I was watching Discovery Channel one day, and they said that Yellowstone (I don't remember if it was Yellowstone or Yosemite, but I'm sure it was Yellowstone) consisted of a huge supervolcano 50 miles in diameter that will explode soon and will deeply impact the whole world. If it will explode, then how will it impact the Earth, and will the U.S. just be a memory in our minds?
2006-12-23 12:26:14 · 12 answers · asked by Devin O 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Yes, you are quite right in that it was Yellowstone. And, it is not a question of if, but of when. And, contrary to what some of the optimists who have answered before me, the last I read was that it is about 60,000 years overdue.
The last great supervolcano which let go was in Indonesia, I think about 10,000 years ago (you can check that one out). It is interesting because, independently, geologists and anthropologists were looking at seemingly unrelated phenomenon. The geologists were looking at the crater in Indonesia which suggested that a supervolcano had erupted about 10,000 years ago which would have had dramatic environmental consequences. The anthropologists were wondering why the DNA of the human race was so remarkably similar, suggesting that we are not as old as fossils suggest.
Well, one day an anthropologist and a geologist, who usually drink at different bars, were talking. And what did they realize? That if you extrapolate back the DNA changes in the human race to find out when they started, and also extrapolate back to find when the Indonesian supervolcano let go, you end up in the same time frame (give or take a few thousand years)!
So, it seems that about 10,000 years ago, something like a supervolcano let go with such severe consequences that the human race (as it was then) was almost but not quite obliterated. Since then we have been clinging to existence slowly increasing in numbers until we are where we are today.
So, investigate this yourselves if you are interested. In the meantime, don't worry about global warming and its consequences since Yellowstone and Yogo Bear are likely to solve all of those problems for us in one dramatic cast of the dice! It is estimated that everyone within a couple of thousand miles of Yellowstone will be killed almost immediately and the climactic changes which will follow will take care of the most of the rest of us.
So drive your SUV in comfort and burn as much coal and oil as you need to make yourselves comfortable. In the whole scheme of things the importance of we humans is inversely proportional to our arrogance!
2006-12-23 15:50:47 · answer #1 · answered by acablue 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since you have watched the Supervolcano movie you have a pretty good idea of what will happen. They did an excellent job of worst case scenario building. They have a good timeline for the previous caldera collapses (Yellowstone would not actually explode. Rather it would sink, making it look like an explosion). However, the Yellowstone caldera (the hot spot) is actually moving under the Rockies. This means that the volcano would have to work it's way through several thousand more feet of the earths crust before it could "explode". So, it will probably be several hundred thousand years before the caldera would be a danger again. Then again it could happen tomorrow. The earth is very unpredictable.
2016-05-23 02:49:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
scientist have said alot of stuff that has been right and wrong. they said the world was going to end in 2000 but we are still here but this time i think they have something. yellowstone im sorry to say is a ticking time bomb and in the future it will explode like all volcanoes do. but they say in maybe 1000 years it'll erupt so dont worry about
2006-12-23 12:33:24 · answer #3 · answered by tia 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
yeah, but it will more likely not be the explosion, but the whats comes after; like the ash covering the atmosphere and temporarily going into a prolonged winter since the sunrays would never hit the ground. and we will all asphyxiate to death...
that would ruin anyone's weekend.
2006-12-23 12:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by adarba66 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you know it! the explosion will be so great, the earth will actually be thrown out of orbit and sucked in the suns gravetational belt and vaporize. don't worry though, it should be over with quickly. a matter of a couple hours of agonizing death, most people will probably commit suicide before being vaporized though. Most of all stay CALM.
2006-12-23 13:52:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok well it is true that it will explode one day and also it is true that it will effect the whole USA and passably all of the world. the explosion might cause a eclipse. there would be fire and many other bad things. but if we are gonna worry about that then we should also be worring about a volciano that id it erupts, then all of the USA states on the east coast will be completly underwater.
2006-12-23 12:31:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Geeeeeez...i did not see that one on Yellowstone...wow,,,you would have to ask a scientist about that one...scary...but i prefer not to think about it...we have enough problems to worry about..
2006-12-23 12:29:10 · answer #7 · answered by sweet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't happen in our life time...it'll probably be thousands of years from now...if you'd watched the whole show...you'd know that.
2006-12-23 12:28:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything will blow some day. But I think we've got some time.
2006-12-23 12:28:14 · answer #9 · answered by klgtym 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably
2006-12-23 12:41:36 · answer #10 · answered by James Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