Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

[n111ck]

Surely with the tech we have, us in the UK would be able to live, it'll be places like Africa where they all die?

Not according to Roland Emmerich...

 

[clv101]

Surely with the tech we have, us in the UK would be able to live, it'll be places like Africa where they all die?

Urm... I think the rich west is more vulnerable than the poor south. Our systems are more complex, more fragile etc. Read up about systems, resilience, modes of failure etc.

 

[4p]

Picture a city the size of LA, little smaller than London.

Picture that city being a cauldron of Magma, with a thin layer of crust just sitting ontop of it, that be Yellowstones Caldera.

Pop pop bam.

 

[antijoke]

Nobody knows.

BBC did a series on it, covering winter, autumn and spring should give it a watch.

I maybe wrong, but from memory they talked very little about the volcanic activity at Yellowstone and more about the wildlife there.

 

[4p]

I maybe wrong, but from memory they talked very little about the volcanic activity at Yellowstone and more about the wildlife there.

No, your right. But they do drop some important info about it. Probably a bad example but it was just the first thing that came to my mind.

 

[dave1983]

anyone watched 2012, yellowstone would be super volcano.

 

[willhub]

Picture a city the size of LA, little smaller than London.

Picture that city being a cauldron of Magma, with a thin layer of crust just sitting ontop of it, that be Yellowstones Caldera.

Pop pop bam.

Yellowstone park is far from LA?

 

[Voltage]

its not too far from Las Vegas, watch 2012, super cool special effects of it going off....looks quite awesome....wouldnt want it to happen though.

 

[jamief]

Yellowstone park is far from LA?

And?

He was trying to give a picture of the size of the caldera, not anything to do with its location.

 

[Amp34]

Also i'd watch out for Long Valley Caldera (under Mammoth, California), it's been showing more and more activity recently, they even had to shut off the hot springs because they have become too hot...

 

[antijoke]

The end is nigh!

 

[4p]

Also i'd watch out for Long Valley Caldera (under Mammoth, California), it's been showing more and more activity recently, they even had to shut off the hot springs because they have become too hot...

DANTES PEAK!!

 

[Mobius 1]

so, yellowstone eruption will destroy civilisation then?

 

[4p]

so, yellowstone eruption will destroy civilisation then?

Nahhhh we'll be fine without the sun

 

[Mobius 1]

Nahhhh we'll be fine without the sun

my sarcasm detector is going off the scale for some reason.

 

[AtreuS]

so, yellowstone eruption will destroy civilisation then?

Yes...

some small pockets of humans would survive most likely but it would be back to iron age living for a long time. The world would most likely enter an ice age and there would be huge problems finding food and clean water over most of the planet. Technology would only help so much...

The "masses" would perrish and the lucky ( unlucky in my view ) few would survive by being in places that are remote and largely unspoilt by ash. They would have to eek out a living growing what they can with the limited sunlight and hunting or farming animals for food and clothing.

 

[Mobius 1]

Yes...

some small pockets of humans would survive most likely but it would be back to iron age living for a long time. The world would most likely enter an ice age and there would be huge problems finding food and clean water over most of the planet. Technology would only help so much...

The "masses" would perrish and the lucky ( unlucky in my view ) few would survive by being in places that are remote and largely unspoilt by ash. They would have to eek out a living growing what they can with the limited sunlight and hunting or farming animals for food and clothing.

that sounds pretty horrific. so i guess that seed bank will come in handy one day?

 

[4p]

my sarcasm detector is going off the scale for some reason.

The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor—almost 3 inches (7.6 cm) each year

Scary stuff

 

[antijoke]

Would be awesome, just like in the movies.

 

[Mobius 1]

The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor—almost 3 inches (7.6 cm) each year

Scary stuff

i guess a lot of people (like myself) are unaware that this is happening. it is pretty scary thinking of it. oh man im gonna miss technology so much, thats assuming i survive! heh..