Yellowstone Supervolcano: America’s Armageddon

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4 жыл бұрын

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Morris M.
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris
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Source/Further reading:
What if Yellowstone actually erupted: www.vox.com/2014/9/5/6108169/...
How you could tell an eruption was coming: www.discovermagazine.com/plan...
National Geo, When Yellowstone erupts: www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...
Old BBC predictions on how the eruption could effect Europe: www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/progr...
Why Yellowstone probably won’t erupt: blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
Supervolcano 101: www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
Timeline of Yellowstone’s prehistory: www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature...
Britannica’s history of Yellowstone: www.britannica.com/place/Yell...
Pre-park years: yellowstone.net/history/timel...
Comparing the Explosivity Index of recent eruptions: pubs.usgs.gov/gip/msh/compari...
Supereruption Q&A: volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/...
Why Ring of Fire earthquakes can’t cause Yellowstone to erupt: volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/...
Tambora eruption figures: www.wired.com/2015/04/tambora...

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@geographicstravel
@geographicstravel 4 жыл бұрын
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@jwenting
@jwenting 4 жыл бұрын
actually the Yellowstone caldera can be timed with some precision as its eruptions depend directly on plate tectonics. Hence the historical record for its eruptions shows a pretty clear regularity (on historical timescales) making geologists believe that an eruption is due any millenium now (by geological record, in other words, it should erupt around now, give or take 10.000 years).
@werewolfman186
@werewolfman186 4 жыл бұрын
Krakatowa was a super volcano tho
@Bearrrrrrrrr
@Bearrrrrrrrr 4 жыл бұрын
You should do Mount St. Helens some time
@carlgrau5910
@carlgrau5910 4 жыл бұрын
Mont Saint-Michel maybe this would be a good one??
@teebee4626
@teebee4626 4 жыл бұрын
Love your videos! But, without being an asshole, I would love to see more maps, to see for example where the dust cloud would have ended
@GarikDuvall
@GarikDuvall 3 жыл бұрын
"If Yellowstone suddenly went Old Testament on America's ass" lol, love how he says stuff like this with straight face.
@gorillawhale1046
@gorillawhale1046 3 жыл бұрын
Bro super volcanos all over the world are acting up, I think old testament on the world has a greater probability of hqppening this or next year.
@marciam7301
@marciam7301 3 жыл бұрын
That was the best line in the video
@jsolivas1516
@jsolivas1516 3 жыл бұрын
That statement made me burst out laughing
@realyoriginalchanel3218
@realyoriginalchanel3218 3 жыл бұрын
A supervulcano like yellowstone would take 50 years of buildup during with ground deformation and other things could be observed before it would explode and that is simply not happening
@MiracleWinchester
@MiracleWinchester 3 жыл бұрын
British humour be like thta
@RepellentJeff
@RepellentJeff 3 жыл бұрын
0.00014% chance of erupting. 2020: Come on, big money, big money, no whammy, no whammy-STOP!
@popeclementxi7303
@popeclementxi7303 3 жыл бұрын
that is very funny
@rockymntnguns
@rockymntnguns 3 жыл бұрын
Just nuke it that’ll fix it
@ryancoulter4797
@ryancoulter4797 3 жыл бұрын
Anybody just feel that?
@BookofProverbs
@BookofProverbs 3 жыл бұрын
2020 just figured out the sequence to the whammy board
@konpeki2037
@konpeki2037 3 жыл бұрын
2020: goodness what a idea. Why didn’t I think of that?
@RangerMcFriendly
@RangerMcFriendly Жыл бұрын
As a former Yellowstone NP Ranger and Historian, I am also amazed about how you nailed the history of the Park. I wrote my thesis on how the Northern Pacific Railroad’s financier, Jay Cooke, single-handedly funded Yellowstone’s creation as a National Park. He needed a new destination for his train in the northern Wyoming territory and upon hearing Nathaniel Langford (from the Washburn Langford Doane Expedition) talking about a rumor he had heard about a place where the earth was like Hell, he financed the Expedition himself to find this place, hence the 1870 expedition. Langford was a man of tall tales and likely a narcissist tho. He made up a story about a campfire in Madison Junction where he came up with the idea of a “Nation’s Park”. Not really considering he told that story many years later. But the Expedition laid the groundwork for the Hayden Geological Expedition one year later which had artist Thomas Moran and photographer William H Jackson tagging along. That Expedition was instrumental since it was Moran’s artwork of Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Jackson’s photos that greeted Congressmen in 1872 when they voted on the Yellowstone Park Act of 1872 establishing the world’s first National Park. It didn’t cost Congress a dime though so that’s why it was almost unanimous. Jay Cooke took up the financing though as long as his train had first dibs to tourism! He made sure the train’s clientele followed the new rules though. Some didn’t and that’s why the US Army was brought in to establish Fort Yellowstone to protect it. Eventually in 1916 the NPS was formed (thanks to another billionaire, Borax businessman Stephen T Mather, who like Cooke pumped millions into making the NPS and became its first Director), and the Park Ranger outfits were just the old US Army ones (hence the flat Stetson hats and baggy pants).
@D45VR
@D45VR Жыл бұрын
Quite interesting. And I think being a Park Ranger at Yellowstone seems like a dream career.
@archlich4489
@archlich4489 Жыл бұрын
Cheers! What did you think of the BBC movie "Supervolcano"? Was it accurate?
@Kiwi-ICU-RN
@Kiwi-ICU-RN Жыл бұрын
Imagine if they’d thought about the whole world 🙄
@infledermaus
@infledermaus Жыл бұрын
I'd love to work there until my life ends. I'm going on 70. Won't be long now. 😂😂😂
@justinsmith4562
@justinsmith4562 Жыл бұрын
@@infledermaus hopefully
@RangerMcFriendly
@RangerMcFriendly Жыл бұрын
Former Yellowstone Park Ranger here: I freaking love this channel! Simon nails it all. Hank Hessler, the now former head geologist of the Park, told me about how much he dislikes the 2012 movie and all the fake scare-porn documentaries about the supervolcano. He said that a remarkable thing has happened in the past 640,000 years. Norris Geyser Basin formed. What that did was give the magma chamber a kind of pressure release valve. It allows the chamber to decompress when gas builds up the pressure in the chamber. He said Yellowstone’s next eruption will be remarkable because it won’t be a megablast but rather a tame lava eruption. Norris Geyser Basin will be overrun with lava spewing out of geysers, fumeroles and hot springs. The Park will have to close but guess what? No Armageddon. This is all from the mouth of the most knowledgeable person on the Yellowstone Caldera.
@D45VR
@D45VR Жыл бұрын
I suspect you and Hessler are correct but that story wouldn't get any clicks.
@trukeesey8715
@trukeesey8715 Жыл бұрын
What does "freaking" mean? Listen to Prem Rawat!
@nemanjap8768
@nemanjap8768 8 ай бұрын
Maybe ,maybe not . You can't really predict nature 100%
@cjsawinski
@cjsawinski 7 ай бұрын
Ya I don’t agree at all… it will erupt in full form again 100%… just comes down to when. I was no ranger but I lived in the GYE (Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem) for more than a decade, and studied the microbes in the hot springs when I thought I was going to get a degree in Biology. My friend made the discovery of the microbes and now runs the biology department at Stanford. Biology has nothing to do with Geology but living and studying in the park for that king only taught me that Yellowstone is just ticking away. Even if the geyser theory is correct, it would only take a mild earthquake cluster to moves rocks around and close up those vents. And Yellowstone gets dozens of earthquakes everyday.
@wiezyczkowata
@wiezyczkowata 6 ай бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised if it never erupted at all,
@markculp893
@markculp893 3 жыл бұрын
5:39 "forming a depression the size of Rhode Island" hey man leave my personal life out of this
@beastmaster415
@beastmaster415 3 жыл бұрын
U ok Mark?
