[–] o0shad0o 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Close? No. Months or years away? Probably not, but no way to know for sure.
Months or years away from a smaller-scale eruption, like what's happened at Yellowstone dozens and dozens of times since the last super-eruption? More likely.
So even if you hear about a potential eruption there, don't fucking panic. Wait for more info first. With all the measurements being made there, there will be months of warning.
[–] R34p_Th3_Wh0r1w1nd 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
If that zit pops, it's going to kill a lot of people. Most will die from breathing in the ash. If you look at volcanic ash under a microscope, it's more jagged then broken glass. That shit gets in your lungs and turns into something like concrete. One day, Yellowstone will create the best survivor reality show the world has seen in a very long time.
[–] 11975141? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Eh. The most deaths are likely to be from inability to farm produce and therefore animals. The government on the east coast will all survive and mandate the area within a hundred miles or so of the west coast to produce food for all the remaining survivors and end up killing everyone by forcibly stretching food for a couple million out to probably several tens of millions of survivors.
It won't kill nearly as many people as everyone thinks, that's for sure. 90% of the major damage area is shithole nowhere.
[–] AmaleksHairyAss ago (edited ago)
If there were a major eruption the next one to ten harvests wouldn't happen at all due to the ash blocking out the sun. The world's population would absolutely plummet if it were longer than one year. Give it another 50 years and IMO we'll be advanced enough to build enough grow lights and heaters as long as there's enough sun for the solar panels to power them. A hundred years after that and maybe we'll have the capacity to crash build generators to power all of that. Every year we're a step further from the end of the human race.
[–] monkeytoe101 ago
If it does it'll be the presidents fault, I'm sure and a GOP policy problem because they didn't recycle enough.
[–] theoldones 0 points 19 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago
ok, so its not going to explode and this article is hysteria then
[–] CowWithBeef 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Not quite. We don't actually know how it acts prior to an eruption. The probability seems low because normal sized volcanoes are much more seismicly active prior to eruptions, but supervolcanoes lack data. It's possible they just pop. The main comfort is the thickness of rock above the magma is large enough that it looks physically impossible to suddenly break it. News that the crust is thinning rapidly or cracking would be alarming. Earthquake clusters are not worth the alarm they cause, but people love the drama.
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[–] AssaultMonkey 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We are all going to die*!
*Someday, for various reasons, and not all at once.
[–] tame ago
** At least probably not all at once.
[–] bluefascist ago
not necessarily.
We are entering a grand solar minimum, and volcano activity tends to increase during the minimums.