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3841088 No.3841088 [Reply] [Original]

What are the chances of Yellowstone erupting during our lifetime?

And what are the inmediate consequences if it does?

>> No.3841097

100%

Martial law, riots, FEMA will take control of the government. Most will be relocated to detention camps. Scare resources will find themselves allocated to the elite who were aware of the impending disaster.

>> No.3841095

What are the chances of Yellowstone erupting during our lifetime?
>approx 56%
And what are the inmediate consequences if it does?
We all dead

>> No.3841105

A Nuclear Winter that last for years if not decades.

It's not pretty.

>> No.3841114

>>3841105

Volcanic Winter, but yeah pretty much just semantics.

>> No.3841115

>>3841097
not much marshal law when you're drowing in lava

>> No.3841118
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3841118

It does everyday.

>> No.3841122

Have you ever played Fallout?

Yeah...something like that.

>> No.3841125

>>3841097

>
Martial law, riots, FEMA will take control of the government. Most will be relocated to detention camps. Scare resources will find themselves allocated to the elite who were aware of the impending disaster.

so, same drill as every disaster, eh?

>> No.3841132

>>3841125

Yeah, except the disaster zone is pretty much the whole country.

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3841142

>>3841115
>>3841115
Marshal Law is drowing in his grave

>> No.3841145

>>3841132
Scary. Time to buy a yacht and keep a fuel reserve lol.

>> No.3841179

It's hard to comprehend what the impact of a super volcano eruption would be. In question of magnitude it's more similar to a large impact event then what one usually associate with volcanic activity. As for the chances we're already in the red zone so could be any day, but the cycle is set around some 640.000 years so it could just as likely be a few millenia down the road.

>> No.3841188

>>3841179
The global warming from a super volcano alone would pretty much make life unsustainable wouldn't it? Everywhere, not just in the country it erupts in.

>> No.3841214

>>3841188

Most of the warming is countered by the particles in suspension blocking he sunlight.

>> No.3841221

A bunch of poor people will die. I'm glad I'm above the line of poverty and live a bit far from Yellowstone in a civilized society. Everything will be fine with me, maybe some cuts on my budget.

>> No.3841224

>>3841188

Life would take a hit globally but it's not a extinction event either, americas would take the bulk of it, US would likely see widespread destruction of cities due to a volcanic ash layer several inches thick, water from rain on top of that and it turns into a heavy concrete like slag, in europe and asia it's likely to trigger famine due to crop failure etc.

>> No.3841230

>>3841097

>cannibalize the nutrient-rich elite

they cannot resist our massive salivating mobs

>> No.3841229

Australian here
The Global Cooling would turn the Australian outback into a lush Prairie that everyone in the world would want a piece of

>> No.3841234

Should I...

...buy more bullets?

>> No.3841237

>>3841234

who are you planning to shoot? only need one bullet from where im standing

>> No.3841245

>>3841237
Who or whatever I have to.

>> No.3841265

Maybe this would purge the hell of a country America has become from the face of the Earth. From that we would see a new rise of power in the East.

>> No.3841280

Any sauce on the actual chances?

>> No.3841287

>>3841280

zero.
none.
nuh-unh.
notabit.
no way.
nope.
naught.

feeling better?

>> No.3841292

No more Taq polymerase D:

>> No.3841303

>>3841221

Yeah...no.

Super-Volcanic eruptions fuck shit up on a global scale.

You'd be lucky if you don't end surviving on cannibalism.

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3841324

>mfw a good chunk of the United States and Canada is absolutely obliterated by a Yellowstone eruption in 2014
IT WAS AS FUTURE GUY FORETOLD

>> No.3841344

Yellowstone is one of the reasons why humanity should be building off-world colonies RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!

>> No.3841351

Am I missing something? Why the sudden increase in Yellowstone threads?

Did somebody scare /x/ with some bullshit or something?

>> No.3841357

>>3841088
This is the third thread we've had about Yellowstone today.

The others were better.

>> No.3841362

>>3841351
This. I've seen a few threads in the last few days but didn't pay attention to them.

>> No.3841378

>>3841362
>>3841351
>>3841357

OP here.

Didn't know. It was just a random moment of curiosity.

>> No.3841383

>>3841378
It's highly unlikely that 3-4 people just all happened to get curious about the Yellowstone caldera on the same day, which leads me to believe this is probably being done by a few people on /x/ trying to troll, just like with the solar flares and Elenin shit.

>> No.3841403

>>3841378
Ok then. For a serious answer, see >>3839510

As for the odds of it occuring; not likely.
It COULD occur in the near future, but it's just as likely to happen anytime in the next 200,000 years, and there's a chance that it'll never erupt again.

see >>3839467 for a much cooler thread about Yellowstone.