Yes the fact its 26 minutes 2 seconds kills me a bit inside thanks for asking EDIT: So I've just noticed Mike Poland - *current Scientist in Chief of the YVO* - running around my comment section that's so cool!! Hi Mike! I love your public lectures on Yellowstone! Please don't watch my blacklog
You're doin anything you can to make sure that thing goes off eh? "Guys this thing *totally* won't happen." You know what always happens after someone says that??!!?!?!
I found out about this the first week of 7th grade and I was so scared of it erupting I couldn't sleep for the 2nd night of school and I was legit scared/terrified of it erupting for a couple days. My teacher even asked me if I was okay at some point. Glad to hear we're okay and to remember how dumb I am
@@Row_of_E "If Congress passes my Act to Smother Humanity (ASH), then I can guarantee the following: no more unemployed people, nobody with debts they can't pay, no more crime, no more reliance of foreign oil...."
Former Yellowstone Ranger here: Correct. Hank Hessler, our now former head geologist there, was tired of the Discovery Channel and more editing his interviews to make them sound more menacing. Norris Geyser Basin changed the volcano forever. It gave it an area to depressurize similar to the water pressure relief valve in a hot water heater.
@Femboy Friday I mean... replies push the comment higher in the top comment results. The default way of sorting comments. So like... it kind of is bumping it... "lmao"
Well he did not say it WOULDN’t erupt he sead it would most likely be a lava flow and it would not do shit. Just as that fart in the wind of an eruption that happend at yellowstown 11 days ago
My college geology teacher was obsessed with this idea. She'd talk about it constantly. She loved to remind us that when Yellowstone explodes, we're all dying. That was about 10 years ago.
I wont die actually. I'm superior to most humans. Im finding out I dont need to sleep,drink water, and im starting to evolve to not need food. after 30+ hours my body forces sleep to repair,regenerate. with this knowledge, i plan on doing experiments on myself o further my natural born abilities . also make myself immune to diseases,bullets, and vacuum bombs
As a local to the Greater Yellowstone Region: Everyone who lives here are unified in the knowledge of one basic fact. It won't be the volcano that kills us.
@@Quadrenaro Yeah, I used to live in AK, the cold could (but probably wouldn't if you weren't stupid) kill you. But it would most likely be the Tourists
I just came to say how fucking golden these captions are dude. Thank you for putting the time into making clear, accurate, and adding to the story captions, even as a hearing person. So many people add captions not using the custom TH-cam ones, or don't have any at all. So thanks!
Good to see someone debunking all that pseudo-scientific nonsense: Yellowstone isn't dangerous at all, that's why it is a favourite landing spot for UFO's!
No IDIOT the UFOs can’t land there because of the naturally occurring mixture of the opal rhyolite and amethyst creating a biosphere stopping the negative forces of the ufo from getting in and disturbing the balance of soul and spirit. Prophesied by Mike hawk III after seeing the caprisun constellation duh…🙄
Yup -bit they are short lived subduction zone volcanoes waaaay out to sea. The are only small to moderate VEI 2 or 3 volcanoes. What you should be worried about is the MM9 earthquake and resulting tsunami that will accompany it. The geological record has shown the MM9 earthquakes and tsunamis in Washington are really devastating and frequent. Indeed a good mm9 near Washington has shown to ripple South and activate the San Andreas. Again, the San Andreas ae small MM7 slips....but in a modern society like SoCal....it will be catastrophic.
@@berty1422 I would say that the subduction zones are far out, but we have had a 7.8 and a 8.1 in the last couple years with tsunami warnings. Pavlov volcano is marked orange by the AVO for volatility. A volcano and resulting earthquake near a more impactful part of this country is very much more worrysome, like you have said
If you blow it up, what you will get would be an "earth fart" which would be a lot of underground gasses being released along with a bit of magma and ash but not on the "civilisation ending" level national geographic and fear mongering media has been advertising.
I'm a bit ticked because I minored in Geology and I still managed to believe in the Yellowstone myth. As soon as you started breaking things down I kept smacking my head like "No duh! I should have been able to figure that out!", but It's my fault for never looking up the Data. Haha, you're going to debunk the great pacific earthquake next, right? Right?
I'm a hydrogeologist and therefore only slightly touched geomorphology which includes vulcanism, but even there we learned that. It's also worth noting data doesn't mean much at all, irregularities exist throughout so using them as reference point or basis of an argument like here doesn't make much sense either.
@@raphaelmarquez9650 What? See this is the issue with clickbait news titles. People see a title, fail to read the article and go around saying solar flares approaching in 2025 would somehow destroy the internet. Those flares aren't approaching they haven't left the sun yet. They only take 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth. So it's not like it's a flare just floating through space headed right at us. The height of a particular 11-year storm cycle happens in 2025. It's normal, and the earth has natural protection against those flares for the most part. But if hit directly some pieces of our infrastructure 'could' be vulnerable. And we do have solid evidence to prove that some electrical systems can be negatively effected by geomagnetic interference. It's a sound hypothetical regardless of incredulity. That's what I mean though... It's not a claim of something that is GOING to happen. It's a hypothetical of what COULD happen worse case scenario from a flare hitting the earth directly in areas that could compromise infrastructure. Not a declaration these things are going to happen. People get that right? Hypotheticals are about planning. Discussing things that are possible even if they aren't necessarily probable.
About 10 years ago, when I was in the 9th grade, my Earth Science class watched a documentary about Yellowstone, and it repeated almost all of this fearmongering about the volcano, the earthquakes, the rising of the land, the idea of the "supervolcano", it being "overdue", basically every exaggerated point here. Again, this was in a class, at a high school that was considered fairly good by my state's standards. That's pretty disappointing.
Yeah, fearmongering over 'supervolcanoes' is commonplace. Got a volcano? Tell the tourists it's going to end civilisation. I went to Iceland 30 years ago, went on a tour to Akureyri - where I was told the ground was rising rapidly, and a huge volcanic eruption of world-changing proportions was predicted to take place 'within the next 20 years'... So, it's 10 years overdue, conveniently forgotten, and now the media wants everyone to live in terror of the south western peninsula. (I'm hoping for a Vestmannaeyjar islands sort of event within my lifetime).
In 8th grade I was taught that through evolution, chickens were descendents of Dinosaurs, while simultaneously being told "A meteor/volcano explosion wiped out all life on planet earth, except for possibly microbes and underground life." The book included a picture of a pterodactyl turning into a chicken on one page and it dead in the next from a meteor. You better believed I raised my hand and asked the teacher which statement was true. I've had a healthy skepticism of "science" ever since.
@@loverlei79 that’s the thing about science about the ancient past. In the end all we have is theories and in all likelihood no one theory is entirely correct. What’s likely true is a combination of factors. A extinction level event probably did happen maybe even multiple but it probably didn’t wipe out ALL dinosaurs just a massive chunk of them leaving only isolated populations these isolated populations seeing as how well most their food is now gone likely over time adapted to be smaller since they wouldn’t have enough food unless they adapted to need less.
As a person living pretty close to Yellowstone (bit to the south), we’ve all accepted that even if it did blow up, we’d be dead so fast it isn’t even worth worrying about.
@semi horny german scientist That would be a funny story. An immortal person that has the worst luck with moving to places. They keep trying to live in places that then have a natural disaster and destroys it.
I was JUST thinking to myself; "Man, I hope Soup makes another ridiculously high quality video again because I've watched the House one and Chernobyl one six times each, and I'm eager to see what he was foreshadowing about." And here we are! Let's GO! Well okay it was less well formed then that, but that's the gist.
i remember seeing that documentation about yellowsone and how it's way overdue and everything. Back then I was like 15ish and for the next month I was terrified and convinced that it'll kill us all any day now. I wish someone back then would've told me how far from reality that all was and still is. So thanks a lot for making this video and explaining it as well as you did!
Why? It is not the only super volcano on the planet.There is one in Bolivia, another in New Zealand, several in Argentina, yet another in Chile, Indonesia, Canada and don't forget the largest in Europe - Marsili. Now you can start worrying about a new one. You're welcome!
Oh thank god I'm not the only one. Even 2012 was a nightmare to live through, especially with all my classmates talking about it, and the media playing it up. Even companies got in on action by creating those commercials!!! ;_;
I'm at the opposite spectrum, I knew Yellowstone will turn out to be a disappointment, but it still sucks to be reminded of it :( Also it looks like due to global warming, we won't have a glaciation anymore, which also sucks. The Corona virus was also a major let down. FFS , I'll die of old age before the apocalypse happens. This sucks ! Yeah, Putin might start a nuclear war, but that's not as exciting as a natural disaster.
dont worry, there will likely never be an apocalyptic event. all the governments wouldnt let that happen because it would tank the economy and they would stop making money, so they will do anything to stop an event like that from happening :) a bit pessimistic, but it reassures myself as someone who also gets anxious about these things.
@@scratchy996 Hate to break it to you, but we're living through the most boring apocalypse as we speak. Climate change is a slow, methodical killer, man.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan... It's a lot less fun when the end of civilization is the gradual decline of ecosystem stability and rampant climate change, leading to a slow but steady environmental collapse rather than a bombastic, continent-spanning explosion. Way to ruin my weekend, Soup. Guess I'll just subscribe.
One thing to note, us humans are not capable of destroying the planet itself or life on the planet, in fact, life on our planet has survived even worse catastrophe than us. Take the "great dying" for example, that event wiped out more than 90% of all life on the planet, but life bounced back, same thing with the meteor that took out the dinosaurs, 2 thirds of all life was wiped out this time but life bounced back again, and lastly we had the Ice ages (yes i said ages because there has been multiple of them with the last one having ended 15,000 years ago) wiped out 20% of all animal species in total from that time. But life bounced back again. And let me tell you again, we are great at ending ourselves but we won't be able to destroy life on earth as a whole. And before you bring up nukes,a nuclear War will not turn thé earth into Fallout. That's not how radiation or nukes work. And plus when a nuke explode, more than 70% of the radiation gets vaporized by the "hotter than the sun" fireball created by the explosion, thé Real danger with nukes IS the Heat but more importantly the shockwave.
@@Dawg347 Canadians are built different. Do not piss them off. Especialy since they are the ones that signed the geneva convention as Daffy duck meaning they don't give a shit about it.
@@PdoxDV Nah he is another guy who instantly comments on things as soon as they are uploaded, and uses multiple bot sock profiles to like himself to top comment.. its easy to do (and yes many people do this that you see comments of often, especially the waifu guy and the steponsnake guy)
For those who can't see it, this video has 3.4k dislikes. I guess a lot of people are disappointed that they aren't going to die in a world ending inferno. Who knew?
American always exaggerated everything, meanwhile some asian countries with hundred of volcanoes that constantly errupt atleast once a year not make a big deal.
@@l.2620 We have never witnessed a super volcano eruption in the modern age. We don't actually have any idea what goes on deep, deep underground (because we can't see it). It is entirely possible that if and when Yellowstone goes, the symptoms come on so fast we won't see it coming years in advance, because there is a decent chance we don't know all the moving parts. Everything talked about here is theoretical science. They don't mention that once do they. Estimates and suppositions of how super volcanos behave as if we could possibly know for sure without witnessing it. It's shoddy.
@@LadyVandMrT , agreed. Also, the supposition of the title of the video is premised on people believing Yellowstone could erupt in our lifetime and I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone say or suggest that. I do think there are troglodytes who have oversimplified it to that but, I don’t see it being a widespread belief that warrants a video of loosely strung factoids to counter it; especially, since it just amounts to overwhelming the viewer into submission by data overload. Not saying I disagree with those bits of info, just that if this was a court trial much of the evidence presented is limited to the realm is statistical averages in one direction to make a case against an opinion. Like you say, there’s much more unknown than known. No one can say with certainty that the activity couldn’t just spontaneously ramp up and it’s a waste of time to argue in either way. I did find some of the humor entertaining though. 😂
Dear Soup Emporium, please upload more videos. I throughly enjoy your nerdy deep dives with humor that is splashed in enough to keep my ADD intrigued, as well as keep the science driven part of my brain satisfied. I've watched every video you've put out several times and my brain is itching for a new subject to learn about to expand my knowledge on. Signed your fan The Jabberwalk 😉
As a former geology student, I'm pleased that this video actually explained things in a way that didn't dumb things down. It's obvious that you actually care about geology, which is a breath of fresh air in a world that thinks it's boring. Once again, you've cemented yourself as one of my favorite TH-cam channels. Here's another bit of common geology myth debunking as a reward: diamonds aren't made of metamorphosed coal. They come from much MUCH deeper in the earth than where coal is found.
@@OnihimakThe problem with the idea of diamonds being formed from coal, is that most diamonds found are found to be much older than the first land plants, which is the source of coal sediments. Not only that, it is highly unlikely, that a layer of coal deposits, which can sit as deep as around ~3 km or so, can get deep enough for the temperatures and pressures required for the formation of diamonds, which is around ~150 km. But, diamonds are stil made out of carbon atoms, which crystillized. This carbon probably came from within the earth after the formation of our planet, so not coal.
