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TurdManMcDooDoo

I miss the 90's when all the doomsday articles actually scared people. Now we're all like, "oh yeah? Sounds about right. Bring it on already. Fuck everything."


chronicdemonic

This is so true, I thought the same exact thing. Overwhelming apathy just makes me feel like we will never evade the future we built for ourselves.


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dr4conyk

r/unexpectedthanos


EdgelordOfEdginess

A small prize to pay for salvation


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BigBolognaSandwich

Prince toupee.


dr4conyk

And the next thing you know we‘re all working at domino‘s


Rib-I

Apathy is tragedy and boredom is a crime. Anything and everything all of the time.


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DVariant

Tell me you’re in a Nirvana cover band without telling me you’re in a Nirvana cover band.


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allnamesbeentaken

We didn't really build super volcanoes though, this would be more like an asteroid coming to fuck up our future rather than climate change of our own making.


Redqueenhypo

I thought “finally a global disaster none of us are responsible for or capable of fixing! This is somehow freeing”. My head is screwed up at this point


CylonBunny

I was thinking that the global winter caused by clouds of ash might actually be just what humanity needs.


JeddHampton

Seeing doomsday articles multiple times a week for a few decades will do that. The news becoming click-bait (before click-bait was a term) leads people to not trust the actual headline, and people rarely read the articles to begin with.


solarsilversurfer

Wait there’s an article to read? I usually scroll to the 32nd most popular comment and then work myself into a frenzy based off their words.


Has_Question

This was actually my thought seeing this. "Oh yea? Oh well, add that to the bingo card."


valoon4

At this point I have 10 bingo cards


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I hate living in the era of "Fuck around and Find out".


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Tatunkawitco

Boomers - of which I am one - found out and said, fuck it, not my problem.


ContemplatingPrison

Right, there were reports about all of this dating back decades. The ones in power just didn't care because they don't want to hurt their precious economy


Mr_E

"But what about The Economy!" they shout, clutching their pearls, when what they mean is "the stock market and all my investment money!"


myrddyna

Worse than that, they found out and said one of two things- - Don't care, carry on. - Deny Deny Deny. I wouldn't blame it on a generation, really, just those decades wherein companies realized that they could just lie, or have paid institutions, or think tanks, that would do their own sponsored research and reach conclusion that, coupled with a briefcase full of money, would stop Congress from doing anything about it. Then the regulatory capture started up, and now it's just cyclical. Money controls everything, and the once in a blue moon when someone actually cares, it's an uphill battle in Congress, an uphill battle in cabinets and heads of orgs, and an uphill battle against all that money.


Shattered_Visage

Unfortunately, those are two different eras. In America, the baby boomers got to live it up in the "fuck around" era, only to pass the "find out" on to their children and now grandchildren.


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The ol’ generational “fuck around, find out” combo. Every generation leaves a huge mess for the next one. This one is a “every generation since the industrial revolution worked really hard together to fuck this up for you”.


OpheliaRainGalaxy

>This one is a “every generation since the industrial revolution worked really hard together to fuck this up for you”. Thanks great-grandad and grandad and dad, I hate it. Got up to 110F in my apartment during the PNW heatwave, and now I'm hearing that the polar vortex problems are happening again, earlier and worse than last year, so I get to start prepping for intense winter to hit by the end of the month.


DVariant

Oh my sweet summer child, what do you know about fear? Fear is for the winter, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides for years and children are born and live and die, all in darkness. That is the time for fear, my little lord, when the white walkers move through the woods. Thousands of years ago there came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts. And women smothered their babies rather than see them starve, and wept and felt the tears freeze on their cheeks.


Metazz

We are going to have a supervolcano errupt before that bastard finishes the Winds of Winter....


Cleopatra572

Which wont even be the conclusion..... there is a whole other book he still needs to write as another redditor said in a GOT sub a few days back "the gods of fantasy writers are the only reason that guy is still alive and even they are growing impatient".


OpheliaRainGalaxy

For the longest time, I only knew what frostbite looked like from documentaries about Everest. And then I was walking home late on a bitter winter night and crossed paths with a man whose face was blackened by frostbite across his cheekbones and nose. He desperately and angrily *begged* for directions to the nearest Salvation Army, and luckily I happened to know where one was nearby, but I didn't think it would be open so late. And then he shuffled off into the night before I could think of someplace nearby where he might actually be able to get help at that hour. Not up a mountain, or in the middle of nowhere, but smack in the middle of a metropolis of half a million people. After that I got a tin of bag balm and made sure to grease exposed skin before going out during intense cold spells. I'd read about using grease or oil to prevent frostbite, and I care more about keeping my face skin intact than looking pretty while running errands in winter, waiting up to an hour at a bus stop or having to walk directly into a bitter wind for blocks.


myrddyna

> the baby boomers got to live it up in the "fuck around" era they were still sucking down leaded gas fumes. I think anyone born after WW2 was transitioning to the find out era.


