Doomed, We're All Doomed................

[Richard A Thackeray]

Well, we are if it does go 'Bang'!!!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25312674

 

[welsh dragon]

OMG OMG It could blow tomorrow. Then again it could blow in 10,000 years.

 

[RedRider]

The team found that the magma chamber was colossal. Reaching depths of between 2km and 15km (1 to 9 miles), the cavern was about 90km (55 miles) long and 30km (20 miles) wide.

I had a spot like that, clearly visible on all the wedding photies.

 

[ColinJ]

I think they should drill down into it and start releasing the pressure. They could just bleed off a bit of magma here and there for the next 25,000 years and that would fix the problem!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

OMG OMG It could blow tomorrow. Then again it could blow in 10,000 years.

True!, they have no idea when, just that it will

As the titles said during the (2 part) TV programme 'Super Volcano';
This is a true story, it just hasn't happened. Yet

 

[welsh dragon]

True!, they have no idea when, just that it will

As the titles said during the (2 part) TV programme 'Super Volcano';
This is a true story, it just hasn't happened. Yet

I don't think I will hold my breath waiting for it to happen in that case. I think we wil be all right. I hope

 

[Linford]

I think they should drill down into it and start releasing the pressure. They could just bleed off a bit of magma here and there for the next 25,000 years and that would fix the problem!

Of course, that could release the pressure like a champagne cork and it all then comes fizzing up

 

[postman]

If my dynamite mixture does not work in the next 48 hours i might just explode,like that whale a few weeks ago.If i go contact the wife and you can have both bikes.and a load of size 8 tops.

 

[Arch]

It could blow just as the Earth's polarity flips, that's apparently possibly due or overdue.

So is Vesuvious. An Italian friend once told me that nobody who studies Vesuvious will live in Naples.

 

[vernon]

If my dynamite mixture does not work in the next 48 hours i might just explode,like that whale a few weeks ago.If i go contact the wife and you can have both bikes.and a load of size 8 tops.

It's a pity you're not a mathematician - you could have worked it out with a pencil.

 

[Davidc]

Of course, that could release the pressure like a champagne cork and it all then comes fizzing up

I read a synopsis of a research paper on how magma explosions work - more or less as you suggest!

 

[ColinJ]

Of course, that could release the pressure like a champagne cork and it all then comes fizzing up

All they need is a big magma-proof valve to regulate the flow, though I'm not quite sure what they could make it from that wouldn't melt ...

 

[Arch]

All they need is a big magma-proof valve to regulate the flow, though I'm not quite sure what they could make it from that wouldn't melt ...

There was a terrible film called The Core where the heroes had to travel to the core to restart it spinning, and their vehicle was made of unobtanium.

 

[Smurfy]

Have they worked out a suitable taxation model to reduce the risk of it going bang?

 

[slowmotion]

All they need is a big magma-proof valve to regulate the flow, though I'm not quite sure what they could make it from that wouldn't melt ...

I know just the experts for the job......Transocean and Haliburton. A piece of p1ss!!