Comments on: A Big, Big Hole in the Ground

By: OmegaMan

OmegaMan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:15:30 +0000

It could not be clearer to me that the fictional character “Yogi Bear” was a cultural homage to Yogi Berra, and “JellyStone Park” refered to
“YellowStone Park”

By: Two Cents from Girth

Two Cents from Girth — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:32:32 +0000

Wow! Where did you kids grow up?? #14, there is no Tomato here, Yogi is a cartoon character arguably drawn up in Jellystone/Yellowstone. As someone aptly pointed out Smokey is from New Mexico, near Billy the Kids old stomping grounds and in the vicinity of the Mescalaro Indian Reservation. About five Boo Boo’s there…lets try to get it right.
Yellowstone is a massive geologists wet dream with a ticking core that could reshape N. America. Most such primal forces expired ages ago in the vast eras before man, yet here, a glimpse of our ancient raw past persists among the toursists and the ever passing seasons, unabashed elemental beauty. A simmering slumber has long been this lands part in a timeless symphony. Despare and anguish will spread throughout our land if this giant again stirs…
Directly into history books the ash and soil will fly as the old the tell the young the account of that last breath of the sleepy park also recalling the matchstick towns removed from the map by mud and fire, a day of history and grief as nature again proves we bend as does all life on Earth.

By: jsmill

jsmill — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:05:22 +0000

“Now those crude calculations are a might speculative”
Hate to nit-pick but I think you mean ‘mite’.

By: Bob Nesbo

Bob Nesbo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:37:18 +0000

This sounds crazy, but would there be a way to drill out the magma, do some “magma mining” to slowly release the pressure? And get some heat energy while we were at it, and at the same time reduce the pressure on the caldera? Or will someone complain that we will be deflating the earth or something like that and protest the whole thing?

By: Booboo the terrier

Booboo the terrier — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:53:28 +0000

Yogi would steal picnic baskets in Jellystone

If Yellowstone erupts we will be toast

By: Rael

Rael — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:19:42 +0000

A slightly larger eruption, 73,000 +/- 4,000 years ago at the Toba Volcano, was likely the biggest volcanic eruption of the last 28 million years. It may have reduced our species population to less than 10,000.
http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/originals/Weber-Toba/textr.htm

By: troutkiller

troutkiller — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:11:26 +0000

I live really close to yellowstone. when it does blow it will be probably a really cool to see until the surge vaporizes the region.

By: SillyHumans

SillyHumans — Sun, 28 May 2006 22:37:35 +0000

Really, people, you’re arguing about a fictional character, word pronounciation, a mascot and how many other trivial useless points?..

We were trying to have a discussion about a supervolcano, were we Not? Anyways. fallsdown, there is another calderra that forms death valley CA, I believe, and I forget the name of the other, it’s a couple hundred miles northeast or north west I think. Those are the three extremely large calderras in the western/central US along the rockies. yellowstone is the most noticably active, but it reasonable to believe that the entire region is full of tectonic stress and volcanic activity.

Problem is, everyboy likes to suffer from SEP syndrome (Somebody Elses Problem) right up until the moment the whole damn thing blows up in everyones faces cause there ended up being Nobody dealing with the problem.

Luckily, there are people who know about the risks there, so I doubt even a massive explosion of one or more of the supervolcanos in western US would have catastropic lasting effects on the whole continent. If idiots are not prepared for the case of an unforseen catalyst causing eruptions, then many will die. If people have continginces set, then few will die. No one has any idea when or how but .. I mean we do buy storm windows for our houses because we saw that there was a storm last year right? Okay well there was an eruption last year sometime, think of it that way. How hard is it to have a plan?

alipardiwala and kendall.. the thing about calderra and pyroclastic and all that is that basically it doesn’t matter, any supervolcano that blows is always bad. in 1815 it says Tambora caused actual winter from the other side of the planet, and it’s sort of obvious that yellowstone would have enough material in it that a good blow would definitly have global effects. Anyone with any logical reasoning knows that all that is needed for a major eruption from any given volcano which has material built up in it, is a catalyst. Maybe giant earthquakes all over the world and stuff to shake the magma and fill the lava chamber faster, I don’t know. You’re a geoligist, Anthony, you explain.

There, now you guys have fun with that post. Rip it all up. lol ..

Does anyone want to tell everyone about the conjunction with Olympus Mons on mars, or do I have to?