Saturday, December 15, 2012

December 2012 - Day 15 - Super Volcanoes

On the fifteenth day of the apocalypse
My true love said to me:
Oh look...
Fifteen Super Volcanoes
Fourteen MPH Earth-Spin
Thirteen Year Nuclear Holocaust
Twelve Decameter Storm Surge
Eleven Superstorms
Ten Plagues of Egypt
Nine Asteroids
Eight Supernovae
Seven Continents Cracking
Six Hour Long Earthquake
Fiiiiiiiiive Alieeeeeeeens!!!!
Four Dinosaurs
Three Hitlers
Two Poles that Shift
And it seems I've become a zombie.

What:

So, yesterday we talked about the Earth slowing down to barely a smidgen of a crawl.  And what did our genius 3 Hitler-esque dictators do about it?

They nuked the Earth, of course!

Would this happen in real life?  Well...

Of course!!!  That's what they did in The Core, only it was the core of the Earth that had stopped spinning, not the entire planet itself, and they went clear down to the center of the Earth to nuke it.

And as we all know, if it was made by Hollywood, they would never be so irresponsible as to make an unrealistic scenario, so this is exactly what would happen.

So, they nuked planet Earth.

And what did Geologists say would happen???

I quote: "To create a hole that deep in the crust, and then send something with the force of a nuclear bomb, is only inviting magma to rise through it.  You have the potential to create hotspots, like the spots under Hawaii and Yellowstone, which will then turn into massive supervolcanoes."

That's right.

And guess what happened.

Now, of course, not all the nuked spots would go off.

...

But a few of them did.

And they triggered Yellowstone while they were at it.

How to Survive:

Don't live near any of them, silly!!!

And if you must take pictures, please do so from the space station.  I know, I know, the angles are all off, and it's hard to fully capture the emotional potency of flying ash from that high up, but at least the lighting is fantastic.

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