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[Rabbi_Vole]

What do you guys think is inside the Yellowstone super volcano? Probably hot molten rock and shit, but wouldn't it be cool if it was full of confetti, balloons and/or jelly beans? You guys are so pessimistic. To my knowledge, there have been no studies on what's actually down there.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

I had nightmares about this, among other things, when I was in elementary school. Suffice it to say that I've moved past it.

 

[dluu13]

Can't we just drill a massive amount of tunnels/holes to alleviate the pressure?

Of course not! That would destroy the natural beauty of the park.

 

[banefirelord]

I lived within the immediate blast radius of Yellowstone for 12 years. I slept very soundly.

 

[jimmyd]

Science always gets these things wrong. #copingmechanisms

 

[RiccochetJ]

Can't we just drill a massive amount of tunnels/holes to alleviate the pressure?

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_sub_page_50.html

"Can you release some of the pressure at Yellowstone by drilling into the volcano?

Scientists agree that drilling into a volcano would be of questionable usefulness. Notwithstanding the enormous expense and technological difficulties in drilling through hot, mushy rock, drilling is unlikely to have much effect. At near magmatic temperatures and pressures, any hole would rapidly become sealed by minerals crystallizing from the natural fluids that are present at those depths."

There's a nice little q&a on that page about other fears as well.

 

[Mollymauk]

I'm going to Yellowstone today. :/

Grew up in Jackson Hole and we are visiting my mom for a couple weeks. Wish me luck!

 

[Stevey]

So would the world end if it blew up or something?

 

[Ganzlinger]

I'll survive Yellowstone

 

[Regiruler]

Couldn't there be some way to depressurize the supervolcano?
EDIT: Already answered

Not terribly many other options though.

 

[User 73706]

The only large-scale extinction events that could happen at any moment I really ever consider / get concerned about are arbitrary gamma-ray bursts that could scorch the entire planet with seemingly no warning. But then I think "eh, that could happen literally any second, but entropy and thermodynamics exist and space is a pretty empty place, i don't really have time to get worked up about random happenstance that could annihilate us."

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

I ain't got yella' stones.

 

[Extra Sauce]

No Yellowstone nightmares, but I recently started having this dream about a disfigured man with knives attached to his glove. He's always wearing the same red and green striped sweater and fedora. Anyone else?

 

[Escape Goat]

No Yellowstone nightmares, but I recently started having this dream about a disfigured man with knives attached to his glove. He's always wearing the same red and green striped sweater and fedora. Anyone else?

Groundskeeper Willie was in my dream too. Except he got me with hedge clippers.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

The only large-scale extinction events that could happen at any moment I really ever consider / get concerned about are arbitrary gamma-ray bursts that could scorch the entire planet with seemingly no warning. But then I think "eh, that could happen literally any second, but entropy and thermodynamics exist and space is a pretty empty place, i don't really have time to get worked up about random happenstance that could annihilate us."

Wouldn't we just turn into a planet of hulks?

 

[Shig]

Now that you mention it, I do distinctly remember having a recurring 'falling' nightmare as a young child where I was peering into the mouth of a geyser (might as well be Old Faithful since that's certainly the only one I knew of) and fell in, freefalling for a while into a massive underground opening full of fiery volcanoes. Always woke up with a start as I hit the lava.

 

[Maninthemirror]

So yeah, as the topic says, i used to have a lot of nightmares about Yellowstone national park as a kid...it seemed like every week or so, i would wake up in a cold sweat dreaming about it.

It was as common to me as the "falling from a great height and hitting the ground" dream. I can't say i thought about the end of the world very much, and meteor collisions and world war catastrophes never really brought out much concern, but there was always something particularly chilling about Yellowstone that really got to me, to the point where i had to take medication at one point.

And for a long time i was able to move on, they eventually stopped. But only recently, as of a few months ago they started returning, very strange dreams about watching the news and hearing about Yellowstone reactivating.

I can't say i have heard anything new about that area for a long time though, so its really making me paranoid and very on edge in regards to functioning as i normally would, i don't know what i should do about it, so any advice would be helpful.

Does anyone else have this issue of crippling paranoia seemingly out of nowhere, if not with Yellowstone, any irrational fear?

well yellowstone is where the most dangerous volcano in human history is overdue for eruption. in a realistic scenario you have nothing to be worried about falling down but scientifically it is dangerous

 

[HTupolev]

Actually, looks like my comparisons were wrong; I was confusing information, and the recent events I was looking at were significantly smaller than Yellowstone's biggest eruptions. But still, to the best of our knowledge, Yellowstone's biggest events were smaller than other events our species has lived through.

 

[MikeDown]

I have a fear of the ocean and tsumanis, have nightmares about it fairly regularly; bout 4 times a weekish that I remember. Have gotten use to them

 

[Jarlaxle]

This is a strange thread to see considering I watched "Supervolcano" last night which was a BBC docudrama about Yellowstone exploding.

 

[Brannon]

Wouldn't we just turn into a planet of hulks?

Think of all the angry hulk sex that would happen spontaneously...

 

[Meadows]

The chances of it happening in your lifetime are astronomically low.

 

[Mr. Doop]

I have had nightmares about Jellystone national park, but not yellowstone.

Scarier than the average nightmare!

 

[User Name Here]

Don't worry OP, we haven't decided on a date for its eruption yet. I was suggesting next fiscal year, but it's all up in the air still. That and we are trying to see how we can amplify the eruption.

 

[Toxi]

Don't worry OP, we haven't decided on a date for its eruption yet. I was suggesting next fiscal year, but it's all up in the air still. That and we are trying to see how we can amplify the eruption.

Donald Trump's policy initiative

• Make Yellowstone erupt
• Use all the ash and lava rock to build a wall
• Make Mexican volcanoes pay for the wall.

 

[komplanen]

Yellowstone better only blow up the US or I'm going to be mad. I don't want ash and nuclear winter to ruin my life where I'm at.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

The chances of it happening in your lifetime are astronomically low.

You mean "geologically low."

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Yellowstone has erupted 2 times in recorded history. First it was 2 million years ago and the most recent was around 600,000 years ago.

See those numbers? Yellowstones orgasms happen infrequently and on a very large timescale. When scientists say we are "dangerously close" to an eruption, they mean like a thousand years, not anytime soon.

Plus there are always noticeable warning signs for large volcanoes such as Yellowstone. Larger Steam pockets, earthquakes, and magma pools forming. We will have ample warning before Yellowstone reaches climax.