# Yellowstone's gonna blow! We're all doooooooooomed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304 "2008-12-31T01:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/61 "2008-12-31T20:22:10Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Huh? Whatsamatter? You never saw _The Breakfast Club_? Specifically the scene where Claire’s viriginity is discussed? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/62 "2008-12-31T20:25:29Z")
Is this because God still hates America for all the fags? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/63 "2008-12-31T20:34:23Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Reading between the lines, that Wikipedia article also paints a picture of vulcanologists as irreverent, devil-may-care iconoclasts who don’t particularly care if they are taken seriously by the other sciences or not. > “Yeah, that’s right; I said ‘mega-colossal!’ You got a problem with that? Then invent your own damn index to measure volcanic explosivity! What? ‘Explosivity’ is too a real word! I invented it! Ever poked a stick into molten lava? I do it EVERY DAY. Each second of my life is borrowed time.” At least it distracts people from making fun of astronomers for a bit. Uranus jokes, anybody? (This is rhetorical. Please don’t share any Uranus jokes. I’ve heard them) “Big Bang” has been known to cause some snickering in high school science classes, too… > [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > Well here is a diary at DailyKos that claims the situation is NORMAL. > > The guy who wrote is some sort of scientician. [This article](http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=multiple-tiny-earthquakes-rattle-ye-2008-12-30) likewise says the scientists haven’t raised the threat level at Yellowstone. The signs it says to watch out for are: > [@](#): > > How will we know if we should start worrying? The real warning signs will be rapid changes in the shape of the ground as well as volcanic gases leaking from the ground, neither of which have been sighted—yet. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/64 "2008-12-31T20:34:45Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Is this because God still hates America for all the fags? No, that’s a common misunderstanding. The truth is that God hates **figs**. > [@The Bible](#): > > Mark 11:13-14, 20-21 > And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it. … And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/65 "2008-12-31T20:58:05Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Is this because God still hates America for all the fags? Do note that San Francisco and Greenwich Village are outside the blast radius. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/66 "2008-12-31T21:07:16Z")
Don’t know why, but it makes me a tad nervous to think that I am currently reading Simon Winchester’s book on the 1906 SF earthquake. I guess it could be worse - could be his book on Krakatoa! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/67 "2008-12-31T21:17:46Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Don’t know why, but it makes me a tad nervous to think that I am currently reading Simon Winchester’s book on the 1906 SF earthquake. That book mentions the Yellowstone supervolcano, actually. At the end of the book, he goes to Yellowstone and remarks on how geological activity at Yellowstone sometimes changes after a large earthquake in Alaska or California. He speculates that it’s possible that a large earthquake on the west coast could set off the Yellowstone supervolcano ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/68 "2008-12-31T21:29:55Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > That book mentions the Yellowstone supervolcano, actually. > > At the end of the book, he goes to Yellowstone and remarks on how geological activity at Yellowstone sometimes changes after a large earthquake in Alaska or California. He speculates that it’s possible that a large earthquake on the west coast could set off the Yellowstone supervolcano And [this news story supports that.](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210131040.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/69 "2008-12-31T21:54:10Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > [Doooooooooooooooooomed!!!](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hklq5saMBlMynv31EbfNSka-SpOwD95COBD00) > > Note that the park spokesman’s “nothing to worry about” is about the quakes, not the potential for catastrophic eruption! > > Dooooooooooooooomed! Isn’t that what the security guy at the airport said on Sept 11th. “Get real no one can fly a plane into a building” ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/70 "2008-12-31T22:07:41Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Um, sorry about that… next time I speak with God I’ll ask about putting a permanent cork in the thing and turning the heat down on the magma so it doesn’t boil over. > > On the morbidly bright side - should such a thing occur it will solve the global warming problem and the current economic crisis will no longer matter to any of us as we’ll have much more immediate and pressing worries. “…And in today’s economic news, the Dow Jones average dropped from seven goats and three pigs to seven goats, two pigs, and a steel fishhook, a decline of almost 3%.” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/71 "2008-12-31T22:09:29Z")
If it blows, I hope it does so before January 20th, otherwise the Republicans will blame it on Obama and the Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/72 "2008-12-31T22:18:09Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > No, that’s a common misunderstanding. The truth is that God hates **figs**. Only the very naughty ones. Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 24:3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/73 "2008-12-31T22:36:34Z")
Sounds like it would be an awesome thing to witness- from the International Space Station! ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/74 "2008-12-31T22:51:43Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > It was an unusually bright and sulfurous night and yet, even though the macabre visions of my countrymen being burned alive by hot, magnum lava were set far away, I still thought about them as I ate my sandwich while the television set on mute provided me quiet company away from it all. Great work, **Shagnasty**. Keep it up and maybe you can reclaim the title _Best of the Worst_, that the SDMB should be keeping. > [@Broomstick](#): > > Um, sorry about that… next time I speak with God I’ll ask about putting a permanent cork in the thing and turning the heat down on the magma so it doesn’t boil over. I asked, and the reply was that it’s on the Divine To-Do list, right after “Resolve Strife regarding Jerusalem.” This’ll only take a minute… ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/75 "2008-12-31T22:58:12Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > …magnum lava… “Magnum lava. For the volcano who needs something extra.” ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/76 "2008-12-31T23:26:13Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Sounds like it would be an awesome thing to witness- from the International Space Station! Until the meaning of the explosion finally settled in. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/77 "2008-12-31T23:49:45Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Reading between the lines, that Wikipedia article also paints a picture of vulcanologists as irreverent, devil-may-care iconoclasts who don’t particularly care if they are taken seriously by the other sciences or not. Well, they \*do \*spend most of their time huffing sulphur fumes. Can’t really blame the scientific community rolling its eyes when Mr. LiveLavaLamp goes “Maaaaaan that eruption was so… super ! Like… it’s a super volcano maaaan !.. Who’s hungry ?!” ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/78 "2009-01-01T03:38:29Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > \Dooooooooooooooomed! Yes, yes, yes and tomorrow we shall go see puppies. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/79 "2009-01-01T03:49:37Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > “…And in today’s economic news, the Dow Jones average dropped from seven goats and three pigs to seven goats, two pigs, and a steel fishhook, a decline of almost 3%.” > [@TWDuke](#): > > Jeremiah 24:2 …very naughty figs… Best two last laughs of 2008. **Anne Neville** , I think money could be made from anthropology/paleogeology/other similar types of geek via a T-shirt that says “My ancestors survived Toba and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304/80 "2009-01-01T05:38:46Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > _Obviously_ the correct solution is to turn on the [Large Hadron Collider,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=499477&highlight=black+hole) and use it to generate a bunch of static black holes to scoop up all the ejecta before it causes any real problems. > > If that doesn’t work, we can use the antimatter from the asteroid [Toutatis](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=498297) for much the same purpose, although there’s a little bit of an energy dispersal problem to be solved in that event. Just be sure you properly route it through the deflector dish, or else there’ll be a build up on the Bussard Collectors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstones-gonna-blow-were-all-doooooooooomed/479304.md?page=5)