When Yellowstone Erupts, what is your plan?

[Something Amyss]

So yes, for everyone who doesn't know, there is a Massive Volcano system, known as a Super Volcano, underneath Yellowstone Park. When it erupts, it will cover a majority of the world in ash and it will block out the sun causing a new Ice Age. So fellow Escapists, what do you plan on doing when it erupts, or how do you plan on surviving?

Of course, the odds are against it erupting in your lifetime or mine, so plan A is to live a fruitful life and escape the outcome by being too dead to care.

Plan B is living a fruitless life and escaping the outcome by being too dead to care.

Plan C is looting.

I live in California, so if and when it goes there won't be much to do but kick back and welcome the sweet release of death.

I'm not sure polluted air will impact most Californians....>.>

The Regular Schedule for the Yellowstone Volcano is: We're way past due for an explosion... So yeah, it can happen at any time, and probably soon...

The regular schedule for Yellowstone is: There is no regular schedule. Sorry.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

The Dunmer moved to Skyrim when the Red Mountain erupted. So that's where I'll go.

 

[DRes82]

Correct me if im wrong, but aren't these the only options? Either you think it will turn out bad, or you think it will be alright. There isnt much of a middle ground, the glass is either half empty, or half full, it cant be both (well I guess technically it can... but you can still see my point right?

Personally, I prefer all of my glasses to simply be half.

It seems like every single person I see post in threads like this is either horribly pessimistic, and thinks the world is going to end in the next 5 mins, or they are blissfully ignorant and optimistic.

Please, stop all this doomsday stuff and just have fun with life. The average lifespan is ~80 years (I think). Not a very long time. I just don't understand why everyone has this grotesque obsession with the world ending....I almost get the impression you lot want it to end just for entertainment purposes.

They have been talking about "OMG, yellowstone is going to assplode!" for years. I think there has even been movies concerning it.

*Climbs off of soapbox*
Just my 2¢

Took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn't have said it any better myself.

This doomsday bullshit is really pathetic. One will go insane thinking about that kind of stuff. Like you said, just enjoy life.

That's really what this all boils down to. People watch Discovery Channel/National Geographic/even the History Channel has been jumping on board with this recently. "End of the World" type shows popping up and convincing all the lemmings that we're about to die. Newest one: come 12/21/12 Earth will be perfectly aligned between the super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy and our sun and this is supposed to cause a polar shift that will apparently knock earth on it's side so instead of revolving from west to east it'll revolve from south to north. If this happen's we're all boned. Yellowstone could blow up, we're all boned. The particle accelerators could create a black hole, we're all boned. The particle accelerators could also create some freaky type of particle called a "strangelet", we're all boned. And of course, the classic asteroid smashing into the planet bones us all as well.

It's all really simple, really, this being the year that (supposedly) many ancient cultures and oracles predicted as the year of humanity's end, many in "the mob" are absolutely obsessed with the end of the world. It'll happen sooner or later, to be sure, but as both the above quoted people said: flipping out about it makes no sense. When the day of reckoning is finally upon us, just kick back, spark up a doobie, and watch the fireworks.

Doesn't matter...got boned.

Yeah, all that is true...but it is fun to mess with the majority and make them paranoid. The chances that something of earth-changing magnitude would happen in any one person's lifetime are astronomically small. Since you guys are whining about people talking about the end of the world, here is something more uplifting that everyone can check out.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/14/first-woman-gets-bionic-arm/

Our world isn't going to end, but we can all look forward to a dystopian society with huge arcologies and people strung out on the streets fiending for neuropozyne.

 

[Something Amyss]

Anywho, I'll enjoy the time without sun until the horrible death sets in.

There's a plus. Fewer migraines!

...Light is one of my major triggers, so I wear sunglasses almost everywhere.

Pretty sure that its overdue for an eruption. Something like regularly every 300,000 years and its been like 320,000.

I love how many numbers we're getting, all of them already false because there is no regular eruption cycle, but with an additional layer because the numbers are likely made up anyway.

