Yellowstone Park Volcano Set To Erupt Wiping Out 2/3 Of U.S.

[LOVE SONGS]

God, wishful thinking, past explosions, GPS, maps, water, lava, bubbles and bulges, volcano or steam vents....

If it's going to blow, it's going to blow.

Right, and it would be the experience of a lifetime if one was actually in the park when it went..... and the trip to heaven would be so fast it's mind boggling. You'd have a thirty thousand foot head start on everyone..... and I really don't mean that as a joke.

I'm not laughing either

[nebula]

First off, even if yellowstone used to be a volcano, it doesnt mean that it is now.

I still do not understand what reason there is for believing the hot spot is not longer active?

[ayin jade]

First off, even if yellowstone used to be a volcano, it doesnt mean that it is now.

I still do not understand what reason there is for believing the hot spot is not longer active?

Because pat lives in wyoming and apparently near the nile river.

[OldShep]

First off, even if yellowstone used to be a volcano, it doesnt mean that it is now.

I still do not understand what reason there is for believing the hot spot is not longer active?

Because pat lives in wyoming and apparently near the nile river.

I think that is pronounced: DDDEEEEE-Nile.

The above is a repost from; http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/geysers_work.htm

[The_Patriot21]

First off, even if yellowstone used to be a volcano, it doesnt mean that it is now.

I still do not understand what reason there is for believing the hot spot is not longer active?

Because pat lives in wyoming and apparently near the nile river.

First off, even if yellowstone used to be a volcano, it doesnt mean that it is now.

I still do not understand what reason there is for believing the hot spot is not longer active?

Because pat lives in wyoming and apparently near the nile river.

You all are completly misreading me. I never said it wasnt a volcano. as far as hot spot, yes its a hot spot-that much is a fact, the only question, is what is creating the hot spot-heat from earths core, or magma from a volcano. And even then I never said it wasnt a volcano what I said was that they havent proven it If it was a court of law, and the only way to convict yellowstone of being a volcano was to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, yellowstone would be found not guilty. My problem is scientsts taking a working theory-and passing it as fact-Im complaining about the labeling nothing more. They have never found an active magma flow, and never actually observed an eruption. They have signs of past activity, but nothing showing that its still there-for all they know when it erupted last time, it left a series of passages (which are common in dead volcanos) that filled with water, and the heat from the earths core simple heated the water. Of course, it could be magma to-the point here is they don't actually know, its a theory. My problem isnt whether it is or it isnt a volcano-my problem is calling a theory fact.

[OldShep]

I know you have broad shoulders, you can take it.

If in a court of Law; the preponderance of the evidence would point to an active volcano, thus dispelling the idea that it is a theory. Your argument is based on speculations of error on those who are trained in this field and have studied such events for years. Good try though, so you get a thumbs up. ....

[nebula]

You all are completly misreading me. I never said it wasnt a volcano. as far as hot spot, yes its a hot spot-that much is a fact, the only question, is what is creating the hot spot-heat from earths core, or magma from a volcano. And even then I never said it wasnt a volcano what I said was that they havent proven it If it was a court of law, and the only way to convict yellowstone of being a volcano was to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, yellowstone would be found not guilty. My problem is scientsts taking a working theory-and passing it as fact-Im complaining about the labeling nothing more. They have never found an active magma flow, and never actually observed an eruption. They have signs of past activity, but nothing showing that its still there-for all they know when it erupted last time, it left a series of passages (which are common in dead volcanos) that filled with water, and the heat from the earths core simple heated the water. Of course, it could be magma to-the point here is they don't actually know, its a theory. My problem isnt whether it is or it isnt a volcano-my problem is calling a theory fact.

I still don't understand what evidence is out there to even consider the notion that the hot spot under Yosemity will never erupt again.

Or to put it the way you did, if you were to take the case "Yellowstone is not longer an active super-volcano" to court, would you win?

[other one]

^{I don't believe we've had a super volcano erupt, so how could we have the data to really know..... do they act like a smaller volcano on a larger scale or is their pattern different..... I don't see how we can know.}

[LOVE SONGS]

Well National Geographic is saying it is a supervolcano.

I'll stick with the scientist saying it is ...the largest volcano ever.

Something under the ground is causing the ground to rise. And it ain't no goffers.

[ayin jade]

^{I don't believe we've had a super volcano erupt, so how could we have the data to really know..... do they act like a smaller volcano on a larger scale or is their pattern different..... I don't see how we can know.}

Plenty of them have erupted, just not within recorded history. The yellowstone one has erupted 3-5 times that I recall seeing mentioned. There was one in the southeast pacific that science claims created a bottleneck in human history.

Here is a list of known ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano#Known_super_eruptions

This is the one resulting in a bottleneck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory