Yellowstone supervolcano

Denzil2222 · 13-09-2010 9:03pm #1

If it went off tomorrow the problems in the economy we have now would seem like nothing.

Pookah · 13-09-2010 9:04pm

When it goes, and it's on the way, the ground has been swelling for years now, it's game over.

AlmightyCushion · 13-09-2010 9:05pm

There's nothing to worry about. If the super volcano did blow all the lava would just get swallowed up by the black hole that is America's budget deficit.

Daroxtar · 13-09-2010 9:06pm

Yogi bear would be fkkd

starbelgrade · 13-09-2010 9:06pm

I've seen the film. We all escape on arcs. It'll be grand.

admiralofthefleet · 13-09-2010 9:13pm

cool story bro

FreudianSlippers · 13-09-2010 9:34pm

twas!

up for anything · 13-09-2010 9:45pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

I've seen the film. We all escape on arcs. It'll be grand.

Unfortunately if we escaped on arcs we'd all just be heading back to earth. Perhaps you meant arks?

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Saila · 13-09-2010 9:48pm

Yay another were all going to die thread :rolleyes:

FreudianSlippers · 13-09-2010 9:50pm

Saila wrote: »

Yay another were all going to die thread :rolleyes:

We're all going to live threads would be significantly less filled with lulz

Rented Mule · 13-09-2010 9:53pm

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

There's nothing to worry about. If the super volcano did blow all the lava would just get swallowed up by the black hole that is America's budget deficit.

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

$43,758 per person in the USA.

$515,671 per person in Ireland .

rossie1977 · 13-09-2010 10:17pm

can't believe people in 2010 still trust wikipedia

nearly every country there is listed by national debt while ireland is listed by total external debt, the usa national debt is $13 trillion while irelands is roughly €88 billion

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

13-09-2010 10:29pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

can't believe people in 2010 still trust wikipedia

nearly every country there is listed by national debt while ireland is listed by total external debt, the usa national debt is $13 trillion while irelands is roughly €88 billion

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Wikipedia is probably more trustworthy than the government at the moment!
Anyway, all that debt won't fill the hole left after yellowstone goes into orbit sometime in the next 10 million years or so, now! What to drink?

evenmicheal · 13-09-2010 10:32pm

What about poor Michael O'Leary, lets get our priorities right, all the money he will lose with all the cancelled flights, poor guy, will be awful for him.

Killer Pigeon · 13-09-2010 10:38pm

America won't be a superpower anymore. Yay!! Durka durka jehad durka guys!!

opinion guy · 13-09-2010 10:39pm

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

There's nothing to worry about. If the super volcano did blow all the lava would just get swallowed up by the black hole that is America's budget deficit.

And if that didn't work the black hole created by the large hadron collider would be sure to sort it out.

Rented Mule · 13-09-2010 10:40pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

can't believe people in 2010 still trust wikipedia

nearly every country there is listed by national debt while ireland is listed by total external debt, the usa national debt is $13 trillion while irelands is roughly €88 billion

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Wiki got the USA's right according to your link.

Would like to see the actual numbers for Ireland one the dust from NAMA settles.

opinion guy · 13-09-2010 10:42pm

Rented Mule wrote: »

Wiki got the USA's right according to your link.

Would like to see the actual numbers for Ireland one the dust from NAMA settles.

Eh. I have a feeling that NAMA might ultimately make a **** load of money. I've heard, they are playing ultra hard ball with the developers. On the one hand NAMA making money woudl be great for us all. On the other it would guarantee Fianna Fail rule for another block of time

13-09-2010 10:44pm

opinion guy wrote: »

Eh. I have a feeling that NAMA might ultimately make a **** load of money. I've heard, they are playing ultra hard ball with the developers. On the one hand NAMA making money woudl be great for us all. On the other it would guarantee Fianna Fail rule for another block of time

For NAMA to make a real profit, we'll need one hell of a boom! maybe that's where Yellowstone comes in! :pac:

paddydriver · 13-09-2010 10:47pm

opinion guy wrote: »

I've heard, they are playing ultra hard ball with the developers.