The last one was 640,000 years ago, but there's no time table.

 

[Gitty101]

New Ice Age you say? I guess I could put my Zombie Apocalypse plan into action with a few minor adjustments... It all depends on how the rest of the world reacts to it to be honest.

 

[slackbheep]

I'll continue to rot in my grave.

 

[Zorg Machine]

I'm in the middle of a swedish winter (though a fairly mild one this year) so I wouldn't notice if the sun went out.

 

[DRes82]

Anywho, I'll enjoy the time without sun until the horrible death sets in.

There's a plus. Fewer migraines!

...Light is one of my major triggers, so I wear sunglasses almost everywhere.

Pretty sure that its overdue for an eruption. Something like regularly every 300,000 years and its been like 320,000.

I love how many numbers we're getting, all of them already false because there is no regular eruption cycle, but with an additional layer because the numbers are likely made up anyway.

The last one was 640,000 years ago, but there's no time table.

That sucks about the light...are you a vampire? I love the sun. So do our plants, which pretty much make up the foundation of our food chain.

I knew I was a little off the mark with that number. Just too lazy this morning to look it up. Also, most of the activity in Yellowstone is attributed by the USGS to geothermic activity, not volcanic activity. That is to say the interaction between water and heat underground produces the pressure observed. The whole 'super volcano' thing is a sensationalist term made up by the same stupid channel that brought you 'ancient aliens'.

Again I'd be more worried about the implications of the bionic arm. hehe.

 

[snark]

I'll probably die. Hopefully I'll leave a nice house for the rest of you to loot/ squat in.

 

[The Crazy Legs]

I'm just throwing this out there: Rapture
A underwater city does'nt need to worry about ice ages or ash clouds.
Looking for and hiring overprotecting babysitters
I'm accepting donations to get started XP

Holy shit. That actually makes sense! An underwater city! If only there was some entity out there that would be able to build one if they weren't so busy building million-something dollar cruise missiles every single hour! *Glares at the White House for two minutes*

But, if I hear the news that Yellowstone erupted and there's no way out of that situation: here's my plan: Find the nearest skyscraper, stand on the ledge, and try every kind of drug I haven't tried. If I'm lucky, I'll just OD, but if not, there's always the fall that could do it! Or, I fall the other way and die unconscious by breathing ash in.

 

[McMullen]

Move to New Zealand. The whole north hemisphere will be various shades of fucked.

You do realise New Zealand is one of the more geological active areas in the world? There is at least one active volcano, the largest city here is built on top of over 40 of them and the country's largest lake was a mountain that blew itself up.

Sure. In fact, I'd consider that a bonus, because volcanoes are a subject of great fascination for me. Indeed, that's partly why I picked it over Australia. I don't see how it would be a problem, as it's unlikely enough for one supervolcanic eruption to occur in anyone's lifetime that I think worrying about a second one would be completely absurd. The nice thing about the southern hemisphere is that it would have less ash and SO2 and more sunlight than the northern hemisphere after yellowstone goes off.

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

Considering the size, and the fact that I live as close as British Columbia, I'll probably just die.

 

[Dragonclaw]

Well...I'm in California, so we'll sure as heck take notice, but being among the last affected by any dust cloud I guess I'll just hope that the Westboro Baptist Church was wiped out with the initial "God Hates Volcanoes" blast

 

[Hero in a half shell]

It'll be fine.

I'll watch the Republican potential candidates blame each other for it, and promise if they are elected, to remove all volcanic activity from the US.

But surely they would be too busy blaming it on Obama, the democrats and a lack of corporate development in Yellowstone to get as far as each other?
Assuming they accept that it has happened at all...

You just reminded me of this:


I'll probably just survive as best I can, The Uk is hopefully far enough away to avoid the worst of the ash clouds, so just stock up on canned supplies, and spend a couple weeks indoors to avoid the ash-rain.

 

[kortin]

Lol, so much paranoia.

