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

[classic33]

As a geologist, I just hope that I'm no longer around when the next big event forces the next (and there will be many more than one) mass extinction - as we can be sure that the trivial species called Homo sapiens will not survive, and the earth will go on to regenerate life in another direction. These mega-events have gone on before, and will again. It's just that there was no-one around to record them for posterity - other than the geological record that is!

Something to look forward to!

How do you know there was no-one around! They'd have been cremated leaving very little evidence they'd been there.

 

[Beebo]

I think we should drill a little hole and drop ice cubes down, to slowly cool the magma.
That should work.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

and their vehicle was made of unobtanium.

Is that the same metal as Wolverines claws??

Or was that named after some atrocious early '80s pop band that were 'Dandy Highwaymen'??


Note the outputs for Mount StHelens & Tambora
Presumably they couldn't fir Yellowstone in the illustration

Pinatubo caused enough chaos in 1991

 

[gavroche]

All they have to do is impose a new tax on the volcano, that will calm it down.

 

[numbnuts]

Everything starts with a big bang ….so why not the end

 

[VamP]

How do you know there was no-one around! They'd have been cremated leaving very little evidence they'd been there.

What, like these dudes?

 

[Christopher]

Will it happen before or after Lanzarote falls apart and causes a siesmic wave that wipes out the eastern seaboard of North America?

 

[classic33]

Will it happen before or after Lanzarote falls apart and causes a siesmic wave that wipes out the eastern seaboard of North America?

It'd also take out London. But that might not be as bad as it sounds.

 

[Christopher]

It'd also take out London. But that might not be as bad as it sounds.

Really? It's not all bad news then!

 

[classic33]

Really? It's not all bad news then!

It'd hit within 12 minutes of the mountain hitting the water. 10-15 metre high waves. At the minimum!

 

[Christopher]

It'd hit within 12 minutes of the mountain hitting the water. 10-15 metre high waves. At the minimum!

Holy smokes!
Re the volcanoes, I had thought Santorini was the ultimate eruption in historic times but this Yellowstone monster is something else.

 

[TheDoctor]

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

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

Yebbut, that's because Naples is terrible!
But yes, Vesuvius is way overdue...
*looks around nervously*

 

[Archie_tect]

Has it happened yet? Is it safe to come out from behind the sofa?

So that's where you've been hiding....

 

[classic33]

Holy smokes!
Re the volcanoes, I had thought Santorini was the ultimate eruption in historic times but this Yellowstone monster is something else.

And they're fracking nearby.
With regards the tidal wave hitting america, best case scenario puts it at only making it 200 miles inland!
Wave heights of over 100 metres. Distance travelled allow the wave height to build, combined with hitting shallower water as it reaches the coast.