@waynesligar5948
@waynesligar5948 3 жыл бұрын
I No the feeling i can't work anymore my lower back is fubared after 4 surgeries doctors say they can't do anything else, i can at least walk a little bit
@beastmaster415
@beastmaster415 3 жыл бұрын
@@waynesligar5948 damn dude🙏🏾🤘🏾🌎
@jayodinson3448
@jayodinson3448 3 жыл бұрын
@@waynesligar5948 go to a chiropractor. Sometimes that's what it takes. And lol into CBD products. Helps with pain and inflammation and overall good for the body, without the intoxicating effects of THC
@waynesligar5948
@waynesligar5948 3 жыл бұрын
@@jayodinson3448 my bottom 4 discs are fussed together, i have a pain pump inside me and one doctor is burning nerves. I went to a chiropractor in 2004 until i found out the discs where gone it was bone on bone so first surgery was 2006 what'd 3 months before o start going back to work a few hours a day then the screws in my back pulled out but i had to wait 6 months before they could go back in to put bigger screws. Found out my bones had gotten soft so i had to take medicine to strengthen them so the surgery would do better
@Akmundra1
@Akmundra1 4 жыл бұрын
OMG there are over 300 Geezers in Yellowstone? Somebody help those poor crotchety old men, they’re trapped above magma pools!
@Denpachii
@Denpachii 4 жыл бұрын
Dang you for beating me to that comment!
@tarn1135
@tarn1135 4 жыл бұрын
I should have read further down on the comments before I made my joke. Darn it. You win.
@WildStar2002
@WildStar2002 4 жыл бұрын
Ha! Came down here looking for this comment - well done! :-)
@annescholey6546
@annescholey6546 4 жыл бұрын
MAG-MA!
@tiffinyharrington9307
@tiffinyharrington9307 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@justandy333
@justandy333 3 жыл бұрын
20:56 - There is a very simple word in the english language used to describe such an illness brought on by inhaling volcanic dust.... Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I'm surprised Simons script writer didn't slip that one in to this video.
@thomasblock1164
@thomasblock1164 3 жыл бұрын
that's not a word, that's a sentence that forgot it's spacing
@c0nc3ntr8d6
@c0nc3ntr8d6 3 жыл бұрын
That’s a HUGE miss. Would have been brilliant to include that lung disease.
@woomeebly
@woomeebly 2 жыл бұрын
Basically, you inhale the particles which are sharp and glassy. The particles cut the tissues and embed themselves further into the lungs, causing internal bleeding in the alveolus. The loss of blood and the resulting secondary infections will finish you off. Pretty straightforward really.
@aslightlysanescientist3874
@aslightlysanescientist3874 2 жыл бұрын
@@woomeebly also cause abnormal bone growth which is something
@tasha4253
@tasha4253 Жыл бұрын
That's not a word, that's a keymash
@xanmontes8715
@xanmontes8715 3 жыл бұрын
The voice of Knowledge: "... a secret place in Idaho with candy-floss trees..." Me: He knows too much...
@darkstorminc
@darkstorminc 3 жыл бұрын
2020 is almost over, what else could possible go wrong! Yellowstone: Pull my finger.
@garygrant91
@garygrant91 3 жыл бұрын
Yellowstone is not the only active supervolcano that could have its finger pulled. Depending on who you ask, there are between six and twelve active supervolcanos in the world, with another eight that are might be active. Yellowstone is only the most studied and as a result gets the most press.
@Doxymeister
@Doxymeister 3 жыл бұрын
@@Future-Preps35 Don't forget Long Valley and Valles Caldera...
@anarchyantz1564
@anarchyantz1564 3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, you still have November 3rd to look forward to.
@hedgehognegative1059
@hedgehognegative1059 3 жыл бұрын
@@Future-Preps35 if the next few years keep getting worse they may both erupt at the same time
@AlphaWolf789
@AlphaWolf789 3 жыл бұрын
XD
@SpartanHighKing14
@SpartanHighKing14 4 жыл бұрын
_Corona virus is the worst thing to happen to humans this year_ Yellow Stone Volcano " *Hold my magma* "
@EmoJones13
@EmoJones13 4 жыл бұрын
It would be the firework-studded sendoff to 2020 that we're all expecting at this point. A veritable cherry on top of the shit sundae.
@mikealford8215
@mikealford8215 4 жыл бұрын
So far
@marcinfmpl3801
@marcinfmpl3801 3 жыл бұрын
Hey, you could have made Chernobyl worse if you were any more arrogant
@sirgoddy1170
@sirgoddy1170 3 жыл бұрын
Dork
@somethinglikethat2176
@somethinglikethat2176 3 жыл бұрын
@@marcinfmpl3801 sounds like someone need to go to the infirmary.
@GeoRyukaiser
@GeoRyukaiser 3 жыл бұрын
As an Australian all I hear is 'cooler temperatures' and 'more rain' and I can think is; so the Yellowstone Super Eruption could lead to an Australian Golden Age?
@c0nc3ntr8d6
@c0nc3ntr8d6 3 жыл бұрын
Probably the best place to be if Yellowstone blows. Atmosphere would still be impacted though.
@rodneyk6913
@rodneyk6913 2 жыл бұрын
Australia is already living a golden age. We just don't tell anyone. 🇦🇺
@johannageisel5390
@johannageisel5390 2 жыл бұрын
As somebody living in the east of Germany: I hear you! A decade of rainfall is what we need to regenerate our ground water.
@Xavier7392
@Xavier7392 2 жыл бұрын
@@johannageisel5390 poor choice of words... hope everything's ok.
@johannageisel5390
@johannageisel5390 2 жыл бұрын
@@Xavier7392 "Poor choice of words"? I'm afraid I do not know what you mean. I just wanted to report that it's not only Australia and the West of North America that's suffering from drought.
@billkipper3264
@billkipper3264 3 жыл бұрын
I hate to be a grammar nazi but Shoshone is prounounced, "show show knee".
@Briggsby
@Briggsby 3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if someone was gonna point that out.
@ZER0ZER0SE7EN
@ZER0ZER0SE7EN 3 жыл бұрын
The "Showsown" live among the "geesuhs".
@manderzzz8702
@manderzzz8702 3 жыл бұрын
**shuh-show-nee. We’re all a bit of a grammar cop lol
@StyxRiverGynoid
@StyxRiverGynoid 3 жыл бұрын
Not to be nitpicky, but I think you meant you hate to be a linguistic coach ....
@georgemcintyre3508
@georgemcintyre3508 3 жыл бұрын
@@StyxRiverGynoid cunning linguistic skills
@hannah1948
@hannah1948 4 жыл бұрын
if simon had been my history teacher back in school, I would have paid a lot more attention.
@andygreen3575
@andygreen3575 3 жыл бұрын
You'd have suffered from PTSD and afraid to leave the house.
@notme2day
@notme2day 3 жыл бұрын
@@andygreen3575 nah .. not with the way he tells it .. I'd love to hear him audio book a Stephen King novel with commentary it would be brilliant! 😆
@st4s.and.fl0w3rs
@st4s.and.fl0w3rs 3 жыл бұрын
I'm homeschooled and I use his videos as part of my history class
@notmyname3556
@notmyname3556 3 жыл бұрын
More like geography teacher
@trishapellis
@trishapellis 2 жыл бұрын
Luckily for me, my history teachers in high school was not dissimilar. One of them at one point turned Henry VIII and his wives into a game show. The other tried to explain the impaling of a French king in 'less explicit terms' (in order to avoid the word 'impaling'), before realizing that was way worse and going "they spitted him like a pig, okay?"
@robyndaniell434
@robyndaniell434 3 жыл бұрын
"Three hundred geezers..." Hmmm, North American Geezer Society convention, sounds about right.
@rickardrakkoon2500
@rickardrakkoon2500 3 жыл бұрын
He mispronounces alot of words trying to sound "smart"
@chendaforest
@chendaforest 3 жыл бұрын
@@rickardrakkoon2500 Its just his accent.
@LannasMissingLink
@LannasMissingLink 3 жыл бұрын
@@chendaforest yeah his accent comes from English people trying to sound smarter. The accent is called "the queen's english"
@franciscodanconia4324
@franciscodanconia4324 3 жыл бұрын
The British talk funny
@lehampton1
@lehampton1 3 жыл бұрын
The Showshown Indians knew about those old geezers.