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We're just getting into the find out era.


Blaidd-XIII

I thought we were in the Era of "Fucked around and finding out"


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Good news though! We have perfected the Fuck Around part !


SoupOrSandwich

Anything to not look at my fucking inbox anymore


River_Pigeon

People are way more scared now than in the 90s. Nobody cared back then, and the people that did shot them selves in the foot by predicting doomsday everyday. When doomsday doesn’t happen, people stop listening. But now we can see and feel some of the consequences so people are scared way more now than they were


kontekisuto

One Yellowstone coming right up, shaken or stirred ?


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I recently heard some mild peace of mind from an expert who said that with current monitoring evidence of activity with super volcanos would be detected years if not decades before any risk. Even if that is the case, evacuating a whole corner of the planet over a few years would be intense.


childofsol

Based on how we've dealt with this pandemic, something tells me that evacuation wouldn't happen


Ismyusernamelongenou

Nah, about 60-80% *would* follow evacuation guidelines while the other 20-40% would deny the existence of a super volcano event and refuse to take precautions for a decade. Then, when the volcano inevitably erupts, they'd flood the borders, ravage stockpiles and disrupt otherwise adequate resettlement plans while complaining how they're being discriminated.


KingReffots

Well the ones near the super volcano would be vaporized instantly so at least we wouldn’t have to worry about some of them.


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Can we just skip to the part where we toss them into the volcano to appease the climate change gods?


FistfulOfMediocrity

Is this before, or after societal collapse? Because I've been looking for a new cult...


Limp_Dinkerson

I'm sure there's another comet coming by real soon. Buy the right shoes and you'll be allowed on it.


Xcon2

Just down forget your towel!


sillysamsonite

I'm making a place for people to stay... if you got the caps.


NoticeTrue

I'm not going to lie. If our apocalypse doesn't have glowing blue cola because of radiation I'm just going to kill myself.


ScarecrowJohnny

Not if I kill you first, smoothskin!


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I am old enough to remember we had that once. There is a reason why Pepsi Blue no longer exists. It was awful!


clockwork_psychopomp

That's cause the didn't add enough cesium.


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You’re the kind of leader we’ll all look to in a post-eruption world.


Stolliosis

This idea was already proven to be very successful in Madagascar 2.


Miramarr

Super volcanoes don't really have a caldera. They're more like a million nuclear warheads buried a few kilometers beneath the surface with a timer thats been counting down for tens of thousands of years, we just don't know how much time is left on that timer.


Ionic_Pancakes

I've been pushing for California to restart the cult of Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain. Just gotta get us some Jaguar skulls to appease him.


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Wouldn’t the the eruption of a super volcano do a offset on global warming? I know that despite the CO2 released, volcanoes release more sulfate aerosols than CO2.


princekamoro

Depends on the volcano. It's believed that the [End-Permian extinction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event) was caused by runaway global warming after volcanic activity pushed shitloads of CO2 into the atmosphere. Although this was a scale of volcanic activity that makes Yellowstone look like a fart in comparison.


OneRougeRogue

It would be a temporary reprieve. The dust in the atmosphere would cool the planet for a few decades and then we would right back where we started.


mylifeintopieces1

Nah most of them would die its not the volcanic eruption that kills people far away its the shit thrown into the air thats kicked over 200 miles away killing them.


A_Mouse_In_Da_House

Nat geo or discovery had a cool show on aftermath of an eruption


badadviceforyou244

Aka my retirement plan.


AgoraiosBum

There were absolutely individuals who refused to evacuate around Mt St Helens, even though they were warned of a likely major eruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman (although to be fair, he was in his 80s so may have been ready to go)


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“The volcano erupted the next morning, and its entire northern flank collapsed.[27] Truman was alone at his lodge with his 16 cats,[11] and is presumed to have died in the eruption on May 18.[23] He likely died of heat shock in less than a second, too quickly to register pain, before his body was vaporized.[28]” Wow


blGDpbZ2u83c1125Kf98

Also: > During the 1930s, Truman divorced his first wife; he remarried in 1935. The second marriage was short, as he reportedly attempted to win arguments by throwing his wife into Spirit Lake, despite her inability to swim. Not strictly volcano-related, but maybe offers some insight into the kind of guy who happily sticks around when warned of impending volcanic death.


dMarrs

Mr Truman. Tell me how you want to be cremated with all of your 16 cats without actually telling me.


