Science

Scientists Investigate Inflating, Potentially ‘Super’, Volcano

You may have heard about the huge underground volcano that’s reportedly rising at a rapid rate, relatively speaking, in Yellowstone National Park. Well, there’s another nearly 20,000-foot-high volcano in Bolivia that’s also rising — and before now, scientists thought it was dead.

Uturuncu is surrounded by super volcanoes, which Our Amazing Planet reports, are not just a classification of size but of because of how much they spew:

[...] they typically spew out 1,000 times more material, in sheer volume, than a volcano like Mount St. Helens. Modern human civilization has never witnessed such an event. The planet’s most recent supervolcanic eruption happened about 74,000 years ago in Indonesia.

Scientists Research Next Move of Rapidly Inflating South American Volcano

Uturuncu located in Bolivia. (Photo: Noah Finnegan via Our Amazing Planet)

As of right now, Uturuncu is in the same classification as Mount St. Helens, but, according to Our Amazing Planet, with its rise of one to two centimeters each year for the past two decades, scientists are wondering if it could be the next supervolcano. Researchers are figuring out what exactly is happening now and what it means for the future:

“I call this ‘volcano forensics,‘ because we’re using so many different techniques to understand this phenomenon,” said Oregon State University professor Shan de Silva, a volcanologist on the research team. [...]

“It’s one of the fastest uplifting volcanic areas on Earth,” de Silva told OurAmazingPlanet.”What we’re trying to do is understand why there is this rapid inflation, and from there we‘ll try to understand what it’s going to lead to.”

Although the researchers do not think this, or Yellowstone for that matter, will erupt any time soon, Uturuncu’s magma chamber is growing 10 times faster than other volcano systems of similar size. What de Silva says is important to find out is how long the volcano has been building up its magma stores, as other volcanoes in the area seem to erupt every 300,000 years.

Since they only have 20 years of data for the volcano, scientists are looking at other factors, such as slant in lake bottoms surrounding the volcano and GPS data. The Geophysical Institute Quarterly publication reported that scientists are also “listening” to the volcanic activity through seismic technology and hope to learn more about how to predict super eruptions.

The publication reported researcher Mike West as saying, “They are kinds of eruptions that when they happen, ‘massive’ doesn’t really describe it.”

[H/T Fox News]

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:30pm

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    It’s going to take a lot of taxes and regulations to stop this!

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    • chazman
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:37pm

      … it is 10/21/2011 … isn’t the world suppose to end today?

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    • b0mbtrack1
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:38pm

      Lol

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:49pm

      Please, don’t give Al Gore any more ideas. He already doesn’t recognize volcanoes as the number one C02 producer.
      I wonder if they could just horizontally drill into the shaft and divert some of the magma to relieve the pressure?

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:57pm

      Yellowstone is 40+ thousand years off it’s normal eruption cycle. It could be an interesting year in 2012 when solar flares and magnetic disturbances from the sun hitting the earth reach its zenith.

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:01pm

      Great time for Al (green pockets) Gore to grab some of that organic (green) energy. And lower himself into the mouth of the volcano and hook up the global power grid to mother nature,,, Come on super Al you can do it ….

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  • greatdanes
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:30pm

    Hmm Seems Like The Lord Has told us all about these things to come. The signs of His 2nd Coming back here to Collect His Followers . Earthquakes,Droughts, flooding & signs from the Sky – Look Up & Be Ready. This is a Good Thing if Your prepare & Know The Lord. Read the Bible it’s all there.

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    • Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:52pm

      I love Great Danes, and all dogs for that matter, but you, my friend, better get a clue! The bible is a nice book to read and it has some great stories. Some stories are like parables, some are somewhat “historical” accounts based on generations of opinions and foggy recollections and some are outright fictional. If you want to get the real story about volcanoes, droughts, floods, and other natural environmental phenomena it is best to read peer-reviewed scientific journals on the particular subject-matter of interest.

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    • Bro Geo Too
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:57pm

      Stick to your guns, “Great D”, the naysayers will learn soon enough.

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    • capecodsully
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:10pm

      While the commie liobs pretend they are gods and can control the earth’s temperature, they fail to realise what is going on beneath their feet. The Lord has indeed spelled it out, but they are to foolish to even look.