@helgaformo2054
@helgaformo2054 3 жыл бұрын
"Never Tell Me the Odds." - Confucious -
@prepperjonpnw6482
@prepperjonpnw6482 3 жыл бұрын
And Han Solo lol
@bbthing68
@bbthing68 3 жыл бұрын
My grandfather ran a cattle ranch until he passed away. It was located in southeastern Wyoming. But he was also involved with rural electrification and had a chance to travel also. He used to tell me that “Yellowstone was full of oddities, while Yosemite was the prettiest place he ever visited.”
@marcorodrigues8303
@marcorodrigues8303 Жыл бұрын
Você acha que eu sou Thet em Yellowstone 🌋 ele vem Adormecido há 6040 milhões de anos ele quer despertar . porque não já passou da Hora né #
@jaredphillips7068
@jaredphillips7068 Жыл бұрын
.Have you ever been to Yosemite? He's right
@jamesaritchie1
@jamesaritchie1 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I feel much safer in Yellowstone than in Yosemite. I doubt there's another mountain range on earth that has no many rocksli9des, rock falls, and even large chunks of mountains breaking loose. I have no doubt that most of the people who have gone missing out there an dover the decades are buried under a whole lot of rock.
@thepilotist7297
@thepilotist7297 4 жыл бұрын
*Watching in 2019*: “oh that would be really scary but probably not going to happen.” *Watching in 2020*: “oh no...”
@rogerparker6771
@rogerparker6771 4 жыл бұрын
Lmao..that's why I'm here👀👀🤦‍♂️
@kingofthewayward
@kingofthewayward 4 жыл бұрын
This was uploaded in 2020.
@9nxt
@9nxt 3 жыл бұрын
I had by bets on aliens for June but no bingo :/
@PostalPatriot556
@PostalPatriot556 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t know why you would’ve thought it wouldn’t happen. It’s way over due and literally a ticking time bomb.
@TheBOOTYSWEAT107
@TheBOOTYSWEAT107 3 жыл бұрын
@@PostalPatriot556 did you even watch the video? Lmao
@resileaf9501
@resileaf9501 4 жыл бұрын
Let's distract ourselves from our impending doom by watching a video about our impending doom. Brilliant. :D
@ericagrant6260
@ericagrant6260 4 жыл бұрын
😀
@ernestimken6969
@ernestimken6969 4 жыл бұрын
Why would humanity contemplate impending doom? Have we done anything so bad to warrant annailation? The answer is yes. The first extinction wasn't by asteroid, but by water. A worldwide flood was the reason for that. It was mass murder to the point of self- extinction. (Genesis 4:23,24) The Creator rescued that generation through one good man and his family along with two of every species He brought them through that flood in a giant wood box called Noah's Ark. Today humanity is working toward self-extinction again. For many years we have established legalized murder. Abortion has caused death to over 100 million children worldwide along with recent reports of 21 million people dead in the PRC from CV19. However, there will be good people rescued again by the millions. (1&2 Thessalonians, but particularly 2 Th.4:16-18).
@rayzorrayzor9000
@rayzorrayzor9000 3 жыл бұрын
You shouldn’t believe all you read in books m8 , chilax 😂😂😂
@krazi77
@krazi77 3 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Stevens can't the eruption be postponed for a few days, I'm going on vacation!
@pewds_hostage
@pewds_hostage 3 жыл бұрын
Ernest Imken what belief is this
@michaelsuerth1448
@michaelsuerth1448 3 жыл бұрын
Simon, I would very much enjoy you doing a show on "floating rescue stations". These were used by both the English and the Germans during WW 2. They were to help save lives of downed pilots and seaman who had survived having their ships sunk. Other names for these floating stations are "Ocean Hostels", "Horton's Boyan", "Sea Rescue Bouyans", "Lobster Pots", and "Sea Shanties". Until today, I myself did not know they had ever existed. I would like you to pass along another "learn something new every day". Just as your videos have taught me many new things almost daily. tyvm for your time.
@rose6689
@rose6689 3 жыл бұрын
I'm ready! I've got a nice lawn chair and a significant amount of whiskey. However, I'm not getting my hopes up. December 22, 2012 welcomed in the most epic hangover I've ever had...
@cherrymeg6021
@cherrymeg6021 4 жыл бұрын
omg when Simon basically said “don’t run, pick a god and pray” I LOST it
@That_Guy_Ty
@That_Guy_Ty 4 жыл бұрын
Major woody Yellowstone won’t touch you, but all the lava, ash, pyroclastic flow, explosions of the ground, ECT... is sure as shit going to get you
@arrowdynamlc
@arrowdynamlc 4 жыл бұрын
@Major woody I'm sure for me, dying in lava will be good practice for burning in hell. oh wait it's a fairytale
@jeannettelatour9089
@jeannettelatour9089 3 жыл бұрын
This is a truth. God said when the earth shakes, don't run like the hea than.stand & praise the Lord, He will save us.
@jeannettelatour9089
@jeannettelatour9089 3 жыл бұрын
Magna is on the move everywhere.
@martinhristov3670
@martinhristov3670 3 жыл бұрын
@@jeannettelatour9089 lmao if he cared about us he wouldn't have blown up the volcano to begin with
@gemsandlasers269
@gemsandlasers269 4 жыл бұрын
As a geochemist who has published research on the second very large eruption at Yellowstone, this was definitely the best video on Yellowstone that I've watched. I like that you mentioned that the majority of eruptions at Yellowstone are very small explosive/effusive events, rather than cataclysms.
@esecallum
@esecallum 4 жыл бұрын
WHY NOT JUST LANCE THE BOIL? You can easily avert the explosion . SIMPLY DRILL ABOUT 100 OIL PIPELINES IN THE UPPER AREA ABOVE THE CALDERA AND BLEED OF THE HIGH PRESSURE GASES. THIS IS CALLED LANCING THE BOIL. USING VALVES YOU CAN CONTROL THE PRESSURE REDUCTION . YOU CAN ALSO DIVERT THE HOT GASES FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION FOR THE WHOLE OF AMERICA. I JUST SAVED AMERICA. THIS IDEA IS COPYRIGHTED.
@penelope-oe2vr
@penelope-oe2vr Жыл бұрын
Is the above commenter idea even feasible ?
@deviricx983
@deviricx983 Жыл бұрын
No, it’s a troll
@friendsofthegerund7693
@friendsofthegerund7693 Жыл бұрын
Misplaced modifier: "As a geochemist ... this". You said that "this" was a geochemist, you didn't say that YOU were a geochemist. Minus 1 point. Uphold the Friends of the Gerund!
@Michelle-tr5sq
@Michelle-tr5sq 6 ай бұрын
Bruce Willis 😅
@jppitman1
@jppitman1 3 жыл бұрын
Yup, that area is constantly changing. My Mother, who grew up 1930`s Wyoming, said that while visiting Yellowstone she was able to walk or crawl part way into an extinct geyser tube. There is a reason why there are summer traffic jams there; it`s similar to the Grand Canyon in the sense that little to nothing like it exists elsewhere in the world. Out of titanic tectonic dynamic forces arise titanic beauty and wonder. We truly marvel at such grandeur.
@sirvulcan5738
@sirvulcan5738 3 жыл бұрын
Tambora: "HA, did you hear him? He said that I'm the biggest volcanic eruption in human history! Yes!" Toba: "Challenge me."
@AlDano
@AlDano 3 жыл бұрын
"This would suck for campers.. " 😆
@benitosanchez6000
@benitosanchez6000 3 жыл бұрын
Especially those downwind...whew!.....
@emie1170
@emie1170 3 жыл бұрын
take that modern warfare
@sashakazmar6142
@sashakazmar6142 4 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of a meme I saw the other day: your chances of being killed by a cat are low but never zero
@sarasmr4278
@sarasmr4278 4 жыл бұрын
Cows kill more people than sharks. Which makes sense since you don't see cows in the ocean very often. (But really, they do.)
@josephmclennan1229
@josephmclennan1229 4 жыл бұрын
I have owned a few cows , true statement , you have to keep an eye on them.
