach escape velocity. At the same time the sheer scale of the earth mass and the effects of the sons gravity wouldn't be overcome by the power of the bigger eruptions.
At least that seems to be the consensus.
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So I think a week or two ago I posted a video in the Volcano thread due to all of the eruptions that are happening or about to happen that compared erruptions through history.
This one is better, and in the end gives us a loot at the last yellow stone and India super eruptions and what they looked like
The range of the estimated Yellowstone eruption is wild. Anything like that again would be catastrophic.
The range of the estimated Yellowstone eruption is wild. Anything like that again would be catastrophic.
Its an end of the world category event. Even some of the much smaller eruptions did things like drop the worlds temperature by 3 degrees. There was one eruption that cause a year without summer. But it feels like a yellowstone eruption would rip the heart out of North America.
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I heard that scientists believe that if was going to erupt, there would be a lot of warning signs giving people time to evacuate. Still though, that's like 400 million people to evacuate, or more if you need to evacuate the ash zone too. The video was unclear if that was scolding ash. Some people wouldn't make it in time, and it would be difficult for other countries to accept them. Then some people would refuse. It would probably be worse actually to have advance notice and not be able to evacuate or escape.
We should invade Australia for precautionary purposes. They have a lot of empty space.
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I heard that scientists believe that if was going to erupt, there would be a lot of warning signs giving people time to evacuate. Still though, that's like 400 million people to evacuate, or more if you need to evacuate the ash zone too. The video was unclear if that was scolding ash. Some people wouldn't make it in time, and it would be difficult for other countries to accept them. Then some people would refuse. It would probably be worse actually to have advance notice and not be able to evacuate or escape.
We should invade Australia for precautionary purposes. They have a lot of empty space.
Australia? I think I'd rather take my chances with a super volcano. Less risky.
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I heard that scientists believe that if was going to erupt, there would be a lot of warning signs giving people time to evacuate. Still though, that's like 400 million people to evacuate, or more if you need to evacuate the ash zone too. The video was unclear if that was scolding ash. Some people wouldn't make it in time, and it would be difficult for other countries to accept them. Then some people would refuse. It would probably be worse actually to have advance notice and not be able to evacuate or escape.
We should invade Australia for precautionary purposes. They have a lot of empty space.
That would be an extinction level event. The amount of debris in the atmosphere would block out the sun around the globe and alter crop cycles. There would be years of crop failures and we would probable see another ice age as a result. The impact to our food cycle would be devastating. The vast majority of humanity would probably starve or kill each other in a search for resources.
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Looking that the effects of larger volcanic erruptions, if Yellowstone lets go in the way they think, extinction level is maybe an understatement.
Mount Toba - Its erruption took 2 weeks, global temperatures reduced by 3 to 4 degrees C. there was mass devestation of plants and animals in SE Asia,
Mount Pinatubo 1991 - caused Global temperatures to drop .5 degrees C
Mt Tamburo 1815 - caused the year without summer, severe ash and SO2 emissions caused major crop damage around the world. The price of grain in Switzerland quadrupled for example.
Laki 1783 (iceland) - crops in Iceland were devastated and 60% of its livestock died. It caused a europeon famine going as far as Egypt, some have linked the effects of the volcano to the French Revolution due to famine.
Ilopango El Salvador 483 - in theory was a primary cause of the global cooling in 535 and lead to crop failures all the way to China.
So in terms of if a Super Volcano blew in the middle of the States. The US would be devastated, most of the central food production in terms of crops and live stock would end, probably wild animal population and plants would die out. besides being a massive explosion in the middle of the States most infrastructure and power generation would be wiped out and the secondary immediate effects would be spectacular in terms of loss of infrastructure, secondary death effects due to disease and famine. The ash and SO2 effects would be beyond comprehension. Global crop failures, probably at least a 5 or 6 degree drop in temperatures globally which most agree would pretty much end most of the life on earth. the explosion though in the central states would trigger massive tsunami's globally. The positive though I guess, would be Earth would be well fertilized for whatever life would evolve next.
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