That shit fascinates but scares the shit out of me.

The park rises ten feet a year. The whole park is essentially a giant caldera.

Pretty only some places have raised up as much as 10 inches.. but not 10 feet https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/news/2011/01/110119-yellowstone-park-supervolcano-eruption-magma-science

i feel Hawaii and the Philippines are just the beginning.

While it is certain it will go off at some point, I don't think that it will influence our position as a superpower. We will be dependent on others for agriculture for a long time but our military doesn't require sunlight and that's the main driving force today in why we are a superpower.

Heh, that's cute. You're right, though, the agriculture wouldn't be what kills us. It's the sudden severance of power to nuclear power plants that are now on a timer until they melt down. Also, let's do worst-case scenario, shall we? Big crack on hawaii falls and wipes the west coast, new madrid goes and takes down the grid in the ohio river valley, yellowstone's the finisher. One-two punch with a haymaker finish.

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Seriously though what's the point in even speculating? If we're not in a position to save ourselves by the time something like that happens it doesn't matter how much we know beforehand.

One can't stop the storm; only preparation to survive is possible.

military doesn't require sunlight and that's the main driving force today in why we are a superpower.

I would say it is the dollar being the worlds reserve currency not the military.

Yolo

*Unless you're Hindu.

*Or Buddhist

Yolostone..?

Too bad this portion of life (100yr window) is so small the odds I'd imagine it won't happen for a long long time

It's already overdue, so the chances aren't all that slim

Yeah it’s overdue but on such a large scale of time it’s hard to tell when it will actually happen. It could be next week it could be 10,000 years from now.

I wouldn’t waste energy worrying about it.

Not sure if you understand how long 100 thousand YEARS is.. lol

HAARP

HAARP is probably 'poking the bear', the bear being a euphemism for super volcano :)

Check out the eruption history at Steamboat Geyser, the tallest active geyser on the planet.

It's erupted 4 times in the last month and a half. That's just a coincidence, right guys??

Make that 5, a new entry has been added for May 13, 2018. yikes

That definitely looks ominous.

Wow. There was a new Zealand one that shot 1600 ft into the air.

That like 4x higher the. The biggest one active today.

ha! Gey!

what do you call a gay guy who just ejaculated? a GEYSER!

"a huge portion of the United States and cause untold amounts of damage and deaths. It would effectively end the era of the USA being a superpower."

I feel like you're underestimating how much damage it would cause this is a humanity ending event because the ash would cause nuclear winter like effects at the worst case scenario.

Campi fleigri will likely go first. That will cause just as much damage. No one knows when Yellowstone will go off there is no way of telling. The new geyser (steamboat) is a sign of movement but that’s it. The scary bit is that it could go off tomorrow. But also another 20,000 years.

Scariest movie we ever watched in science class was a movie where it explodes and causes an apocalypse type era. I twas mostly found footage type stuff and super creepy

Was it "Supervolcano", by any chance? I remember watching that film in geography back in high school.

Yeah

Good thing there isn't a lack of things to worry about! This is why I don't want the wall. What if I need to get south as fast as fucking possible? Not that it would probably do much good anyway...

Well depending were you are you could head north Into Canada or east towards the coast. At least Canada is a first world nation, and is a probably a lot better of a place to be depending on the disaster, especially if its a zombie apocalypse.

Swear this is some 'operation: enduring victory' type shit. (video game)

The way things be going...

God I love that game. When you find out about enduring victory and what exactly horizon zero dawn meant I was shook to the core.

You might be right. Faced with similar catastrophe, our government would probably do the same thing.

Any government would

Honestly that game had such a great story to it. I’m replaying it now

Well, that seems like a sweet game I hadn't heard of. I'm gonna have to check it out. I read the plotline and still want to play. Arguably, it was the right decision but morbid as hell.

We should call Monsanto and tell them to GMO the volcano for our own protection. They can totally fix this if we give them enough money.

If US gets taken down by volcanic activity, the meltdown of nuclear plants and nukes will be the end of humanity. Other continents won't survive all that radioactive debris, polluted ocean water, and especially toxic rains.

One of the reasons why we were (and are) against nuclear power; if a grand natural disaster strikes, it's the end for all.

This is one of the sub/points made in arguments of Kardashev Scale Civilization Advancement, and Fermi Paradox. They state intelligent beings who technologically develop and, also, who possess nuclear power have quite the possibility of obliterating their entire species as a result (either by accident, or war) at some point during that process (Nuclear Phase).

The nuclear meltdowns will be the least of anyones problems if the Yellowstone volcano goes, the complete volcanic winter across the planet will be. There's records from when Vesuvius (just a large volcano) erupted that it had an effect on crops across Europe and if I remember correctly, the rest of the world as well. Yellowstone is a death sentence by itself. While there are dangers to nuclear power, it is much safer if you look at it in the sense that there is a small chance of a meltdown compared to coal plants pumping out pollutants around the clock. Renewables are the best way to go honestly be that geothermal (which Yellowstone would be great for honestly haha) or wind solar etc.

True, and I agree. And that was what I wanted to point out; the natural disasters are destructive enough on their own. If we had a slim chance of surviving their aftermath, we lost that too when we built all those nuclears, and element/mineral mines as you mentioned. Should have gone for solar/wind/ocean-current powers. Too late now, been going downhill and fell off the cliff long ago, we are falling and looks like we are close to the floor: embrace for fatal impact...

This is how, I assume, many civilizations on other planets perished; agressive planetary movements, or nuclear/plasma/insertvolatilepowersource rebounded.

Quite depressing...

I agree, but hindsight is 20/20 I guess. The good news is that now renewables are becoming more and more viable so hopefully soon we as a species can change over

Hah, I stopped thinking about the future of our species long ago. I really don't think we will survive for long. Not only we damaged our genome, we also built death traps all around us.

Immunosupressants, cancer, neurotoxins; nuclear plants, nuclear weapons, easily exposable toxic gas sources; no defensive/protective space program against speeding, rogue space bodies, no intra-planetary travel to escape certain destruction, let alone the lack of terraforming capabilies, we don't even have any way of long-term survival on a spaceship, using synthetic nutritients, and efficient water recycling. Instead of thinking ahead, people in power are focused on starting wars to sell weapons and ammunition to buy more gas/oil to power their cars and fill their bank account sheets with more numbers.

But if you are still optimistic, enjoy it as much as you can.

I don't accept the super-volcano stuff. For extraordinary claims, evidence has to be really good. The evidence for super-volcano formations is quite sparse, and all of it is explained by other theories which don't postulate something for which we have no direct evidence.

I thought I read an article that NASA or some government agency with a lot of super smart scientists were investigating if they could drill or relieve the pressure somehow to stop it erupting. Obviously the worry would be that they actually initiate the eruption.

Most of life on earth would perish after nuclear winter sets in. Humans would be cavemen again.

I actually find this sort of stuff calming. I know that these type of events have been happened since the start, they happen on every planet, they are absolutely insane in size and there is nothing that can be done about it. Somehow, unbelievably powerful acts of nature sooth me.

They burn ya too

Theres a huge underground base there. If that shit erupts is gonna be a triggered eruption.

You think that base would survive it, though? The engineering involved in that would be insane, wouldn't it? Not that I doubt you if you think so. My knowledge base is zero on the subject but now you've piqued my curiosity.

I didnt say its a man made base.

Until they send a team of oil drillers headed up by Bruce Willis to drill relief holes. We are probably ok.

That was the instigating event that caused the horror of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."

It would end civilization as we know it. 1000 years after the eruption people would hunter gatherers and almost everything we built, not made of stone would have rusted away.