Supervolcanoes

[MrTeaSpoon]

Are you a little worried about them? Very unlikely it happens in our lifetimes, but eventually humans will be faced with this problem. A supervolcano could trigger an ice age, would cause massive starvation, and so on.

 

 

 

Couple of articles on supervolcanoes here

 

http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... lcano.html

[Severation]

Should be in off-topic I think.

[warrierlord9]

This isnt about runescape is it?? #-o #-o

 

 

 

This is general discussion about rs !!!

[MrTeaSpoon]

Yep I was sure it was in OT too o_O

[Nero]

Welcome to RuneScape General bud

[leedragon8]

Welcome to RuneScape General bud

 

 

 

haha

[Celestrana]

An ice age and massive starvation is a good thing. The planet's natural resources are, in my non-professional opinion, being over used. Reducing a dominant specie's population is nature's way of bring order back into the ecosystem.

[Freesia]

Ok.. but what are the chances of that happening? :-s

[no_way2go]

Ok.. but what are the chances of that happening? :-s

 

 

 

99.9% It is bound to happen in the future.

 

 

 

Quote from the article:

 

 

The warning is not new. Geologists in the United States detailed a similar scenario in 2001, when they found evidence suggesting volcanic activity in Yellowstone National Park will eventually lead to a colossal eruption. Half the United States will be covered in ash up to 3 feet (1 meter) deep, according to a study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

 

 

 

Explosions of this magnitude "happen about every 600,000 years at Yellowstone," says Chuck Wicks of the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied the possibilities in separate work. "And it's been about 620,000 years since the last super explosive eruption there."

 

 

 

 

It probably won't be within 100 years from now, you can't just stop these kind of thinfs.

[mini193]

An ice age and massive starvation is a good thing. The planet's natural resources are, in my non-professional opinion, being over used. Reducing a dominant specie's population is nature's way of bring order back into the ecosystem.

 

 

 

ok, we'll start with you. Would you like you and all people you know to die? I see what you mean, Earth is overpopulated, but I think you just need to think of how much better it'd be to use resources wisely instead of killing millions.

 

 

 

Ok.. but what are the chances of that happening? :-s

 

 

 

Really good actually, watch discovery channel, you'll see. It probably won't happen in our lifetime, but probably within 1000 years which isn't much if you think about it compared to the time from the last explosion(millions of years I think)

[hohto]

99.9% It is bound to happen in the future.

 

 

 

However my death is 100% sure, so is yours and so are everyone elses.

 

 

 

That would cause a a lot of istant deaths and a lot later due starvation, floods and other things caused by it. However it wouldn't most likely destroy whole planet or mankind, just drop our population to healthier numbers.

 

 

 

That's also a thing we cannot avoid when it happens. We can at least in theory do something about asteroids but this is a thing that can't really be stopped when/if it comes. Also it's most likely that within 1000 years mankind has already destroyed itself. We've already been so close to a nuclear war because of computer errors, unthought political moves and falsely informed people that in future with more complicated systems, more nukes and probably more states with them the accident happens.

[Omar]

99.9% It is bound to happen in the future.

 

 

 

However my death is 100% sure, so is yours and so are everyone elses.

 

 

 

That would cause a a lot of istant deaths and a lot later due starvation, floods and other things caused by it. However it wouldn't most likely destroy whole planet or mankind, just drop our population to healthier numbers.

 

 

 

That's also a thing we cannot avoid when it happens. We can at least in theory do something about asteroids but this is a thing that can't really be stopped when/if it comes. Also it's most likely that within 1000 years mankind has already destroyed itself. We've already been so close to a nuclear war because of computer errors, unthought political moves and falsely informed people that in future with more complicated systems, more nukes and probably more states with them the accident happens.

 

Then the world will be ruled by slugs :lol:

 

Well of course, I'd be afraid for my children/the next generation. But if you think of it too much, you're going to get scared of a lot of other things -- death, explosion of the sun, etc.

[Dharockslayer]

We all die, who cares how we do -.- .

 

 

 

Im not worried about them, one of the reasons is that I live in Europe 8-)

[Giordano]

An ice age and massive starvation is a good thing. The planet's natural resources are, in my non-professional opinion, being over used. Reducing a dominant specie's population is nature's way of bring order back into the ecosystem.

 

Funny, I bet you wouldn't want to die.

 

 

 

I see no point in worring about all the possible Doomsday crap. We have so many: WW3, nuclear war, astroids, this supervolcano, tsuami, alien invation, global warming...

[Ichimaru]

We all die, who cares how we do -.- .

 

 

 

Im not worried about them, one of the reasons is that I live in Europe 8-)

 

The smoke from any of those massive volcanos would cover the entire earth's atmosphere for several months, making the growth of plants and crops impossible, resulting in starvation, for everyone on the planet.