Really you can do this yourself. Sea level isnt rising and the planet is not warming either. Its all fear porn to control the masses. There never was a single meteor that caused any ice ages. Easily proven. It really goes on and on how many lies are pushes by authority figures.
soup using the black mesa sound effects is one of my favourite parts of this channel, which is already one of my favourites anyway. as a massive half life fan I can go “ooh that’s the eye scanner sound from unforeseen consequences” like a fun little Easter egg. thank you soup please upload again (as long as you want to) 🙏
I think there's vanishingly few things that could even really put a dent in human civilization as a whole, but I do think it's worth considering how some events could be globally traumatic even without being apocalyptic. Too often people only focus on the absolute worst instead of the fierce things that we would probably overcome in the end
I would argue that we are actually less robust than we were in the past. If the internet suddenly blinked out of existence we would be sent instantly into a depression that would make the 30s seem like a picnic
I’ve always liked to ponder a somewhat more realistic depiction of nuclear war, where the result is not necessarily a complete and entire collapse of society so much as a major shifting point, like the shift after WW2. There are many war scenarios which wouldn’t even necessarily completely destroy the governments of the U.S. and USSR during the Cold War, since, y’know, they didn’t just plan to launch the nukes and not at least TRY to pick up the pieces once the dust settled. I recall reading that a major building in the national archives was originally constructed as an extensive secure facility for the storage of hard currency to completely restock all banks east of the Mississippi River as part of a plan to ensure the economy could function in the event of nuclear war. Stuff like that is fun to think about IMO. IMO post-apoc scenarios that consider how the disaster would change existing society rather than replace it with a mostly feudal/nonexistent version are a lot more interesting, because you have to put a lot more thought into your world building then.
Something globally traumatic but not apocalyptic... maybe like a war nearly most of the countries in the world were involved in... don't think that has ever happened tho
@@redjive_industries3760 I think Ghost in the Shell has that as part of its background, but it doesn't come up much. A lot of popular thought about what would happen in a nuclear exchange is pretty disconnected with scientific projections, and there's a lot of reasons to doubt the concept of nuclear winter, but there's not much reason to talk about it because nobody wants nuclear war anyways even if it might not be as bad as depicted it could be
I doubt anyone will see this as it's so late, but I lived in Guatemala for 9 months, and the volcano Pacaya would almost every other night spew out some lava, and then one day it started raining ash and it erupted like crazy. Was crazy to experience. Since we were there we tried to help as many people who were affected by the massive blast.
I’ve seen some video of magma flow from that volcano. Hats off for helping people out through that. How long did the ash clouds last? That’s one of the scariest aspects of an eruption to me. Clouds of ash can cause respiratory failure and that always seemed like the most sinister effect of an eruption to me. Surviving and avoiding magma or initial pyroclastic flow and then the ash creating toxic rain and being unbreathable would suck. As a kid anytime the floor was lava and I touched it I would just tell my friends the air is ash and we all lost😂
I remember watching the documentary about this and thinking "why haven't we covered this in any of my geology classes if it's so eminent." Then I spent 15 minutes looking at the eruption data and realized that a surprising number of people don't know how to calculate averages.
Loved the balance of well-researched information and humor in this video! I died at the recorder stock images flashing on screen during all the pan-flute hits in the Discovery Channel bit.
I grew up for the most part in Colorado and my dad would tell me that Yellowstone will explode and there will be ash all over America and we will slowly die and it caused me a lot of anxiety so thank you for making this and honestly making me feel a LOT better about this 🥰
For years I’ve been irrationally afraid of Yellowstone. Now I can finally go there without that sense of impeding doom. I’ll just have to watch out for pools of superheated spring water, y’know, normal dangers
Speaking of which one time someone's dog ran into those waters and he went in to save the dog, neither of them could have been saved themselves at that point.
Yes, do go. I went to a volcanic 'park' in Iceland. An absolutely fascinating experience for all those smart enough to stick to designated footpaths and heed all warning signs.
This actually used to be a huge source of tremendous anxiety for me. I'm 26 now, when I was still in school they'd have us watch all the end of the world movies in science class. And yes...The Happening happened. I was traumatized lollol
@@TailsThewolfcat Agreed. If I can go through the rest of my life without another doomsday story/headline being rubbed in my face, i.e., Population bomb, acid rain, mini ice age, hole in the ozone layer, global warming/climate change, Y2k, 2012, Covid, and now WW3, "biblical" end time prophecy, I would die a happy man. Yeah, I know... Tall order. But the fact is, we would all be much happier and healthier, and more stable if we stopped scaring ourselves, and obsessing over death and destruction so much.
As I looked into the Yellowstone caldera through the years I found out that as said in this video most likely type of eruption would be lava flow, similar to what Hawaii did a few years ago just on a larger scale This type of a eruption would nowhere near extinction level it could cause wildfires and pump debris in the atmosphere but the incident would be mostly contained inside the park areas lowlands and local area around the park Yes this eruption would still not be good as it would completely alter one of the worlds most famous parks, and many of its main attractions such as it's geysers, wildlife, and landscape would be destroyed but it's very unlikely now a Yellowstone eruption would be the civilization destroying monster the media has said it would be for the past decade
Either way, very good reason to continue expanding the rehabilitation of wildlife outside of yellowstone... Everything's a good reason to lol, I wish people brought that into mind sometimes
We love it when Americans bang on about the Yellowstone Volcano. It is NOT scary of gonna kill people. What DOES kill Americans are Gun Deaths...45,000 every year. Yup, and they are worried about a volcano that erupts every 700,000 years....
Yellowstone's caldera may not be the doomsday device it's been portrayed as being but it is something that people should be aware as it is potentially dangerous especially people living in that area of the country to act like it's a benign/indifferent nearly as ignorant as the doomsday world killer idea As for your off hand comment of gun deaths in the USA I won't go too far into this quagmire as this is not the topic in this thread but from the stats the majority of these deaths are suicides in 50%+ consistently every year so the number your statement is at best a simply wrong inference and at worst deliberately misleading trying make the problem sound far bigger and more dangerous then it actually is.......this sounds quite similar to something else that has gotten pushed as begin far more dangerous then it really is.......wonder what that was.......
@Fred brandon if you watched the video, it says that volcanoes being "over due" for an eruption is complete nonsense. volcanoes don’t run on a schedule, that’s just not how volcanoes work. volcanoes don’t just look at a calendar & go “op, I’m late for my eruption date!” & I have no fucking clue how this myth spread
When I took geology in college, my professor's favorite passtime was to complain about all the doom day stories concerning Yellowstone ending the world. It drove him up the wall.
@@TheMetaSD I would get why, mind how fucking irritating it is, to see all these conspiracy theorists who know dogshit run about screaming. And having all those retarded gullible minds take it in.
@@merdicmagic6171 oh for sure. That's what our moms would tell us as children when we would panic over it. "don't worry, you'll be dead before you even knew what hit you" But ya know, as a kid, not terribly comforting to hear regardless 😂
@@howdycowboy247 yeah my parents would say the same about nuclear war.. since not far from our city is a building (Marinette marine) that I think makes Frigates a question that runs through my mind would any enemy target military shipyards? If war ever broke out Edit: just thought of this.. what would happen if a nuclear weapon hit Yellowstone directly O.O
HOH veiwer here, i have NEVER subscribed so quickly when watching the first video I find from a creator. Amazing work on the captions! Also amazing editing! I genuinely appreciate it so much! Captions are so often overlooked and autogenerated captions are often garbled and you have to figure out what is “trying to be said”. Now this though?! TOP NOTCH WORK 🙏🏻
I thought everyone knew that if Yellowstone did have an eruption it would not be near large enough to kill the entire planet. Although Volcanic ash IS absolutely terrible for you when you breathe it in. that part is kinda scary actually.
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 that would help in less ash dense places I assume, not so sure about where the ash is more dense. Volcanic ash hardens with moisture, that is why it is especially bad to breathe.
I find myths like these especially important to debunk, cause I see a lot of ppl doomspiralling about stuff like Yellowstone all the time, and it gets in the way of people taking care of themselves or planning for the future cause they think the world is gonna end
In some places maybe, I’ve always had the “if it happens I’m dead and I can accept that” because like “salt lake city under thousands of tons of architectural improvement”, it’s not like I could do much about it other than attempt to flee haha. What we should be preparing for is economic crashes and skills that are actually, useful now and in such an economic climate. Sure a volcano is scary but is is the inability to eat food when shelves are empty and everyone’s a cloud enginerd out of a job Lol. Maybe im a tad cynical.
stupid people are always going to have something get in the way of taking care of themselves, absolutely nothing you can do about it. This is why cults and suicide pacts exist. Using that as an excuse for anything is equally bad though. It's wrong to force stuff on anyone, even if it is for their own good.
@@ApolloTheDerg We could as a civilization make plans to combat the famine that comes with big eruptions. But it seems planning ahead isn't our strong suit. Covid proved that. 🤷♂️
@@ApolloTheDerg enginerds are nerds, meaning they might be interested in some survival stuff on the side. Now economists and other office clerks, yeah...
I absolutely love how you incorporate peer reviewed literature written by actual geoscientists in this video, and present it in a way that a non-scientist can understand. This is an Absolutely brilliant piece of science outreach and education!!
I just want to say I watched the video and liked it and subscribed, but my disappointment towards the non-eruptions is immeasurable and my yearning for volcanic death is ruined
No worries, my dude. We're overdue for an extinction level event from SOMETHING, even if the Yellowstone supervolcano isn't it. My money is on an asteroid/comet, but at any point in our existence a rogue black hole could pass through our solar system and fuck things up for life permanently on any planet around Sol.
I've lived about 20 minutes away from Yellowstone my whole life and ever since I was little Yellowstone blowing up has always been a worry of mine, even though there was no reason for it.
No matter what this guy or the government says yellow stone absolutely could explode at any time without notice. We’ve never seen this massive volcano explode so we don’t exactly know the symptoms prior to an eruption only what we’ve seen with other smaller volcanoes.
Dear Soup man, I would like to tell you that this video has dearly destroyed my heart and childhood nightmares. I also want to say that I’m actually locked out of my house but it is fine because my sister is coming in like 20-15 minutes. Also also, I had to bike home which is like a whole 2 miles or something like that away. I also also also missed a field trip to great America. I have decided to put the blame on someone or something and it seems like I have chosen who it’s gonna be. Soup man because of this act you have totally caused you shall be punished with a dislike. I hope you feel me slowly touching the dislike button on my iPhone 8+. I shall never forgive you.
This reminds me of the California earthquake people call, "the big one." It's soooo over due! They say. Its funny because we might have actually already had, 'the big one" some years ago, as a 7.8ish earthquake occured at the base of big bear mountain and the mountain itself absorbed such a large portion of the shake that most people didnt even notice there was an earthquake.
One thing you could have mentioned is the cooling effect is primarily determined by the amount of sulfur dioxide and these can vary tremendously. Tonga for instance was about the same on the VEI scale as Pinatubo, however it was estimated to have only about 2% of the sulfur so far less cooling should result.
Yes, except the VEI scale for Hunga-Tonga Hualapai was maybe 4 at best. It is rated nearly solely on ejected material. HtH was only a few minutes in duration two or three times, significantly reducing its VEI. There is a proposed paper that suggests it as a VEI 6, but it actually changes the methodology of VEI calculation. HtH was violent and extreme above any observed eruption height, but to put it even on the same page as Pinatubo is scientifically dubious at best.
@@vuchaser99 You might be right. I read a preliminary estimate that placed it at VEI 6 and that was the assumption I was going on. Regardless, the point about volcanos having different levels of sulfur dioxide remains so not all cooling is equal.
@@ellagrant6190 Correct, the SO2 total was significantly less than other larger eruptions. Even though the height of the So2, ash, vapor column was well into the stratosphere... it was clearly not enough to produce sizable H2SO4 to reflect enough (if any notable) visible radiation to even locally reduce temperature. Just another reason to NOT support the new methodology to make it a VEI 6. I am not saying the explosion was not violent...but even though Explosivity is in the name of the scale... VEI is NOT based on that, it is a volumetric scale. . Which duration seems to be orders of magnitude more important. Just because a scientific group called it a 6 in a pre-print and it is posted on Wikipedia doesn't mean it is scientifically accepted.
The great irony is the first person I remember hysterically telling me that Yellowstone was an existential threat was Hank Green who is one of the driving figures behind SciShow. Glad he's changed with evidence
He tends to say a lot of things before he knows all the facts. I generally only listen to stuff he says if its written by a team of other people with fact checkers.
@@abigailchristenson388 You shouldn't use the term "fact checkers" as it's generally used to describe a political tool meant to further a political narrative rather than facts. It's better to say you simply don't trust it unless it's confirmed by someone who check their assumptions / claim for confirmation / facts.