What - ya think they borrowed the money and put it into the post office to earn interest and now NAMA can persuade them to go down and hand it back in 20's? - it's gone baby; distributed to the farmers of Ireland and elsewhere.

Rented Mule · 13-09-2010 10:51pm

Deleted User wrote: »

For NAMA to make a real profit, we'll need one hell of a boom! maybe that's where Yellowstone comes in! :pac:

That would be one hell of a boom !!

opinion guy · 13-09-2010 11:01pm

Deleted User wrote: »

For NAMA to make a real profit, we'll need one hell of a boom! maybe that's where Yellowstone comes in! :pac:

Not necessarily. When they set the thing up they valued all the defaulted property at 54billion or whatever. But what happens if they are really aggressive and actually only pay a fraction of that ?

TPD · 13-09-2010 11:09pm

Rented Mule wrote: »

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

$43,758 per person in the USA.

$515,671 per person in Ireland .

Heh, look how fcuked Luxembourg are :P

Pookah · 13-09-2010 11:19pm

Another non-generic thread derailed.

Next up, a thread on how all AH threads are the same.

opinion guy · 13-09-2010 11:21pm

Pookah wrote: »

Another non-generic thread derailed.

Next up, a thread on how all AH threads are the same.

Derailed ??

the OP was clearly commenting on the current economic state, using the supervolcano concept as a metaphor

13-09-2010 11:24pm

How did we go from talking about Yellowstone supervolcano to discussing NAMA?

Bah. My plan is to go wherever John Cusack goes.

Pookah · 13-09-2010 11:24pm

opinion guy wrote: »

Derailed ??
the OP was clearly commenting on the current economic state, using the supervolcano concept as a metaphor

Clearly.

I seem to have missed it.

13-09-2010 11:33pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

can't believe people in 2010 still trust wikipedia

nearly every country there is listed by national debt while ireland is listed by total external debt, the usa national debt is $13 trillion while irelands is roughly €88 billion

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

There's timers like that in the GMIT library - but they're measuring how far the planets are from us. I've spent many an hour whilst studying watching them hoping that they start to decrease. Has yet to happen though.

Mr Benevolent · 14-09-2010 1:59am

Back on topic...

I don't think anybody's that worried. Yeah it might get a bit chilly here for a few months but we're far enough away that it wouldn't effect us too much.

johnmcdnl · 14-09-2010 2:45am

opinion guy wrote: »

Eh. I have a feeling that NAMA might ultimately make a **** load of money. I've heard, they are playing ultra hard ball with the developers. On the one hand NAMA making money woudl be great for us all. On the other it would guarantee Fianna Fail rule for another block of time

but if it works that means fianna fail got it right

so wouldn't it be good to have geniuses like them in power seeing as they got rid of the mess despite everyone in the country saying they were wrong...

so they'd deserve to be in power

Sticky_Fingers · 14-09-2010 3:05am

Confab wrote: »

Back on topic...

I don't think anybody's that worried. Yeah it might get a bit chilly here for a few months but we're far enough away that it wouldn't effect us too much.

If, as expected it is just half the size of the Toba event expect a lot of people to die, not from the eruption but from the far reaching effect it will have on the short/medium term climate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Remember that the only creatures that think humanity is great is us, the Earth and the universe couldn't care less about us,

bigbadbear · 14-09-2010 3:40am

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

If, as expected it is just half the size of the Toba event expect a lot of people to die, not from the eruption but from the far reaching effect it will have on the short/medium term climate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

Remember that the only creatures that think humanity is great is us, the Earth and the universe couldn't care less about us,

How uplifting:(:(

ART6 · 14-09-2010 11:12am

I seem to recall from my schooldays RE classes (not something I've thought about since) that after the extinction of the human race except for Noah and Mrs Noah for being bad, God was so distressed at having drowned everyone that he vowed that the next time he would do it by fire. Be very afraid people. An Ark (or even an arc) will not save you this time.:p

Sanjuro · 14-09-2010 11:20am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbP2zIa9HIM

Yellowstone supervolcano

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