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An injection of magma under Norris Geyser Basin
- jessehorne 7y agoWell I enjoyed the title. The site asked for my email to continue reading so that's about as far as I got.
- Vysero 7y agoSame here lol
- jballer 7y agoI usually go with @example.com or @contoso.com
- jessehorne 7y agoCan confirm that "allyourbase@us.com" was accepted. Thanks!
- _jal 7y agoI usually go with something like "popups@annoy.me.and.are.useless.for.you.xxx".
- jessehorne 7y agoI feel bad for whoever owns that email. They're getting all the spam!
- _jal 7y agoIf someone lists an MX for 'annoy.me.and.are.useless.for.you.xxx', I'd personally be really curious as to why. (I did just look, `dig any you.xxx` returns NOTIMP, probably a reserved name.)
- why-oh-why 7y agoThe more offensive the better. This is bad and they should feel bad.
- jessehorne 7y agoI totally get why people delivering great content want to maximize their readership this way, but I've never read an article on that site before, so how would I know if its worth giving my email?
- Kye 7y agoThey're probably counting on name recognition. I'm not sure about outside the US, but National Geographic is a big name here.
- jessehorne 7y ago@Kye - After seeing the crap that comes on the History Channel, I don't know if I can trust anything anymore. National Geographic might just become National Geothermal Signatures of Alien Presence... But that's just my ignorance of NG speaking.
- r00fus 7y agoNat Geo was purchased by 21st Century Fox a while back.
- rootbear 7y agoI used to use mm@disney.com (Mickey or Minnie Mouse)as a fake email.
- Havoc 7y agoI didn't see any. I guess something caught it (origin/pihole/bypass paywall)
- lainga 7y agoI am calling on everyone reading this, to turn in the direction of Yellowstone (rhumb and great-circle bearings both acceptable), and channel your chi into the mantra "NOT NOW" ed: although, yes, the danger of eruption is not heightened now.
- matthoiland 7y agoThe season finale of 2020 sounds terrifying.
- dumbfoundded 7y agoThere's a close pass of a 4km asteroid happening in April. It should miss us. https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998-or2-earth-flyby-april-2020.html https://www.space.com/asteroid-1998-or2-earth-flyby-april-20...
- wikiman 7y agoI'm just not counting on should at this rate...
- Apocryphon 7y agoWhat if the asteroid strikes Yellowstone?
- dboreham 7y agoThat can't happen twice.
- gumby 7y agoWell that would likely eliminate SARS-CVD-2 so there'd be a silver lining...
- dvtrn 7y agoWhy, is this asteroid high in silver? Can we mine it? /s
- thisistheend123 7y agoHas Murphy's Law chosen 2020 to play itself out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
- JJMcJ 7y agoRobert Heinlein had a story The Year Of the Jackpot, about exactly this. Ends with the Sun going nova.
- gumby 7y agoIt was the first science fiction story I ever read, and I was 11. I still remember the opening line. "At first Potiphar Breen did not notice the girl who was undressing."
- addHocker 7y ago"There's something wrong with the sunset" "No, with the Sun."
- gerikson 7y agoI wonder if that's where Gibson got the term "the Jackpot" for the slow-motion catastrophe that overtakes future Earth in The Peripheral.
- jpm_sd 7y ago"For more than two decades, an area larger than Chicago centered near the basin has been inflating and deflating by several inches in erratic bursts. In a hyperactive volcanic region like Yellowstone, the exact causes of any specific movement are difficult to pin down." [...] "To be clear, the new research does not indicate that the supervolcano that created Yellowstone’s caldera—which last erupted 640,000 years ago—is any more likely to erupt now."
- gypsy_boots 7y agoThank you for this. The headline of the article certainly seems to be taking advantage of the recent hysteria around everything else happening in our lives right now (covid-19)
- pesfandiar 7y agoHeadlines of previously respectful media have always been inching towards more drama, shock and FUD in general, so I don't think it's specific to the current mass hysteria. I'd bet COVID-19 has been a boon to all media though.
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- zymhan 7y agoThankfully the post was updated to be less misleading.
- Mikeb85 7y ago2020 is already shit, of course it's going to erupt, block out the sun and cause a nuclear winter. Why the hell not?
- me_me_me 7y agoIs there any guide or plan how to rebuild from such a catastrophe? Even brief nuclear winter would cause billion of deaths from starvation (and chaos caused by collapsing economy). I just wonder if we have a plan B to rebuild stuff (relatively) quickly or humans will be thrown into preindustrial world condemned to reinvent everything again?
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWhatever hope we had of surviving a nuclear winter now was gone the moment the virus shot the global supply chains to hell.
- parsimo2010 7y agoPlans A-Z call for us avoiding all nuclear winters and impacts from large asteroids. We don’t and won’t ever have a way to quickly rebuild after extinction level events. It will affect multiple generations in the best case.
- addHocker 7y agoWe can enrich the odds of recovery though, for example by dezentralizing knowledge storage and transfer- aka, youtube tutorials.
- angel_j 7y agoI wonder what the pulses might indicate elsewhere (like water temperatures in the gulf or s/t)
- Havoc 7y agoAt this rate I might need to change my stance on the biblical writings about the apocalypse & 4 horsemen.
- hodgesrm 7y ago"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" Given there's no discernable HN requirement to remain on topic (ever) the origin of this quote makes interesting reading. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/
- jacquesm 7y agoThere was this hilarious cartoon: https://i.redd.it/trycnbzmy0m41.jpg https://i.redd.it/trycnbzmy0m41.jpg
- echelon 7y agoIf this theoretically erupted, what would the impact be? Extinction level?
- atwebb 7y agoBill Bryson's book A Short History of Nearly Everything does a good job of describing it, I'd butcher a paraphrasing. Essentially, feet of ash covering hundreds to thousands of miles. It also highlights that this is been going on and areas bulge constantly.
- sytelus 7y agoEven better: https://www.amazon.com/Supervolcano-Catastrophic-Changed-Course-History-ebook/ https://www.amazon.com/Supervolcano-Catastrophic-Changed-Cou...
- arcticbull 7y agoGood, I was just saying Q1 2020 has been pretty boring so...
- egfx 7y agoYep Kobe, Covid and now this!
- DoreenMichele 7y agoOnly because you aren't used to being housebound. I, on the other hand, have been having a better than usual time, now that the rest of humanity is finally as concerned with germ control as I have been for nearly two decades.
- holler 7y agoCovid, Caldera, Locust Invasion...What a time to be alive!
- aj7 7y agoIf this blows, a billion people could die. And I suspect it’s more likely than an asteroid hit.
- Donwangugi 7y ago2020 no joke yo
- rbanffy 7y agoI wonder how much of the US's energy needs could be extracted from geothermal sources around the caldera.
- neonate 7y agohttps://archive.md/fm9ep https://archive.md/fm9ep
- hindsightbias 7y ago"In May 1980, a strong earthquake swarm that included four Richter magnitude 6 earthquakes struck the southern margin of the Long Valley Caldera. It was associated with a 10-inch (250 mm) dome-shaped uplift of the caldera floor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Valley_Caldera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Valley_Caldera