@danielrodriguez248
@danielrodriguez248 4 жыл бұрын
@@josephmclennan1229 that is a smart mooove
@makinbacon5635
@makinbacon5635 4 жыл бұрын
How does a cow kill somebody? I'm genuinely curious and i dont want to google it
@valiroime
@valiroime 4 жыл бұрын
@Sasha Kazmar: Your chances of being killed _by pretty much anything_ is low but not zero.
@harvbegal6868
@harvbegal6868 3 жыл бұрын
The three known times that a super eruption had occurred, each one has been smaller than the last, with the last one being a very large lava flow. According to USGS: The rhyolite magma chamber beneath Yellowstone is only 5-15% molten (the rest is solidified but still hot), so it is unclear if there is even enough magma beneath the caldera to feed an eruption.
@6000hall
@6000hall 2 жыл бұрын
Spoiler; it doesn't. This is one of the first things you learn in college level geology classes as someone brings up the myth that yellowstone will be the death of us
@ima7333
@ima7333 Жыл бұрын
@@6000hall toba would likely to kill most of us before yellowstone. By us i mean me & my indonesian neighbors along w/ singapore and malaysia.
@RangerMcFriendly
@RangerMcFriendly Жыл бұрын
Correct. It will be a pretty eruption of lava though at Norris Geyser Basin, where the molten magma is just a few miles under your feet. I remember the two summers I worked there people would walk off the boardwalk (ignoring the signs saying not to) and their shoes would MELT. The ground can get extremely hot in places.
@alinac5512
@alinac5512 Жыл бұрын
​@@ima7333 my money is on one of the 2 big faults (St Andreas and Cascadia) for the next disaster coming to NA.
@MeesterJ
@MeesterJ Жыл бұрын
Campi Flegrei in Italy anyone?
@ignitionfrn2223
@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын
1:40 - Chapter 1 - The exploding earth 6:00 - Chapter 2 - The great eruptions 9:00 - Mid roll ads 10:30 - Chapter 3 - The invisible volcano 15:00 - Chapter 4 - The volcano made visible 18:45 - Chapter 5 - The world on fire
@qpSubZeroqp
@qpSubZeroqp 2 жыл бұрын
You need more like and comments to bump it up higher
@MangaArtistify
@MangaArtistify 3 жыл бұрын
Everyone in 2012: OMG the world's gonna end! The Mayan's predicted it! 😱 The Dyslexic Mayan who meant to write 2021: 👁👄👁
@freedomrider266
@freedomrider266 3 жыл бұрын
A dyslexic would have written it as 2102.....You've still got some time there dear Ashley...
@xjunkxyrdxdog89
@xjunkxyrdxdog89 3 жыл бұрын
@@freedomrider266 dyslexia doesn't just mean mirroring the word. Most people with dyslexia reverse pairs of letters. They dont just straight up write full words backwards.
@erikho6936
@erikho6936 3 жыл бұрын
@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 so... 2120?
@NukelearFallout
@NukelearFallout 3 жыл бұрын
@@erikho6936 Or 2021, you imbecile. Nice job missing his point entirely.
@jfr7694
@jfr7694 3 жыл бұрын
I worked with a couple people who went home that night thinking we wouldn't b back the next day
@jimmyjack1896
@jimmyjack1896 4 жыл бұрын
The odds of Yellowstone erupting in many years are about 0.00014%. 2020: Hold my beer...
@Fizz-Pop
@Fizz-Pop 4 жыл бұрын
Never tell me the odds!
@sylviarohge4204
@sylviarohge4204 4 жыл бұрын
A potentially better candidate would be Lazufre. It is a geologically highly active zone with an area of ~ 1750km² which is raised by 3 cm annually. It is not yet certain that this is a super volcano, because due to the height and remote location, there has so far been little research on it. However, the rise in soil and the seismic activity suggest that it could be a super volcano. He is also much more active than, for example. Yellowstone.
@Tfin
@Tfin 4 жыл бұрын
But odds are pretty good for a huge asteroid. Could we maybe drop Chicxulub on Yellowstone in the next week or two? It'd solve SO many problems!
@ModemMT
@ModemMT 4 жыл бұрын
You can’t put “odds” on when a volcano erupts. Yellowstone has always been geologically active, throughout human history. I doubt it will erupt for thousands or maybe even millions of year
@ankyfire
@ankyfire 4 жыл бұрын
There are many worrisome volcanoes. Like Fuji for example. And many we think are extinct - like we thought Pinatubo was in 1992
@dwwest8168
@dwwest8168 2 жыл бұрын
I live in Wyoming, if Yellowstone goes up, I'm cracking open a beer, put on the sun glasses, and watching.
@amphibiousone7972
@amphibiousone7972 Жыл бұрын
When I think of Yellowstone I think of Ash Fall Nebraska in the United States. It's a paleontological site that you can visit and examine the dig site. It was created when Yellowstone last erupted. The ash fall killed and buried almost every animal and the fossils are preserved in the obviously volcanic ash. It's a great experience.
@mybackhurts7020
@mybackhurts7020 4 жыл бұрын
Simon you weren’t supposed to tell them about the candy forest
@korgothkillings2032
@korgothkillings2032 4 жыл бұрын
I heard him say candy forest. Where is this.
@joshmiller7870
@joshmiller7870 4 жыл бұрын
@@korgothkillings2032 It is next to Big Rock Candy Mountain of course XD.
@StrangeScaryNewEngland
@StrangeScaryNewEngland 4 жыл бұрын
@@joshmiller7870 Yup. There's a lake of stew and of whiskey, too. You can paddle all around it and a big canoe
@joshmiller7870
@joshmiller7870 4 жыл бұрын
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland LOL
@robinderoos1166
@robinderoos1166 4 жыл бұрын
@@joshmiller7870 lets go to candy mountain Charlie!
@OAleathaO
@OAleathaO 3 жыл бұрын
6:08 - "But even its two smaller super-eruptions were still what we call, 'pretty damn big.' " Sheesh...I didn't know there were going to be confusing technical terms used in this video. lol
@franl155
@franl155 3 жыл бұрын
One of them caused a 60-mile length of mountain chain to collapse. I'd call that pretty damn big :-p
@notme2day
@notme2day 3 жыл бұрын
Those confusing tech terms are so most Americans can grasp the concept .. you know ..thanks to the "pretty damn bad" failing educational system here 😃
@rogerturner3847
@rogerturner3847 3 жыл бұрын
Suppose cascadia quake hits a 12 or so and pops the top on Yellowstone and st hellen all at once thus half of America destroyed in a few hours talk about biblical happenings this could happen
@FreedomTalkMedia
@FreedomTalkMedia 2 жыл бұрын
@@notme2day The education system isn't failing. It's accomplishing exactly what it set out to accomplish.
@elizabethannegrey6285
@elizabethannegrey6285 3 жыл бұрын
My word, Simon’s enthusiasm for disaster is difficult to beat as he regales the listener with tales of dire catastrophe. His glee is almost palpable as he gets stuck into the geologic record of magma chambers, ash clouds, and toxic fumes. Anyone for a vacation in Yellowstone?
@john1703
@john1703 3 жыл бұрын
Yes please. A quick death would be better than survival. Rather like all out nuclear war.
@stevenschnepp576
@stevenschnepp576 3 жыл бұрын
@@john1703 I imagine that depends on the amount of hours you've spent playing Fallout.
@erikjohnson9223
@erikjohnson9223 Жыл бұрын
At least when you visit, you get to see some very weird and beautiful sites (& can drive south to the Grand Tetons, which aren't weird but are still very scenic). If Yellowstone blows supervolcano style, you'll die in most of western North America whether you visit or not. The entire world would have a bit of a volcanic winter (the 19th century "year without a summer" was due to a smaller eruption). Might as well make some memories while you may.
@Hurricane0721
@Hurricane0721 Жыл бұрын
Here’s the fortunate thing about supervolcanoes like Yellowstone. Cataclysmic eruptions are extraordinarily rare events! Yellowstone has actually erupted over 100 times since its last catastrophic eruption. All of those eruptions were much smaller in scale than the last cataclysmic eruption. The affects of the other smaller eruptions were mainly localized in nature to the immediate Yellowstone region. So if Yellowstone decides to erupt within our lifetime, then fortunately the odds are overwhelming that it will be a relatively small localized eruption. The odds of a catastrophic eruption from Yellowstone in our lifetime is absolutely astronomical!
