by | March 27, 2014 · 10:21 am

More End Times stuff? Your guess is as good as mine.

Yellowstone Bison Running for their lives?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSPrHXvyws

The video was posted March 20, 2014, but the date it was taken is not shown. Prepper Central says they’re running away from the Yellowstone supervolcano. I have no idea if that’s true or if this is normal behavior for them.

Wikipedia says Yellowstone National Park is the caldera of a supervolcano 34 by 45 miles in diameter. It was formed during three supereruptions that occurred 2.1 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago, and 640,000 years ago. Is it set to blow again? Dunno. If it does, I can only guess it would be a majorly catastrophic environmental event.

NASA simulation of possible behavior G2 when it gets to the black hole

In other weirdness, astronomers are expecting an incredibly rare event to occur SOON when a mysterious gas cloud called G2 hits the edge of the black hole that lies at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Nobody knows what will happen, though one possibility is that the black hole will suck the cloud in and emit a bunch of x-rays … or something. (When it comes to astronomy, my IQ is about equal to a potted plant’s.)

Every few days, the Swift spacecraft turns toward the innermost region of the galaxy and takes a 17-minute-long snapshot with its X-ray Telescope (XRT). These are posted @ http://www.swift-sgra.com/. I visited but have nowhere near enough knowledge to understand what the pictures and graphs mean. If anyone here does, let me know. I’m interested!

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  1. Tracy Marisa's avatar Tracy Marisa
    March 27, 2014 at 10:40 am

    I kinda doubt those bison are running for their lives. But I can say that when we were in Yellowstone for a few days in 2009, I was never comfortable until we were on our way down the mountain away from the park and heading for Cody. Yellowstone’s a breathtakingly beautiful place but also rather creepy–at least I thought so.

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  2. zmalfoy's avatar zmalfoy
    March 27, 2014 at 11:35 am

    The video was originally uploaded was a guy just videoing buffalo doing what they do– running about here and there all over that area. It was then copied by some other guy, who then made the above.

    Every few months, a new Yellowstone scare goes through some of the sub-channels, usually because there’s an uptick of seismicity. But seismicity in that area is always waxing and waning. If the uptick is sustained above 4.0 for more than, like, 2 weeks, then I’ll get concerned.

    All my current skepticism aside, Yellowstone is a big, overdue danger. Primarily to anyone on North America east of Yellowstone, but also to the whole world. When that thing blows, which history says it eventually will, it’ll be probably the greatest natural disaster in human history excepting The Flood. Everyone on North America east of the park will deal with the ash clouds, and ash getting everywhere, including inside our lungs. Over the next few years, as the particulates circulate through the atmosphere, global temps will drop, and we may face several “years without a summer”. This would have a devestating effect not just on crops, but on livestock across the world. World food supply will crash (this is after the economic effects of such an explosion). Think, basically, Nature-induced global nuclear winter, with a different sort of fall-out. It’ll suck pretty bad. [This is not taking into account Yellowstones proximity to the Ring of Fire (in global terms) and how such an explosion might possibly distrupt/ displace other seismic zones, either New Madrid, or the East Pacific, and how that might ripple. . .]

    So, yes, something to have some concern about. . . but there are a lot of people that enjoy stirring up panic just to cause drama.

    As for the G2 thing. . . I dunno . . . maybe something cool will happen. Maybe not. I honestly think we don’t know enough about the workings of smace to understand. This is coming from the people who still maintain that comets are dirty snowballs, the Sun is a blazing ball of burning gas–but somehow those dirty ice balls can fly thorugh the burning gas, and emerge out again, little worse for wear. . .

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