A Giant Volcano Will End the United States as We Know It
Lol classic 2020
Conspirators!
This week’s conspiracy is one that has been covered by Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Wired… all somewhat reputable sources. And it has to do with the picture below:
That’s got to be computer generated, right?... RIGHT? (Yeah it’s for sure not real.) BUT… what if it wasn’t? What if it was a prediction of things to come?
This week, we take on the Yellowstone Volcano conspiracy.
THE WHAT???
Paradise? Or a flaming-hot volcanic lava trap straight from the bowels of Hell???
Located mostly in the northwest Corner of Wyoming but expanding into Montana and Idaho, Yellowstone is widely held to be the first national park in the world and covers 3,468 square miles. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone Park is the largest and most famous megafauna location in the contiguous United States. (BORING, WHAT ABOUT THE GIANT VOLCANO!!)
It’s also home to the Yellowstone Caldera, often referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano (Now THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.) An 8 out of 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, it has erupted three times over the past 2 million years; the most recent was 640,000 years ago. A Yellowstone eruption would be like nothing humanity has ever experienced.
I Get the Same Issues With Dairy
First off, the volcano is 44 miles across and it wasn’t until the 1980s that scientists realized that it was still fully alive and could erupt.
According to Bryan Walsh, author of End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World (sounds cheery,) we would all experience increasingly intense earthquakes, followed by “a titanic eruption” that would continue for days, covering anything within a 40-mile radius.
Depending on weather conditions, a good majority of the country would be buried under ~3 feet of ash. With crops destroyed & pastures contaminated, the country would suffer severe famine as well as power outages across the nation. For several years after, the sun would be blocked by toxic clouds, plunging the globe into cooler temperatures. A group of researchers in a 2015 report on extreme geohazards for the European Science Foundation claimed the explosion would be “the greatest catastrophe since the dawn of civilization.”
Please tell me the good news
Here’s the good news:
“The probability of a supereruption at Yellowstone in any given year is 1 in 730,000.”
The most recent concerns about this story came in 2018, when the United States Geological Survey updated its National Volcanic Threat Assessment from 2005. Yellowstone is on the list coming in at #21. It also came in at #21 in 2005, so… not much has changed since then. Is it still in the “high-risk” category? Sure. But that means that one day, it may threaten people via volcanic activity of some kind. Most of the magma reservoir underneath the volcano is currently solid, meaning it’s not close to even being able to erupt.
So… do we get this?
Or this??
Ready to dive deep into the Earth’s Core? (wasn’t that a movie? With Jodie Foster? Who cares I’m rambling)
Concerned about that family trip to yellowstone? Here are the sources we pulled this article from:
What do you think? Outrageous theory based on fear and bad Hollywood movies? (remember when those two volcano movies came out the same year? Yeah, me neither.) Leave a comment! And don’t forget to sign up for next week’s Nibble about the Voynich Manuscript!
As always, stay ‘spicious.
(Liking these bites? Subscribe below then give us a follow @CNibbles on Twitter and @ConspiracyNibbles Instagram!)
ugghhhhhhh. I can handle ash I think. Maybe. Or maybe not.