"The U.S. Geological Survey, University of Utah and National Park Service scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory maintain that they "see no evidence that another such cataclysmic eruption will occur at Yellowstone in the foreseeable future"

If three groups say its most likely not going to erupt in the foreseeable future, then I'm probably going to believe them. Don't worry about it.

 

[latiasracer]

Watch it on TV. I live in England so I doubt anybody would even notice an ice age.

Exactly, Hell if we didn't watch the news we probably wouldn't even notice.

It's always grey here in cornwall. Endless, Cold and Grey

 

[silversnake4133]

Wait for it to be as disappointing as all of the other "Global Crisises" then laugh at all of the panicky people who hoarded a bunch of crap for nothing. (Unless they were in the vicinity of the blast radius, then I would pray for their safety.) The only natural disaster that wiped out a large chunk of the world's population and started an ice age (that my general knowledge is aware of) was a massive meteor colliding with the planet. That sparked HUNDREDS of eruptions around the world, so I find it kind of hard to believe that one volcano, despite its size, would be able to literally destroy every civilization in the world at once.

Remember the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in Washington State? Yeah that caused a lot of damage, but the landscape was able to grow back, richer in nutrients even than before the eruption. The size is undoubtedly noticeable in terms of comparison, but the ash eventually dissolved, and Washington State wasn't exactly frozen over in its wake. (And if it were spread across as vast an area as the entire atmospheric surface of the planet, the ash from one volcano probably wouldn't be enough to blot out the sun in every corner of the globe.) Plus during the last ice age, not every creature died, the ones that survived adapted. We can do the same, especially our species because we're logical thinkers and can find ways to adapt in order to survive.

The people who monitor the volcano don't expect it to be anywhere near erupting for at least another 1,000-10,000 years from now, at least for it to be extremely detrimental to the planet's ecosystems. Plus, volcanos usually don't "just erupt" whenever they feel like it. There's usually a build-up and several signs that occur first that would give the people surrounding the area ample notification. Such as earthquakes, smoke, changes in the wildlife patterns, etc.

 

[Mathak]

Well, seeing as we're statistically overdue (like that means anything) for the next big meteor impact as well, I'll be hedging my bets on the meteor hitting the volcano just as it erupts, thus plugging the hole and saving the world.

3 huzzahs for the meteor!

 

[kortin]

Wait for it to be as disappointing as all of the other "Global Crisises" then laugh at all of the panicky people who hoarded a bunch of crap for nothing. (Unless they were in the vicinity of the blast radius, then I would pray for their safety.) The only natural disaster that wiped out a large chunk of the world's population and started an ice age (that my general knowledge is aware of) was a massive meteor colliding with the planet. That sparked HUNDREDS of eruptions around the world, so I find it kind of hard to believe that one volcano, despite its size, would be able to literally destroy every civilization in the world at once.

Remember the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in Washington State? Yeah that caused a lot of damage, but the landscape was able to grow back, richer in nutrients even than before the eruption. The size is undoubtedly noticeable in terms of comparison, but the ash eventually dissolved, and Washington State wasn't exactly frozen over in its wake. (And if it were spread across as vast an area as the entire atmospheric surface of the planet, the ash from one volcano probably wouldn't be enough to blot out the sun in every corner of the globe.) Plus during the last ice age, not every creature died, the ones that survived adapted. We can do the same, especially our species because we're logical thinkers and can find ways to adapt in order to survive.

The people who monitor the volcano don't expect it to be anywhere near erupting for at least another 1,000-10,000 years from now, at least for it to be extremely detrimental to the planet's ecosystems. Plus, volcanos usually don't "just erupt" whenever they feel like it. There's usually a build-up and several signs that occur first that would give the people surrounding the area ample notification. Such as earthquakes, smoke, changes in the wildlife patterns, etc.

Pretty much what I was trying to say, but waaaay better put.

I have a feeling we're taking the topic a bit too seriously though. xP