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    • Theodwulf
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:10pm

      When did Jesus tell his disciples to form a large Government to FORCE others to follow his teachings? Didi Jesus tell people to seize the property of others and redistribute it to those THEY felt were worthy?
      Liberalism is about control , Controlling Society thru the full force of Government, THUS it cannot be either Fair or Just. Voltaire’s “Benign Tyrant”is a paradox, it has never nor could ever , exist.

      As for the Super Volcano…IF it goes , it would be a mercy killing before the world decends into another Dark Ages

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    • gwssacredcause
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:11pm

      It amazes me that people still put their beliefs in these so called scientific predictions when we cannot even rely on the prediction of weather events. Scientists can do more about the weather than they can about volcanos. Some will never learn it is in God‘s hands not mens’.

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    • Miami
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:12pm

      Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal

      Good Lord,

      You claim Jesus was a liberal and then you blast his faith?

      That seems like a double negative, canceling your self out, like every liberal you prove to be clueless…

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    • joe1234
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:21pm

      “Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal”

      no He wasn’t a hate-filled lying wacko fascist sorry.

      “generations of opinions and foggy recollections and some are outright fictional. ”

      yeah you wacko atheists have been trying for centuries to discredit the bible…..all to no avail…..the critics are dust, and the bible stands. loser.

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    • angelonquest2000
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:24pm

      in revelation the sun will dim: yellowstone gases? eruption forecast in the bible? we were given the word to show us…. Praise God! It is awesome how often archeologists have used the bible to dig and it has ALWAYS been accurate! HMMMMMMMMM!

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    • Ronko
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:28pm

      A foot higher every 12 years, nope not worried at all.

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    • TheSitRep
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:29pm

      These things happen regularly through out history.
      May be god was just practicing with the earlier ones.

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    • TheValley
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:38pm

      JCLiberal, are you just a garden variety moron or do you not read anything other than what is fed to you by those “peer reviewed” journals, which by and large are constantly WRONG!! Man made global warming comes to mind. The Bible stories are proved to be accurate more and more with each passing year as archeologist re-create and discover from those “stories” you speak of, stop being a friggin sheep and get a clue….DOPE.

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    • getalong
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:03pm

      To: Jesus was a proud liberal I bet you are one those people who have never really read The Bible. Godless, pathetic. Luckily there are alot more people who have read The Bible and believe it to be The Word of God. God bless you! Now get back out there with all the other “occupy wall street” idiots and poop on a few more cop cars!

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:08pm

      Why don’t they “pop” it before it gets to big. Like a zit? Relieve the pressure…

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:08pm

      In the latter days there will be many scoffers, i.e. educated jackasses, the Bible has some nice stories in it? It is the Word of the living God you should read with an open mind Jesus was a proud liberal! Read the amazing prophecies concerning Israel for starters maybe you will learn something! It‘s so easy to scoff at something you don’t understand ! You are obviously a product of professors like cornel west and franny dog piven!

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    • LeftOfRightOfLeft
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:24pm

      @THEODWULF
      “When did Jesus tell his disciples to form a large Government to FORCE others to follow his teachings? Didi Jesus tell people to seize the property of others and redistribute it to those THEY felt were worthy?”

      This whole thing sounds a bit like Manifest Destiny. You know where people who were religious thought that land was ordained to them by God enabling them to murder and sacrifice for God thos who didn’t believe in the God they did. So if you think about it this way, land has value then the rich were the Native Americans and Mexico and the founders of America were taking from the rich(the Native Americans) and distributing to the poor(them selves) America was founded on socialist ideas. Damn leftist starting America! Grrr I get so pissed off when one belief I have disagrees with another belief I have.

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    • Mike N
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:24pm

      @ RONKO . . . Not worried at all? The Earth’s crust averages 25 miles in thickness in mountainous regions. Even if the magma chamber is within 10 miles of the surface, do you have any idea how much pressure is required to lift 10 miles of thickness of the Earth’s crust 12 inches? The kind of eruption we‘re talking about here is not the kind of baby volcano burp you’ve seen on television news coverage . . .

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    • US_SOLDIER
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:33pm

      Im going to write a book and start making stories up that fit with the current trends, discoveries, locations of nations and other relevent things happening around us today in the world. I will include things like moral stories when something bad happens and say it was because they refused to worship whatever. Then in 2000 years people will look back at my book when looking for ancient things and say it was accurate in locating such things! See my point here people? The bible includes the “meida” of its day. They took historical events, and stories passed down to them and twisted them into moral and other stories. So its a history book in essence, its what? 2000 years old, of course you can use it to find ancient things. But to totally discredit Science which is only about 300 years old is retarded. Im an athiest but I think when looking for things of this nature you have to use both religious texts and science to find a conclusion. To discredit one or the other just on principle will only lead to a half truth in history.