I love that you mentioned that super volcanoes don’t only produce super eruptions. For example, the next “super volcano” to erupt will likely be Campi Fleigri, and it will almost certainly not be a super eruption. It has only ever produced 2 eruptions that could be considered super eruptions(1 if you don’t consider anything less then VEI 8 a super eruption), but it has erupted dozens of times with much smaller events which will probably be its next eruption. Volcanoes don’t always erupt the same way. Sure often times you can estimate how it will erupt next using past ones, but even in systems with cyclical patterns no eruption is ever the same as any previous one.
@@the_undead the original comment literally has the term supervolcano in quotation marks though, they clearly know it is not a real scientific term but instead are using it as a general term to help make their argument easier to present
@@changenickname1916 can you please tell me where those quotation marks are in that first sentence then. Because either my phone isn't rendering them or you didn't properly read the comment
you say sorry, i say thank you for the easily digestible information! i have an acute fear of the volcano erupting out of nowhere, so it's actually pretty reassuring that we'll have some notice lol (not sarcasm!!)
TLDR Yellowstone’s magma vent is freezing over and/or migrating to the west, and even if it did erupt today people overestimate how much air pollution ash clouds actually cause and vastly underestimate humanity’s ability to persevere through a mini Ice Age.
@@atashgallagher5139 They're talking about the year 536. Some people regard it as the "worst year to be alive" due to the natural and weather disasters that happened.
Have to say, I’m incredibly impressed by the Roman columns that have stood through not only centuries, but also such huge periods of subsidence and uplifting.
Was gonna say. As someone who lives within the “instant death” zone, never had anxiety considering we’d die pretty instantly. We wouldn’t have to worry about slowly suffocating or starving
@@Pant332that is a constant for all life, no matter what period in evolutionary history, however the anomaly is the idea that at any point, everything you know and understand will vanish, and collapse right when you least expect it. this is not possible with dying by age, as when you grow older, you begin to slowly realize death is oncoming
I used to live right by Yellowstone as a small child and it instilled so much fear in me that almost every night I'd have a night terror about volcanos. Volcanos have been one of my biggest fears since then, I'm still scared but knowing this and knowing the sun won't explode anytime soon puts me at ease
As someone who is DEEPLY afraid of natural disasters, I very much appreciate this video, because I tend to panic at any evidence that there's even a slight chance there might be some kind of natural disaster.
@@KyleTalcott-os4wzWell, no. It’s not random, it’s based on chaotic effects that can be observed well in advance. The odds that Yellowstone explodes tomorrow is 0
I actually got to see the steamboat geyser go off in 2019. And it literally made the ground shake and steam and water went 200-300 ft in the air. It definitely made a loud noise. As someone who has a good grasp on geology and physics I enjoyed it.
just give it sometime to explode it will nobody's going to do shit when it does why cause it has never gone up before it'll be just like that space shuttle when the foam breached the heat shield finally after all those false calls yellow stone will errupt like when your not expecting it
Yeah I personally saw it in 2020, which made it very interesting because there were very few people there watching it even though it was at peak Yellowstone time, (late June at 11 am) there was only around at most 25 people on the two watchpoints combined
Found a new favorite deep dive channel to watch!!! I love the vibes sm and the topics are intriguing!! I'm enjoying the sleepy tea and facts and humor B) keep on keeping on dudes!! To anyone who's going to sleep/staying up past sleep time I hope your night is well and you rest well And to the rest of you have a good day!!! You're all loved!! Hydrate and take care of yourselves!!
This was actually a myth that massively fueled my (admittedly very irrational) anxiety for a long time, I'd have intrusive thoughts and stuff about it a lot when I was younger for whatever reason. Great to know that I can chill about it now (knock on wood ofc)
@@sandymatteson9811 Not even close... Modern humans alone have been around for 300,000 years. So a 100,000 years is a third not half. And that's just modern humans...
I think the problem is that no one really knows when a volcano will start to become really active. You can see signs of it wanting to erupt, but you can’t really tell when it will start to give those warnings.
Honestly, when you showed the map of the caldera migration and explained that we can't even actually see them anymore and they've become the plains, I had an existential moment thinking about just how much raw information is contained in the earth's landforms, how insanely complex just this region is and how it's only one tiny speck on the whole earth's surface, and how no single human being will ever be able to fully understand the reason or history behind the earth's landforms because it's on a scale of complexity our brains just cannot hold. I now completely understand why people study geology.
I can tell video essayists have broken my brain because my first thought when seeing this was "wait he can't possibly be releasing another video so soon" before realising its been a month
There is a whole line of "trauma" connected to Yellowstone for me. when I was 7 I watched "Dante's Peak" and it made me very aware of volcanoes and what they do. Then I moved to Wyoming and learned of a fancy newfangled thing called a "supervolcano". I handled out super well, totes. We totally did not win an all expense paid trip to Yellowstone for the family, and I totally didn't spend days sobbing, hyperventilating, and begging that we not go. Every time I told someone online I live in Wyoming that whole overdue thing would get thrown in my face. I grew up ridiculously terrified of that place due to all the fear-mongering. Even now, as an adult who a spent ears researching I still can't bring myself to get too close. Logically I know things will be fine It's not going to erupt. But if there's an earthquake that I could feel in the slightest I'd have a breakdown. Logic has nothing on anxiety. I'm glad more people are discussing these things in a more scientific manner. Hopefully it means it'll spread and some potential kids can quit thinking they are going to die at any given seconds. I don't want anyone to feel how I feel/felt. Major kudos to you, man
dante' speak messed with me too, specially when combined with a volcanic eruption in 2009 where I live, I eventually lost that fear but nowadays it's crime the thing that is eating me from the inside
@@katzea.a7880Dante's Peak seems to be the trauma movie of 90's kids XD My husband had some bad experiences with it too. Dude, dude. My parents carpooled with a few other parents back then. I was telling the mom that was driving about how "Oh my goodness. Volcanoes=scary as all get out. Dante's Peak showed me!". Her response "Did you know there's a dormant volcano in Flagstaff? (about 5-6 ish hours north of where we lived at the time) I just said "You mean extinct?" She responded with "No, dormant" I handled it in very unhealthy ways ahaha. Oh goodness! I could not imagine what it would've done to me if I had lived somewhere with regular/a decent amount of volcanic activity. Oof. I'm sorry you went through that! Yikes! I hope the fear is something that eases up.
@@kotandkotik they're not that regular but they affect the rural population heavily, last big eruption was in 2018, some pics looked like it was silent hill, and it's just 4 active volcanos among dormant and extinct ones Yeah I can see how suddenly knowing that a volcano was already near you would feel like emotionally grating, I had a bad reaction to knowing someone got robed 1 street from where I live 2 weeks ago
Didn’t grow up with this personally, but I grew up hearing a lot of the fear mongering. Now I understand a lot more about it and if there were to be a fairly large earthquake (around a 5 or higher or something) I would want to go there more rather than less
@@kotandkotik lmao I grew up in Cheyenne, I was scared of Yellowstone to, but we went on a trip there when I was very young and I took my first steps right on the viewing area for the Grand Tetons. The Second time I went, I remember constantly thinking “what if it just blows up”. Beautiful park though.
The media LOVES a good scary headline. This is the same thing about fault lines and how the media loves to say one is 'overdue' for an eruption. My late uncle was a geologist and when I was a kid, the gloom and doom was all about California going into the sea. He told me when I was a kid that 'geology does not operate on a schedule', something I never forgot...
As a kid in the 90's/00's I remember always seeing "The end is near" on supermarket tabloids. Sometimes it was religion base other times it was stuff like this. Thank you for bopping this ridiculous fearmonger machine on the head. The media and such like to spin it up so much for no reason. Like, taxes and staying employed is hard enough.. Please don't add apocalypses to my anxiety..
thats cause the baby boomers and their parents were comonly told that they were the last generation and that (from the christian view) that the end of days had begone and there was no need to have a job,a life or items to go into the new centry as it would never come, and that year 1999 would be the rapture. If you want further watching looking up knowing betters video on "predicting the end" it even covers the religious event known has the great disappointment
I never could understand why so many folks seem to be Jonesing for some cataclysm... all these shows conjuring up doomsday scenarios for rating. It's ridiculous! Is it misanthropy? Do people think the planet would become like "MAD MAX" movies and they would be Lord Humongous or Immortan Joe? I just don't get it. I can understand the religious nuts but the less religious obsess over this as well.
Hey soup, geology graduate student here. Good video, one of the best I’ve seen research wise. You nailed it, thank you for spreading the truth about it.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Made me feel better seeing this video. The Rhyolite cap was news to me, that will act like a pressure release, it may be 100's of thousands of years till it blows.
Who would make a more accurate documentary: 1) a random guy on the internet 2) a culmination of everything we have learned about volcanoes Sorry but I'm going to go with science, that thing blows America is fucked.
@@DQO07 Ah yes, you're going to FoLlOw ThE sCiEnCe, where ThE sCiEnCe is whatever a large news corporation with no incentive to tell the truth tells you is true, which you will never question.
@@DQO07 What a grand and intoxicating innocence! To believe that the the film industry and the doom-peddling media would let actual science get in the way of their disaster narratives is the height of fantasy.
Thank you for debunking this doomsday myth, I always try explaining people how this is not true, but they simply don't take my word for it. actually I was going to ask you for debunking this myth in the next video whichever you make in the comment section , but you just made a video on this. Thank you again. ^_^
I think the myth is so well lived coz its "sexy" - its simple, specific (not just a volcano, but a vulcano that everybody knows the name of), and spectaculare. Death of civilisation by climate change - boring, asteroid - we already have wathced the movie. Yeallostone! Now we are talking!
@@alexforce9 I think the it's mainly of because of a lot of doomsday predictions lately people just believe whatever others say without even verifying it, you just have to dig a depper to find out why this is not the case,and a lot of people watched *2012* the movie and still a lot of people continue to watch it. They just watch that movie and make their own predictions
@@athishnirup1815 I can't believe people STILL think 2012 is the end of the world when it's been about a decade since 2012. then again, people think that vaccines cause autism.
looking at the list of top ten most dangerous volcanos, and having four of them be in my state and over 6 ones that I have climbed has calmed my anxiety around volcanos exponentially.
This got me to go back up and rewind the video to see the list, only to remember that I live in Wisconsin and I'm pretty sure we don't have ANY volcanoes.
Something like the Yellowstone Volcano always scared me to death, especially recently because I just dont truly want to die from this. So I am SO glad you made this in great detail.
love how the only volcanoes i have ever been on (kilauea, st. helens, rainier) are the top three most dangerous volcanoes in the us. hey, i’ve been on st. helens and rainier dozens of times! clearly this means that volcanoes are completely safe and can never harm anyone
I love how the upper end of those volcanoes are almost all in the pacific northwest next to prominent cities. Mt hood for Portland, Rainier for Seattle, St. Helens inbetween them but closer to Portland.
I was a part of the whole "Yellowstone can wipe out humanity!" crowd because of a video my teacher put on in Middle School. Guess there's another strike against the U.S. Education System. But I'm glad I actually learned a lot about Yellowstone in the process.
I remember watching a bunch of documentaries about Yellow Stone and they all said the same thing, it is a super volcano and it could erupt any time or within a few decades around the 2000's This was in the late 80's early 90's. Well still have not erupted yet. I would like to see all these "Scientists" disappointed faces when Yellow Stone never goes up but just becomes a solid rock plate.
@@Pyxis10 If you define education as a way to indoctrinate children such that they have traits that are most preferable in a factory setting-then yes, education indeed
I'm actually surprised no one on youtube had really touched on this before as it's one of the major viral topics of infographic videos. It's been going around for at least 5 years now so no one really suspected it was that overblown. I kind of bought into myself. Thank you for showing me it's a bit more complicated than that and letting me relax a little bit about mother nature being a neglectful parent trying to kill us all.
@@destroytheboxes I already know media does that, it's pretty much common knowledge at this point, but it can be hard to discern what's true when you don't have certain knowledge or don't have the time to intricately pick apart sources or counter explanations. Personally I trusted that trying to make a doomsday myth about one of the most well known and studied national parks/caldera would be something the most ballsy of content creators would do and sufficient intellectul backlash would have silenced a myth this debunkable and doomsdayish. Maybe they have and I just haven't been paying attention or the media just has gone all in on doomsday = clicks = money
As a palaeontologist this entire video makes me so happy x Everyone who says geologists "just guess" has no idea the stacks of data and research that goes into the field, and how it is very much *not* a "solved science" x We discover new stuff all the time, and it is very much a job you could do with a couple years of study if you're interested x
According to the info I was reading it is likely Yellowstone will either erupt in the next 10,000 years or possibly shut down. However the estimate given was that they were only 60% certain that there was a 50% chance of it doing one or the other. One of the vulcanologists said that the only thing he was pretty certain of was that at this rate humans would not be around to see it.
@@lavenderhuman what do you mean? You do realize humans can adapt to their surroundings. Or we would have died in the ice age. We had more hair then, earth started to heat up and our bodies naturally got rid of some to account for the warm up. Climate change has been happening since the birth of earth itself. The difference between us and other species is we understand how things work.
