Yellowstone Won't Explode And End Civilisation (Sorry) | The Deep Dive
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- It's sad Yellowstone's off the cards. But at least we still have World War 3!
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
1:11 - "But Yellowstone IS a ticking timebomb!" (Spoilers: No it's not)
2:08 - "But isn't Yellowstone always uplifiting?" (Spoilers: No it's not)
5:11 - "Right so Yellowstone's uplift and subsidence IS caused by magam, then?" (Spoilers: No it's not)
7:14 - "But Yellowstone get's a lot of Earthquakes..."
9:46 - "Well, first off, Yellowstone isn't a supervolcano..."
11:41 - "Yellowstone does have a history of supereruptions"
12:35 - "Volcanoes aren't overdue, that's not how volcanoes work!"
14:53 - "There's good evidence to suggest Yellowstone could be shutting down..."
18:31 - "Larger eruptions than Yellowstone did not kill us off..."
18:57 - "The ashfall wouldn't necessarily be cataclysmic, either..."
20:08 - "One thing a Yellowstone supereruption would do is alter the climate..."
22:16 - "It's okay, we can find another way to destroy civilisation"
23:04 - Credits and an extra tidbit about eruption climate modelling. Oooo. Scandalous!
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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
“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
"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
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
And every time a volcano erupts it not only covers the land with fertile soil it also puts carbon into the atmosphere which falls back to the land and keeps everything lush and green and the government want carbon neutral without carbon in the soil the land turns into a barren landscape
"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 *
"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
One thing people tend to forget about volcanic eruptions. Is the fact that it can make lands very fertile. So it may wipe out some crops but future crops could be more plentiful
Yep, The Sunset crater volcano at Arizona is a great example.
Yellowstone would do more than wipe out a few crops 😂 I'm not saying it's going to erupt but have you seen the predictions and charts for it if it did? Almost the entire US would be covered in ash.
@@Raytheharbinger0 did you see the predictions? that was only for an umbrella eruption, otherwise it'd only cover like 30-40% of america, and it'd be only a thin layer unless you were very close to yellowstone
@@Raytheharbinger0 Did you watch the video?
Of course he didn’t 🙄
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!!
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"
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?
The “debunk bed” joke alone had me liking and subscribing in the first minute. Excellent video! Well done!
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 CZcams 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…🙄
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.
So glad you put this up. I keep explaining this to people, but many replies reveal a huge need for science educations in this country. I'm more worried about the Campi Flegrei than I am about Yellowstone.
LOL stupid. not everyone believes the Scientists.
Every Project Wingman player: Ah crap, guess we have to do it ourselves
INTO THE FANTA ZONE
Calamity...
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
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.
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.
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 was told by a ranger at Yellowstone that the biggest threat would probably be a fissure opening beneath Yellowstone Lake that would result in a flash-vaporization of the water.
I think we met the same Ranger. I was told the same thing when I visited.
Wait you guys don't know there's only one Yellowstone ranger that just teleports around
@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 And two bears that constantly torment him wherever he goes. Things have been better since picnic baskets fell out of fashion, but Ranger Smith is a diligent man. I hear he's with the Avengers now.
@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 *_*MIB shows up*_*
@@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991 Sounds like an SCP. Could be safe, but probably Keter.
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.
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0:50 bro really put [pregnant pause] in closed captions 💀
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. 😂
"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
I love the quick, witty, informative, and slightly unhinged way of your delivery as well as your high quality video editing keep it up!
The amount of graphs and attention to detail just blows my mind. Truly amazing work.
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’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.
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.
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!!
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 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.
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.
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 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
Lol the pain of redshirt, watching as the "debunk beds" persuade people into a lull. Hahahahaha. Red shirt just screaming at the screen "pack a bug-out-bag", "store clean water and batteries", "dont eat yellow snow".
Its existential dread
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,
This was an awesome explanation of what's really happening beneath Yellowstone thank you so much
I'm really impressed at the researchers collecting the data at the 15:44 mark. Getting negative kelvin temperatures takes some serious skill.
Wait I actually dont understand , that graph is absolute bs then 💀💀💀
@@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
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.
“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
The irony that I was using one of the videos mentioned on the list of vids overstating Yellowstone’s power as research for a geography project and then immediately had this video recommended to me after never fails to impress me.
I can't believe I'm just finding your channel. This was amazing thank you totally subscribing!!!
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
"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)
Send the dwarfs in the deep dive to take care of it
ROCK AND STONE BRODA
Rock and stone!!!
would just like to say that this is the video that inspired me to write an essay on this for my journalism class so I could show it to everyone who tells me it will erupt. one of my favorite videos 10/10 👍
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 CZcams 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
@@arthurhino6936The 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.
I love this... it's about a fascinating topic, presented charismatically with good bits of humor and with actual references listed and shown.
You did a fabulous job, I really enjoyed your program.
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
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.
Your vids are amazing. I miss you bro. Hope you're well.
"My source is I made it the fuck up" is absolutely hilarious. What game is that from?
The clip is medal gear revengeance but the audio isn't from the game. It's a voiceover from a popular internet shitposter. Gianni I think.
@@ryanbradleyrankinit's Gianni voice acting for a video made by Max0r. If you watch to the credits you can here Soup giving credit to the video. 10/10 channel, best way I can summarise it is purposefully overedited, high effort accelerated brain rot about videogames.
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.
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 ☠️
You cursed me for like a year to try to figure out who the ring of fire song was by, thanks a lot.
(I love your videos!
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.
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
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
Funny and wonderfully written and edited, you sir just got a subscriber!
this gives hella CGPGrey vibes, love the video man keep it up!!
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...
"Yellowstone won't explode and end civilization"
Civilization: "Fine, I'll do it myself"
lol too accurate
☢️
- putin
Humans have always triumphed over nature, this is but our next test
Civilization: It's all anarchy?
Mankind: Always has been. 🔫
thank you for enlightening us with your knowledge
First vid I’ve seen of yours and the 1inch “your mom” joke was enough to get me to subscribe, great stuff ❤
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
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
why are you sorry that you calmed me down. i was terrified thinking it was gonna explode but now ik it wont. tysm
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!!)
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
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
Civilisation ending by supervolcano was THE ONE THING I was looking forward to since I learned about Yellowstone And you just took it away from me.
I love the energy in your videos. Got a few good laughs out of me.
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
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.
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@@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
Thank you for translating “other” units of measurement to freedom units
You might be my new favourite CZcamsr please keep up the good work. If you need a video editor i am ready to learn for you!
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
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
Omg yesss!! I’ve been telling people some short or less informed version of this for years now, but I’m not smart enough to put it into a awesomely clever and funny CZcams video 🖤10+++🎉 keep fighting the good fight lol
I love the last part of this video showing on how the end of civilization and the real cause of it not being Yellowstone and being politicians we hire to run our countries and basically mess everything up those are the real threats. I really love the fact that you put that in good for you. Just that alone made me subscribe to your channel and I can’t wait to see what’s in store next thank you
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.
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.
Absolute baller thumbnail, I wouldn’t usually click on something like this but that made me do it
Thank you for curing my anxiety about Yellowstone.
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
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
What if I ask it nicely
its worth a shot right?
I've lived in fear of this since I was 10. Thank you for calming my mind.
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.
"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.
literally some of the best comedic nonsense ever, love this video. Thanks for putting this together for my own hedonic entertainment... also learning stuff was nice too I guess
Would love to see another one about the Campi Flegrei, or flegreic fields.
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?
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
"it was less than a minute ago." Me watching a year into the future and CZcams replaying it after the fact.