Supervolcanos
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Topic: Supervolcanos
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Supervolcanos
Date Posted: May 21 2011 at 08:45
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do you believe of such a volcano by this imensve force is real or is it to large to really grasp with our own presepetion of reality
it is said that they erupt very rearly (like every 300 000 year or so), but that if they or one goes of we are toast, doomed, pompeied.
I think the concept of SV is interesting, here under ower feets sleeps this mssive giant, for every perosn who vissit Yellow Stone national park they are literly standing over a huge chamber of melting lava, it is unreal really
so when these predictions of armageddon is coming each 10th year then I when i know of such things as SV i have that in mind. just for not being a total fool if actualy some apocalyptic event is over us
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 21 2011 at 09:27
Yellowstone blowing its stack is a very real 'theoretical' possibility. Not much we can do about it though. No point in losing sleep over it. When (if) our numbers are up, our numbers are up, collectively or individually..  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: May 21 2011 at 13:15
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Once Yellowstone erupts, we're all dead. But those geysers are constant releases of pressure making sure that it will not erupt immediately. However, once those geysers stop releasing steam, that should be a sign to get to the moon ASAP.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: May 21 2011 at 14:55
| I'm disappointed: I thought it was a poll on our favorites volcanos... |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 21 2011 at 15:43
it is a huge volcanic eruption on Iceland now  -------------
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: May 21 2011 at 21:17
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Rest assured, good people of Prog Archives, I have surveyed the situation and have decided to ignore it completely and if things explode: things explode. -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 21 2011 at 21:49
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What's not to believe? As you point out in your own OP man there's one under Yellowstone. If it ever was to erupt the crap is expected to cover like most of North America and would of course cause global catastrophe. I kinda hope that is what takes us out in 2012...old school style ya know? |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: May 22 2011 at 13:11
| The things movies are made of. |
Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 01:12
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Do I believe in them? I live ontop of one, that is easily as big (in terms of past eruption size) as Yellowstone. There are volcanic ignimbrite deposits 200 metres deep underneath my town... ------------- "You must go beyond the limit of the limit of your limits!" - Mr. Doctor "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 01:44
this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taupo_Volcano" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taupo_Volcano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Taupo" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Taupo
or this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oruanui_eruption" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oruanui_eruption
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 02:53
So did I. Grimsvötn for the moment. ------------- 
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CPicard wrote:Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 07:51
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I feel sorry for the idiot that voted no, of course they exist, and there are quite a few of them about.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 14:31
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Tis is not a matter of belief or non-belief, they exist and will erupt again. Period. Maybe not for millions of years. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 24 2011 at 03:25
some humans have it hard to believe such monstrosities exist becouse it is way above our wildest thoughts and frame of reality.
some humans don't believe it til it hits them in the forhead. -------------
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 03:01
Some people need to experience terrible things themselves to believe in them. The concept of a 'supervolcano' erupting and destroying half the country is too big for most people to comprehend. Like economic collapse. Even if there was overwhelming evidence that it was imminent, many would still not believe it until it's too late. I think psychologists call this the 'normalcy bias' ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: May 27 2011 at 00:53
Taupo... but they are part of the same volcanic field. There are several other calderas in the region. ------------- "You must go beyond the limit of the limit of your limits!" - Mr. Doctor "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 17:18
| I took an Earth Science class is college, and these volcanoes are the reason why earth is they way it is. The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and we talked about how earth was slowly changing, through millions of years. This is a very interesting thread. |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 17:30
Science says yes. I can't argue with it 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 21:58
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I've been to the top of Haleakela in Hawaii. Dormant and impressive.
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Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 01:01
The next time my volcano erupts, bits of my house will probably end up scattered over India. Gives me warm fuzzies to know that 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 04:48
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I think there's still a difference in the sort of super volcano. There are about 40 recorded super volcanoes in the world, if I'm not mistaken. If some erupt, it would mean a change in the climate, but not the end of the world. If I'm right, it's only about 5 super volcanoes, like the Yellowstone caldera, that have once erupted with factor 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index: they could erupt so heavily that there would be so much ashes in the atmosphere that the sunlight couldn't reach the earth anymore, which means the end for human life. But I get the impression that the heavier the volcano, the bigger the intervals in which it is likely to erupt. "2012" is a nice movie about the Yellowstone eruption, but the chances of us being witness of the eruption of a super volcano in our lifetime here on earth is statistically very low. Still, I was on holidays in Germany, just over the Belgian - German border. There's the "Vulkaneifel" area, with 350 volcanoes. Most of them dead, but some onmy asleep and there is still volcanic activity, like two cold water geysirs which work because of CO2 that comes directly from subterranean magma and we visited many old volcanoes, and crater lakes. There's the Maria Laach volcano which has once erupted with factor 7 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. It had once catapulted little stones as far as the south of Sweden and the north of Italy! If it would erupt again, the whole of Belgium and the south of the Netherlands could be covered with a thick layer of ashes. I must say, I was impressed!
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Posted By: Falx
Date Posted: June 04 2011 at 04:56
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The biggest city in New Zealand (Auckland, which has about 1/3 of the country's population) has at least 50 volcanoes underneath it. They say it's likely to erupt again (that is, another volcano appear) within hundreds or thousands of years...
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 15:51
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I thought this was about super avocados... ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: June 07 2011 at 17:49
Stay classy NZ. -------------   
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