Imagine if we could like... Find a way to extract geothermal energy or harness the pressure from geysers/underground volcanos for energy that could alleviate or permanently delay mass eruptions while also reduce fossil fuel usage.
the problem is that our materials dont do very well under such underground pressures. so only countries lucky to have enough geysers can use geothermal energy. look up the deepest hole on earth, thats avout as far as we can get currently but we cant extract enough energy from this little down.
Seeing Yellowstone Lake shrink in size, can't help but think of what happened to the once vast Aral Sea The Soviets wanted Central Asia to grow lots of cotton and didn't care about destroying a fishing industry, so they saw the Aral Sea and said "It's free real estate" and diverted the rivers feeding it to irrigate the desert. While they were successful in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan producing lots of cotton and melons, the long-term results were an ecological disaster for the region (shrinking the lake to just 10 percent of its original volume). And now with poisonous dust storms being kicked up by strong winds across the dried and polluted seabed causing health problems to local residents especially children, it's even more of a concern Not even the only thing the Soviets have done to Central Asia. Know about that continuously burning crater in Turkmenistan? Soviet drilling led to that, and while it's their most popular attraction, it's causing health problems to nearby residents because of its noxious gases (which was why the Soviets set it on fire in the first place in the 70s) and thus the Turkmen government is in the process of sealing off the crater. While people may feel it's odd for Turkmenistan to end its number one tourist attraction, not everything can last forever and in the end this is a good thing for both the people and the environment
@@user-ef6gv4wv1l actually I don’t. I’m leftist myself. Cuban-Americans in NY tend to be left-leaning compared to those in Miami. I’m Cuban on my mom’s and Russian on my dad’s side and my mom’s side left Cuba years before the revolution because of Batista (who as you know, treated he working class poorly). Not Fidel. I love history and love talking about it, especially Central Asia which is a very interesting part of the world. You can both like a system and criticize its mistakes. And what happened to the Aral Sea was a big mistake
The thing that makes me sad is that I've been there and it is so beautiful, probably the most beautiful place I've ever been, but it gets a bad rap for having a volcano that *could* kill us, but has a high chance of never actually doing so.
Yes this place is beautiful like no other..I use to live there. People need to wake up and realize our world that we live on is dangerous and it isn't for them to go around thinking everyplace should be safe for them. That is why people die there in the most dumbass ways because most of them live in a video game fantasy world. Get out there and raw dog it!
40-year professional research seismologist here. I've noticed in recent years that new acquaintances rarely ask when California is going to fall into the sea; now it's "when is Yellowstone going to destroy human civilization?". You did a brilliant job on this, but I wish you'd taken your time and spoken at a slower pace where the power of the arguments could be more fully appreciated. I know many people have a short attention span now and expect everything to be explained in 280 words or less, but this excellent assembly of evidence deserves a clear delivery.
Something that a very smart volcanologist said to me was “In the worst case scenario, there is a major food shortage in the United Stated for 5 years. Followed by the best harvests ever seen in history because every inch of US soil has been enhanced with volcanic ash.”
Funny, informative, thorough, animated, sources. Absolutely gold and so happy I found this channel. Haven't hit the subscribe button this hard since Lazerpig.
I asked this to my science teacher and he said it depends on how much pressure is built and how deep the magma chamber is so technically yes but it could be better to let it do its thing
Not an expert but I imagine the process of drilling or excavating deep enough to make anything happen would be prohibitively difficult if not impossible. We've really, really struggled to bore to any significant depth, geologically speaking, it's surprisngly difficult.
@@ricomotions5416 Interesting to try and imagine. But anything we detonated would be far closer to the surface than to the magma. And then you'd have a radioactive volcanic eruption, which is about as bad as it gets for life on earth.
this has literally been a root of my anxiety and panic attacks since my 6th grade science teacher mentioned it, thank you so much for making this video, and in more or less laymans terms, makes me calm way the heck down and not really panic about it anymore, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Yes the fact its 26 minutes 2 seconds kills me a bit inside thanks for asking
EDIT: So I've just noticed Mike Poland - *current Scientist in Chief of the YVO* - running around my comment section that's so cool!! Hi Mike! I love your public lectures on Yellowstone! Please don't watch my blacklog
I love every second of it. :)
A very enjoyable half hour
why
You're doin anything you can to make sure that thing goes off eh? "Guys this thing *totally* won't happen." You know what always happens after someone says that??!!?!?!
You had a lazy for a "scientist" moment.
"10 to 20 mm or an inch"
Wha?
Let me do your homework for you
10 mm = 25/64 "
20 mm = 25/32 "
25.4mm= 1 "
"Yellowstone Won't Explode And End Civilisation"
Well not with that attitude.
If we think positively, we can end all -the problems of- humanity!
I found out about this the first week of 7th grade and I was so scared of it erupting I couldn't sleep for the 2nd night of school and I was legit scared/terrified of it erupting for a couple days. My teacher even asked me if I was okay at some point. Glad to hear we're okay and to remember how dumb I am
@@Row_of_E "If Congress passes my Act to Smother Humanity (ASH), then I can guarantee the following: no more unemployed people, nobody with debts they can't pay, no more crime, no more reliance of foreign oil...."
@@pavarottiaardvark3431 you get my vote :D
Have the spit out my coffee on that one that was funny thank you
Former Yellowstone Ranger here: Correct. Hank Hessler, our now former head geologist there, was tired of the Discovery Channel and more editing his interviews to make them sound more menacing.
Norris Geyser Basin changed the volcano forever. It gave it an area to depressurize similar to the water pressure relief valve in a hot water heater.
Bump
thanks for the comment, this deserves so many more thumbies
@@ebybbob lmao never heard likes being called “thumbies” before
@Femboy Friday I mean why not 😂 haha
@Femboy Friday I mean... replies push the comment higher in the top comment results. The default way of sorting comments. So like... it kind of is bumping it... "lmao"
"Yellowstone won't explode and end civilization"
Sounds exactly like something a civilization ending volcano would want us to believe.
Now that I think about it... Pompeii residents said something like that too to those paranoid it was going to blow with absolute fury...
So true king
Soup is a super volcano confirmed.
Edit: souper volcano
@@TheCriminalViolin Pompeii residents aren’t too smart since they decided to build right next to the volcano again.
@@Bassman1640 * insert Napoli here *
This is the first guy I’m gonna talk shit to when Yellowstone erupts.
It did lol
Well he did not say it WOULDN’t erupt he sead it would most likely be a lava flow and it would not do shit.
Just as that fart in the wind of an eruption that happend at yellowstown 11 days ago
@@englishboi8816it did not, only hyperthermal explosion happened which damaged some board walks which last Wednesday
@@samirshethp-saumyasheth5631 close enough
@@englishboi8816Not even close
“Yellowstone won’t explode and end civilization.”
But with YOUR support, we can change that
drop a nuke in the chimney and watch it go 2012
Where can i sign?
@@thelord7478 just throw grenades in
No signin
@@2006jhz HELL YEAH
My college geology teacher was obsessed with this idea. She'd talk about it constantly. She loved to remind us that when Yellowstone explodes, we're all dying. That was about 10 years ago.
I wont die actually. I'm superior to most humans. Im finding out I dont need to sleep,drink water, and im starting to evolve to not need food. after 30+ hours my body forces sleep to repair,regenerate. with this knowledge, i plan on doing experiments on myself o further my natural born abilities . also make myself immune to diseases,bullets, and vacuum bombs
Imagine all the other stuff learned in college and school that’s total bs
id be pretty excited too tbh
You paid her?
And she was your geology professor? Oof.
Well, at least she wasn't your Volcanology (pretend that's the word) professor.
As a local to the Greater Yellowstone Region: Everyone who lives here are unified in the knowledge of one basic fact. It won't be the volcano that kills us.
Will it be the tourists?
@@Lord_Hengar Very likely.
@@Quadrenaro Yeah, I used to live in AK, the cold could (but probably wouldn't if you weren't stupid) kill you. But it would most likely be the Tourists
Lots of tasty Russian ICBM targets in that area too.
@@Quadrenaro or possibly the other locals. Wasn't the BTK guy camping out of there too?
I just came to say how fucking golden these captions are dude. Thank you for putting the time into making clear, accurate, and adding to the story captions, even as a hearing person. So many people add captions not using the custom TH-cam ones, or don't have any at all. So thanks!
Good to see someone debunking all that pseudo-scientific nonsense: Yellowstone isn't dangerous at all, that's why it is a favourite landing spot for UFO's!
Lmao
JOHNNY!!!?!?!?!
🤣👽😅
Waiting for someone to get woooshed
No IDIOT the UFOs can’t land there because of the naturally occurring mixture of the opal rhyolite and amethyst creating a biosphere stopping the negative forces of the ufo from getting in and disturbing the balance of soul and spirit. Prophesied by Mike hawk III after seeing the caprisun constellation duh…🙄
"Yellowstone might be shutting down"
When the economy is so bad even volcanoes are going out of business.
Good one
Have you tried commiting tax fraud as a volcano?
Its hard stuff
How the hell can you comit tax fraud as vulcano?
At least we can all hang out at the gift shop in Mt. St. Helens.
Volcanoes weren't considered an essential business sadly
I live in the Alaskan peninsula, I can see 11 volcanoes from my village and two are constantly active. Never have I been worried.
Why do you live there? That's risky.
Yup -bit they are short lived subduction zone volcanoes waaaay out to sea. The are only small to moderate VEI 2 or 3 volcanoes.
What you should be worried about is the MM9 earthquake and resulting tsunami that will accompany it.
The geological record has shown the MM9 earthquakes and tsunamis in Washington are really devastating and frequent.
Indeed a good mm9 near Washington has shown to ripple South and activate the San Andreas. Again, the San Andreas ae small MM7 slips....but in a modern society like SoCal....it will be catastrophic.
@@berty1422 I would say that the subduction zones are far out, but we have had a 7.8 and a 8.1 in the last couple years with tsunami warnings. Pavlov volcano is marked orange by the AVO for volatility. A volcano and resulting earthquake near a more impactful part of this country is very much more worrysome, like you have said
@@michaelashley3445 I have no idea what you are talking about but this is so exciting!
@@berty1422 0 but pp look look
"yellowstone won't explode" fellas when I pull up with a comically large bundle of dynamite
If you blow it up, what you will get would be an "earth fart" which would be a lot of underground gasses being released along with a bit of magma and ash but not on the "civilisation ending" level national geographic and fear mongering media has been advertising.
real
You wouldn't dare
@@kaansu8207 heehee hoohoo
Someone stop this maniac!
I'm a bit ticked because I minored in Geology and I still managed to believe in the Yellowstone myth. As soon as you started breaking things down I kept smacking my head like "No duh! I should have been able to figure that out!", but It's my fault for never looking up the Data.
Haha, you're going to debunk the great pacific earthquake next, right? Right?
I'm a hydrogeologist and therefore only slightly touched geomorphology which includes vulcanism, but even there we learned that. It's also worth noting data doesn't mean much at all, irregularities exist throughout so using them as reference point or basis of an argument like here doesn't make much sense either.
Don't forget that solar flare that's approaching Earth in 2025 that would somehow destroy our internet.
as a vancouver island habitant...
please...
@@raphaelmarquez9650 What? See this is the issue with clickbait news titles. People see a title, fail to read the article and go around saying solar flares approaching in 2025 would somehow destroy the internet. Those flares aren't approaching they haven't left the sun yet. They only take 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth. So it's not like it's a flare just floating through space headed right at us. The height of a particular 11-year storm cycle happens in 2025.
It's normal, and the earth has natural protection against those flares for the most part. But if hit directly some pieces of our infrastructure 'could' be vulnerable. And we do have solid evidence to prove that some electrical systems can be negatively effected by geomagnetic interference. It's a sound hypothetical regardless of incredulity.
That's what I mean though... It's not a claim of something that is GOING to happen. It's a hypothetical of what COULD happen worse case scenario from a flare hitting the earth directly in areas that could compromise infrastructure. Not a declaration these things are going to happen. People get that right? Hypotheticals are about planning. Discussing things that are possible even if they aren't necessarily probable.
@@RyosukeTakahashiRX7 Damn Ryosuke, I thought you were a doctor and here you are being a hydrogeologist.
About 10 years ago, when I was in the 9th grade, my Earth Science class watched a documentary about Yellowstone, and it repeated almost all of this fearmongering about the volcano, the earthquakes, the rising of the land, the idea of the "supervolcano", it being "overdue", basically every exaggerated point here. Again, this was in a class, at a high school that was considered fairly good by my state's standards. That's pretty disappointing.
Yeah, fearmongering over 'supervolcanoes' is commonplace. Got a volcano? Tell the tourists it's going to end civilisation.
I went to Iceland 30 years ago, went on a tour to Akureyri - where I was told the ground was rising rapidly, and a huge volcanic eruption of world-changing proportions was predicted to take place 'within the next 20 years'...