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    • Tronix
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:58pm

      @Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal
      This was my comment previously to another story and I think is very helpful here:
      You have a possibility of 50% that the heaven and Jesus are both real. When you are making a bet on a negative outcome (Heaven is not real), 50% is not high enough. You don´t feel so confident with your bet. When you are making a bet on a positive outcome (Heaven is real), 50% is not so high, but it helps enough. After death, if there is nothing there, we didn´t lose anything (I mean those who believe in Jesus). We never had it, so we didn´t lose anything. We just die. But if there is a heaven and Jesus is waiting for us after death, you are losing an eternity of life and joy (I mean those who don´t believe in Jesus).

      With those numbers and possible outcomes, which do you think would be the smartest bet? (Please note that we are using your brain, not your heart or your soul. I didn’t use “Faith”).

      Plus: When you have a Jesus in your life, you live in a different way, and it is just better.

      Challenge: Can you find anything said by Jesus that is clearly against love or justice in any way? Can you? Can you find him demanding us to do harm to others? Can you find even just one hateful word?

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:03pm

      Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal
      No he wasn’t
      Aside from that . Enlighten us, what do they have to say about it? We would like to know, impart your Knowledge on us, just what is going on with this volcano?

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:22pm

      Yes but you have to look at it as if what really is the likeliness a super-volcano will destroy all human life? Slim chance, and I mean really slim. Furthermore, what are the odds that science is merely in a wrestling match against Jesus, and so they want to distract your mind with potential doom? And that’s why Jesus told you not to worry about all the reports in diverse places?

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

      This is how I look at it. Science has been around for thousands of years, and they have also been called sorcerers in the past. Well, wouldn‘t it make a sorcerer mad if they realize people don’t need sorcery, because people can become like a Jedi without it?

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    • ValiantDefender
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:31pm

      @ US soldier

      I’m a religious person and I agree about the science vs religion debate.
      Religion is meant to address moral issues.
      Science is meant to address observed behavior.

      The trouble comes when people try to interpret one as the other.

      example 1 religion jumping to erroneous conclusion
      Bible takes a few paragraphs to describe the creation (but not how it happened).
      Religious people then interpret scientific data -presumably with some human error in it- that contradicts what they imagine the creation looked like. They then feel morally obligated – not by doctrine – to reject that science. This would be in error to dismiss without further evidence…which the bible does not provide.

      example 2 – atheist
      Hypothetically, if someone traveled back in time to 0 BC with a high powered telescope and observed the star in the east and discovered a large comet or short lived super-nova, etc, then some scientific people would see it as proof that it was NOT divine in nature. Just a “natural” event that local superstition made into something else. The data collected does not prove that theory. Sure, the conclusion of divine nature is not part of a scientific construct – something that cannot be observed/measured cannot be science, but that does not pre-determine that an observed phenomena is or is not divine. It is an imposition of moral belief by the atheist that it must not be. And it is an imposition of moral belief by the believer that it must be.

      God Ble

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:26pm

      @ TheValley
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:38pm

      JCLiberal, are you just a garden variety moron or do you not read anything other than what is fed to you by those “peer reviewed” journals, which by and large are constantly WRONG!! Man made global warming comes to mind. The Bible stories are proved to be accurate more and more with each passing year as archeologist re-create and discover from those “stories” you speak of, stop being a friggin sheep and get a clue….DOPE.
      ————————————————————————————————————————————-
      Yep, he’s a garden variety idiot.

      We were working on a project for Northrup that had been dismissed by General Atomics because the formula’s never added up to the desired finished product. The Government agency, we’ll call them fido, said that it’s a strict window that must be done according to the data provided by some lame brained government agency mathematician. We looked it over for about a month and told them to scrap the machine idea off of the modeling parameters given because the predetermined information was wrong. We went on to collaborate with an independent agency and built a working model of what the government wanted, just to see if with correct data it could be made to work.

      It‘s why I’m not real worried about government infotecsecurity. They are a house of morons who know less about proper data and applications than my dog.

