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(Yahoo) Scary No need to panic quite yet, but a dormant Bolivian super volcano is now inflating at a rate not seen in the modern era   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 185
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Cythraul [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 12:49:50 PM
www.8asuperfriends.com
 
AdolfOliverPanties [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 01:10:09 PM
Does this pose a danger to Lake Titicaca?

t2.gstatic.com
 
The Onanist [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 01:18:16 PM
I'm just waiting on the one in Yellowstone to blow...
 
The-Brain
2011-10-25 01:25:48 PM
The Onanist: I'm just waiting on the one in Yellowstone to blow...

I saw that movie. It doesn't end well.
 
Charlie Freak [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 01:52:13 PM
Looks a lot like the area around the Long Valley Caldera (except a MUCH higher base elevation).
 
Sybarite [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 02:21:52 PM
Bolivian super volcano?

3.bp.blogspot.com
 
gopher321 [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 02:45:35 PM
Butch and Sundance would take care of it.
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:38:38 PM
Shiat.

Fark you, Bobby Jindal.
 
WellBelowAverage
2011-10-25 03:39:51 PM
Pfft! Bolivia?

If that even is a real place...nobody actually lives there.
 
Goodfella
2011-10-25 03:40:57 PM
img43.imageshack.us

Uturuncu's getting larger!
 
gizmanjr
2011-10-25 03:41:09 PM
Save the flake.
 
Achi11es
2011-10-25 03:41:20 PM
Forthwith, people! Those scoundrel Hedgely Twins are the WORST!
 
Sapper_Topo
2011-10-25 03:41:22 PM
Page Not Found? WTF really all I want to do is read some scarefest shiat and I cant even do that?! Off to google Bolivian Supervolcano...
 
nvmac [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:41:28 PM
WellBelowAverage: Pfft! Bolivia?

If that even is a real place...nobody actually lives there.

Just brown people anyway...
 
lacydog
2011-10-25 03:41:30 PM
Well, I guess the local residents are just going to fade into Bolivian.
 
dittybopper
2011-10-25 03:41:41 PM
3.bp.blogspot.com

This means something. This is important.
 
Oak
2011-10-25 03:43:17 PM
Pray for Mike Tyson.
 
Alonjar
2011-10-25 03:43:58 PM
1 or 2 cm a year? What the hell were they smoking? Sure thats fast, but its not unheard of. Actual active volcanos inflate much much more rapidly... stupid article is stupid.
 
Chinchillazilla [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:45:27 PM
lacydog: Well, I guess the local residents are just going to fade into Bolivian.

Nice.
 
kid_icarus [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:45:37 PM
You know what else is rapidly inflating every year? Your wife.
 
TheDirtyNacho
2011-10-25 03:46:17 PM
Alonjar: 1 or 2 cm a year? What the hell were they smoking? Sure thats fast, but its not unheard of. Actual active volcanos inflate much much more rapidly... stupid article is stupid.


Most volcanos are not 43 miles wide.
 
Achi11es
2011-10-25 03:46:21 PM
 
Wellon Dowd
2011-10-25 03:46:25 PM
The only Bolivian eruption came from Pete O'Grandy.
 
Haplo127x
2011-10-25 03:46:27 PM
lacydog: Well, I guess the local residents are just going to fade into Bolivian.

Good one!
 
Wellon Dowd
2011-10-25 03:47:00 PM
Wellon Dowd: The only Bolivian eruption came from Pete O'Grandy.

The only Bolivian eruption I've seen came from Pete O'Grandy.
 
pxsteel
2011-10-25 03:47:50 PM
From the article

De Silva said it appears that local volcanoes hoard magma for about 300,000 years before they blow

And then

Uturuncu last erupted about 300,000 years ago.
 
INeedAName
2011-10-25 03:47:56 PM
Alonjar: 1 or 2 cm a year? What the hell were they smoking? Sure thats fast, but its not unheard of. Actual active volcanos inflate much much more rapidly... stupid article is stupid.

27 cubic feet of magma per second.
 
Doubleodoug
2011-10-25 03:48:24 PM
hey, turns out mother earth is really a dude. Who knew.
 
dothemath
2011-10-25 03:48:45 PM
2.bp.blogspot.com
Volcano just got a look at Ms Bolivia 2011.
 
valar_morghulis
2011-10-25 03:49:02 PM
pxsteel: From the article

De Silva said it appears that local volcanoes hoard magma for about 300,000 years before they blow

And then

Uturuncu last erupted about 300,000 years ago.

DOOMED
 
OldRod
2011-10-25 03:49:14 PM
The Onanist: I'm just waiting on the one in Yellowstone to blow...