So, it's 10 years overdue, conveniently forgotten, and now the media wants everyone to live in terror of the south western peninsula. (I'm hoping for a Vestmannaeyjar islands sort of event within my lifetime).
we had the same thing in our science classes in middle school!
In 8th grade I was taught that through evolution, chickens were descendents of Dinosaurs, while simultaneously being told "A meteor/volcano explosion wiped out all life on planet earth, except for possibly microbes and underground life." The book included a picture of a pterodactyl turning into a chicken on one page and it dead in the next from a meteor. You better believed I raised my hand and asked the teacher which statement was true. I've had a healthy skepticism of "science" ever since.
@@loverlei79 Sorry that you got a shitty textbook
@@loverlei79 that’s the thing about science about the ancient past. In the end all we have is theories and in all likelihood no one theory is entirely correct. What’s likely true is a combination of factors. A extinction level event probably did happen maybe even multiple but it probably didn’t wipe out ALL dinosaurs just a massive chunk of them leaving only isolated populations these isolated populations seeing as how well most their food is now gone likely over time adapted to be smaller since they wouldn’t have enough food unless they adapted to need less.
"Yellowstone Won't Explode And End Civilisation"
So you're saying I have to end it myself?
Fancy seeing you here Luke
I suppose I better get to being rejected by an art school...
I'm game
Humanity in a nutshell
HELLO BASED HACKERMAN
I hope you're having a good day
The “debunk bed” joke alone had me liking and subscribing in the first minute. Excellent video! Well done!
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@@meee_5155lmao
As a person living pretty close to Yellowstone (bit to the south), we’ve all accepted that even if it did blow up, we’d be dead so fast it isn’t even worth worrying about.
Yeah, same here.
Yeah its the people not living right next to yellowstine that are gonna suffer if it ever did erupt.
we can all do a bbq when the blast goes off!
@@HisLordsh1p This ain't the fourth of July!
@@fireflyaex2296It could just be
I love when I was learning about this "imminent" eruption, they say it could be tomorrow or in the next THOUSAND YEARS.
Geologically, that is imminent.
@@project.jericho indeed, but not relative to our perception of time.
@@WayneRoberts72 if there are immortals among us then that shit must have their blood pressure at an all time high...
@@blackshogun272 that’s why Elon is trying get back home to Mars.
@semi horny german scientist That would be a funny story. An immortal person that has the worst luck with moving to places. They keep trying to live in places that then have a natural disaster and destroys it.
I was JUST thinking to myself;
"Man, I hope Soup makes another ridiculously high quality video again because I've watched the House one and Chernobyl one six times each, and I'm eager to see what he was foreshadowing about."
And here we are! Let's GO!
Well okay it was less well formed then that, but that's the gist.
Best channel
Oml I wish I had enough free time in my life to carve out to watch the Academy award snubbed Chernobyl feature film 6 times
@@akorn9943 just split it into segments of your day
Thats oddly specific. But same.
i remember seeing that documentation about yellowsone and how it's way overdue and everything. Back then I was like 15ish and for the next month I was terrified and convinced that it'll kill us all any day now. I wish someone back then would've told me how far from reality that all was and still is. So thanks a lot for making this video and explaining it as well as you did!
I’m kinda unironically glad for this myth being busted, cuz its been a source of existential anxiety for me for a while
Pussi
Why? It is not the only super volcano on the planet.There is one in Bolivia, another in New Zealand, several in Argentina, yet another in Chile, Indonesia, Canada and don't forget the largest in Europe - Marsili. Now you can start worrying about a new one.
You're welcome!
@@Harkeilla dang
@@Harkeilla... all of which are extremely unlikely to erupt in our lifetimes! Worry undone!
Well it was a source of comfort for me.
as somebody whose anxiety fixates on apocalyptic possibilities and catastrophizes about it this is actually very reassuring, thank you
Oh thank god I'm not the only one. Even 2012 was a nightmare to live through, especially with all my classmates talking about it, and the media playing it up. Even companies got in on action by creating those commercials!!! ;_;
I'm at the opposite spectrum, I knew Yellowstone will turn out to be a disappointment, but it still sucks to be reminded of it :(
Also it looks like due to global warming, we won't have a glaciation anymore, which also sucks.
The Corona virus was also a major let down.
FFS , I'll die of old age before the apocalypse happens. This sucks !
Yeah, Putin might start a nuclear war, but that's not as exciting as a natural disaster.
dont worry, there will likely never be an apocalyptic event. all the governments wouldnt let that happen because it would tank the economy and they would stop making money, so they will do anything to stop an event like that from happening :) a bit pessimistic, but it reassures myself as someone who also gets anxious about these things.
@@scratchy996 Hate to break it to you, but we're living through the most boring apocalypse as we speak. Climate change is a slow, methodical killer, man.
Put down your phone and go outdoors,
i was watching normally and just did not expect to see the armstrong clip here. I'm glad you enjoy!
Damn you actually saw this. Legend
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
STANDING HERE
Your content tickles my brain
Holy shit the man is here.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan... It's a lot less fun when the end of civilization is the gradual decline of ecosystem stability and rampant climate change, leading to a slow but steady environmental collapse rather than a bombastic, continent-spanning explosion.
Way to ruin my weekend, Soup. Guess I'll just subscribe.
One thing to note, us humans are not capable of destroying the planet itself or life on the planet, in fact, life on our planet has survived even worse catastrophe than us. Take the "great dying" for example, that event wiped out more than 90% of all life on the planet, but life bounced back, same thing with the meteor that took out the dinosaurs, 2 thirds of all life was wiped out this time but life bounced back again, and lastly we had the Ice ages (yes i said ages because there has been multiple of them with the last one having ended 15,000 years ago) wiped out 20% of all animal species in total from that time. But life bounced back again. And let me tell you again, we are great at ending ourselves but we won't be able to destroy life on earth as a whole.
And before you bring up nukes,a nuclear War will not turn thé earth into Fallout. That's not how radiation or nukes work. And plus when a nuke explode, more than 70% of the radiation gets vaporized by the "hotter than the sun" fireball created by the explosion, thé Real danger with nukes IS the Heat but more importantly the shockwave.
@@Alpha-cabbyeah but what about Canadian humans
@@Dawg347 Canadians are built different. Do not piss them off. Especialy since they are the ones that signed the geneva convention as Daffy duck meaning they don't give a shit about it.
Canadian here, run.
There's always the nuclear option
"Hey it's okay, we can find another way to destroy civilization, right guys?"
You gotta admit, that's one thing humanity excels in.
You’re an icon.
Humans will do it to themselves, probably by playing god and experimenting with things we shouldn't.
Except in the entire history of mankind, humanity has never realistically even come remotely close.
Preach that shit!
@@PdoxDV Nah he is another guy who instantly comments on things as soon as they are uploaded, and uses multiple bot sock profiles to like himself to top comment.. its easy to do (and yes many people do this that you see comments of often, especially the waifu guy and the steponsnake guy)
For those who can't see it, this video has 3.4k dislikes. I guess a lot of people are disappointed that they aren't going to die in a world ending inferno. Who knew?
They will be generously compensated by the great reset. Sincerely your WEF 😁
American always exaggerated everything, meanwhile some asian countries with hundred of volcanoes that constantly errupt atleast once a year not make a big deal.
@@LadyVandMrT
What's shoddy about it?
@@l.2620 We have never witnessed a super volcano eruption in the modern age. We don't actually have any idea what goes on deep, deep underground (because we can't see it). It is entirely possible that if and when Yellowstone goes, the symptoms come on so fast we won't see it coming years in advance, because there is a decent chance we don't know all the moving parts.
Everything talked about here is theoretical science. They don't mention that once do they. Estimates and suppositions of how super volcanos behave as if we could possibly know for sure without witnessing it. It's shoddy.
@@LadyVandMrT , agreed. Also, the supposition of the title of the video is premised on people believing Yellowstone could erupt in our lifetime and I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone say or suggest that. I do think there are troglodytes who have oversimplified it to that but, I don’t see it being a widespread belief that warrants a video of loosely strung factoids to counter it; especially, since it just amounts to overwhelming the viewer into submission by data overload. Not saying I disagree with those bits of info, just that if this was a court trial much of the evidence presented is limited to the realm is statistical averages in one direction to make a case against an opinion. Like you say, there’s much more unknown than known. No one can say with certainty that the activity couldn’t just spontaneously ramp up and it’s a waste of time to argue in either way.
I did find some of the humor entertaining though. 😂
I like how red shirt guy has future PTSD he's clearly a time traveler going back to before it all happened
Or he has PTSD from the movie 2012
Its existential dread
Dear Soup Emporium, please upload more videos. I throughly enjoy your nerdy deep dives with humor that is splashed in enough to keep my ADD intrigued, as well as keep the science driven part of my brain satisfied. I've watched every video you've put out several times and my brain is itching for a new subject to learn about to expand my knowledge on.
Signed your fan The Jabberwalk 😉
As a former geology student, I'm pleased that this video actually explained things in a way that didn't dumb things down. It's obvious that you actually care about geology, which is a breath of fresh air in a world that thinks it's boring. Once again, you've cemented yourself as one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
Here's another bit of common geology myth debunking as a reward: diamonds aren't made of metamorphosed coal. They come from much MUCH deeper in the earth than where coal is found.
Youd love Splattercat as a channel then, half his stories in survival games are about crazy bullshit hes been through on geology surveys.
So, what are diamonds made from? now i am curious!
It’s pressurized carbon right?
Geology seems really interesting from the little of it I have seen and heard
@@OnihimakThe problem with the idea of diamonds being formed from coal, is that most diamonds found are found to be much older than the first land plants, which is the source of coal sediments. Not only that, it is highly unlikely, that a layer of coal deposits, which can sit as deep as around ~3 km or so, can get deep enough for the temperatures and pressures required for the formation of diamonds, which is around ~150 km. But, diamonds are stil made out of carbon atoms, which crystillized. This carbon probably came from within the earth after the formation of our planet, so not coal.
as someone with severe paranoia about this kind of thing; you definitely earned my subscription! more people need to do this kind of work!
This video ruin my year. I was looking forward to this
I wouldn't worry about it you are significantly more likely to be strangled in your sleep by a loved one now have a good night
Idk you seem paranoid about a *lot* of things.
One less thing for me to be paranoid about. Now I'm just paranoid about a Carrington event.
Really you can do this yourself. Sea level isnt rising and the planet is not warming either. Its all fear porn to control the masses. There never was a single meteor that caused any ice ages. Easily proven. It really goes on and on how many lies are pushes by authority figures.
“It’s okay Yellowstone, blow up and destroy humanity when you feel like it.” -Patrick Star, 2021
Is this Yellowstone National Park?
@@gavros9636 No, this is Patrick!
Is Yellowstone an instrument?
@@seansilv25 no, Patrick. Yellowstone is not an instrument
@@tylerleach8796 it is however an instrument of mass fear and possibly destruction
soup using the black mesa sound effects is one of my favourite parts of this channel, which is already one of my favourites anyway. as a massive half life fan I can go “ooh that’s the eye scanner sound from unforeseen consequences” like a fun little Easter egg. thank you soup please upload again (as long as you want to) 🙏
I think there's vanishingly few things that could even really put a dent in human civilization as a whole, but I do think it's worth considering how some events could be globally traumatic even without being apocalyptic. Too often people only focus on the absolute worst instead of the fierce things that we would probably overcome in the end
Global warming could be a shitstorm if not the end of civilization. So would nuclear war. It would suck enough as it is.
I would argue that we are actually less robust than we were in the past. If the internet suddenly blinked out of existence we would be sent instantly into a depression that would make the 30s seem like a picnic
I’ve always liked to ponder a somewhat more realistic depiction of nuclear war, where the result is not necessarily a complete and entire collapse of society so much as a major shifting point, like the shift after WW2. There are many war scenarios which wouldn’t even necessarily completely destroy the governments of the U.S. and USSR during the Cold War, since, y’know, they didn’t just plan to launch the nukes and not at least TRY to pick up the pieces once the dust settled. I recall reading that a major building in the national archives was originally constructed as an extensive secure facility for the storage of hard currency to completely restock all banks east of the Mississippi River as part of a plan to ensure the economy could function in the event of nuclear war. Stuff like that is fun to think about IMO.
IMO post-apoc scenarios that consider how the disaster would change existing society rather than replace it with a mostly feudal/nonexistent version are a lot more interesting, because you have to put a lot more thought into your world building then.
Something globally traumatic but not apocalyptic... maybe like a war nearly most of the countries in the world were involved in... don't think that has ever happened tho
@@redjive_industries3760 I think Ghost in the Shell has that as part of its background, but it doesn't come up much.
A lot of popular thought about what would happen in a nuclear exchange is pretty disconnected with scientific projections, and there's a lot of reasons to doubt the concept of nuclear winter, but there's not much reason to talk about it because nobody wants nuclear war anyways even if it might not be as bad as depicted it could be
I doubt anyone will see this as it's so late, but I lived in Guatemala for 9 months, and the volcano Pacaya would almost every other night spew out some lava, and then one day it started raining ash and it erupted like crazy. Was crazy to experience. Since we were there we tried to help as many people who were affected by the massive blast.