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    • lylejk
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:36pm

      According to that crazy guy it was suppose to be today; we do have a little more the 5 hours left (at least where I live) to find out. :)

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    • blamb61
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:51pm

      And some are prophesy by an omniscient God who can see the future and has told us what is going to happen.

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    • hi-polymer
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:09pm

      Amen brother. And as for JCWPL, I doubt you’ve ever so much as opened a Bible., so stop trolling.

      hi-polymer  
    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:18pm

      @ Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:52pm

      I love Great Danes, and all dogs for that matter, but you, my friend, better get a clue! The bible is a nice book to read and it has some great stories. Some stories are like parables, some are somewhat “historical” accounts based on generations of opinions and foggy recollections and some are outright fictional. If you want to get the real story about volcanoes, droughts, floods, and other natural environmental phenomena it is best to read peer-reviewed scientific journals on the particular subject-matter of interest.
      ——————————————————————————————————————————————–
      Hey, where’s dumb? Don’t you are your counterpart always travel together? Dumb is missing here dumber (than a bag of hammers).

      If I were you I would avoid thoughts concerning Biblical truth, Biblical prophesy, Biblical morality, Biblical law. Just leave the Bible alone. You’re an idiot.

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    • wtune
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:18pm

      @ JESUS CHRIST WAS A PROUD LIBERAL
      The Bible that you so demean has been proven correct by archeologists on a number of occasions. That is more than I can say for the global warming “scientists” that have cooked the books in their desire for further funding by those wishing to promote the Big Government/anti-freedom agenda. And their analyses were “peer reviewed’ only by those who agreed with the agenda. Those who questioned them were ignored or marginalized.

      I must now close with one fact that is beyond dispute:
      JESUS LOVES YOU, THIS I KNOW, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:09pm

      Stop! Your killing me with your wit and wonderment. Leave Jesus out of this! Its God you had better worry about because you take both his and his sons name in vain with yout title and your view of the Bible.

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    • 1ClassicLiberal
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:00pm

      Right on Greatdanes! With the prophecy of Revelation unfolding on the evening news, the bickering between science and religion seems pretty pointless. I have not reviewed the data on this ‘new’ super volcano but I do know the Yellowstone caldera has been rising at an historic rate. Yellowstone erupts every ±600,000 years and it last erupted about 640,000 years ago. Rather than worry whether God or science predicated the end, I suggest you all get your house in order as the end is nigh.

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    • aint it grand
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:56pm

      Look up May 8, 1902, St. Pierre. It is about to happen on a global scale.

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    • Supercalafragalisticexpialidotious
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:49am

      It’s not the apocalypse. Why are people so fascinated with that? It has so very little to do with the core teachings of Christianity.

      But I’m telling you, let’s start a betting pool. I bet that the apocalypse will not happen in my life time- and I’m in my twenties. Yay.

      We might get a cloud which covers the entire planet for about maybe half a year, as happened back….I forget, maybe a few centuries ago now? lol….I’m hazy on the facts of that eruption. But in any case…it wasn’t the apocalypse then, and it ain’t the apocalypse now. Yeesh.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 1:48am

      Even mother earth gets a big zit every now and then !!! Pop it

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    • shogun459
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 2:01am

      So for all sitting on fences.

      Read the text in question yourself, don‘t trust ANYONE ELSE to tell you what’s in it.

      IF the bible is true then someone doesn’t Want you to read it.

      IF the bible is Not true one way to find out is to see what it is predicting for the future stick to the predictions that are Not written as Metaphores. Put them on a list, either they will start happening in the next 20 years or they will not.

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    • heavyduty
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:29am

      Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal: You are the one that needs to get a clue my friend. Jesus told us to take care of the needy. He didn’t say that the governments should take care of them. Besides why in the heck would you believe one book over another. Those scientists don’t have a clue as to what is going on on this or any other world. Like they keep telling us that these worlds have been around for billions of years, and they only have 20 years worth of data to study. That’s like a four-year-old telling a professor of History what is going on.
      As far as the Bible is concerned. I would rather put my belief’s into a book that has been around longer than these idiots telling what has happened in their lifetimes. But if you want to ignore it at your own peril then feel free to do so. One thing about it is when you are standing in front of God and all His Glory. You can’t say you were ignorant of the truth. Great Dane is entitled to his belief’s the same as you are, and you are the one who will be wishing you had listened when you had the chance.