@icecell
@icecell 4 жыл бұрын
The way he pronounces geysers makes me think of old geezers.
@CrazyBear65
@CrazyBear65 4 жыл бұрын
\m/ GZR \m/
@Zombeegun
@Zombeegun 4 жыл бұрын
same here lol
@Tfin
@Tfin 4 жыл бұрын
There were 300 old people in Yellowstone that day.
@jphilb
@jphilb 4 жыл бұрын
He has been told. I think he is now doing it on purpose.
@shebbs1
@shebbs1 4 жыл бұрын
Funny how you Americans think your mispronunciations are actually correct. Your ways might be fine in the land of corn syrup, guns and grits, but "American English" is rather quaint to we Brits, oh and wrong.
@billiondollardan
@billiondollardan 4 жыл бұрын
Show show knee The name "Shoshone" comes from Sosoni, a Shoshone word for high-growing grasses
@kingjellybean9795
@kingjellybean9795 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you lol saved me from going indepth on that
@TheVossmic
@TheVossmic 4 жыл бұрын
I live in shoshone county idaho we say the same way he did, there are three different tribes of shoshone
@MaxBrix
@MaxBrix 4 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Oliver Geezers probably checkin out the geysers.
@blacquejacqueshellaque6373
@blacquejacqueshellaque6373 4 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Oliver Yeah, that one hurt my ears
@MpowerdAPE
@MpowerdAPE 4 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I think he does it on purpose....
@LindaGailLamb.0808
@LindaGailLamb.0808 3 жыл бұрын
For an example of how far ash from even a small volcano can spread: I live in central Alberta. After Mt. Saint Helens blew, whenever it rained, there were muddy rain marks on windows and cars.
@birdflox1337
@birdflox1337 2 жыл бұрын
Who else got this recommended right after that video disproving the Yellowstone myth?
@RageTGoA
@RageTGoA 2 жыл бұрын
me.
@bayless5275
@bayless5275 2 жыл бұрын
Me
@JamesTobiasStewart
@JamesTobiasStewart 2 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@RegalRoyalWasTaken
@RegalRoyalWasTaken 2 жыл бұрын
Yep!
@undertall
@undertall 2 жыл бұрын
fuck. I'm a sheep.
@StephanLiebenberg
@StephanLiebenberg 4 жыл бұрын
All we need now is a large asteroid headed straight for Yellowstone
@sebastiansandhu4695
@sebastiansandhu4695 4 жыл бұрын
I feel giddy at the thought
@AdstarAPAD
@AdstarAPAD 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah.. punching straight through the crust and triggering an instantaneous release of all the magma in one huge burst..
@gumunduringigumundsson9344
@gumunduringigumundsson9344 4 жыл бұрын
Can we build prisons there and tell them they can build GEOTHERMAL plants to cool it and buy time.. motivation 4tw. 🎵🎁🐔
@gumunduringigumundsson9344
@gumunduringigumundsson9344 4 жыл бұрын
@@AdstarAPAD we could just paint one side of the asteroid white cuz we can see them.. thanks to NASA nerds.
@jaymondy
@jaymondy 4 жыл бұрын
2020 Goals.
@hollywoodusmcboss8867
@hollywoodusmcboss8867 3 жыл бұрын
Having lived through mt.st.helens covered in over 3ft of ash thinking nuclear warheads had hit the west coast and never seeing any loved ones again...what a experience for a 17 year old
@godisincontrolamerica972
@godisincontrolamerica972 3 жыл бұрын
God bless you...you've already suffered enough.
@dieseljohnsnow5371
@dieseljohnsnow5371 3 жыл бұрын
Made a Fortune cleaning peoples gutters, cars, windows, siding. Vacuums useless. H2O only way. Remember Mt. Hood rumbled long time. Suddenly switched to St. Helens. Quicker it blew.
@mynameisjoejeans
@mynameisjoejeans Жыл бұрын
Describing the devastating effects of a super volcano on the climate as “a decade where every day is like a wet November in northern England.” is so terrifyingly accurate hahaha
@charlesjmouse
@charlesjmouse 3 жыл бұрын
Campi Flegrei: The super volcano under Naples that may actually blow in our lifetimes and was probably the coup-de-grace for the Neanderthals. Maybe the subject of another episode?
@spectreshadow
@spectreshadow 4 жыл бұрын
The perfect sendoff to the shitstorm that is 2020 is for yellowstone to explode on december 31st.
@Erin-Thor
@Erin-Thor 4 жыл бұрын
Nah, November 2nd on Election Day. LOL! It would be BIBLICAL! 🤪
@chronosschiron
@chronosschiron 4 жыл бұрын
@@Erin-Thor then have tobo re-erupt and thats about it for most of humanity
@thedude4672
@thedude4672 4 жыл бұрын
If Trump gets reelected, I welcome the supervolcano apocalypse. It will surely be better than four more years of that nimrod in the White House.
@Erin-Thor
@Erin-Thor 4 жыл бұрын
HiPlainsDrifter - Sadly you’re correct, no amount of crimes, ineptitude or lack of character is an issue for Republicans. Why is that? Republicans used to be the Christian party just four short years ago, now you have zero principals or integrity. When did you abandon your faith and start worshiping -satin- Satan?
@Interrobang212
@Interrobang212 4 жыл бұрын
@@Erin-Thor I too worship soft Satin fabrics.
@billbillinger2117
@billbillinger2117 3 жыл бұрын
Coronachan: Look upon my works and despair Yelowstone Caldera: I'm gunna do what's called a pro-gamer move.
@chrisrice3537
@chrisrice3537 3 жыл бұрын
Boardwipe🤣
@dieseljohnsnow5371
@dieseljohnsnow5371 3 жыл бұрын
F Disk - to Blackscreen in Warp Speed
@Dutchman-2002
@Dutchman-2002 3 жыл бұрын
Calderachan
@CecexVolume
@CecexVolume 3 жыл бұрын
I love hearing about the science of the Yellowstone super volcano, but-as you alluded to-most documentaries talk about the possibility of a super eruption like it’s going to happen and my anxiety can’t take it. Thank you for this wonderfully informative yet non-threatening explanation. It’s my new favorite video on this entire platform.
@andersjjensen
@andersjjensen 2 жыл бұрын
Even Tambora gave ample warning signs for a couple of years before it blew it's top off. I don't know what these crackpots are going on about. Volcanos are not made out of TNT that can just suddenly detonate for no particular reason. What ultimately makes them dangerous is the pressure build-up. Volcanic activity that follow earth quakes are much more tame. The earth cracks, and look, magma starts flowing up. And this is what is most likely to happen to Yellowstone. There are already many fault lines reaching almost all the way to the magma chamber, and since more than half of it is under the mountains now, any pressure build-up is likely to just cause an earth quake that opens a channel to the vicinity of the main chamber... going to suck hard for the plants and animals in the main basin, as that's the easiest way out...
@ntmetroid
@ntmetroid 3 жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in Michigan, roughly 1000 miles as the crow flies from Yellowstone, its insane to think of the distance the effects would travel. And the effects it would have on the Great Lakes would be catastrophic.
@johnslaughter5475
@johnslaughter5475 4 жыл бұрын
I lived in Spokane, WA when Mount St. Helens blew its top. this is about 250 miles as the ash flies. We got about 3" of ash. Clean up was a pain. Not because it was heavy, because it was so light. Try sweeping it and it billowed into the air. The fire department loaned out hoses that we could hook up to fire hydrants. The sludge this created was even harder to move even with a fire hose. We had to quit this when it was found how much the storm drains were clogging up. People who drove a lot were to find another problem. In just a month the fine ash would put the equivalent of 100,000 miles of wear on the engines. I never wore a mask although a lot of people did. I had a chest x-ray 3 years ago to check for mesothelioma. My lungs are completely clear. So, even if the ash was in my lungs then, it isn't now.
@johannageisel5390
@johannageisel5390 2 жыл бұрын
They should have kept all the ash to make Roman cement from. Free building material for ages!