Don't worry,I see it.And I praise you for having a rare specialty of possesing both compassion & intelect.
The volcano busted a nut
I’ve seen some video of magma flow from that volcano. Hats off for helping people out through that. How long did the ash clouds last? That’s one of the scariest aspects of an eruption to me. Clouds of ash can cause respiratory failure and that always seemed like the most sinister effect of an eruption to me. Surviving and avoiding magma or initial pyroclastic flow and then the ash creating toxic rain and being unbreathable would suck. As a kid anytime the floor was lava and I touched it I would just tell my friends the air is ash and we all lost😂
Nuestra tierra es poderosa 💙 viva guatemala fuera corruptos
@@rabit29it launches carbon in the atmosphere, the carbon stays there and the ash falls back down. Volcanos don’t make fertile soil.
I remember watching the documentary about this and thinking "why haven't we covered this in any of my geology classes if it's so eminent." Then I spent 15 minutes looking at the eruption data and realized that a surprising number of people don't know how to calculate averages.
Which I find weird since isn't that an elementary or middle school math thing?
We still got about 100k more years lol
@@Chaos89P well I learned it in like 3rd grade so idk
It's so easy too, you add the numbers together and then divide by the amount of data you put in.
@@Chaos89P that's what's so worrying
Loved the balance of well-researched information and humor in this video! I died at the recorder stock images flashing on screen during all the pan-flute hits in the Discovery Channel bit.
I grew up for the most part in Colorado and my dad would tell me that Yellowstone will explode and there will be ash all over America and we will slowly die and it caused me a lot of anxiety so thank you for making this and honestly making me feel a LOT better about this 🥰
Damn your dad is brutal lol
My dad did the exact same thing
Hahaha love that, he kinda pessimistic right ?
fuck did he do that for 😊
Well this "internet expert" could be completely wrong. We really won't know for a few hundred thousand years or so.
For years I’ve been irrationally afraid of Yellowstone. Now I can finally go there without that sense of impeding doom. I’ll just have to watch out for pools of superheated spring water, y’know, normal dangers
Bruh if that’s what you’re worried about with Yellowstone you’ve never heard of the bears
Speaking of which one time someone's dog ran into those waters and he went in to save the dog, neither of them could have been saved themselves at that point.
And stupid Darwin Award winning tourists who decide to headlong leap into those superheated pools.🙄
Yes, do go. I went to a volcanic 'park' in Iceland. An absolutely fascinating experience for all those smart enough to stick to designated footpaths and heed all warning signs.
Id be more worried about being trampled by Bison than free hot tubs lol
This actually used to be a huge source of tremendous anxiety for me. I'm 26 now, when I was still in school they'd have us watch all the end of the world movies in science class. And yes...The Happening happened. I was traumatized lollol
I'm 25 and I feel like a lot of us in this age range grew up being told doomsday stories. it's no wonder so many of us are cynical now lol
@@TailsThewolfcat Agreed. If I can go through the rest of my life without another doomsday story/headline being rubbed in my face, i.e., Population bomb, acid rain, mini ice age, hole in the ozone layer, global warming/climate change, Y2k, 2012, Covid, and now WW3, "biblical" end time prophecy, I would die a happy man. Yeah, I know... Tall order.
But the fact is, we would all be much happier and healthier, and more stable if we stopped scaring ourselves, and obsessing over death and destruction so much.
glad I'm not the only one who had major anxiety due to this!
Most definitely
@@TailsThewolfcat We were promised an earth-shattering kaboom. Of course we're disappointed.
Every Project Wingman player: Ah crap, guess we have to do it ourselves
INTO THE FANTA ZONE
Calamity...
@@s0LLagal HIGHWAY TO THE FANTA ZONE
You deserve SO many more subscribers. This was so well made
Yo fancy seeing you here ashtin when you dropping new music bbg
* He deservers SO₂ many more subscribers.
(I love chemistry jokes :P)
Don't worry, this video will blow up
He's hitting about 600 WPM, not even slow at 50% speed.
your mom deserves more subscribers
As I looked into the Yellowstone caldera through the years I found out that as said in this video most likely type of eruption would be lava flow, similar to what Hawaii did a few years ago just on a larger scale
This type of a eruption would nowhere near extinction level it could cause wildfires and pump debris in the atmosphere but the incident would be mostly contained inside the park areas lowlands and local area around the park
Yes this eruption would still not be good as it would completely alter one of the worlds most famous parks, and many of its main attractions such as it's geysers, wildlife, and landscape would be destroyed but it's very unlikely now a Yellowstone eruption would be the civilization destroying monster the media has said it would be for the past decade
I’m not sure if your referring to the 2018 eruption in Hawaii or not but that wasn’t just lava flow lmao
Either way, very good reason to continue expanding the rehabilitation of wildlife outside of yellowstone... Everything's a good reason to lol, I wish people brought that into mind sometimes
We love it when Americans bang on about the Yellowstone Volcano. It is NOT scary of gonna kill people.
What DOES kill Americans are Gun Deaths...45,000 every year.
Yup, and they are worried about a volcano that erupts every 700,000 years....
Yellowstone's caldera may not be the doomsday device it's been portrayed as being but it is something that people should be aware as it is potentially dangerous especially people living in that area of the country to act like it's a benign/indifferent nearly as ignorant as the doomsday world killer idea
As for your off hand comment of gun deaths in the USA I won't go too far into this quagmire as this is not the topic in this thread but from the stats the majority of these deaths are suicides in 50%+ consistently every year so the number your statement is at best a simply wrong inference and at worst deliberately misleading trying make the problem sound far bigger and more dangerous then it actually is.......this sounds quite similar to something else that has gotten pushed as begin far more dangerous then it really is.......wonder what that was.......
@Fred brandon if you watched the video, it says that volcanoes being "over due" for an eruption is complete nonsense. volcanoes don’t run on a schedule, that’s just not how volcanoes work. volcanoes don’t just look at a calendar & go “op, I’m late for my eruption date!” & I have no fucking clue how this myth spread
As someone who grew up next to Yellowstone, the fear was REAL. It's nice to hear a real explanation.
Bro if it explodes, you get thanos snapped. Everyone else will suffer way worse.
When I took geology in college, my professor's favorite passtime was to complain about all the doom day stories concerning Yellowstone ending the world. It drove him up the wall.
@@TheMetaSD I would get why, mind how fucking irritating it is, to see all these conspiracy theorists who know dogshit run about screaming. And having all those retarded gullible minds take it in.
@@merdicmagic6171 oh for sure. That's what our moms would tell us as children when we would panic over it. "don't worry, you'll be dead before you even knew what hit you"
But ya know, as a kid, not terribly comforting to hear regardless 😂
@@howdycowboy247 yeah my parents would say the same about nuclear war.. since not far from our city is a building (Marinette marine) that I think makes Frigates a question that runs through my mind would any enemy target military shipyards? If war ever broke out
Edit: just thought of this.. what would happen if a nuclear weapon hit Yellowstone directly O.O
HOH veiwer here, i have NEVER subscribed so quickly when watching the first video I find from a creator.
Amazing work on the captions! Also amazing editing!
I genuinely appreciate it so much! Captions are so often overlooked and autogenerated captions are often garbled and you have to figure out what is “trying to be said”. Now this though?! TOP NOTCH WORK
🙏🏻
Aaaand hasnt uploaded in a year.
I thought everyone knew that if Yellowstone did have an eruption it would not be near large enough to kill the entire planet. Although Volcanic ash IS absolutely terrible for you when you breathe it in. that part is kinda scary actually.
Luckily we already all have masks
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 that would help in less ash dense places I assume, not so sure about where the ash is more dense. Volcanic ash hardens with moisture, that is why it is especially bad to breathe.
Yeah and it will also block out the sun plunging the earth into a mini ice age... right?
when I was little I mostly heard people say that it won't kill everyone, just north america hahah
If it was THAT bad, Hawaiians would be all dead ☠️
I find myths like these especially important to debunk, cause I see a lot of ppl doomspiralling about stuff like Yellowstone all the time, and it gets in the way of people taking care of themselves or planning for the future cause they think the world is gonna end
In some places maybe, I’ve always had the “if it happens I’m dead and I can accept that” because like “salt lake city under thousands of tons of architectural improvement”, it’s not like I could do much about it other than attempt to flee haha.
What we should be preparing for is economic crashes and skills that are actually, useful now and in such an economic climate. Sure a volcano is scary but is is the inability to eat food when shelves are empty and everyone’s a cloud enginerd out of a job Lol. Maybe im a tad cynical.
stupid people are always going to have something get in the way of taking care of themselves, absolutely nothing you can do about it. This is why cults and suicide pacts exist. Using that as an excuse for anything is equally bad though. It's wrong to force stuff on anyone, even if it is for their own good.
I mean it’s a good excuse to buy a bunker
@@ApolloTheDerg We could as a civilization make plans to combat the famine that comes with big eruptions. But it seems planning ahead isn't our strong suit. Covid proved that. 🤷♂️
@@ApolloTheDerg enginerds are nerds, meaning they might be interested in some survival stuff on the side. Now economists and other office clerks, yeah...
I absolutely love how you incorporate peer reviewed literature written by actual geoscientists in this video, and present it in a way that a non-scientist can understand. This is an Absolutely brilliant piece of science outreach and education!!
Facts
nerd
THIS AGES LIKE FINE WINE
What do you mean
@@blueblu2711 one of the guisers exploded and it was a big one. Not the actual explosion obviously but it was still a little close, from what I heard.
@@spyfyre1618 yeah even i heard about it here in Russia, but thats nothing bad, the whole volcano actually depressuarises by these guisers
@@spyfyre1618 Civilization is still here, though.
...unfortunately.
@@LoneWolf343 ikr…
I just want to say I watched the video and liked it and subscribed, but my disappointment towards the non-eruptions is immeasurable and my yearning for volcanic death is ruined
I mean, jumping into a volcano is technically a volcanic death... I think- So your dreams aren't ruined yet!
No worries, my dude. We're overdue for an extinction level event from SOMETHING, even if the Yellowstone supervolcano isn't it. My money is on an asteroid/comet, but at any point in our existence a rogue black hole could pass through our solar system and fuck things up for life permanently on any planet around Sol.
Good Bc I want to live
There’s plenty of active volcanoes around the world, get out there and follow your dreams!
@@handleonafridge6828 Not as cool as dying because of Yellowstone
I've lived about 20 minutes away from Yellowstone my whole life and ever since I was little Yellowstone blowing up has always been a worry of mine, even though there was no reason for it.
Even if it did blow up you would be one of the first to die so you wouldn’t feel much 😇
That's what Yellowstone wants you to believe.
😉
No matter what this guy or the government says yellow stone absolutely could explode at any time without notice. We’ve never seen this massive volcano explode so we don’t exactly know the symptoms prior to an eruption only what we’ve seen with other smaller volcanoes.
@@brian6391 so you carefully and completely ignored all the evidence in this video. You’re a plank
@@brian6391 if it could explode at any time then the park would be locked or evacuated by now
Dear Soup man, I would like to tell you that this video has dearly destroyed my heart and childhood nightmares. I also want to say that I’m actually locked out of my house but it is fine because my sister is coming in like 20-15 minutes. Also also, I had to bike home which is like a whole 2 miles or something like that away. I also also also missed a field trip to great America. I have decided to put the blame on someone or something and it seems like I have chosen who it’s gonna be. Soup man because of this act you have totally caused you shall be punished with a dislike. I hope you feel me slowly touching the dislike button on my iPhone 8+. I shall never forgive you.
Did your sister make it back before you did the unthinkable and disliked this video?
Did you get back in the house then?
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 sadly, no and I had to dislike.
Tell your sister I said hi
Tell your sister I miss her
This reminds me of the California earthquake people call, "the big one." It's soooo over due! They say. Its funny because we might have actually already had, 'the big one" some years ago, as a 7.8ish earthquake occured at the base of big bear mountain and the mountain itself absorbed such a large portion of the shake that most people didnt even notice there was an earthquake.
I couldn't find any info on what you're talking about can you cite a source
One thing you could have mentioned is the cooling effect is primarily determined by the amount of sulfur dioxide and these can vary tremendously. Tonga for instance was about the same on the VEI scale as Pinatubo, however it was estimated to have only about 2% of the sulfur so far less cooling should result.
Very nice comment, thank you! :)
Yes, except the VEI scale for Hunga-Tonga Hualapai was maybe 4 at best. It is rated nearly solely on ejected material. HtH was only a few minutes in duration two or three times, significantly reducing its VEI. There is a proposed paper that suggests it as a VEI 6, but it actually changes the methodology of VEI calculation. HtH was violent and extreme above any observed eruption height, but to put it even on the same page as Pinatubo is scientifically dubious at best.
@@vuchaser99 You might be right. I read a preliminary estimate that placed it at VEI 6 and that was the assumption I was going on.
Regardless, the point about volcanos having different levels of sulfur dioxide remains so not all cooling is equal.