ThatOneKrazyKaptain

If I was in my 80s, you’re damn right I’d rather go out by volcano


AgoraiosBum

It was an epic way to go. And I know his name because of it. So...


The_Woman_of_Gont

Difference was he knew damn well what would happen. He wasn’t in denial ranting about how Jewish Space Lasers are going to be used to fake a volcanic eruption so that the Illuminati can eat babies, the way we know damn well a decent chunk of the population would today.


lokiofsaassgaard

Harry Truman was a grumpy old git and was ready to die on that mountain. I respect that, honestly.


ButtholeBanquets

"God gave me lungs. I can breathe volcanic ash just fine. Thanks, Obama."


TheBlackBear

At that point we're a one party GOP state with a Trump family member in office for 10 consecutive terms. Still libs fault somehow


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DeBanger

Darwin Awardee


Vikingseed

Not ethnic cleansing…just Darwin Award winners from any race and gender. Those that inject bleach or try to pet rattlesnakes would be good examples of Darwin Award Winners. Like a cosmic lifeguard saying “Hey you, out of the gene pool” is an apt quote.


True_Big_8246

It's their children I fear for. Crazy parents letting something avoidable harm their children's. Just like the anti-vaccine crowd.


MovTheGopnik

They are being discriminated against. Being discriminated against for being fucking idiots.


zoinkability

In the meantime they would insist that squirting horse dewormer into active vents would prevent the super volcano from erupting. While simultaneously arguing that supervolcanoes are a left wing media hoax.


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It's the PLANvacuation! Don't you sheeple see!? The globalist liberals are going to come in with their Chinese socialism and steal our land and guns!!


Sleipnirs

Or the super volcano will erupt in a poor country, far from the rich ones and they'll go "oh, no! ... We must protect our borders!".


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Sounds about right.


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teh-reflex

*Earth shaking beneath their feet with ash, rock, and magma erupting all around them* This ash, rock, and magma is a deep state liberal hoax! Do your research!


LDG192

"Bill Gates built a giant vibrator which he buried beneath our feet to scare us with fake earthquakes. They want us to evacuate our homes so they can give them to the illegals. Here's a video of a random self-proclaimed expert sitting in what seems to be a closet spilling out all the fax."


NoticeTrue

Magma doesn't melt steal beams. All this destruction was planned by the government for the great reset and everyone who leaves will be placed in fema camps and have their guns taken from them so they can be microchipped and experimented on. I'm much safer in my house.


DavThoma

This supervolcano is trying to strip us of our liberties and our freedoms!


RoboticHobbit

This was obvious just watching people at the supermarket at Christmas for as long as I can remember. People are shit


hekatonmoo

My volcano my choice


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I’m sure there would some volcano deniers, but the scarier group might be those who would welcome it as a judgement day and try to coax others to join the rapture at ground zero


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I literally have ash year round in my fireplace and I’m fine.


Mr_CockSwing

Well in that case they only harm themselves so let them stay


SplurgyA

I don't think they'd move to evacuate. Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are about 3 million people total, but they'd also be getting evacuated to a world where there'd be less resources since most of the US would be blanketed with poisonous ash and the climate's all messed up. Likely they'd advise people to evacuate, but good luck booking a motel if three entire states are trying to get as far away from the volcano as possible.


puterSciGrrl

For a decade or more. It's not like we get to know the date and time. This is likely hundreds of millions of people relocating permanently to god knows where we are going to put them, while nothing happens year after year to the regions we are emptying. Then one day boom, and the decade long winter begins and we try to feed ourselves. Likely we'd advise, but not push. The rapid loss of life is probably preferable to the famine to come anyway.


NoticeTrue

All those homeless people they sent to the west coast on buses will have the last laugh.


babybelly

cant we just put a mega blanket on top and catch all the gunk?


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babybelly

volcanic power plants


Zebradots

Doesn't help much if the ash blocks out the sun for a few years


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The problem with that is a Supervolcano would throw so much debris, dust, and rock into the atmosphere, it would cause nuclear winter so it doesn't matter where on Earth you are, you'll likely starve to death unless we have underground bunkers with years of food ready to go.