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    • DanWesson455
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:45am

      I was really hoping for a Comet, ya know watch it as it closed. In the end it doesn’t matter. Supervolcano? OK Lord. That will be cool to. Bring it on and take this evil and vile world out. Most have forsaken you. Most are in Satan’s grasp. Your grand experiment called Man has failed. Bring your wrath and vengeance down upon this green and blue globe. We that believe in you are not afraid for we believe in your sons sacrifice for us. We believe in your grace. We believe in you holiness. So come and take us out…..Now Please…..

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    • HMwHC
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:03am

      @JC was a proud liberal
      “The bible is a nice book to read and it has some great stories. Some stories are like parables, some are somewhat “historical” accounts based on generations of opinions and foggy recollections and some are outright fictional. If you want to get the real story about volcanoes, droughts, floods, and other natural environmental phenomena it is best to read peer-reviewed scientific journals on the particular subject-matter of interest.”

      Well, while your burning in hell, you can ask Lucifer if the bible is just “a nice book to read” with “some stories” in it. I‘m sure he’ll be more than happy to explain things to you. You’ll definitely have the time to listen.

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    • poorrichard09
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:16am

      Right on brother! Not to be nit picky but it’s important: when Jesus comes to get the believers we rise to meet Him in the air. When He actually returns to earth (2nd coming) it will be after the rule of The Antichrist and the horrors of the Great Tribulation-I don’t plan on being here that! You scoffers out there-read Revelation-and be afraid, be very afraid.

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    • Unix
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 10:48am

      Hey Jesuswasaliberal – let me bow down to your superior intellect and reason, first let me get my prayer mat set down, and then I can take my shoes off, so you can lick my stinky feet. You’re so smart and witty, tell me, does Jesus Christ ONLY appear in the Bible? Tell me smart one? I’ve got some information for you – you lose!

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    • Unix
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 10:52am

      US_Soldier – you do that my friend! Your life is a fiction, compared to the Son of Man, the Prince of Peace, our Lord and Saviour! Go ahead and mock him, it will not go well for you when you expire. I pray for your lost soul, an athiest is just another word for Loser! But I digress, how’s that hope and change thingy working our for ya?

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    • snrar
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:06am

      You have it right and I believe in everything you said , Pray for those who do not head his Warning for there are winds of war , Weather change , Earthquakes ,

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:07am

      @ JCWAPL, Get that cat outta your lap and go fix your husband some breakfast. signed, Barry O.

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    • NN047799
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:22pm

      If you know Him you know it to be true. If you don‘t know Him you haven’t a clue.

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    • sic-semper-tyrannus
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 3:30pm

      For being “a nice book” how do liberals explain away the predictions of their coming into being. The culture of death that rises from their beliefs? The way they will adjulate on cue for nobodies?

      There are few things I will lable coincidence. A book that predicts the advent of liberals and their desire to be kept as slaves and serfs is to big to ignore.

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    • ScarletRose
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:59pm

      Then they get really massive in the first 2 1/2 years of the Seven Years of Tribulation – I think this is in like the 6-9th chapters of Revelation…

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    • Harvey
      Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:11pm

      Ahmen,you are right.Its all in the Bible for anyone that wants to know the truth.
      If you want to know the truth about global warming,its there
      God forgot nothing.

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    • ThomasNast
      Posted on October 24, 2011 at 9:58am

      @LeftofRighttoLeft

      Re: “This whole thing sounds a bit like Manifest Destiny. You know where people who were religious thought that land was ordained to them by God enabling them to murder and sacrifice for God thos who didn’t believe in the God they did.”

      Manifest Destiny was a phrase and policy of the DEMOCRAT party. The Republican Party OPPOSED it. Horace Greeley – the one who came up with the phrase and first published it in a Democrat political policy journal was a celebrated party machine DEMOCRAT – and “manifest destiny” was his ugly little child.

      This explains the “contradiction” you “discovered” on the right. It‘s that it wasn’t there – and that the LEFT has been completely consistent throughout.

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    • jgsr
      Posted on October 24, 2011 at 3:44pm

      Or, you can use your brain and realize that there has always been volcanoes, floods, natural disasters.
      Becuase there is NOW 24/7 news networks, we HEAR about more news faster and more thoroughly than ever before.
      Krakatoa ….the largest volcanic eruption in tens of thousands of years happened in Indonesia in the late 1880s but wasn’t known about world-wide for over a year.