@starscream548
@starscream548 4 жыл бұрын
"All old testament on America's ass" Simon Whistler 2020
@Korschtal
@Korschtal 4 жыл бұрын
There really should be a warning on these videos not to drink tea while watching them: I nearly sprayed the keyboard.
@jamesfry8983
@jamesfry8983 4 жыл бұрын
I want that as a poster or t-shirt
@debbiekerr3989
@debbiekerr3989 4 жыл бұрын
@@Korschtal Or any beverage actually.
@debbiekerr3989
@debbiekerr3989 4 жыл бұрын
@@jamesfry8983I'd like that as well.
@AtarahDerek
@AtarahDerek 4 жыл бұрын
He already is, I think.
@karensilver8853
@karensilver8853 2 жыл бұрын
I was in Northwestern Wyoming about 20 years ago. The geologic history that makes it dangerous makes it awesomely beautiful.
@seansopata5121
@seansopata5121 3 жыл бұрын
"Extremely unlikely..." 2020 has entered the chat
@angelachouinard4581
@angelachouinard4581 4 жыл бұрын
Whenever Simon covers these science geeky locations all I can think of is how much more I'd have enjoyed school if he was the teacher. For that matter, that applies to all his channels, regardless of topic.
@kimberblue13
@kimberblue13 4 жыл бұрын
I agree, Simon would make a fantastic teacher.
@harrisonrawlinson5650
@harrisonrawlinson5650 4 жыл бұрын
Angela Chouinard if Simon was all of my tutors at college, I would have gone to University for sure, but my actual tutors temporarily killed my enthusiasm for subjects I’d loved for years
@UnchainedAmerica
@UnchainedAmerica 4 жыл бұрын
he IS a teacher to all of us...for free!
@SharpWits2013
@SharpWits2013 4 жыл бұрын
I still remember Math Class where the teacher always said "You won't always have a calculator with you. You need to learn how to do math for yourself." Me: Hey Google, what's 2+2? Google: I wouldn't know as I'm too busy being in your pocket 24/7.
@warbunny13203
@warbunny13203 4 жыл бұрын
yes, schools now a days don't actually "educate" students like they use to.....fyi i graduated in 91 so i missed out on the "proficiency test" scam🤔🤔😞😞😞😞🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
@aceofarrows
@aceofarrows 4 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine this is what happened: Simon: "Writing team, everybody's concerned about the coronavirus. How do we distract them?" Writing Team: "Let's do a Geographics episode where we remind everyone there's a supervolcano beneath Yellowstone." Simon: "That's kinda cruel. ...But still brilliant all the same. Bring me the script when it's ready."
@Babarudra
@Babarudra 4 жыл бұрын
... it can always be worse.
@shanehaney6040
@shanehaney6040 4 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine how this video would go if Simon treated every channel like Business Blaze...
@resileaf9501
@resileaf9501 4 жыл бұрын
Let's distract ourselves from our impending doom by watching a video about our impending doom. Brilliant. :D
@lostbutfreesoul
@lostbutfreesoul 4 жыл бұрын
@@resileaf9501 , Hey... it works!
@flatplant
@flatplant 4 жыл бұрын
And if you live in the Western Cordillera of North America we also have the inevitable "big one" earthquake which is apparently way overdue to happen anytime now
@Nanno00
@Nanno00 2 жыл бұрын
This is probably my 5th video of yours and I have to say I absolutely love them! Thank you so much for making them!
@peterjamesfoote3964
@peterjamesfoote3964 2 жыл бұрын
I watched this about a year ago and again tonight because I was anxious and wanted to put my anxieties into perspective. It worked! Thanks Simon.
@ravenlord4
@ravenlord4 4 жыл бұрын
Pandemic: Stay at home. Super Volcano: Run like hell. Mother Nature: OK humans, you're so smart? Super Volcano during Pandemic. Checkmate.
@FuckGoogle2
@FuckGoogle2 4 жыл бұрын
On the bright side we've found a cure to the pandemic.
@motherreaper7287
@motherreaper7287 4 жыл бұрын
@Coal Dust XIII Pretty sure death cures stupidity if folks are drinking bleach.
@motherreaper7287
@motherreaper7287 4 жыл бұрын
There's a great song by Hypnogaja called Kill the Humans, I think it would fit this scenario.
@1979hellcat
@1979hellcat 4 жыл бұрын
raven lord 😂😂 can we add an asteroid to make extra damn sure?!
@JoseTorres-dl3kh
@JoseTorres-dl3kh 4 жыл бұрын
Go up
@clairematsunaga1648
@clairematsunaga1648 3 жыл бұрын
Yellowstone- extremely unlikely- sign of relief Cascadia- 1 in 3 chance- I may never sleep again
@prepperjonpnw6482
@prepperjonpnw6482 3 жыл бұрын
Lol I live within the reach of both disasters lol What’s next Biden gets reelected? lol
@nonnaurbisness3013
@nonnaurbisness3013 2 жыл бұрын
Just go to a different source and get different odds.
@radicaldradcliffe4201
@radicaldradcliffe4201 2 жыл бұрын
@@prepperjonpnw6482 and trump supporters accused democrats of having derangement syndrome 🤔
@gregoryhattenfels7864
@gregoryhattenfels7864 2 жыл бұрын
"The 300 geezers in Yellowstone" sounded like your describing a couple of bus loads of pensioners visiting the National park. Thanks for the constant content , keep it up big fella.
@ferociousgumby
@ferociousgumby 2 жыл бұрын
I thought I was the only one who noticed!
@myearthhaven
@myearthhaven 3 жыл бұрын
I take a strange comfort that I live in a kill zone. The severity of my asthma guarantees not making it through the ash cloud.
@nevadag606
@nevadag606 2 жыл бұрын
When the rumbles start just eat a last meal and take a nice nap ☺️
@phoenixsixxrising
@phoenixsixxrising 4 жыл бұрын
lol "the 300 geezers in Yellowstone..."
@SRW_
@SRW_ 4 жыл бұрын
Aaron Queen Ehhh where’s my health care you whippersnapper!!
@chronosschiron
@chronosschiron 4 жыл бұрын
@@SRW_ sorry we made cuts to your health care ....but we got a lovely park
@jeremyturner2873
@jeremyturner2873 4 жыл бұрын
@@SRW_ "You kept saying Socialism was evil, so we cancelled your Medicare and Social Security."
@matildagreene1744
@matildagreene1744 4 жыл бұрын
Lots of geezers in that area ...Careful, they have canes and walking sticks
@davidwevans4132
@davidwevans4132 3 жыл бұрын
@@jeremyturner2873 Yes, but Medicare & Social Security are not Socialism. They had money taken out of their paychecks specifically for these two programs, so they would have them when they retired. These two programs are not funded by Payroll Taxes that everybody pays into! If you are self-employed, you don't have to pay into them. Just payroll tax. But then, you cannot withdraw from them either!
@Pak671
@Pak671 4 жыл бұрын
I live in Taupo, that photo shown is the view from my kitchen window. The caldera was formed around 26,000 years ago during the 'Oruanui Eruption' and last massive eruption (the biggest one) was 1800 years ago known as the Taupo Eruption.
@godisincontrolamerica972
@godisincontrolamerica972 3 жыл бұрын
God bless you!
@bjhtubewwd
@bjhtubewwd 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this videos. Really top notch and thoroughly entertaining. And excellent writing. Keep it up. I look forward to each one.
@andersjjensen
@andersjjensen 2 жыл бұрын
I'm not certain the Yellowstone magma chamber has moved underneath a mountain range is particularly settling considering that the eruption of 1815 blew off more than two kilometres of mountain top... Them better be some sturdy mountains!
@mariakobets7557
@mariakobets7557 4 жыл бұрын
In geology class we calculated how screwed we would be if it exploded. Answer: Extremely.
@twotone3471
@twotone3471 4 жыл бұрын
Hope you get to visit Ashfall Fossil beds State park in Nebraska some day. Yellowstone was In Idaho when it destroyed the whole Ecosystem and preserved it in fine ash there. The park built a building over the dig site, preserving a whole herd of Camels, and other animals where they died.
@mariakobets7557
@mariakobets7557 4 жыл бұрын
@@twotone3471 Very cool. Adding to my bucket list.
