Eruption update

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/quicktakes/cst-nws-qt07.html

Regarding the Yellowstone Caldera, the eruptions of which can be violent enough to send a layer of ash six feet deep as far away as Chicago and which erupts every 600,000 or so years and last erupted 640,000 years ago, the American Museum of Natural History Science Bulletin wants you to know that an eruption is "statistically not likely anytime soon," although "technically, the next eruption could happen anytime."

[Monkeyman]

1. shhhhhhhh don't tell Bush he say its a terrorist attack

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Jeez. As if I didn't have enough to worry about.

[BrotherBuzz]

3. October surprise?

:shrug:

[populistdriven]

4. every 1000 years the leader of the most powerful nation on earth is hanged

It is a statistical fact but statistically not likely anytime soon, although technically, the next hanging could happen anytime.

[sabbat hunter]

5. yellow stone caldera

i saw a special on yellowstone. it has erupted 3 times. first one 2.1 million years ago, the second 1.3 million years ago the third 640,000 years ago.

so you are really only taking two numbers and getting an average. not very statistically accurate.

more likely is a smaller or quieter eruptions which have occured more frequently.


so wouldnt worry too much about yellowstone caldera going any time soon. there will plenty of warning, etc/