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  • John the Doe
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:30pm

    Oh well.

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  • sdarbro
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:28pm

    Oh, thank goodness! Now, all of the amateur ELENIN video makers can have something else to persuade them not to move out of their parents home!

    Also, Harold Camping is trying to provoke an eruption before his credibility clock runs out! Just a little over 8 hours, Harry!

    BAM! This post is
    -humorous
    -insightful
    -topical
    -edgy
    -grammatically solid
    -sexy

    “SDARBRO; Always Brilliant, Always Humble (well more humble than YOU)”
    (that is my slogan that I just came up with. Run with it.)

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:36pm

      I approve of your post. :)

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    • Rogue
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:43pm

      Unfortunately Sdarbro, science hasn’t advanced far enough quite yet to clone yourself. Clearly, the two of you would be incredibly happy together. lol

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    • Micmac
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:42pm

      You know someone is in trouble when they start believing their own PR.

      NoBama 2012

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:15pm

      I wasn’t aware that Camping ever had any credibility to worry about losing. HUH learn something new everyday!

      Good post!

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  • ddux3
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:26pm

    Very disappointed and angry our political reps in congress cannot see what Glenn and many thousand
    of Americans fear. A complete takeover by extremists ,and the Whitehouse.
    Why are they blind to the facts? Over 200 years of freedom gone in 3 years of this administration. Glenn was right this a.m., we are at the end of the bridge, the gorge is next!
    HELP!

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:25pm

    Gosh, if it blows, you can expect lava to come out that is *millions and millions of degrees*!

    I can‘t tell you how thankful I am that there’s a thin layer of rock and dirt covering a sub-surface that is several orders of magnitude hotter than the sun!

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  • mamabearCali
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:25pm

    So let me get this straight–there is a massive volcano that might in the next few thousand years blow up and cause mass destruction. Is there anything I can do about it? No? Next story.

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  • TeaPartyDragon
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:24pm

    Volcano’s and the entire surface of our planet dry and under water ( fresh and salt) had decay that releases gases and have since the beginning of time.

    This is what I think of when ever some idiot says we are hurting the planet.

    People don’t think for themselves any more

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:23pm

    Major super volcano blows it’s top, film at……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    One cockroach to another ” darn, who’s going to feed us now?”

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    • Bro Geo Too
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:55pm

      Funny post!

      Although it does figure that the cockroaches will live–those democrats are a hardy bunch.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:18pm

    the OWS mob should go and Occupy that volcano. they can keep it from spewing all of that green house gas. i mean they want to save the planet.

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    • TxSon
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:07pm

      That’s a great idea! Perhaps the combined weight of all the OWS people will slow down the growth of the magma chamber? They may have to OBC (Occupy Bolivian Caldara) indefinitely to save the planet from the super erruption!

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  • olsparkee
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:18pm

    So let me make sure that I understand this. We just started looking at it 20 years ago but we are pretty sure that the growth of the volcano is literally larger than modern humans have ever seen?

    Orificially, (issued from an orifice not normally used for communication) declared a “supervolcano” because our funding is due for renewal soon? Gotcha. The only spew I’m worried about is from faith-based climate change mouthpieces like these ass-hats.

    Blaze, please! No more of this claptrap.

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:16pm

    Dont care one bit….let the earth destroy itself….besides I hear earth 2.0 will have voice commands….Steve Jobs told me.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 11:22pm

      But he knew, he knew more than me or you
      No one could see his view, Oh where was he going to
      And he tried, but before he could tell us he died
      When he left us the people cried,
      Oh where was he going to?

      He had a different idea
      A glimpse of the master plan
      He could see into the future
      A true visionary man
      But there’s something he never told us
      It died when he went away
      If only he could have been with us
      No telling what he might say

      But he knew, he knew more than me or you
      No one could see his view
      Oh, where was he going to
      But he knew, you could tell by the picture he drew
      It was totally something new,
      Oh where was he going to?

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:16pm

    Can you say “mass extinction”? We are over due. But don’t worry, keep shopping.

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    • JohnnyMidknight
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:29pm

      Paper or Plastic? lol

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    • NotaLemming
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:30pm

      Hmm… Mass Extinction…. I wonder if we can get the Occupy Wall Street Crowd to start a new movement? #OccupyExtinction Begone with you!

