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Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds

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On 11/5/2015 4:39 PM, Poutnik wrote:
> Dne 05/11/2015 v 20:38 dvus napsal(a):
>> On 11/5/2015 12:37 PM, reber g=emc^2 wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 7:05:58 PM UTC-8, noTthaTguY wrote:
>>>> no, but by changing the climate,
>>>> as with the vapor of combustion (HOH
>>>>
>>>>>>> the Geological Society of America.
>
>>>>>     and caused by Global Worming for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> phys.org is packed full of idiots, how can the roof caving in be an
>>>>> "EXTERNAL" event ?
>>>
>>> Yellowstone is ready to blow. It will change the face of N.America  Trebert
>>
>> "ready", as in:
>>
>> In a minute?
>> In a century?
>>
>
> Short answer ? Yes.
>
> Longer answer - Let say weeks to hundreds of thousands of years,
> as nobody knows.
>
> Similarly as nobody knows,
> when the mountainside of the Cumbre Vieja ridge at La Palma
> at Canary islands is going to slide to the ocean.
>
> When it does, it will make a supertsunami
> that will be hundreds meters high,
> racing to splash Eastern US coast.
>
> Similarly as nobody knows
> for a particular atomic kernel of Radium 226,
> if it decays today or after 3000 years.

So the statement "Yellowstone is ready to blow" is sort of meaningless. 
Is anything that might happen between now and a few hundred thousand 
years from now "ready" to happen in your estimation?

-- 
dvus

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Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 17:59 -0600
  Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-04 20:44 -0600
    Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 19:05 -0800
      Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 09:37 -0800
        Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-05 14:38 -0500
          Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 22:39 +0100
            estudent noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 19:47 -0800
              Re: estudent "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-06 15:05 -0800
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              Re: estudent noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 07:49 -0800
            Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2015-11-06 15:28 +0000
              Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 00:40 +0100
            Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-06 12:44 -0500
              Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 00:42 +0100
                Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-07 07:18 -0500
                Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 15:07 +0100
                Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-07 21:43 -0500
                Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-08 07:50 +0100
                Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-09 07:35 -0500
                Re: Supervolcanoes likely triggered externally, study finds Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 14:06 +0100

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