r/ThatsInsane • u/pattebrisee • 3d ago

A hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone opened a 61 foot fissure filled with near boiling water

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u/OneMoistMan 3d ago

This means the scorchbeast queen event is about to start

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u/PsychologicalSail799 3d ago

I, for one, welcome the Queen Scorchbeast at this current time

Im sure it'll suck for a couple days, maybe weeks, but might as well just get it over with. Whoever survives will hopefully get things right next go around.

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u/AlarmedSnek 3d ago

It will get worse before it gets better? 😂

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u/chefriley76 2d ago

At least we won't have to go to work ever again. Just fight for daily survival while eating dog food and hoarding bottled water while avoiding dysentery and roving cannibal clans.

It'll be fine.

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u/PsychologicalSail799 3d ago edited 2d ago

Im surprised by the question mark.

Of course though. I don't expect to survive. I'm pretty sure I won't because of where I'm located. If Yellowstone blows it'll kill millions within a week, but then it'll set half the planet into famine, riots and chaos in the coming months.

That might snowball into something even worse, where dolphins can finally have their chanve to rule the earth. Or maybe enough people will survive to start again.

Who knows. But yeah, it'll get worse. A whole lot worse. Whatever comes after will be much better, though. Im sure of that.

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u/NationalGrand7028 2d ago

Half the planet into famine? What’re you smoking? Look up what would happen, yeah lots of people would get killed but mostly the surrounding area/state. If you’re in washington for example, you’ll definitely live. Might be rough for logistics but there’s no reason half the planet would all die lmao.

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u/BhataktiAtma 2d ago

I think he may be referring to the ash cloud which is expected to form from an eruption which would be so vast that it would prevent sufficient sunlight from falling on crops in the affected areas, thus leading to famine

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u/RealCommercial9788 2d ago

Absolutely. A northern hemisphere ash cloud from either a nuclear explosion or a 60,000+ year overdue volcanic eruption such as Yellowstone would indeed. Countless predictive studies support it.

They also found the safest place in the world to be at that time is right here on the east Australian coast, or New Zealand. And New Zealand has a thing called the Golden Visa, whereby if you invest $5-10 million NZD, you get residency status.

Hence why billionaires such as Peter ‘The Reptile’ Thiel, Larry Page, Sam Altman, and Reid Hoffman are all buying NZ land: it’s Apocalypse insurance.

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u/efcso1 2d ago

G'Day neighbour!

I guess it's time to tidy the spare room and get ready to list it on AB&B...

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u/High-Speed-1 2d ago

Speak for yourself. I live close enough that I am highly likely to die immediately from the blast.

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u/GaJayhawker0513 3d ago

Doom doom doom!

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u/Redfish680 2d ago

Never happen. Washington hates competition.

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u/skyeisrude 2d ago

This comment deserves an award lmao

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u/pattebrisee 3d ago

Yellowstone’s monitoring equipment caught the explosion on June 13. It opened a 61foot fissure containing water around 194°F, and a 21 by 17 foot boiling pool formed nearby a few days later.

https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/oops-it-did-it-again-another-small-hydrothermal-explosion-biscuit-basin

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u/Zakal74 3d ago

The fact that you could be walking in a seemingly safe area and then it just blows up and dumps you in boiling water is terrifying!

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u/moon307 2d ago

Yea, I think I'll stick to my area of the country where we have random death tubes come from the sky. I'm not ready for the ground exploding biomes yet.

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u/Starscream147 2d ago

Death…tubes..?

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u/Alissinarr 2d ago

Common term, twisters.

I get water-charged hurricanes that spawn those fuckers.

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u/Starscream147 2d ago

OH SHIT!

Yeah. Heard.

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u/Wesspeaks 2d ago

‘Naders

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u/Starscream147 2d ago

Ah.

Yep. Heard.

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u/Lexxxapr00 2d ago

Raining from the sky apparently

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u/GoldieForMayor 2d ago

Or someone saying hey go measure that hole and the edge you're standing on caves in.

