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- tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31unfortunately, here in America, fear sells.
- AdrianRice, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33Why can't American documentaries lighten up on the over dramatisation and just stick to the delivering the information? Is it really necessary to have that absurd 'impending disaster' soundtrack looping in the background?
- EntropyMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I declare a War on Magma.
"There is nothing to fear but a 500mph pyroclastic death cloud."
Run for your lives. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I agree with you 100%.
I have seen many documentaries about this supervolcano. Only one of them (my personal favorite) was only about the mechanics of it, which actually tought the audience about the innerworkings of this volcano, it's past and its possible future.
The other ones I tried to watch kept repeating a dramatization of people dying all over the place including a discovery channel mini movie on the subject. The point of these documentaries was more to scare than to teach. Not my kind of docu. - junk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14No *****. I can't even watch the National Geographic channel anymore. It seems like every show they air now is this same type of fear-mongering crap.
- xorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Damn the weather report should be exciting on a day like that.
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18I'm calling it right now! The Bush administration is responsible for that volcano.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No, that's Jellystone Park, not Yellowstone. Two totally different places. Besides, cartoon magma and pyroclast won't kill you, it just turns your face black and makes you blink your eyes at the audience.
- jkendel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Although the eruption would likely have a very severe impact on all humans. I wouldn't sit around worrying about this. The eruption is approximately 40 000 years late, as it has happened on 600 000 year intervals in the past. We are due for an eruption but the chances of it being in our lifetime is very slim. A 1% error is about 6000 years. Good story though, volcanoes are the one of the most destructive forces on the earth.
- midtoad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If only Yellowstone were similar to Mt. St. Helens. As John Bryson writes in 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', if the total volume of ejecta from Mt. St. Helens were the size of a golf ball (quoting from memory), then the Yellowstone ejecta volume would be a ball you could hide behind while standing up. Everything within a radius of 1000km will be killed outright, and much of N. America covered in ash. The chapter on Yellowstone in that book makes for a very good read, BTW.
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5good video, i just watched something similar about global cataclysm last night on PBS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//Super_volcano
worth a digg :) - Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sounds hot...
- windhawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Remember kids, "SUBDUCTION LEADS TO OROGENY"
:-)
subduction: A geologic process in which one edge of one crustal plate is forced below the edge of another.
orogeny: The process of mountain formation, especially by a folding and faulting of the earth's crust. - Kronos6948, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So, does this raise the terror level to orange or higher? Maybe that's why we went into the caves...not to smoke out Osama, but to overthrow the magma.
- geuisteses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3why is it the place I live, and the place I want to move to, are both threatened by huge end-of-all-life disasters? (live = south florida, moveto = san francisco)
- paulcano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll let you knead my mountains if you thrust yourself into my subduction zone.
- gardnert1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Oh jeez, not MORE fearmongering! Its a huge volcano, yeah, and it will explode sometime in the future. Get over it!
- jkendel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Got any ideas on how to prevent a caldera type eruption? How do you contain 1000 cubic kilometers of 500+ degree material? You don't. Mankind hasn't had the pleasure of being around for a VEI-8 Eruption.
- CNAIF, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"No *****. I can't even watch the National Geographic channel anymore. It seems like every show they air now is this same type of fear-mongering crap."
Agreed, Discovery is as bad now, stupid ass docu-dramas with D-list actors interspersed with actual footage. Not to mention the false titles on the tv guides that make you think you might actually be about to watch an intelligent fact based show. - Dopamini, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Mr. President, can we drop bombs in Yellowstone? There is definitely a super WMD there, and they're not disarming anytime soon.
- rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You either with us, or with the volcano
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Were all going to die, I for one never saw that coming.
lol
Why live in fear I mean we can prepare for it but leaving in fear doesnt seem very fun - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Could - Maybe - Might - IF - Possibly...
This definitely worries me. - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Because you have no ability to see beyond your shallow desire for instant gratification and man-sex, to realize the full gravity of the situation.
Er, or you just don't care. - chadtatro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pffft.. this is old news man. this things been around for millions of years.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6If the terrorists don't get you your Volcanoes will.
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I love the "don't worry and hope it's an error" mentality. As long as it's not in our lifetime, why worry! Right?
- NewYorkMantle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If we're talking about doomsday scenarios, I'll have to worry about La Palma collapsing, causing a mega tsunami to destroy my city, over Yellowstone's volcano issue.
- spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OMG! we're all going to die! run!
- rusty0101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well perhaps not 'modern man', but it sounds like a couple thousand of our ancestors survived the Toba eruption.
http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2006/10/05/lake-toba-sumatra-earth-science/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1New world record, It took him 1 minute to tell us the equivalent power in Hiroshima bombs.
- Intervene, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We need a mirror to this video.
Youtube took it down - benjamanb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I believe the rainbow was a promise that Jehova wouldn't destroy the world by flood again. He kept other cataclysmic options open.
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Makes me glad I am moving to New Zealand as soon as I retire from the Air Force.
WAIT! They have volcanos there too! *****! - MadOgre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Living in the blast radius... I'm not going to lose sleep over this.
- badogg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From what I understand, Yellowstone is like a couple of tens of thousands of years overdue to blow its lid. I think that would make it a considerable threat and something that we should take very seriously given that it could really wipe out most of human existence.
They have actually been able to pinpoint historical human evolution and determine that the rate in which humans inhabited the earth were severely impacted during the last eruption. If I remember correctly, it brought our numbers down to a mere couple thousand - globally.
Humans nowadays don't have the survival skills necessary to make it through a prolonged period of global disaster that this would bring upon us. It would definitely solve the population problem we have today. :) - riquiscott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1buried - inaccurate use of the Doomsday Clock (invented in 1947 by a group of scientists to demonstrate the relationship between current world events and the statistical probability of nuclear annihilation. If/when the clock reaches midnight, duck and cover - or not, it's not going to help much anyway.)
Not updated since 2002, the clock is set at 7 minutes to midnight.
http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/current_time.htm
- bcreavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I live less than 100 miles from the caldera of Yellowstone. If it was going to go off any time soon, we would know about it. The generally-accepted fact of the matter is that it's not going to.
lol @ the terrorism comments :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm waiting for great whites to evolve in 10-15 years because of genetic mutation and eating everyone on land and taking over the world.
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1=( It loses sync halfway through.
- gregpc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Of course the force of all of that water hitting the coast could be enough to squeeze the magma right out of that bad boy creating a two-headed disastro-monster that will surely kill us all.
- CNAIF, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Sorry that was one of the lamest show I've had the displeasure of attempting to watch. Managed about 10 minutes then changed the channel in disgust. If I want really bad acting and ridiculous over dramatization I can watch that on ABC, NBC and CBS.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So, can we get volcano bunkers now? I mean, my Y2K one is working just fine for the nuclear problem, but I want something I little longer lasting in the event of Yellowstone going Mt. St. Helens on us...
- bitxdeadweight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...dunno if it was in it or not (I'm at work), but a lot of the pressure from Yellowstone is building up under a town named Cook City ... I think it only appropriate.
- Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Oh god, not another SciFi doomsday show.
They get you all worked up and when they show you the actual science you realize whatever they're talking is either NEVER going to happen or not within the next 10 hojillion years. - zizzybaloobah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Global cataclysm? Where's Noah when you need him?!
(according to Genesis, the rainbow is God's promise that a global cataclysm would never happen again -- interestingly destroying the world via super volcano is not part of that promise!) - humeurs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"I declare a War on Magma."
HEHEHE ...this made me laugh. - UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I for one welcome our Great White overlords....
- UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1That volcano is a possible terrorist. We MUST invade.
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