      Calgon take them away!

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  • swalt
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:15pm

    I watched a show on the Discovery channel last night (it was DVR’d) about How The World Will End and it showed 5 different scenarios. One of them was Yellowstone erupting. If what they showed was true, it would effect the entire globe and within a short time over 100 million people would die. The dust cloud would cover the globe and blot out the sun, making it impossible to grow anything. A very sobering thing to consider.

    http://www.securefutureinbadtimes.com

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:27pm

      mmmmmmmmmmmm i hard people taste just like chicken.

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    • tvr54
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:58pm

      No Snake

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on October 23, 2011 at 11:56pm

      IF (and I’m going with the accuracy of carbon dating) the earth is 4-point something BILLION years old, and the Human (**** sapiens) are roguhly 10,000 inhabitants of the planet — doesn‘t take MUCH to figger out we’re (as a species) DOOMED ;-) — much like the Dinosaurs. Seems water-based ‘life’ re-evolves… just sayin.

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:13pm

    It’s global warming…wait, it’s underground….ok, uh fracking, no…no, uh nuclear..no wait..its..uh…uh…oil drilling..too much oil drilling!!! That’s it. STOP BIG OIL.

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    • GdHUs
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:23pm

      How could you forget Wall Street? You could bet they have something to do with it. Maybe we could get the protesters to occupy Bolivia.

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  • 9111315
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:13pm

    If it blows, will the environmentalists get off our back?

    What if we can stop it, would that be interfering with the natural order of things?

    Do environmentalists have a prime directive? – Screw with America anyway you can!

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    • THX-1138
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:20pm

      If one of these blows there won’t *be* any environmentalists….

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:08pm

    I especially like how the researchers say that they don’t believe it will erupt anytime soon. Are these the same researchers that though it was a dead volcano?

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    • Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:42pm

      @ Kickingback – Your stupidity is astounding. If you don’t know anything about a particular subject maybe its best if you just listen instead of interjecting ridiculous commentary!

      Scientists never said that the Bolivian volcano Uturuncu or Yellowstone was “dead” as you implied. The article above mentioned that scientists thought it was dead, but that point was written by the articles author – Liz Klimas, and I have no idea which scientists she was referring to about saying it is ‘dead’. I believe that Liz Klimas either misunderstood something or someone or else fabricated that statement to make it sound like ‘bigger news’ then it actually is. I have been a geologist for decades and don’t know of any geologists who have thought that either one of these two mentioned volcanoes were dead. Dormant, yes. Dead, no.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:00pm

      @Liberal

      For an educated person, you don’t seem to posess a lot of self control. It is possible to express a well thought out and intelligent thought, as you did, without calling people names and being snide. All you’ve done is guarantee that nobody will take your posts content seriously or even read beyond where you called the OP stupid. In other words, you defeated your own intentions with making that post.

      Jesus was apolitical by the way.

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    • Alfred F. Jones
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:16pm

      There is no such thing as a dead volcano, just dormant ones. They claim Mt. Hood is a ‘dead’ volcano yet it rumbles from time to time. When Mt. St Helens rumbled and had a small eruption a few years ago, so did Mt. Hood, when Mt St Helens erupted in the 80s, Mt. Hood REALLY rumbled. Lesson learn, if its a volcano sitting on any lava chamber, it can erupt.

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    • drphil69
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:20pm

      Typical rude lib… I would expect nothing else. It always seems the libs LOVE to tell others how they should act, what they should do, etc, but somehow nobody needs to tell them… I guess they are all just perfect!

      Well, when the libs run out of other people’s money to spend, which should be shortly, I expect most of them to either starve to death or be murdered, since most of them live in the cities and that’s where the riots will be. Can‘t say I’ll shed a tear.

      For the rest of us “regular” folk, BE PREPARED.

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    • 2aspire
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:04pm

      I don’t even need to read his comment to know his slant on issues.. His name says it all..One glance and I see a clear advocate for tax payer funding of “scientific study” e.g. CO2 as a pollutant among other tax payer theft in the name of “science”. What he writes after I see his name may as well be what the teachers sound like on Charlie Brown. wha wa… wha wa wa wa…

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:14pm

      It shows that you’ve been a jerk for all those years that you claim to be anything else

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:37pm

      @Jesus

      So you’re a geologist eh? Then you must be one of the ‘researchers’ I was referring to! I’ll have to call you out on being one for decades though. Wikipedia has only been around for a few years. But it’s ok.