@marceymanning9059
@marceymanning9059 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Added to my places to see.
@TheWolfsnack
@TheWolfsnack 4 жыл бұрын
Indeed....I just checked....I live within 750 kilometres of the place
@aj-ig6mg
@aj-ig6mg 4 жыл бұрын
@@twotone3471 Ashfall is only about 100 miles from where I live and have been there a few times. Awesome look into the past as well as scary to think about being covered in ash. We go up to royal a couple times every year to do some trout fishing in the creek nearby.
@Niponnai
@Niponnai 4 жыл бұрын
Could you do one on Taupo. I’m a New Zealander and we here always feel sad when we get left out of things
@aussieginger1960
@aussieginger1960 4 жыл бұрын
I'm Australian I can sympathise.
@SageWhite-Rose
@SageWhite-Rose 3 жыл бұрын
i agree. I live in Colorado, so the thought of Yellowstone is very scary. But, I would like to learn more about other supervolcanos in other places.
@BrandonCummingsIsAwesome
@BrandonCummingsIsAwesome 3 жыл бұрын
At least you’re left out of Covid?
@riserevelation8471
@riserevelation8471 3 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the one in Italy
@riinak7212
@riinak7212 3 жыл бұрын
​@@riserevelation8471 Yeah, you think Vesuvius is bad? Try the under the entire Bay of Naples called The Phlegraean Fields (Italian: Campi Flegrei). There's also Santorini (or Thera/Thira) in Greece.
@joanfregapane8683
@joanfregapane8683 Жыл бұрын
Terrific video, Simon. And the humor is much appreciated.
@stephenphillip5656
@stephenphillip5656 3 жыл бұрын
"Armageddon.... Outa here...! I've had the privilege of visiting Yellowstone twice and have marveled at the landscape created by the geological forces at work there. You can keep Las Vegas and all its man-made tat, I'm heading back to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Grand Canyon....
@zaxarispetixos8728
@zaxarispetixos8728 4 жыл бұрын
Yellowstone has a 0.000014% chance of erupting. 2020: Hold my corona...
@Senjinone
@Senjinone 4 жыл бұрын
You win.
@gustavodelacruz646
@gustavodelacruz646 4 жыл бұрын
We gunna die fam bet
@chrisparker2118
@chrisparker2118 4 жыл бұрын
Magnetic field reversal: I'm gonna destroys this mans whole career.
@AvoidTheCadaver
@AvoidTheCadaver 4 жыл бұрын
MA MA MA myyyy corona
@exospaceman8209
@exospaceman8209 4 жыл бұрын
So who is the worst meme? Hold my beer: hold my beer
@chrisvickers7928
@chrisvickers7928 3 жыл бұрын
I visited Yellowstone with my parents in the summer of 1959. I have vivid memories of the smells of the paint pots, the height of the geysers. The last campground we stayed in was called West Thumb. Two weeks after we left Yellowstone a large earthquake left a fault with over a metre of throw in West Thumb campground. I remember hearing the reports of that too.
@lifeguard8725
@lifeguard8725 3 жыл бұрын
Dude your sarcasm is legendary‼️🤣😂🤣
@gshockbabe6144
@gshockbabe6144 Жыл бұрын
On holiday in Yellowstone in 1977,my parents wanted to take a picture of my and my brother in front of Old Faithful.I suddenly got the feeling that it was a bad idea to be anywhere near Yellowstone.When St Helens erupted,my father said to me that my feeling was correct.
@richardbarry04553
@richardbarry04553 3 жыл бұрын
I find it absolutely amazing that after 4.6 BILLION years of existing this planet still contains such tremendous energy inside
@DeadlyDanDaMan
@DeadlyDanDaMan 3 жыл бұрын
If it didn't, we wouldn't be here.
@allanmeyer5870
@allanmeyer5870 3 жыл бұрын
@@bobdol8398 Actually the dominant source of internal heating of the Earth is the decay of the unstable atomic nuclei of radioactive isotopes.
@stevenschnepp576
@stevenschnepp576 3 жыл бұрын
@@bobdol8398 It's finite. Not by anything resembling the scale of multicellular life, of course, but finite nonetheless.
@smolfry3438
@smolfry3438 2 жыл бұрын
But the people that lives inside the planet, not so much
@MAGGOT_VOMIT
@MAGGOT_VOMIT Жыл бұрын
That's because it isn't. The mentally-devolved Evo-Bang-Bangs constantly utter "Millions or Billions of YAYERRRRRS AGOOOOO!!" which simply means, "We have no idea". 🤣
@amandamahony2561
@amandamahony2561 4 жыл бұрын
I so appreciate that, despite your accent and non-native status, you say Oregon more correctly than most Americans East of the Rockies. Bravo!!!
@ayakiria6597
@ayakiria6597 3 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, a fair amount of supervolcanoes are the relics of even larger volcanic events. Continental flood basalt eruptions.
@andymcneil7085
@andymcneil7085 2 жыл бұрын
Another excellent post. Nice one.
@brycechristensen2296
@brycechristensen2296 3 жыл бұрын
You mentioned how the hotspot moved across southern Idaho, but it would have been very helpful to see a graphical illustration of that. A map of the major eruption sites and corresponding timeline. I've seen things like that and they are fascinating. I grew up amid the ancient lava flows in east Idaho and I'm still learning about how it was all formed. There are multiple extinct calderas along the Snake River that trace back to the migrating hotspot (plate movement).
@Rick1984FL
@Rick1984FL 3 жыл бұрын
No mention of island park or Henrys lake calderas, or how there’re only a few areas in Yellowstone where the walls of the current caldera is clearly visible
@FlyingTigress
@FlyingTigress 3 жыл бұрын
Craters of the Moon.
@travisburton2948
@travisburton2948 2 жыл бұрын
Just look at the snake river gorge on a topo or satellite map, basically where an eraser wiped away a section of rockies.
@hgrihdrhbvgguggguhvv8016
@hgrihdrhbvgguggguhvv8016 Жыл бұрын
I live in Boise so I’ve been to all the eruption sites
@carltanner9065
@carltanner9065 Жыл бұрын
@@travisburton2948, exactly. The Snake River Volcanic Province. Basically, a scar in the landscape burnt into it like a blowtorch melting metal plate. There's been a series of supervolcanoes formed in the area over the last 45 million years. Each one of them appearing progressively further to the ENE of the previous one. Now, we're under Yellowstone and it's still moving in the general direction on the ENE. It may go quiet once it moves under the Rockies proper, but then again it may break through in the weak spots. Who's to say.
@spacecatboy2962
@spacecatboy2962 4 жыл бұрын
simon can say it wont erupt in our life, but i am still stocking up on toilet paper just in case
@patriotsrebelsrogues7332
@patriotsrebelsrogues7332 4 жыл бұрын
knock that shit of .........damn hoarders lol
@jeannettelatour9089
@jeannettelatour9089 3 жыл бұрын
Funny.
@politicallycorrectredskin796
@politicallycorrectredskin796 3 жыл бұрын
Personally I think the world's population should be divided up and given a hemisphere each: people who hoard toilet paper to the western hemisphere. People who hoard baked beans and ammo to the Eastern. Clearly we have nothing in common anyway.
@patriotsrebelsrogues7332
@patriotsrebelsrogues7332 3 жыл бұрын
@@politicallycorrectredskin796 it is kinda funny that they are asscenteric like that huh?
@praywatch
@praywatch 3 жыл бұрын
Toilet paper and face masks 😝
@Anidem9
@Anidem9 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine the little faces of all the children in the world who would see the sun for the first time having had grown up in a world of darkness.
@nonnaurbisness3013
@nonnaurbisness3013 2 жыл бұрын
Me and my co worker were talking about this yesterday. Imagine being 5 or 6 when it goes off and one of your earliest memories is seeing clear skys for the first time
@edylcnostrebor9722
@edylcnostrebor9722 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this information with us all together opening our eyes
@G274Me
@G274Me 4 жыл бұрын
If Yellowstone goes, its better to get as close as you can, because the farther away you are, the more suffering you will endure
@dannycowan4579
@dannycowan4579 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah true if you live within 500miles I'd just run towards it because there's no point in running away...