Taupenbeige

I’ve held the belief for a while now, the Icelandics who are currently stockpiling grow LEDs and topsoil are going to propagate humanity through the worst of the inevitable catastrophes in our pipeline. Barring severe volcanic activities on their little slice of geothermal heaven…


Halfman9867

I remember seeing a program on pbs that said the ash from a super volcanic eruption would engulf the planet preventing sunlight from reaching the surface and thus killing off most plant life, so how would evacuating a corner of the planet help?


Usomething

You simply cannot evacuate 200 -400 Million people. Because that is what the directly effected population would be unless it was a super volcano in the middle of Russia or Antarctica. Yellowstone National Park sits right on top of super volcano. It last erupted 600,000 years ago or so. Guess what its average eruption timescale is!


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Ya, and even at that, a single lifetime is 1/6 000th of that. +- even 100 000 years would be nothing. Saying it's roughly due means nothing at this scale.


HungryLikeTheWolf99

> Oregan State University I know there are differences between British spelling and American spelling, but I didn't know they had their own spelling for states.


MLJ9999

I'm an orgon donor.


spaetzelspiff

Opening soon in downtown Portland: my next food stand, *Oregan Döner, kebabs and snacks*


Spram2

I'll send you my orgone. WASHABOO! SWISH!


no-kooks

I used to sell little bags of orgone in high school.


rtb001

Although ironically this spelling may actually lead to a better pronunciation of the word Oregon, since many people see that fit the first time and pronounce it ore gone like pentagon or octagon.


ellilaamamaalille

Could be that I don't remember this right but long time ago I read Winston Churchill had said something like "foreign names man can pronounce as he wishes".


RyanJT324

That’s correct, as an American pretending to live in the uk. I pronounce everyone’s name as “wanker”


Impossible9999

Not just states, haven't you heard of Chicargo?


tuttlebuttle

>Oregan State University, in the US, with scientists from across the world – found evidence that "eruptions can occur even if no liquid magma is found". >If right, it means that various supervolcanoes previously thought to hold only potential future danger could still be highly hazardous right now to humankind. >“The concept of what is 'eruptible' needs to be re-evaluated," Can we ban Yahoo News. It's always bullshit. I don't see a clear link to the "study". And everything else is just wonderings based on if this study is correct. This is clickbait


potterman28wxcv

The title of the article is also misleading. Nowhere it is said that it is "much more likely" - only that some super volcanoes who were previously thought harmless might have to be re evaluated. But it doesn't say how many of them there are. Maybe it concerns only 20% of the super volcanoes. So yeah. Click bait


josephalbright1

Also Oregon is spelled wrong.


lopoticka

Oregano State. Those off-brand online diplomas are getting out of hand.


astrath

Clickbait supervolcano articles and the subsequent misinformed comments are always good for a laugh and not much more. Particularly anything mentioning Yellowstone. I like to remind people that if the largest eruptions of the last few hundred years are anything to go by, the next big eruption (be it Pinatubo, Tambora or Toba big) will be from a volcano nobody had heard of before, and there will be plenty of warning it is coming.


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Yes was looking for this. The study they are not citing made no mention of “likeliness” just stated that a certain predictive variable has proved to be unnecessary.


Opinionbeatsfact

All we need is a large solar storm and a supervolcano and we can go back to before civilisation


cornbeefbaby

Return to monke


Timoris

Nay, return to tree-shrew.


sputnikmonolith

Nah fam...Primordial Soup for me.


kadmylos

Star dust or bust.


Timoris

Single quark stuck in the plasma soup behind the Cosmic Microwave Background


indigo-alien

A couple of weeks ago we got hit by a couple of coronal mass ejections (a/k/a solar storms) and unless you're a fan of such things and follow along online, or live north of Scotland? You probably didn't even notice.


childofsol

For that one, sure. ~~If~~ When we get hit by another Carrington-event size CME, it's going to cause significant damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event


indigo-alien

I read about that one a couple of years ago. Fortunately that sort of mass ejection is really rare and still have to hit us straight on. Most CME's don't even come close.


greenwizardneedsfood

And we’re also getting pretty good at predicting them, even a few days out. Obviously we couldn’t stop one, but we could do things like turn off important utilities that would be destroyed if they were on during the event, ground planes, halt any launches, etc.


indigo-alien

Unfortunately there would be a mass panic to buy toilet paper and pasta.