      Btw: Nice screen name. We all know that Jesus is a popular name in Mexico, and Mexicans tend to lean liberal. So try not to overstate the obvious. Cheers!

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    • qzak491
      Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:46am

      Jesus Christ was a Proud Liberal
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:42pm
      @ Kickingback – Your stupidity is astounding. If you don’t know anything about a particular subject maybe its best if you just listen instead of interjecting ridiculous commentary!

      JCL Why don’t you follow your own advice. Since you don’t seen to know anything about the Bible maybe “its best if you just listen instead of interjecting ridiculous commentary!”

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  • arvadadan
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:07pm

    Maybe those Mayans were onto something…

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:27pm

      Or not.

      The Mayan calendar works on cycles. The ending of a major cycle doesn’t mean the calendar ends or predicts the end of the world, that’s not how cycle calendars work, it means that a new cycle on the calendar is starting. Thus, Day – 1 for “doomsday” will look exactly like Day +1 after “doomsday”. It’s silly how little people know about something they invest so much fear in, really.

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    • US_SOLDIER
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:42pm

      Absolutely righ Ghost, Not once did the Mayans, or Nostradaumus say “the end of the world” The Mayans merely have a calendar that runs out on December 2012. My guess, they had to stop somewhere. And Nostradaumus merely talks of catastrophic events and follow them up with a great suffering. Not the end of the world. If someone is twisting it into that chances are they are going to ask you for money lol

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    • arvadadan
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:42pm

      Just a little humor…

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    • selenesteets
      Posted on October 23, 2011 at 3:20pm

      on the Mayan calendar: yes, December 2012 is the end of a ‘day’, not the end of the world. But there is more to it than that. The calendar is based on cosmic fluctuations, the 25k year day being the greatest of those fluctuations. This predicts major shifts in gravitational forces, which would induce things like worldwide volcanic activity. Spiritually, they saw this as a time of human change, a time that humans would either evolve to a higher level of understanding, or fail to do so and be destroyed. I don’t know enough about the cosmology they based their predictions on to judge it likely one way or the other, but I will point out the consistency of this worldview with Christian Revelation.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:06pm

    if and when yellowstone erupts, that will be the end of the world as we know it. and now they tell us theres another super volcano. if it blows before 2012 election we wont worry about who gets elected.

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    • angelonquest2000
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:17pm

      There are actually 7 now 8 supervolcanoes in the world. the us. has 3 of them. yellowstone, long valley ca. and there is one on new mexico. they are all still active with geothermalactivity. Gore will have a field day! lol

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  • arvadadan
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:03pm

    Maybe those Mayans were onto something….

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  • Bluefish49
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:03pm

    Great, just great…what’s next? Locust

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:32pm

      Actually I saw lots of grasshoppers that were more in the line of locusts than regular grasshoppers in the garden this year.All jokes aside.In my area most grasshoppers are medium in size and green gray.These were large and yellow.Not in super large quantities thank god.

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    • selenesteets
      Posted on October 23, 2011 at 3:23pm

      have you seen the black crickets in Southern Utah? They are 3 inches long and everywhere in the summer…..blech. Locusts? check!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:01pm

    This Planet, alike others, are just Time Bombs… and if you think that you Save it or Fix it, you are an Idiot!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:05pm

      Maybe Al Gore was right…”It’s millions of degrees right below our feet” ROFL….Tep, if man thinks he can destrot the earth or fix it, he is little more than a fool……

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:01pm

    Interesting, just do not be anywhere nearby if that thing explodes into a super-volcanic eruption; say nowhere within a few hundred miles as the crow flies.

    And of course now the administration will tell the EPA there is a “volcanic emergency due to the out of control CO2 in the air…”

    Gore will blame Global Warming and whine about no one taking his nonsense seriously.

    Pelosi will blame the Tea Party…

    Biden, will still play in the duckpond.

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  • Vechorik
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:00pm

    What’s that old saying — The thing you go through life worrying about, usually isn’t the thing that ends up “getting you.” LOL

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    • Salamander
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:05pm

      That’s right, you don’t hear the bullet with YOUR name on it! Hmmm, I wonder if you can hear your head exploding?

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:58pm

    ” ‘massive’ doesn’t really describe it.”

    OK… Give us an adjective!

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