@WildfoxFabrication
@WildfoxFabrication 2 жыл бұрын
@@dannycowan4579 me who lives less than 100 miles 😶
@robertnewland8358
@robertnewland8358 Жыл бұрын
When Armageddon happens, I'm moving to Kentucky. They are 20 years behind the rest of the world.
@JABoyle3875
@JABoyle3875 4 ай бұрын
I’m 700 miles away…probably quickly dead anyways.
@G274Me
@G274Me 4 ай бұрын
@@JABoyle3875 I think the kill zone is 250 mile radius. At 700 miles, you’ll have feet of hot, fine ground glass ash falling everywhere. Roofs will collapse from the weight and people will slowly choke to death on the ash. Not pretty! Put yourself on the east coast, and you’ll have a nuclear winter. The sun will be obscured for months if not years. Society will complete collapse, with massive starvation, mayhem, rape, murder, and Cannibalism. Truly apocalyptic.
@astrobug9254
@astrobug9254 3 жыл бұрын
Geographics: "It'll most likely not erupt." 2020: *"You challenging me?"*
@tarahill2193
@tarahill2193 3 жыл бұрын
Unsicnkable. Titanknic to
@franl155
@franl155 3 жыл бұрын
The odds of Yellowstone erupting are exactly 100% - someday.
@UsernameU222
@UsernameU222 3 жыл бұрын
I was born right near this. Is it bad everyone's attitude about it was "well, if it does go, at least we won't suffer for long"?
@12000gp
@12000gp 3 жыл бұрын
No, that’s exactly the right attitude to have.
@alexpenny9416
@alexpenny9416 2 жыл бұрын
this 2022 trailer's really informative. good work guys.
@kurtpryor6334
@kurtpryor6334 4 жыл бұрын
Wait, there is a place in Idaho with candy-floss trees? As an Idahoan I NEED to know where this is.
@SRW_
@SRW_ 4 жыл бұрын
Kurt Pryor The Lorax has entered the chat I speak for the trees....
@Prosper_Dean
@Prosper_Dean 4 жыл бұрын
Same man
@lilydunnle8393
@lilydunnle8393 4 жыл бұрын
They're around Idaho Falls ;3
@alexs5744
@alexs5744 4 жыл бұрын
I live in Shelley which is outside of Idaho Falls.
@stvdagger8074
@stvdagger8074 4 жыл бұрын
Go to the Big Rock Candy Mountain and turn North, once you cross the river of chocolate you should see the candy-floss trees.
@rorrodeh
@rorrodeh 4 жыл бұрын
me: *sees pyroclastic flow barreling towards me* "Hello darkness my old friend..."
@kasnitch
@kasnitch 4 жыл бұрын
Avatar of fire is a mofo .
@fuhq5121
@fuhq5121 4 жыл бұрын
I'd have to start choking the ol chicken so everyone would know it was me.
@vexile12
@vexile12 4 жыл бұрын
Thats if you're lucky... the leidenfrost effect could really screw us over
@SupersuMC
@SupersuMC 4 жыл бұрын
"You don't run from a pyroclastic flow, you don't hide from a pyroclastic flow, you _die_ in a pyroclastic flow." - A volcanologist
@patriotsrebelsrogues7332
@patriotsrebelsrogues7332 4 жыл бұрын
lmfao thank you now i have no choice but listen to simon and garfunkle bastard lol
@lockedon8953
@lockedon8953 2 жыл бұрын
"Three-quarters of the USA would be plunged into a deranged, post apocalyptic fantasy".
@josephcrowe2908
@josephcrowe2908 3 жыл бұрын
Very well put. Subbed
@stvdagger8074
@stvdagger8074 4 жыл бұрын
"geologists, volcanologists and other people whose jobs ended in 'ologist' studied the Park" - Please confirm whether they included a proctologist.
@Cobreezyy06
@Cobreezyy06 4 жыл бұрын
That’s funny you said that cause immediately after I read that comment he said that phrase and it was followed by the diagram at 17:07 and from a certain point of view (or a perverted mind) can be viewed as magma up some chicks bum
@williamneal7210
@williamneal7210 3 жыл бұрын
Yup, Yellowstone needs an enema!
@johndemeritt3460
@johndemeritt3460 3 жыл бұрын
A proctologist is someone they'd send to study the blockage on the banks of the Potomac River at Washington, D.C. .
@alexandriamaguire8224
@alexandriamaguire8224 3 жыл бұрын
At least it's not a gynecologist.
@greenthumb9406
@greenthumb9406 3 жыл бұрын
So that’s what the geezers were doing there!
@jeannes4153
@jeannes4153 3 жыл бұрын
We have always been told volcanoes form over thousands and thousands of years BUT my mother had a huge book collection of bound magazine articles from the 1800's from her dad and there was a story of a Mexican farmer who was trying to till his field but the land started rising rapidly. Overnight it became a huge hill. Within a week it was a full blown volcano and erupted causing terrible damage. I think sometimes a natural disaster can crop up unexpectedly practically over night, and yes sometimes it is over the course of a long time.
@pendejorojo
@pendejorojo 3 жыл бұрын
Monte Nuovo in Italy went from a flat plain to a 400' tall mountain in 7 days.
@seiyuokamihimura5082
@seiyuokamihimura5082 3 жыл бұрын
Was it paricutin?
@jeannes4153
@jeannes4153 3 жыл бұрын
@@seiyuokamihimura5082 That seems to be almost the same scenario yet the book I read it out of was published in the mid to late 1800's and that volcano erupted after only one week and not several years. They surely had easy to obtain photographs in 1943 and in 1952 when paricutin erupted. The articles of the book of combined magazines had no photos only drawings, and lots of them. It was an extremely old old book belonging to my grandfather, and then my mother.
@archlich4489
@archlich4489 2 жыл бұрын
Catastrophism is out of fashion. Catastrophic things do happen though!
@thelonlypanda1
@thelonlypanda1 2 жыл бұрын
@@pendejorojo more like a volcanic hill. I don't think you can say something that's 400 feet tall a mountain
@makemosaics
@makemosaics Жыл бұрын
These videos are addictive! Thank you so much, I know there must be an awful lot of work in researching these subjects.
@nopartyleftthatsworthit4330
@nopartyleftthatsworthit4330 Жыл бұрын
I drive for roughly 10 hours every weekend. This channel and the War and Bio channels have provided me with so much entertainment and knowledge on the boring road......I don't watch...I just listen and drive and laugh and learn.
@Erik-rp1hi
@Erik-rp1hi 4 жыл бұрын
Something tells me the USA is the biggest market for Simon's channels.
@GaryR55
@GaryR55 3 жыл бұрын
It's because we have the biggest looming apocalyptic disasters, and more of them.
@bailyslife9923
@bailyslife9923 3 жыл бұрын
It may be that just have to comment on everything. We really do think we're pretty funny😅
@katherinek2709
@katherinek2709 3 жыл бұрын
We're less like to turn off when he pronounces things wrong, and instead run to the comment section.
@zaftred8777
@zaftred8777 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, were a pretty screwed up country which is a real tragedy considering our potential.
@2023-Sucked
@2023-Sucked 3 жыл бұрын
@@GaryR55 we’re like Australia but everything that wants to kill you doesn’t give you any warning
@pakeshde7518
@pakeshde7518 4 жыл бұрын
300 geezers blowing in the park.. Now thats a creepy headline :).
@indy_go_blue6048
@indy_go_blue6048 4 жыл бұрын
Nah. I'll bet that happens in Golden Gate Park all the time.
@wastypastyneon
@wastypastyneon Жыл бұрын
Fantastic work!
@deidreperryman172
@deidreperryman172 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. Thank you Learned a lot.
@academyofshem
@academyofshem 3 жыл бұрын
8:11 ...300 geezers? I've seen a lot more old geezers at Yellowstone than that. Lots of old grannys, too.
@Stopthisrightnow560
@Stopthisrightnow560 3 жыл бұрын
"... Because trying new things is scary." You... you just get me.
@cassandraralph5906
@cassandraralph5906 3 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video! Well done indeed!
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