Won't matter. If the one in Bolivia is close to the same size (DNRTFA), you'll know it when it goes off... and you'll only live a few hours longer than if the one in Yellowstone went off.
 
Warthog [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:49:41 PM
INeedAName: Alonjar: 1 or 2 cm a year? What the hell were they smoking? Sure thats fast, but its not unheard of. Actual active volcanos inflate much much more rapidly... stupid article is stupid.

27 cubic feet of magma per second.

Is that more or less than 1.21 gigawatts?
 
Alonjar
2011-10-25 03:50:24 PM
TheDirtyNacho: Alonjar: 1 or 2 cm a year? What the hell were they smoking? Sure thats fast, but its not unheard of. Actual active volcanos inflate much much more rapidly... stupid article is stupid.


Most volcanos are not 43 miles wide.


Touché
 
Agent Smiths Laugh
2011-10-25 03:50:32 PM
This suckers gonna blow, and when it does it will spread a long dormant virus in its ash that will reanimate the recently dead starting the zombie apocalypse.

Remember, you heard it from me first.
 
Pair-o-Dice
2011-10-25 03:51:05 PM
From the comments:
Umm...I'm no geologist, but...I'm willing to bet money that the reason it's rapidly expanding is because it's going to blow its top soon

simple yet poetic
 
SandMann
2011-10-25 03:51:30 PM
Lines straight out of a disaster movie:

"Uturuncu is surrounded by one of the most dense concentrations of supervolcanoes on the planet."

"It's very circular. It's like a big bull's-eye"

"Everything is so well preserved. There's no biology to get in the way of your observations."
 
bmihura
2011-10-25 03:52:18 PM
kid_icarus: You know what else is rapidly inflating every year? Your wife.

Wife: I want something that goes from zero to 180 really fast.

Husband: how about some scales?
 
fawlty
2011-10-25 03:52:37 PM
INeedAName: 27 cubic feet of magma per second.

read this yesterday. that figure amazed me.
 
kid_icarus [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:52:47 PM
Agent Smiths Laugh: This suckers gonna blow, and when it does it will spread a long dormant virus in its ash that will reanimate the recently dead starting the zombie apocalypse.

Remember, you heard it from me first.

Steve Jobs 2.0
 
namegoeshere
2011-10-25 03:52:53 PM
We can't lose to Bolivia!! Go Yellowstone!

USA! USA! USA!
 
Splinshints
2011-10-25 03:53:07 PM
Alonjar: 1 or 2 cm a year? What the hell were they smoking? Sure thats fast, but its not unheard of. Actual active volcanos inflate much much more rapidly... stupid article is stupid.

And I should believe you over the interviewed geologists because....
 
Thats No Moose
2011-10-25 03:53:32 PM
Damn you, Ben Bernanke!
 
DistendedPendulusFrenulum
2011-10-25 03:53:44 PM
hey, free global cooling!

.
 
valar_morghulis
2011-10-25 03:54:11 PM
One should take into account that predictions in regards to geology are all about averages. Thousands of years may go by before an eruption, and in geological time that's only an eye blink.
 
busy chillin'
2011-10-25 03:54:30 PM
dothemath

she will make something explode

good ness
 
WellBelowAverage
2011-10-25 03:54:37 PM
nvmac: WellBelowAverage: Pfft! Bolivia?

If that even is a real place...nobody actually lives there.

Just brown people anyway...

Ahh the idiocy of "World Ends Tomorrow - Minorities Hardest Hit" rears ugly unwashed head.

Thanks for that Capt. Bringdown
 
Bio-nic [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:55:03 PM
dothemath: [2.bp.blogspot.com image 640x428]
Volcano just got a look at Ms Bolivia 2011.

do you have a newsletter... (or more importantly, does she?)
 
Warthog [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:55:51 PM
valar_morghulis: One should take into account that predictions in regards to geology are all about averages. Thousands of years may go by before an eruption, and in geological time that's only an eye blink.

My bet is this sucker errupts in December 2012. The Mayans lived right on top of this sucker, so obviously they were smarter than folks have recently given them credit for.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
2011-10-25 03:55:52 PM
Splinshints: Alonjar: 1 or 2 cm a year? What the hell were they smoking? Sure thats fast, but its not unheard of. Actual active volcanos inflate much much more rapidly... stupid article is stupid.

And I should believe you over the interviewed geologists because....

he works in the field of Volcanology, so he's getting a kick out of these replies?

/csb?
 
FeFiFoFark
2011-10-25 03:56:06 PM
I don't know where Imma gonna go...
 
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