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Bush Tucker Man:

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I know it's only entertainment, but I get annoyed when films take a fact-based plot and scriptwrite it into fairlyland.  (U-571 anyone?)  If people understood where reality stops and fiction starts we'd be OK

"THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!!!"
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This is true, but on the 'other side of the coin' I can recall one very good TV programme that could have been considered to be of the same ilk.

This was 'SuperVolcano'
Did anyone see it??

It's line was 'This Is A True Story. It Just Hasn't Happened....... Yet

BBC page

Now the Yellowstone Park is simply one giant Caldera (9,000 sq km!) & rises each year.
The explosion that created the park as we know it left a crater 65KM across :shock:  :shock:
It is estimated that there is a magma chamber roughly 72km x 13km under the Park. Or to put it another way, there is a 8mile high pile of TNT the size of a Leicestershire bubbling away under the feet of the visitors.


Now if that decides to go "Bang!", in the words of Private Frasier (Dads Army) "We're Doomed!"

Bulli:
if it does go with any ferocity then the global warming problem will stop very quickly! we would be in for near nuclear winter.... remember the winters we had after MT ST Helens blew...2 years of heavy snow.

The thing is the planet is an extremely complicated eco system and one event can trigger a host of changes.

I quite like the day after tomorrow and it was damn fancifull....but just imagine if the poles suddenly swap......they have a couple of hundred times in history. That would be very intresting.

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---if it does go with any ferocity then the global warming problem will stop very quickly! we would be in for near nuclear winter.... remember the winters we had after MT ST Helens blew...2 years of heavy snow.
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And not forgetting Krakatoa (1883)
When that went up, the sound reverberated around the world for 9 days!!

In 1815 a volcano named Tambora erupted (it is estimated to be 150times the size of the Mt St Helens eruption)
The dust was spread through the atmosphere, 1816 became known as 'The Year Without A Summer'[/i]
Crops failed worldwide. In Ireland there was a famine & 65,000 people died.
Morning frosts continued until July!
Ice fairs took place on the Thames

So............... if Yellowstone does go :(scared): :(scared):



As an anology in outputs;
Krakatoa ejected the equvilant mass to a golfball
St Helens put out a garden pea!
Yellowstone would produce a sphere an average person could hide hide behind! (now that's scary!)

Between 1924 & 1984 Yellowstone lifted by over 3 feet!, but in 1985 alone it dropped by 8"!
It is now swelling again :(scared):

Bulli:
i saw the film / program i know what you mean, all too plausable.

i just look on the bright side....Yellowstone is in the USA :wink:

and 4x4's will become very popular!

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---i saw the film / program i know what you mean, all too plausable
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As it said, it just 'hasn't happened... yet'



--- Quote from: "Bulli" ---i just look on the bright side....Yellowstone is in the USA :wink:
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All that means is that we'll have a bit longer time to be 'shi**ing bricks' about its effects.

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