@@vuchaser99 hunga tunga has been upgraded to a vei 6.
@@ellagrant6190 Correct, the SO2 total was significantly less than other larger eruptions. Even though the height of the So2, ash, vapor column was well into the stratosphere... it was clearly not enough to produce sizable H2SO4 to reflect enough (if any notable) visible radiation to even locally reduce temperature. Just another reason to NOT support the new methodology to make it a VEI 6. I am not saying the explosion was not violent...but even though Explosivity is in the name of the scale... VEI is NOT based on that, it is a volumetric scale.
. Which duration seems to be orders of magnitude more important. Just because a scientific group called it a 6 in a pre-print and it is posted on Wikipedia doesn't mean it is scientifically accepted.
The great irony is the first person I remember hysterically telling me that Yellowstone was an existential threat was Hank Green who is one of the driving figures behind SciShow. Glad he's changed with evidence
He tends to say a lot of things before he knows all the facts. I generally only listen to stuff he says if its written by a team of other people with fact checkers.
@@abigailchristenson388 You shouldn't use the term "fact checkers" as it's generally used to describe a political tool meant to further a political narrative rather than facts. It's better to say you simply don't trust it unless it's confirmed by someone who check their assumptions / claim for confirmation / facts.
@@IpostedaCoDvideoonce fair enough. I just meant in the literal sense someone who verifies information i forgot about the political connotations
Researchers not fact checkers
@@IpostedaCoDvideoonce so… a “fact checker” you basically said the same thing just much longer it’s just unnecessary
I love that you mentioned that super volcanoes don’t only produce super eruptions. For example, the next “super volcano” to erupt will likely be Campi Fleigri, and it will almost certainly not be a super eruption. It has only ever produced 2 eruptions that could be considered super eruptions(1 if you don’t consider anything less then VEI 8 a super eruption), but it has erupted dozens of times with much smaller events which will probably be its next eruption. Volcanoes don’t always erupt the same way. Sure often times you can estimate how it will erupt next using past ones, but even in systems with cyclical patterns no eruption is ever the same as any previous one.
You clearly didn't pay attention to the video because he said multiple times in the video that super volcano is not a scientific term.
Campi Flegrei is certainly capable of very large eruptions, but it has never produced anything close to VEI 8.
Love geologists. Pure speculation and they act as if its facts lul.
@@the_undead the original comment literally has the term supervolcano in quotation marks though, they clearly know it is not a real scientific term but instead are using it as a general term to help make their argument easier to present
@@changenickname1916 can you please tell me where those quotation marks are in that first sentence then. Because either my phone isn't rendering them or you didn't properly read the comment
you say sorry, i say thank you for the easily digestible information! i have an acute fear of the volcano erupting out of nowhere, so it's actually pretty reassuring that we'll have some notice lol (not sarcasm!!)
TLDR Yellowstone’s magma vent is freezing over and/or migrating to the west, and even if it did erupt today people overestimate how much air pollution ash clouds actually cause and vastly underestimate humanity’s ability to persevere through a mini Ice Age.
Humanity survived 536 we'll be fine
A mini ice age might be a good thing right now. Buy us some time on global warming.
Also pretty sure we put more pollutants into the air than Yellowstone would if it went boom
@@riclate2013 What reference am I not getting this time.
@@atashgallagher5139 They're talking about the year 536. Some people regard it as the "worst year to be alive" due to the natural and weather disasters that happened.
Have to say, I’m incredibly impressed by the Roman columns that have stood through not only centuries, but also such huge periods of subsidence and uplifting.
greek
@@potatoandbeans1543 technically works for both aka roman aqueducts that are still standing and working in some cases.
Similar to how America is still standing even after 2019 happened
@@i-_-am-_-g1467 nah, we’re just bleeding out.
Roman concrete babyyy
As someone who lives 2 hours away from yellowstone, this has always been a bit of an anxiety point for me so I really appreciate this video.
Hey on the bright side you’ll die quicker then those further away from it
Was gonna say. As someone who lives within the “instant death” zone, never had anxiety considering we’d die pretty instantly. We wouldn’t have to worry about slowly suffocating or starving
Dose no one here know dying by age?
@@Pant332that is a constant for all life, no matter what period in evolutionary history, however the anomaly is the idea that at any point, everything you know and understand will vanish, and collapse right when you least expect it. this is not possible with dying by age, as when you grow older, you begin to slowly realize death is oncoming
@@Pant332 Dying by age doesn't destroy all nearby civilisation
I used to live right by Yellowstone as a small child and it instilled so much fear in me that almost every night I'd have a night terror about volcanos. Volcanos have been one of my biggest fears since then, I'm still scared but knowing this and knowing the sun won't explode anytime soon puts me at ease
As someone who is DEEPLY afraid of natural disasters, I very much appreciate this video, because I tend to panic at any evidence that there's even a slight chance there might be some kind of natural disaster.
Yellowstone has a very slight chance. Every year it's 1 in 700,000 which is not ZERO as some people like to believe.
Aw man do I have just the subject for you!
@@KyleTalcott-os4wzWell, no. It’s not random, it’s based on chaotic effects that can be observed well in advance. The odds that Yellowstone explodes tomorrow is 0
@@KyleTalcott-os4wzEven if that was true, those odds are so low to practically be irrelevant
BOOM!!
If yellowstone wont do it, which volcano will then? WE NEED TO KNOW
Shutup
@get out im taking a shid yeah true
@get out im taking a shid Oh god the amount of cringe on that channel is insane!!!
Indian Basalts??
The Tonga volcano gave it a shot. The most it did was tickle the coast of California.
I actually got to see the steamboat geyser go off in 2019. And it literally made the ground shake and steam and water went 200-300 ft in the air. It definitely made a loud noise. As someone who has a good grasp on geology and physics I enjoyed it.
just give it sometime to explode it will nobody's going to do shit when it does why cause it has never gone up before it'll be just like that space shuttle when the foam breached the heat shield finally after all those false calls yellow stone will errupt like when your not expecting it
@@raven4k998 Did you... watch the video? Like, at all?
@@masonmoore5429 You could understand their comment?!
@@long_term_karma9899 yeah I stopped after “space shuttle” that shit was so confusing
Yeah I personally saw it in 2020, which made it very interesting because there were very few people there watching it even though it was at peak Yellowstone time, (late June at 11 am) there was only around at most 25 people on the two watchpoints combined
Found a new favorite deep dive channel to watch!!! I love the vibes sm and the topics are intriguing!! I'm enjoying the sleepy tea and facts and humor B) keep on keeping on dudes!!
To anyone who's going to sleep/staying up past sleep time I hope your night is well and you rest well
And to the rest of you have a good day!!! You're all loved!! Hydrate and take care of yourselves!!
This was actually a myth that massively fueled my (admittedly very irrational) anxiety for a long time, I'd have intrusive thoughts and stuff about it a lot when I was younger for whatever reason. Great to know that I can chill about it now (knock on wood ofc)
SAME
Same. This makes me happy :)
@DeusVult1683 why are you even asking them bro wth
Im glad im not the only one who gets anxiety from this kind of thing
Distant threat of apocalypse should be least of a person's worries
"Yellowstone won't explode and end civilization"
Civilization: "Fine, I'll do it myself"
lol too accurate
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- putin
Humans have always triumphed over nature, this is but our next test
Civilization: It's all anarchy?
Mankind: Always has been. 🔫
I remember learning about Yellowstone in school and being TERRIFIED. This video gave me relief like you wouldn't believe. Thank you.
Did you not know that super volcanoes erupt every 100k years or more a hundred thousand years is half human existence
@@sandymatteson9811 Not even close... Modern humans alone have been around for 300,000 years. So a 100,000 years is a third not half. And that's just modern humans...
It made ME terrified, because I saw that Crater Lake and Mount Hood are both higher risk than Yellowstone, in that list.
I think the problem is that no one really knows when a volcano will start to become really active. You can see signs of it wanting to erupt, but you can’t really tell when it will start to give those warnings.
Honestly, when you showed the map of the caldera migration and explained that we can't even actually see them anymore and they've become the plains, I had an existential moment thinking about just how much raw information is contained in the earth's landforms, how insanely complex just this region is and how it's only one tiny speck on the whole earth's surface, and how no single human being will ever be able to fully understand the reason or history behind the earth's landforms because it's on a scale of complexity our brains just cannot hold. I now completely understand why people study geology.
Its all melted red bricks
Geology is such a niche but it’s so interesting. I’m studying engineering geology
its not that deep bro we definitely understand earth's history
Been smoking the good stuff I see
If you want to be really blown away, you can trace Hawaii's previous islands all the way back to Alaska
I can tell video essayists have broken my brain because my first thought when seeing this was "wait he can't possibly be releasing another video so soon" before realising its been a month
Anyway, goddamn your videos are great
"It *probably* won't erupt and end civilization"
"So you're saying there's still a chance..."
The chance is low, but never zero
He knows not what he says dw.
There's a chance for asteroid, the sun, aliens, deadly outbreak, and so on. The odds are just extremely low.
We are more likely to get hit by a world ending meteor than a supervolcanic eruption in yellowstone, im talking like 0.000000004% chance
"Yellowstone Won't Explode And End Civilisation"
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
There is a whole line of "trauma" connected to Yellowstone for me. when I was 7 I watched "Dante's Peak" and it made me very aware of volcanoes and what they do. Then I moved to Wyoming and learned of a fancy newfangled thing called a "supervolcano". I handled out super well, totes. We totally did not win an all expense paid trip to Yellowstone for the family, and I totally didn't spend days sobbing, hyperventilating, and begging that we not go. Every time I told someone online I live in Wyoming that whole overdue thing would get thrown in my face. I grew up ridiculously terrified of that place due to all the fear-mongering. Even now, as an adult who a spent ears researching I still can't bring myself to get too close. Logically I know things will be fine It's not going to erupt. But if there's an earthquake that I could feel in the slightest I'd have a breakdown. Logic has nothing on anxiety. I'm glad more people are discussing these things in a more scientific manner. Hopefully it means it'll spread and some potential kids can quit thinking they are going to die at any given seconds. I don't want anyone to feel how I feel/felt. Major kudos to you, man
dante' speak messed with me too, specially when combined with a volcanic eruption in 2009 where I live, I eventually lost that fear but nowadays it's crime the thing that is eating me from the inside
@@katzea.a7880Dante's Peak seems to be the trauma movie of 90's kids XD My husband had some bad experiences with it too.
Dude, dude. My parents carpooled with a few other parents back then. I was telling the mom that was driving about how "Oh my goodness. Volcanoes=scary as all get out. Dante's Peak showed me!".
Her response "Did you know there's a dormant volcano in Flagstaff? (about 5-6 ish hours north of where we lived at the time)
I just said "You mean extinct?"
She responded with "No, dormant"
I handled it in very unhealthy ways ahaha.
Oh goodness! I could not imagine what it would've done to me if I had lived somewhere with regular/a decent amount of volcanic activity. Oof. I'm sorry you went through that! Yikes!
I hope the fear is something that eases up.
@@kotandkotik they're not that regular but they affect the rural population heavily, last big eruption was in 2018, some pics looked like it was silent hill, and it's just 4 active volcanos among dormant and extinct ones
Yeah I can see how suddenly knowing that a volcano was already near you would feel like emotionally grating, I had a bad reaction to knowing someone got robed 1 street from where I live 2 weeks ago
Didn’t grow up with this personally, but I grew up hearing a lot of the fear mongering. Now I understand a lot more about it and if there were to be a fairly large earthquake (around a 5 or higher or something) I would want to go there more rather than less
@@kotandkotik lmao I grew up in Cheyenne, I was scared of Yellowstone to, but we went on a trip there when I was very young and I took my first steps right on the viewing area for the Grand Tetons.
The Second time I went, I remember constantly thinking “what if it just blows up”. Beautiful park though.
The media LOVES a good scary headline. This is the same thing about fault lines and how the media loves to say one is 'overdue' for an eruption. My late uncle was a geologist and when I was a kid, the gloom and doom was all about California going into the sea. He told me when I was a kid that 'geology does not operate on a schedule', something I never forgot...
I recall a movie villain once saying “ There is no news like bad news.”
That nicely sums up how most news media thinks.
It DOES operate in cycles, tho.
Look into how the magnetic poles have switched inside our planet, over and over.
Now consider the consequences.
But I DO want California to go into the ocean!
As a doomer , I say fuck the media (even if it was telling the truth)
Wait fault lines are actually volcanoes?
As a kid in the 90's/00's I remember always seeing "The end is near" on supermarket tabloids. Sometimes it was religion base other times it was stuff like this. Thank you for bopping this ridiculous fearmonger machine on the head. The media and such like to spin it up so much for no reason. Like, taxes and staying employed is hard enough.. Please don't add apocalypses to my anxiety..
It's kind of funny seeing religious people(not all btw) are obsessed with the end of the world.
