Discovery Channel talking about the Yellowstone Caldera!

[independentchristian]

I can't get enough of hearing about this thing.

It's a Supervolcano, and if it explodes it will be 2,500 times more powerful than the Mount St. Helens eruption.

It would literally destroy the "heartland" of United States, and a few of the blue border states. It would trigger eruptions in Washington and California, and the only part of the country left intact will be the east coast, and of course, Hawaii and Alaska, but the climate of the earth would no doubt be changed with such an eruption.

It is due for an eruption at anytime from this moment to thousands of years, but no one knows when, just that the ground at Yellowstone is bubbling in certain places, etc.

[Enquiringkitty]

1. If it happened tomorrow, Who would Bush attack for it?

[independentchristian]

4. No one

Half of the country would be destroyed, and the world would be screwed.

[Sporadicus]

18. The Russians, That's Who!

Tom Bearden on the Coming Scalar Armageddon Israel, Yakuza, 10 Nations have Scalar Weapons

Nikita Khrushchev announced these devices, capable of creating earthquakes and setting off volcanos, as far back as 1960. Here is part of what he said:

"We have a new weapon, just within the portfolio of our scientists, so to speak, which is so powerful that, if unrestrainedly used, it could wipe out all life on earth. It is a fantastic weapon." Khrushchev, to the Presidium, Jan. 1960

The Russians made several attempts to work out a ban on such weapons with the West, but the West had no idea what they were talking about. After that, the Russians shut up about electromagnetic superweapons, permanently.

In 1997 then Secretary of Defense Wm. Cohen made reference to the scalar interferometers in the following statement, but since then the U.S. has shut up about such weapons as well. In the meantime they have proliferated into such hands as the Japanese mafia, the Aum Srinrikyo cult, and God only knows who else.

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more insanity follows:



http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=45210

:eyes: :silly: :wtf: :scared: :tinfoilhat: :crazy:

[drummer55]

2. nah he should invade today! its a WMD! n/t

[Stop_the_War]

3. Is this on right now?

[independentchristian]

6. It goes off in 15 minutes.

[Stop_the_War]

7. goes off? Do you mean "comes on" or "ends"?

LOL

[independentchristian]

9. Ends

It's on right now, lol.

[Stop_the_War]

11. oh it's not on right now here...you must live in a different time zone...

LOL that must mean either I missed it or it's coming up.

[independentchristian]

15. I'm on the east coast n/m

[Ladyhawk]

25. The supervolcano?????

:scared:

heh heh heh heh

[latteromden]

5. Ummm... shit? Just the east coast?

You know, I hate impending death.

[independentchristian]

8. The east coast would not be hit with the ash or volcanic eruptions, but...

...the climate of the earth would change, and the east coast and the world would be affected by that climate change, but the middle of the United States would be screwed as soon as it happens.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. That's very scary

:scared: :nopity: :nuke:

[Cleita]

10. Considering there are pools of stuff steaming in Yellowstone

all over the place and it smells of sulfur, yeah duh, it's a volcano and not one that is that sleepy. Since it lets off heat regularly, maybe it won't erupt. My mother, who came from Chile a land of many volcanoes, once told me that the ones to worry about were the ones who were extinct that suddenly started showing some activity like smoking. She said the ones that were waking up and coming back to life were the dangerous ones. But I know her knowledge came from old wives tales and there is nothing scientific in her views.

[independentchristian]

13. I "think" that Yellowstone has increased activity beneath the surface...

...based on the fact that a lot of the ponds and streams there are boiling killing fish and wildlife, trails have been closed because of the ground heating and sulfur smells and all, but that's been going on for a few years now.

Hey, who knows, but it's interesting.

[Cleita]

23. I gotta go one more time.

The first time DH and I headed to Yellowstone is when they had the devastating fires and we were in Idaho before we had to turn back and not go. We were so disappointed. We finally made it years later. Yes, the devastation from the fires still scarred the landscape but not the experience. We stayed in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons for a month moving from campground to campground. The first snow drove us out.

We thought we would go back one more time. In the meantime DH became too sick and finally died, but I must do it while I still can.

[Warpy]

12. Seismicity has been minimal, and

geologists have been tracking magma shifts below the surface. Apparently it's rolling back and forth and slowly bubbling away, but no major eruption is in sight, even though it's overdue.

That could change in a matter of months, of course, but it seems pretty unlikely.

Another supervolcano is the Valle Grande caldera about an hour north of me in central New Mexico. The ash deposits from the last eruption of that one are twenty to thirty feet thick, which means they were easily twice that when they fell. That one's been silent for over a million years, though, and is showing no signs of life.

That could change if Yellowstone blows.

[-..__...]

16. Hmmm... East Coast spared.

Which is lighter and fluffier? Snow or volcanic ash?

Which would I rather have to deal with ?

That's a tough one.

[Ediacara]

17. It WILL NOT trigger eruptions in Washington and California

And there really, is no need to worry about red and blue states..... with 25M+ people dying within a year, the United States will not be a cohesive unit anymore.

[independentchristian]

20. I could have sworn that I read somewhere that it would years ago...n/m

[Ediacara]

22. The Yellowstone system is "isolated"

The mantle plume and magma are directed at Yellowstone. Although at the D'' zone, the origination of the plume may be UNDER Oregon, all effects are directed at Montana and Wyoming. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is not related despite being above the base of the mantle plume.

[independentchristian]

19. Now they're talking about asteroids

Asteroids and supervolcanos both obviously create explosive earth ripples, lol.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. The once glorious Discovery Channel will air just about

anything these days.

Not that there isn't a caldera under Yellowstone--there clearly is, but I suspect that they're exaggerating the damage it would cause.

[Cleita]

24. I think so too.

It's my understanding from some science mags that I subscribe to that the good people of Seattle should be far more worried about Mt. Ranier, a Mt. St. Helens, waiting to happen.

[UTUSN]

26. DUer (HawkerHurricane?) Said His Dad Is a Prof Specialist in This

and that the signs of impending erruption would be, first, a flood of graduate students going in to take measurements, then, second, their flooding OUT when the erruption was IMMINENT. This was talked about a lot about a year ago on the Art BELL show with the new guy (NOORY?), who made it sound like we are DOOMED at any minute, that it could happen in weeks or thousands of years. The DUer's scenario sounds more convincing.