Surviving A Yellowstone Eruption

[Lindley]

Or at least a tubular "forcefield" extending into outer space like a giant smokestack.

That was totally the plot of an SCE story set on Venus.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Giant magnets. That's the only way.

I'm sick of you saying giant magnets all the time. Don't you have anything to say that's ever on topic?

I think we should enclose the dome, fill it with llamas

Why do llamas get mentioned in all my threads?

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Silvercrest, how about a compromise design? Giant magnetic llamas!

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Taccy, it's obvious, the giant magnets (or giant magnetic llamas) will produce a varying magnetic flux that will interact with the nonferrous magma and polarize it.

Obviously, the magnets (or magnetic llamas) will have to be placed in such a way that the magma is polarized perpendicular to the weakness and vents, thereby forming a magmamagnetic barrier.

Now apologize for calling magnets off topic.

 

[Silvercrest]

Silvercrest, how about a compromise design? Giant magnetic llamas!

I'm down with that. Not sure how we give the llamas the magnetism we need, though. Increased pheromones, maybe?

 

[USS Avenger]

Much like your equally absurd pyramid to "orbit" idea, a "dome" to contain a volcanic eruption is far beyond our engineering skills. Not to mention the thing would have to be enormous to cover the entire "super volcano" of the Yellowstone area.

How about we build a giant pyramid to orbit over the supervolcano thus killing two birds with one stone!

 

[Jadzia]

Taccy, it's obvious, the giant magnets (or giant magnetic llamas) will produce a varying magnetic flux that will interact with the nonferrous magma and polarize it.

Obviously, the magnets (or magnetic llamas) will have to be placed in such a way that the magma is polarized perpendicular to the weakness and vents, thereby forming a magmamagnetic barrier.

Now apologize for calling magnets off topic.

AG. You're trolling. Quit it.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

...and other get a pass when equally harebrained schemes are promoted?? Very well, Jadz. I see how it is here.

 

[Silvercrest]

Come on, man. We made our point.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

You know, if you fed the llamas a diet with high concentrations of ferrous iron, then rubbed a magnet back & forth on it (like magnetizing a screwdriver) you could get them to be magnetic.

 

[bryce]

Move to Mars.


It's the only way to survive this.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Could someone please workout what effect such a dome would have on the weather of the region surrounding it?

Will the bison need thicker coats?

 

[DonIago]

Now I really want to see 2012 again.

Sigh.

 

[Skywalker]

How will people feel about an enormous dome flying through the air in a random direction?

Depends. Could we position the dome in such a manner that it would end up flying towards New Jersey?

 

[DonIago]

More fun if it shatters and you get large pieces of dome material flying in random directions.

Though if it didn't shatter and landed just right you'd have one hell of a pollution deterrent.

 

[RoJoHen]

I say we just tun yellow stone into the largest Geothermal plant EVER!!!! By Extracting thermal energy from the Caldera it will cause it to solidify and remain intact longer before any eruption, there is probably enough thermal energy there than could be tapped to power the whole United States for the next 100+ years!!!!! Just start drilling into the caldera and extracting the plentiful heat energy and as a side benefit it will prevent the supervolcano from going boom!

I don't know anything about anything, but I like this idea.

 

[Mysterion]

Well, if llamas are to be involved in this plan it is only right that we all learn a bit more about them. Thus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbwkkXGmFrI

 

[Miss Chicken]

What are llamas doing in Yellowstone? Taking jobs away from decent hardworking wildlife? Send them back to where they come from.

 

[Michael_One]

Seriously? To survive this I'm suggesting you build a really big bomb shelter with five years supply of everything you'd need in it. Plant genetically engineered plants designed to survive in the post Big Badda Boom era for food when you come out and you're all set.

Alternatively drop an asteroid on Yellowstone on the theory the after effects of an asteroid strike are more survivable than the caldera going off.

 

[Skywalker]

So...are we all pretty much screwed when Old Faithful blows, or is it just we lucky few in Canada and the United States?