BREAKING NEWS: YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO MELTS SOME ROAD, STUPID PEOPLE ACT STUPID.

Yellowstone National Park's favourite mega-nuke has melted some bits of road, causing tourists to leave the area.
Despite this sort of thing happening before, people are now convinced that the supervolcano is ready to erupt.

In other news, apocalypse theorists are still funny.


STORY: www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/14/parts-of-yellowstone-national-park-closed-after-massive-supervolcano-beneath-it-melts-roads/

THE END IS NIGH!

The funniest part is that the super volcano, though powerful, won't even destroy the world.
If anything it'll destroy a small part of the U.S. and just (albeit heavily) damage everything that isn't instantly atomized.


EDIT: Quarter changed to something less mathematically moronic.

What about all the ash thrown into the atmosphere?

We aren't the dinosaurs.


We can survive without the sun for a few decades.
It'll suck, but we'll find a way to manage.

Literally a cool story about such a scenario.

Not quite the same but worth reading.

I read the title as "Volcano Hot, People Surprised"

We're still dependent on the sun. The plants we live off of, that our livestock lives off of, is dependent on the sun.

Trust me, it's a world-shattering event. Humanity will undoubtably survive, but exactly how much of us will survive, and in what form, is completely up to chance.

Really, it's hard to think of anything we can do if it does happen, but the point is the tourists are running away like half the world wouldn't be killed anyway.

However, humans can live in artificial conditions very easily. We pull energy from geothermal or nuclear, we live in extreme fortification from the outside, we use artificial sunlight to grow crops indoors.

Really, it would be the end of the world... as we know it.

Lol, my friend was at yellowstone when this happened. Random vacation. He said he was lucky.

And logic prevails.

it would be a new Dark age. Without somewhere to truly LIVE, humanity would dwindle over the generations. We would lose our education, our history, and our technological knowledge, given the time.

Of course, there is a chance a few people would rise above the circumstances and pull humanity out of the ashes, but the chances are slim.

"We can survive without the sun for a few decades"

Who in gods name told you that??? We would be in serious trouble food wise in the first 6 months let alone a few decades if we had no sun at all. Sun does more than provide heat.. It also drives critical weather needed for farming along with a lot of other roles essential for life

Yellow stone disrupting the amount of sun exposure would be bad but not major but we would have trouble keeping up with food production unless we stop the massive amounts of food getting wasted in the first place..

Humanity already knows how to grow plants with artificial sunlight. Everyone would probably have to accept veganism but if we found a way to hyper-industrialize that process in a pinch that'd solve the food problem... sorta. India and China may lose a couple hundred million people but hey, survival and all that, right?


Also, just to be pedantic, the volcano reportedly has a major eruption once every 700,000 years or so (rough estimate is rough) the most recent super blast was estimated to be around 640,000 years ago.

Simple math suggests the next one is happening in ~60,000 years.

IF humanity is around by then (big if) then who knows? Maybe we'll have a countdown to the eruption by then and we'll be laughing it off because we already have an artificial sun ready to be placed in LEO.

Maybe we won't even be on Earth anymore and we'll just be on some other planet, or even series of planets.

Or maybe the second Cuban Missile Crisis will wipe us all out huehuehuehuehuehue.

You need actual Sun light to grow food in the quantity needed as artificial light is not enough for mass crop growth as some salesmen would have you believe. I am well aware that it probably wont happen in our life times remotely.. What i am on about is the impact of direct sun light as people don't realize we still can't artificially produce the power of the sun yet in the scale needed to grow crops like we do as right now.

This is likely outdated, as they recently found out the volcano is about 2.5 times as big as they thought it was.

I have no idea how that would effect the blast range, but that is probably smaller than what the blast would be by a fair margin.

We wouldn't need to produce as much as we do now. A lot of the US would be blown up.

How we make food would change, how much we make would change, what we make would change. People surviving would not change. It would just suck.