@@yoshishuhaist I know right? Lmao
@ Anna H so you're not secretly hoping for a zombie apocalypse like me?
thats cause the baby boomers and their parents were comonly told that they were the last generation and that (from the christian view) that the end of days had begone and there was no need to have a job,a life or items to go into the new centry as it would never come, and that year 1999 would be the rapture.
If you want further watching looking up knowing betters video on "predicting the end" it even covers the religious event known has the great disappointment
I never could understand why so many folks seem to be Jonesing for some cataclysm... all these shows conjuring up doomsday scenarios for rating. It's ridiculous! Is it misanthropy? Do people think the planet would become like "MAD MAX" movies and they would be Lord Humongous or Immortan Joe? I just don't get it.
I can understand the religious nuts but the less religious obsess over this as well.
Hey soup, geology graduate student here. Good video, one of the best I’ve seen research wise.
You nailed it, thank you for spreading the truth about it.
When they say "Yellowstone could explode any moment"...
Consider this, a moment in geologic time is thousands of years 🤗
That, just like this video, is extremely reassuring.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Made me feel better seeing this video. The Rhyolite cap was news to me, that will act like a pressure release, it may be 100's of thousands of years till it blows.
This is so high quality what lol I love this so much, how are you so underated
Who would make a more accurate documentary:
1) Some geologist on the internet
2) A 2.1 billion dollar news company
Who would make a more accurate documentary:
1) a random guy on the internet
2) a culmination of everything we have learned about volcanoes
Sorry but I'm going to go with science, that thing blows America is fucked.
@@DQO07 Ah yes, you're going to FoLlOw ThE sCiEnCe, where ThE sCiEnCe is whatever a large news corporation with no incentive to tell the truth tells you is true, which you will never question.
@@DQO07 Oh look, another guy that thinks America is the world
@@andnl9819 its not?
@@DQO07 What a grand and intoxicating innocence! To believe that the the film industry and the doom-peddling media would let actual science get in the way of their disaster narratives is the height of fantasy.
I'm really impressed at the researchers collecting the data at the 15:44 mark. Getting negative kelvin temperatures takes some serious skill.
@vihaan9122It’s temperature **change** in units of Kelvin, not absolute temperature measurements.
@@Epyriel really love that they didn't stop to wonder why temperatures in kelvin would be that small on planet earth to begin with
Thank you for debunking this doomsday myth, I always try explaining people how this is not true, but they simply don't take my word for it. actually I was going to ask you for debunking this myth in the next video whichever you make in the comment section , but you just made a video on this. Thank you again. ^_^
I think the myth is so well lived coz its "sexy" - its simple, specific (not just a volcano, but a vulcano that everybody knows the name of), and spectaculare. Death of civilisation by climate change - boring, asteroid - we already have wathced the movie. Yeallostone! Now we are talking!
@@alexforce9 I think the it's mainly of because of a lot of doomsday predictions lately people just believe whatever others say without even verifying it, you just have to dig a depper to find out why this is not the case,and a lot of people watched *2012* the movie and still a lot of people continue to watch it. They just watch that movie and make their own predictions
@@athishnirup1815 I can't believe people STILL think 2012 is the end of the world when it's been about a decade since 2012. then again, people think that vaccines cause autism.
looking at the list of top ten most dangerous volcanos, and having four of them be in my state and over 6 ones that I have climbed has calmed my anxiety around volcanos exponentially.
How does that help???
@@DJSlimeball If they are scalable they are most likely not civilization ending.
This got me to go back up and rewind the video to see the list, only to remember that I live in Wisconsin and I'm pretty sure we don't have ANY volcanoes.
It will calm your nerves until it starts erupting while you're climbing it
@@DJSlimeball If you're sitting right on top of the volcano there's not really much point worrying about it
Something like the Yellowstone Volcano always scared me to death, especially recently because I just dont truly want to die from this. So I am SO glad you made this in great detail.
Same here, especially since I live extremely close to it. Though there is another catastrophe that is quite worrisome. That is also quite close.
Well death is always around the corner
The people closest will have it easy. Its everyone further away who'll suffer the longest.
I hope you are able to get he help you need.
Dying is just Like life before being born
Did you have a problem with not being born yet?
Its just like being born but the other Way around
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I want you to know I was genuinely laughing so hard I fell off my chair
love how the only volcanoes i have ever been on (kilauea, st. helens, rainier) are the top three most dangerous volcanoes in the us. hey, i’ve been on st. helens and rainier dozens of times! clearly this means that volcanoes are completely safe and can never harm anyone
I love how the upper end of those volcanoes are almost all in the pacific northwest next to prominent cities. Mt hood for Portland, Rainier for Seattle, St. Helens inbetween them but closer to Portland.
It's weird living near several things that could just casually kill thousands.
Unless they start to sneeze
Wait till this guy learns about Pompeii
@@calebseeley6259 or Auckland
I was a part of the whole "Yellowstone can wipe out humanity!" crowd because of a video my teacher put on in Middle School.
Guess there's another strike against the U.S. Education System. But I'm glad I actually learned a lot about Yellowstone in the process.
I remember watching a bunch of documentaries about Yellow Stone and they all said the same thing, it is a super volcano and it could erupt any time or within a few decades around the 2000's This was in the late 80's early 90's. Well still have not erupted yet. I would like to see all these "Scientists" disappointed faces when Yellow Stone never goes up but just becomes a solid rock plate.
We have an education system?
@@Pyxis10 we have a labor training camp we call an education system
@@Pyxis10 Well back then we did. Now well. Can't say there is one any more.
@@Pyxis10 If you define education as a way to indoctrinate children such that they have traits that are most preferable in a factory setting-then yes, education indeed
I'm actually surprised no one on youtube had really touched on this before as it's one of the major viral topics of infographic videos. It's been going around for at least 5 years now so no one really suspected it was that overblown. I kind of bought into myself. Thank you for showing me it's a bit more complicated than that and letting me relax a little bit about mother nature being a neglectful parent trying to kill us all.
Nice to see humility in the comments section.
I would encourage you to see what other media has been lying to you… hint: most
@@destroytheboxes I already know media does that, it's pretty much common knowledge at this point, but it can be hard to discern what's true when you don't have certain knowledge or don't have the time to intricately pick apart sources or counter explanations. Personally I trusted that trying to make a doomsday myth about one of the most well known and studied national parks/caldera would be something the most ballsy of content creators would do and sufficient intellectul backlash would have silenced a myth this debunkable and doomsdayish. Maybe they have and I just haven't been paying attention or the media just has gone all in on doomsday = clicks = money
As a palaeontologist this entire video makes me so happy x Everyone who says geologists "just guess" has no idea the stacks of data and research that goes into the field, and how it is very much *not* a "solved science" x We discover new stuff all the time, and it is very much a job you could do with a couple years of study if you're interested x
According to the info I was reading it is likely Yellowstone will either erupt in the next 10,000 years or possibly shut down. However the estimate given was that they were only 60% certain that there was a 50% chance of it doing one or the other. One of the vulcanologists said that the only thing he was pretty certain of was that at this rate humans would not be around to see it.
So assuming this is right (it probably isn’t) that’s a 30% chance in the next 10k years
Yeah... Humans will still be around. Just not how we are today. How can someone who is a studying volcanos know what will happen to the human species?
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@@Derpingtonshere ehhh with how climate change is going, I’d say there’s a good chance we might not be here at that point in time
@@lavenderhuman what do you mean? You do realize humans can adapt to their surroundings. Or we would have died in the ice age. We had more hair then, earth started to heat up and our bodies naturally got rid of some to account for the warm up. Climate change has been happening since the birth of earth itself. The difference between us and other species is we understand how things work.
Imagine if we could like... Find a way to extract geothermal energy or harness the pressure from geysers/underground volcanos for energy that could alleviate or permanently delay mass eruptions while also reduce fossil fuel usage.
There is
Not the delay volcano part but geothermal heating is used alot
I think Iceland uses geothermal power
@@handsanitizer7799 that's the joke I think
the problem is that our materials dont do very well under such underground pressures. so only countries lucky to have enough geysers can use geothermal energy. look up the deepest hole on earth, thats avout as far as we can get currently but we cant extract enough energy from this little down.
Seeing Yellowstone Lake shrink in size, can't help but think of what happened to the once vast Aral Sea
The Soviets wanted Central Asia to grow lots of cotton and didn't care about destroying a fishing industry, so they saw the Aral Sea and said "It's free real estate" and diverted the rivers feeding it to irrigate the desert. While they were successful in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan producing lots of cotton and melons, the long-term results were an ecological disaster for the region (shrinking the lake to just 10 percent of its original volume). And now with poisonous dust storms being kicked up by strong winds across the dried and polluted seabed causing health problems to local residents especially children, it's even more of a concern
Not even the only thing the Soviets have done to Central Asia. Know about that continuously burning crater in Turkmenistan? Soviet drilling led to that, and while it's their most popular attraction, it's causing health problems to nearby residents because of its noxious gases (which was why the Soviets set it on fire in the first place in the 70s) and thus the Turkmen government is in the process of sealing off the crater. While people may feel it's odd for Turkmenistan to end its number one tourist attraction, not everything can last forever and in the end this is a good thing for both the people and the environment
Why are you everywhere I go?
The Turkmenistan thing sounds like a Borat bit.
we get it pal you hate socialism
@@user-ef6gv4wv1l actually I don’t. I’m leftist myself. Cuban-Americans in NY tend to be left-leaning compared to those in Miami. I’m Cuban on my mom’s and Russian on my dad’s side and my mom’s side left Cuba years before the revolution because of Batista (who as you know, treated he working class poorly). Not Fidel. I love history and love talking about it, especially Central Asia which is a very interesting part of the world. You can both like a system and criticize its mistakes. And what happened to the Aral Sea was a big mistake
that's cool and all but what does this have to do with Yellowstone
bro you won't believe this
The thing that makes me sad is that I've been there and it is so beautiful, probably the most beautiful place I've ever been, but it gets a bad rap for having a volcano that *could* kill us, but has a high chance of never actually doing so.
Yes this place is beautiful like no other..I use to live there. People need to wake up and realize our world that we live on is dangerous and it isn't for them to go around thinking everyplace should be safe for them. That is why people die there in the most dumbass ways because most of them live in a video game fantasy world. Get out there and raw dog it!
40-year professional research seismologist here. I've noticed in recent years that new acquaintances rarely ask when California is going to fall into the sea; now it's "when is Yellowstone going to destroy human civilization?". You did a brilliant job on this, but I wish you'd taken your time and spoken at a slower pace where the power of the arguments could be more fully appreciated. I know many people have a short attention span now and expect everything to be explained in 280 words or less, but this excellent assembly of evidence deserves a clear delivery.
Slowing down the playback speed to 0.75 makes it a lot easier to follow and understand.
I think of myself as someone who believes in science but this is literally the first time I've seen something debunking this.
So when is California going to fall into the sea?
i watched it in 2x. Was he talking fast?
As someone with ADHD it really overwhelmed me. It was too much information at once
Something that a very smart volcanologist said to me was “In the worst case scenario, there is a major food shortage in the United Stated for 5 years. Followed by the best harvests ever seen in history because every inch of US soil has been enhanced with volcanic ash.”
volcanic ash is amazing... and roughly equivalent to fertilizer. Shouldn't affect harvests too much, just the cost of fertilizing the soil.
Funny, informative, thorough, animated, sources. Absolutely gold and so happy I found this channel. Haven't hit the subscribe button this hard since Lazerpig.
One question I wish the video tackled: the thought of somehow setting off a volcano early in order to prevent more dangerous eruption in the future.
I asked this to my science teacher and he said it depends on how much pressure is built and how deep the magma chamber is so technically yes but it could be better to let it do its thing
Not an expert but I imagine the process of drilling or excavating deep enough to make anything happen would be prohibitively difficult if not impossible. We've really, really struggled to bore to any significant depth, geologically speaking, it's surprisngly difficult.
@@boiledelephant lets just bomb it then? If it was repetedly shot by multiple railguns it would do something right?
@@boiledelephant underground nuclear explosion would do?
@@ricomotions5416 Interesting to try and imagine. But anything we detonated would be far closer to the surface than to the magma. And then you'd have a radioactive volcanic eruption, which is about as bad as it gets for life on earth.
this has literally been a root of my anxiety and panic attacks since my 6th grade science teacher mentioned it, thank you so much for making this video, and in more or less laymans terms, makes me calm way the heck down and not really panic about it anymore, thank you, thank you, thank you.
You should be more worried about the Arizona sized Asteroid that is on a direct collision course with the earth.
@@Splunkster imagine worrying about disasters out of your control LOL
@@CrazyshadowGuY8 Nah I'm not. I made it up
@@Splunkster u spooked me lol.
@@Splunkster th-cam.com/video/r7l0Rq9E8MY/w-d-xo.html
This was me
This has helped me so much. I have a irrational fear of yellowstone and this actually helped me put aside these fears. Thanks
imagine getting scared of something because of the societal norms, couldnt be my parents, right?
Its more likely Mt. Hood, Rainier, or Helen's would blow in our lifetimes.