Comments on: Good News! We’re Not All Going to Die…Yet. http://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/01/03/good-news-were-not-all-going-to-dieyet/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Fri, 25 May 2012 06:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mr. Science Guyhttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/01/03/good-news-were-not-all-going-to-dieyet/comment-page-1/#comment-677363 Mr. Science Guy Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:38:48 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=7304#comment-677363 <blockquote>From what I’ve seen, there isn’t going to be a great deal of pyroclastic flow b/c the caldera is pretty much flat. </blockquote> When it blows, a volcano can very quickly change the geography in the neighborhood. Don't rule out lava flow just because of the current landscape.

From what I’ve seen, there isn’t going to be a great deal of pyroclastic flow b/c the caldera is pretty much flat.

When it blows, a volcano can very quickly change the geography in the neighborhood. Don't rule out lava flow just because of the current landscape.

]]> By: Cheesestickhttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/01/03/good-news-were-not-all-going-to-dieyet/comment-page-1/#comment-677356 Cheesestick Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:46:33 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=7304#comment-677356 Interesting stuff.... Interesting stuff….

]]> By: Jimmiehttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/01/03/good-news-were-not-all-going-to-dieyet/comment-page-1/#comment-677282 Jimmie Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:44:01 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=7304#comment-677282 From what I've seen, there isn't going to be a great deal of pyroclastic flow b/c the caldera is pretty much flat. But the cloud that gets blown into the higher atmosphere could play havoc with climate for a long time. Just another sign that the universe can do us a lot of damage and there isn't very much at all we can do about it. From what I've seen, there isn't going to be a great deal of pyroclastic flow b/c the caldera is pretty much flat. But the cloud that gets blown into the higher atmosphere could play havoc with climate for a long time.

Just another sign that the universe can do us a lot of damage and there isn't very much at all we can do about it.

]]> By: fosterthttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2009/01/03/good-news-were-not-all-going-to-dieyet/comment-page-1/#comment-677215 fostert Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:20:31 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=7304#comment-677215 When that Caldera blows, a third of the world's population will die within two years. It'll really suck to have most of the agriculture in the world wiped out. Starvation is ugly. But I'll be lucky, I'll have fifty feet of superheated ash on my house and just die of either suffocation, or being cooked. If I were thirty miles closer, I'd be in the pyroclastic flow. That'd be a quicker death, but I suspect it's quite painful. I think what's really amazing about it is that the largest volcanoes in the world are so big that you can't see them. Instead, you're in them. I've been to Yellowstone and Lake Taupo (New Zealand), and except for the steam coming out of the ground, you really wouldn't expect any danger. But the steam doesn't really give you an idea of the danger. At least Taupo is not expected to blow anytime soon. And Taupo last blew 1800 years ago and humanity survived. Fortunately, there were no humans within 1500 miles at the time. But it made a damn big lake out of what once was a very large mountain. A lake with the best trout fishing in the world, by the way. But Yellowstone is much, much bigger. As for Yellowstone, I'm not exactly confident that the green alert level means much. We really don't know much about what makes a caldera blow. But it means nothing to me. I'll be dead within twenty minutes no matter what planning I do. Well, unless I sheath my house in Teflon, and buy lots of oxygen and a pair of showshoes. And then can walk a thousand miles over the ash with whatever I can carry. But hey, I probably need those snowshoes, anyway. When that Caldera blows, a third of the world's population will die within two years. It'll really suck to have most of the agriculture in the world wiped out. Starvation is ugly. But I'll be lucky, I'll have fifty feet of superheated ash on my house and just die of either suffocation, or being cooked. If I were thirty miles closer, I'd be in the pyroclastic flow. That'd be a quicker death, but I suspect it's quite painful. I think what's really amazing about it is that the largest volcanoes in the world are so big that you can't see them. Instead, you're in them. I've been to Yellowstone and Lake Taupo (New Zealand), and except for the steam coming out of the ground, you really wouldn't expect any danger. But the steam doesn't really give you an idea of the danger. At least Taupo is not expected to blow anytime soon. And Taupo last blew 1800 years ago and humanity survived. Fortunately, there were no humans within 1500 miles at the time. But it made a damn big lake out of what once was a very large mountain. A lake with the best trout fishing in the world, by the way. But Yellowstone is much, much bigger. As for Yellowstone, I'm not exactly confident that the green alert level means much. We really don't know much about what makes a caldera blow. But it means nothing to me. I'll be dead within twenty minutes no matter what planning I do. Well, unless I sheath my house in Teflon, and buy lots of oxygen and a pair of showshoes. And then can walk a thousand miles over the ash with whatever I can carry. But hey, I probably need those snowshoes, anyway.

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