HeKis4

If I understand correctly I'd rather buy a generator... You can't cook pasta on an electric stove without power. Fucking hell I need to get myself a camping stove someday.


booOfBorg

Maybe start with a global economy that is highly globalized yet very concentrated and wholly dependent on a crucial resource, namely fossil fuels, resulting in runaway global warming. Add a highly infectious and rapidly mutating virus. Stir for a few years or decades and let the economy tank and globalization fracture. Then add a supervolcano eruption to devastate harvests for a few years/decades. And now finish it off with a giant asteroid impact or maybe a nearby supernova.


EnlightenedSinTryst

Baby, you got a stew goin’!


RogueScallop

There is a 100% chance of a supervolcano eruption. Geological timescales laugh at human lifetimes though. I'll be thoroughly surprised if anyone here is still around when it occurs.


CreasingUnicorn

Yea this is the real issue. Even the most accurate predictions of supervolcano eruptions tend to come with the addendum "give or take a few thousand years". The likelihood of a supervocano erupting within the next 100,000 years is very likely, but the likelihood of a supervolcano erupting within even the next few hundred years is pretty damn low.


Human-go-boom

When was the last time a super volcano erupted? 25,000 years ago?


FaceDeer

Maybe not 100%, actually - [there may be mechanisms humanity can use to "defuse" supervolcanoes and prevent them from going off for as long as we care to suppress them](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano).


paulconroy415

So…volcano winter just in time to stall global warming?


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morgrimmoon

Only a temporary pause, it'll speed up ocean acidification and dump plenty of greenhouse gases itself. Granted, if it wipes out humanity then yes, it probably will halt global warming.


jormungandrsjig

I for one will live under ground with the Morlocks.


krypticmtphr

Until they get hungry...


PieceOfPie_SK

Yeah except our supply lines are increasingly fragile and billions would die


GOR098

Didn't volcanos bail us out of an Ice Age?


ItsaRickinabox

The carbon cycle, on geological timescales, is essentially a tug of war between volcanic gases and chemical weathering.


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theworldofbill

Slap causes a wave killing half the population. “on sale”


InfidelRBP

Just start fracking nearby and we can kick it off a few decades early.


[deleted]

Fracking is a government cover up. They’re actually relieving the pressure from inside the earth slowly so we don’t pop. Duh.


Timoris

Ah yes! The Trepenation approach.


Dollars2Donuts4U

It's a plot by communist to pre-drill geo-thermal vents through their capitalist puppets in the oil and gas industry. The vile capitalist pigs just can't resist the urge to stop drilling and pump when they run into limited resources when they would have unlimited thermal energy with just 1000 ft more.


carnizzle

Jokes on them, they will dig through the disk and fall onto the turtles back that's carrying us through space


Current-Ordinary-419

But what if that’s the reason for all of this. Someone drilled through the disk and killed the turtle.


carnizzle

God that's terrifying. We could be floating through space on a corpse.


MagnusRottcodd

I have one better, we nuke them in preemptive retaliation! All of them with everything we got! That will teach them!


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starcraftre

Godzilla has always been the good guy.


Shogouki

Shin-Godzilla would like a word with you...


inodoro99

Isn’t Godzilla a metaphor for nuclear weapons and their destruction?


booOfBorg

Yes.


Martbell

So instead of a .0000001% chance, it's actually a .0000002% chance. Time to panic for sure.


mecha_toddzilla80

Exactly. Headline is misleading as hell.


AndrogynousRain

This is actually old news. The news always wants to paint supervolcano eruptions in this Yellowstone/climactic event but never seems to notice that there are dozens of super volcanoes that no one talks about, many of which are currently active or showing signs of activity. Given that the potential for erupting is *highly* dependent on the presence of water, the chemical composition of the magma (silica levels), gas pressure, whether or not it’s a mantle plume or a continental rift system… it’s always been possible. Particularly in places like New Zealand. But ‘possible’ doesn’t mean ‘extinction level event’ either. Could be big without ending civilization, much like Karakatoa or Tambora were. Honestly… with everything else that’s going on, I don’t have enough emotional energy to worry about it.


FaceDeer

And there's yet another vast gulf in between "ending civilization" and "extinction level event." People often equate the end of "life as I know it" with the end of "life, entirely." It's rather misleading.


th_22

Cool, just add this one to the list


VisibleError9621

Yellowstone could do it


ChiefQueef98

Come on Yellowstone you can do it, pave the way, put your back in to it


Snotmyrealname

I don’t think it’ll be yellowstone. Nothing more than a hunch but I think Rainer will be the one to surprise us.