[Smapla]

I'm more worried about black holes :uhh:

 

 

 

no not a black hole eating the earth, silly

 

 

 

black holes can cause a lot of damage by redirecting far off asteroids and things.

[underu2000]

No such thing as volcanoes, starvation, asteroids, death-stars, or black holes.

 

They're all just conspiracy stories.

 

On a related note, if in fact through some unlikely chance that a volcano existed (or a supervolcano...), it would result in the instantaneous destruction of the universe, and all in it.

 

Except for cockroaches of course.

[Nadril]

No such thing as volcanoes, starvation, asteroids, death-stars, or black holes.

 

They're all just conspiracy stories.

 

On a related note, if in fact through some unlikely chance that a volcano existed (or a supervolcano...), it would result in the instantaneous destruction of the universe, and all in it.

 

Except for cockroaches of course.

 

 

 

Super volcanoes do exist. There is one in Yellowstone, for example.

[Lord Diddy]

Ive seen the National Geographic episode on this 3 times. Its very real and happens around 600,000 years.

 

 

 

Shame we dont know when it will happen... maybe 2morrow :-$ :x

[wakka102]

something about the word super volcano makes me laugh, like the word SUPER makes it sound likes its out of a cartoon.

 

 

 

They do seem scary though :ohnoes: *crawls into a hole and waits for Armageddon*

[underu2000]

No such thing as volcanoes, starvation, asteroids, death-stars, or black holes.

 

They're all just conspiracy stories.

 

On a related note, if in fact through some unlikely chance that a volcano existed (or a supervolcano...), it would result in the instantaneous destruction of the universe, and all in it.

 

Except for cockroaches of course.

 

 

 

Super volcanoes do exist. There is one in Yellowstone, for example.

 

Yeah, I know. I was just kidding. Bad joke on my part.

[Led-Zeppelin]

Look at where I live;

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Taupo - That is a big lake in the middle of the North Island, it erupted thousands of years ago, it's eruption made the sky glow red in China and Rome.

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Plates_tect2_en.svg - The Indo-Australian plate and the Pacific plate cut right through the middle of New Zealand, which makes for some really interesting times. Especially when you see the direction both plates are moving.

 

 

 

 

And this is the city where I live;

 

 

Looks kinda like the face of a pimply teenager with all of those craters. Once for a geography school trip, we went up Mt Eden, and had to count how many volcanoes we could see by sight. We could see 18 within visable range. :ohnoes:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_volcanic_field

 

 

 

The first vents erupted at the Domain, Albert Park and St Heliers between 60,000 and 140,000 years ago. Since then some 49 vents have erupted, though each eruptive vent has generally only had a geologically short period of activity. The most recent eruption (about 600 years ago[2] and within historical memory of the local MÃÆââ¬Å¾ÃâÃ

[Zealot]

I live within a few hundred miles of what is potentially the most dangerious volcano on the planet... Right in it's kill zone. Approximately every 600,000 years it blows it's stack, leaves a giant hole in the ground, and causes deposition which is used to date other rock layers... And it is 20,000 years overdue. The Yellowstone hot spot is rather a frightening beast if you consider it in that light... And in the light that the most recent activity happens to be right underneath a rather large, shallow lake. What that means is that there is an instant source for gasses which will make the initial eruption all the more powerful.

 

 

 

Have you ever seen a column of debris that reaches the ionosphere? I haven't and frankly don't want to. People practically everywhere in the Northwestern hemisphere will be able to see it, and when it's all said and done, people in the entirety of North America will hear the rumbling. If people in my community are not killed by pyroclastic lava flows, in all likelyhood they will still suffer permanent hearing loss due to the volume and durration.

 

 

 

When the magma chamber is finally emptied, and things finally settle down there will be a thick layer of fresh ash, like snow only heavier, extending thousands of miles down wind. In addition to that thousands of kilotons of volcanic ash will be caught in the jet stream and circle the earth for months or years afterword. Global temperatures will probably fall durring this time to such an extent that it triggers a new ice age, and the lack of sunlight will starve most plants. Anyone who actually survives will have starvation to look forward to... The world over. 'Least all this is what was talked about in one of my Geology classes once upon a few years ago... Volcanology actually. Probably it's still reasonably accurate though.

 

 

 

Exciting, isn't it? Quite frankly I would prefer nuclear war with China or Russia.

 

 

 

It is important to note that even though this is reasonably accurate scientifically I have a very good reason to believe that it probably will not happen in the lifespan of the human species on Earth, though my reasoning there is... shall we say in a sense greater and in another sense less then scientific, and in any case irrelivant to this discussion.