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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Yellowstone - glance at it once in awhile - its teasing us! |
| 2007-11-09 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #18 Whudda frickin' snarkfest! I've got reservations next July at Old Faithful Inn. Good on you, Beavis. As America's first National Park—thank you, Teddy Roosevelt—this incredible bit of wilderness is one of America's crown jewels. Interesting counter-intuitive ecological sidebar: Reintroduction of Wolves into Yellowstone Improves Trout Population In a very satisfying scenario, it turns out that the resurgent wolf population capably moderates overabundant caribou herds. Hokay, so WTF does this have to do with fish? It turns out that trout rely upon shady uneroded streambeds for their spawning grounds. By naturally thinning the local caribou population there was less browsing upon tender streamside willow buds. This, consequently, provided not only increased shade but soil stabilization for riparian locales and thereby assisted formation of ideal trout spawning sites. Rank this in with the "unintened consequences" category. As someone who owns a wolf hybrid, I could not be more happy about this outcome. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-09 22:41 |
| #17 I say, "Give it a try" at the least, you'll get more sane TV commentators. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-11-09 20:46 |
| #16 I plan on flying as many celebrities as possible... We used to appease the volcano spirits by tossing in virgins. I wonder if nowadays we could get the same effect with sluts and media whores? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-11-09 19:31 |
| #15 We need a Federal program to combat the effects of Magma Made Global Cooling. Perhaps Ash Caps and Ash credit trading to start reducing the Ash in the atmosphere. Each of us should look to the way we live our lives and reduce the size of our Ash Print so that the species of the planet will be able to survive the oncoming catashtrophe. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-09 18:27 |
| #14 The hotspot arrived under the Yellowstone area sometime after about 4 million years ago, producing gargantuan eruptions there 2 million, 1.3 million and 642,000 years ago. Statistically we are getting close to an event at Yellowstone. It might be 10,000 years but then it might be 10 or 20 |
| Posted by: Chedderhead 2007-11-09 18:07 |
| #13 Thanks for the link. I was just in Yosemite yesterday. The nicest people in the world go to National Parks in the off season. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2007-11-09 13:07 |
| #12 Shame it won't work that way. Two types of volcanic explosions. Nice and easy like Hawaii where lava flows and boomers like Mt. St Helens. Too much pent up gas (think Al Gore) A yellowstone supereruption may very well be an ELE (Extinction Level Event) happens every 600,000 years or so and we're due... |
| Posted by: Warthog 2007-11-09 11:47 |
| #11 we could use several nuclear cratering charges to dig a hole adjacent to it, then direct a river down into the hole. All that water hitting all that hot rock would result in an enormous cloud generating machine. The weird part about it was that half of them thought it was a good idea, except for the nuclear part. Now if there was some way of doing it "naturally"... Mooses good start btw, Please Expound.. we're long overdue for a Moose thesis! ~:) |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-11-09 11:37 |
| #10 DV - "naturally" it'll be name Gorefest. Old Al wanted his name to go down in history, that ought to insure it, right next to the "Black Plague". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-11-09 11:33 |
| #9 OK, you redeemed yourself! |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-11-09 09:59 |
| #8 I'm not completely selfish. I plan on flying as many celebrities as possible, like Paris Hilton and Rosie Fat Ass to Yellowstone as possible right before it blows as a "save the planet, prevent global warming" fund raiser. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-11-09 09:51 |
| #7 DV, ya'r selfish! It will occur in someone's lifetime, meaning it will sucks just about the same. It may be my grandgrandchildren. I don't enjoy that thought at all. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-11-09 09:37 |
| #6 I doubt Yellowstone will go in our lifetimes. However, if it does the only thing we can do is get the hell out of the way and hunker down for a long decade afterwards of cold, hunger and war. Civilization will take a long time to recover from it. Although, on the plus side all the global warming hype and bullshit should go away.... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-11-09 09:30 |
| #5 Could, naturally. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-11-09 09:26 |
| #4 This "naturally occurring phenomena" could also occur in the rock formations around Qom and Tehran, correct? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2007-11-09 09:23 |
| #3 Next time, moose, provide this snippet if they use the word "natural": In 1972, French scientists discovered that several natural concentrations of uranium ore had become critical and flared up some "2 billion" years ago at Oklo, Gabon. The concentration and configuration of the natural uranium and surrounding materials at that time had been just right to sustain fission. In fact, the analysis of the nuclear waste in the burned rocks demonstrated that plutonium had also been created. This implies that natural breeder reactors are also possible, raising the possibility of hitherto unappreciated, long-lived heat sources deep in the earth, in the other planets, and inside some of the stars. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-11-09 09:02 |
| #2 Once, to annoy some ignorant MMGW advocates, I proposed that if MMGW became too bad, we could use several nuclear cratering charges to dig a hole adjacent to it, then direct a river down into the hole. All that water hitting all that hot rock would result in an enormous cloud generating machine. The weird part about it was that half of them thought it was a good idea, except for the nuclear part. Now if there was some way of doing it "naturally"... |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-11-09 08:49 |
| #1 I've got reservations next July at Old Faithful Inn. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2007-11-09 08:27 |