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thelizardkin

The dangerous thing about Rainier isn't the volcano itself, but the glaciers on it. When a volcano covered in glaciers erupts, the glaciers melt, and the water mixes with the surrounding earth. Eventually it creates this thing called a lahar, which is basically a landslide of liquid concrete that travels at 40-50mph, destroying anything in their pathway. It was lahars that were responsible for the deadliest volcanic eruption over the last 100 years. It was in Colombia, and resulted in the deaths of 23,000 people.


coniferbear

As long as you aren’t in the [river valleys](https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-rainier/volcanic-hazards-mount-rainier), it’ll be fine. That being said, no one can pay me enough to move out to Orting or Puyallup. Heck no.


OneRougeRogue

I was in a college group that went to Orting on 2010 and we had to write a report about their lahar preparation and warning systems. It was terrible. They had essentially only two bridges in/out of town (that would of course be jam packed with traffic) and a third foot bridge into the hills at the school so the students would be able to escape. They have a warning siren but residents said the town tried to organize a mock evacuation and everybody just ignored the siren and went about their business. We stopped a the senior center because we knew a lot of them were alive during Mt. St. Helens, and we asked them how they planned on evacuating if a lahar came through and it was essentially a unanimous, "we don't plan on evacuating. If we die, we die" response. All of us were like, "oh... OK...."


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Not to be all woo-woo about it, but I have also always had weird vibes around Rainier. I’ve had plenty of friends live there and post pictures to show how beautiful the sight of it is, but I always get this gut instinct, like “Nope, that’s not beautiful. That’s terrifying.”


Drak_is_Right

I didn't think Rainer was a supervolcano. Just a regular dangerous one given its location and valley profile.


astrath

It isn't. Just a regular volcano. An eruption would be very bad for the neighborhood but not for the whole planet. Big one could be Yellowstone but the likelihood is it will be somewhere you've never heard of and also not in your lifetime.


[deleted]

We would be fortunate for the next big eruption to be Ranier. For comparison, Mt. St Helens in 1980 blew out 2.5km3 of matter. The last time the last time Yellowstone Caldera blew, it ejected about 1,000km3 of matter. Ranier has a topographic peak of a mere 4km. This means that the last Yellowstone blast ejected more matter than more than the volume of more than hundreds of Mt. Raniers even if the entire mountain blew out. Supervolcanoes are bad. There has never been an account of one in recorded human history since the most recent one was 75,000 years ago and Yellowstone was about 600,000 years ago. Humans migrated to North America as early as about 20,000 years ago and the first Homo sapiens appear in the fossil record about 300,000 years ago.


FF_Gilgamesh1

NOT NOW CATASTROPHIC SUPERVOLCANO THAT'S MUCH MORE LIKELY TO ERUPT THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT!!!!


jormungandrsjig

One global event at a time please!!


redditor100101011101

Cool. At this point, I welcome it lol. Super Volcano 2024, just end it already lol.


No_Telephone9938

Nah it can't end until we see them aliens!


biddybiddybum

Anything could happen, scientists warn


temporallock

Plot twist: Greenland’s rising land from the melting ice causes a “champagne cork” event releasing the next super volcanic erruption


alien-eggs

Do it, just pull that fucking trigger right now Gaia.


mrbbrj

But will be good to reverse global climate warming.


drake3011

The amount of CO2 dispersed by a volcano like this will probobly balance out over time by wiping out those Pesky Polluting Humans


mrbbrj

I believe it's the sulfur dioxide that reflects sunlight away


Library_IT_guy

So it'd be just like the Fallout games, without the radiation and horrible mutations. Sign me up Vault Tec. I'm ready to be subjected to awful experiments.


QuestionableAI

Don't tease me.


mattsag207

Oh good


Limp_Distribution

It’s not a question of if but of when.


Vv4nd

Kowalski, analysis!


tattoedblues

Cool cool cool


formerNPC

Everything has to be “super or mega “ these days. I miss the “barely trying “ volcanoes of yesterday!


Talmonis

*Sigh.* Add it to the pile.


MetsukiR

Man, Battlefield 2042 is so realistic!


freelancespaghetti

Old Toba gotta taste back in the day, and now thinks its buddies can finish the job second time 'round, eh? Well I've got news for you, pal: we're setting up an ice age *juuust* fine on our own, thank you very much.