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Offline TomSea

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Yellowstone supervolcano could blow faster than thought, destroy all of mankind
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Arizona State University researchers have analyzed minerals around the supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park and have come to a startling conclusion. It could blow much faster than previously expected, potentially wiping out life as we know it.

According to National Geographic, the researchers, Hannah Shamloo and Christy Till, analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent eruption. What they discovered surprised them – the changes in temperature and composition only took a few decades, much faster than the centuries previously thought.

“We expected that there might be processes happening over thousands of years preceding the eruption,” said Till said in an interview with the New York Times.

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I certainly don't believe this. I didn't see this posted.

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And, I guess if it happens, we won't know.

Offline RoosGirl

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Wouldn't something like this be better if it happened faster?

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Wouldn't something like this be better if it happened faster?

I think so.  Better than that EMP idea.

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I tend not to worry very much about things I can't do a damned thing about.  Whether it's sooner or later matters not at all.
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They are any number of things which could end all life on earth, from solar events that suck out our atmosphere to asteroids that split the earth to epidemics to aliens arriving to terraform the earth.

Ain't much we can do something about.

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When it comes it comes. Eventually the Earth will die when the sun dies. Everything dies. Except Twinkies.

You can still eat them after Armageddon I think and they would still be fresh  :silly:
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