Do you worry about the supervolcano below Yellowstone?

Not much you can do about it! What’s to worry?

It’s gonna be a planet buster.

See yall next millennium

I never worry about things I can actually impact, much less things like the Yellowstone Caldera. : )

Tragedy can be averted by a bear who is smarter than your average bear, though.

If the world is saved by yogi, I will literally s*** a live chicken.

If Yellowstone blows then its goodbye to the world as we know it. The fault line at New Madrid is similar – only that would be an absolutely massive earthquake.
No sense in worrying about it if its out of your control.
Could happen next year – or thousands of years away.

I don’t really worry about it as worrying wouldn’t do much good because there’s nothing to be done about it but it does pass through my mind sporadically.

I think about it, but there’s nothing to be done about it.

@Sandydog Actually, there was a big ole’ earthquake (8.3) in the New Madrid, Mo area in 1812. We’re still here, although “the earthquakes were felt as far away as New York City and Boston, Massachusetts, where church bells rang.” – wiki.

Hm. I don’t remember feeling anything. ;)

You mean you didn’t get “all shook up”? LOL

@Sandydog IT WAS IN 1812!!!!!! :). (I am actually curious as to how it would have felt here in Kansas. I mean, if they could feel it in NY….?)

Hey!I really don’t :)

No no I don’t worry. I know it’s there and hopefully when it decides it’s ready, I hope I’m already dead.

@Shield_of_Achilles

LMAO! Hell! I’d PAY to see that! : D

@CaptainHarley The chicken thing… or the bear thing?

I thought “Old Faithful” was a little disappointing. If the whole place erupted, well, then I might be impressed.

@mrentropy All or nothing, aye!

@Shield_of_Achilles

The chicken thang! : D

@shego Amen to that..

@CaptainHarley That may just happen.

LMAO! @Shield_of_Achilles

No. The probability is still very low. I’m more concerned about climate change.

Would it be a good idea to drill a hole into Yellowstone to allow the volcano to “erupt” slowly and release the pressure? Not only would this defuse the volcano, but the ash in the air would also mitigate the effects of global warming, as volcanoes such as this are suspected of being the cause of massive ice ages. Good idea, or no?

I think it depends on the volcano. I found this article

http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2007/10/defusing-mount-kelud/

Okay, but that’s just your ordinary everyday volcano. A supervolcano, such as the one under Yellowstone (and a few others scattered around the world…Yellowstone isn’t the only one) can wipe out an entire continent. Perhaps it was a supervolcano, not an asteroid, that sent the dinosaurs to extinction. So I’m thinking of something like a well hole or oil hole. I don’t think it needs to be very deep before the lava will start geysering out. The biggest challenge will be automating the equipment, at least at the end of the dig, so that the crew isn’t killed when they hit hot lava.

BTW, here is a site that reports volcano eruptions, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, disease outbreaks, nuclear spills, and automobile accidents.

The trouble is the trapped heat. The second law of thermodynamics makes it want to mix with the cold in space. We’d have to be careful not to let too much heat of a supervolcano out into an already too warm atmosphere. But perhaps we could build very tall chimneys reaching into the mesosphere.

Build a chimney next to the space elevator :-/

Awesome :-\

All we need is cheap nanofibers.