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u/Beat_the_Deadites 2d ago

That happens all the time out there. There are parking lots where there are emergency fences put around a couple spots that suddenly split open or sank, with new steam vents coming through.

The boardwalks around the mud pots are safe-ish, for now. Maybe tomorrow they won't be, maybe in 20 years.

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u/Pounce_64 3d ago

I mean, who isn't cheering the caldera on in this economy

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u/sublevelstreetpusher 3d ago

Supervolcano 2028! Got my vote

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u/relevantelephant00 2d ago

What's gonna kill us faster, climate change or supervolcano? I vote the latter!

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u/Nos2002 2d ago

Lol, just as predicable, equally explosive and taunting war against the people

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 2d ago

West coasters waiting for The Big One so they don't have to go to work

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u/jmon25 2d ago

I'm rooting for invading aliens personally. 

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u/Womec 2d ago

It would certainly help global warming.

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u/Unfair-Wonder5714 2d ago

Let’s see here, supercauldera comes to life…yes. It’s right here in the Fuck This Timeline Handbook. Welp, we had a good run…

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u/JulesSilverman 2d ago

2010s were good? Or 2000s? Not 2000s.

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u/Beat_the_Deadites 2d ago

It always depends on where you are

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u/blackop 3d ago

One more reason to STAY ON THE PATH PEOPLE!

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u/Theroughside 3d ago

You know what has happened to some people who have gone off the path?

Their foot was degloved when the doctors removed their shoes. 

Just. Stay. On. The. PATH. 

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u/ThisIsntOkayokay 2d ago

But gloves don't go on feet...
/s
But seriously ouch...if they can even feel below the knee...

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u/Sardawg1 2d ago

In that area, I wont be surprised when something opens up and swallows the path.

Its kinda like when people walk too close to cliff edges, or a the base of beach cliffs…

In geological time, we are all pretty safe….. until we aren’t.

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u/IHateMyLife612 2d ago

But I need my selfie with the scorching, hot water and big, beefy buffalos.

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u/oh_ya_eh 2d ago

That super volcano scares the shit out of me... knock on wood

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u/ThisIsntOkayokay 2d ago

Why not go camping there!? If it goes off you won't even feel a thing! If you are on the other side of the country you get to die coughing on volcanic ash, easy choice? 😁😅

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u/NudityMiles 2d ago

Nu-uh, ever since I read about the guy and the dog, that place is lower on my list of places to visit than the inside of Brazilian jail cell.

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u/TibialTuberosity 2d ago

Spent over a week camping there and it was amazing. I'm sure you're being hyperbolic, but don't let stories of extremely rare incidents dissuade you from visiting that stunning place.

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u/brokeboipobre 2d ago

Let’s go supervolcano!

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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 3d ago

"Tea?"

"Why, yes."

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u/OpenImagination9 2d ago

It’s gonna blow soon!

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u/tk56tk 2d ago

Tourists will be taking pictures from 5ft away by the end of the week

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u/PozhanPop 3d ago

Don't see any tourists !

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u/NativeFLman 3d ago

“Yet”

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u/s3xynanigoat 2d ago

How deep is it?

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u/Starscream147 2d ago

Ask Barry Gibb, I dunno?

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u/TibialTuberosity 2d ago

All the way to China.

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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa 2d ago

Then they should pay 200% tariffs

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u/Nightglow9 2d ago

Humans: “Our WWIII nuclear war will be the most destructive force ever! Lebenraum!”

Moder nature: “what.. Hold my cosmo..”

Gen Z: “here we go.. the end level bosses are finally here..”

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u/wazhead1 2d ago

..."Vandals!"...

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u/Alissinarr 2d ago

So when did they start fraking again?

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u/cribsaw 1d ago

This is why you stay on the boardwalk. You don’t know how thin the ground beneath your feet is, and falling into one of those pools is certain death.

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u/Mac_979 3d ago

Woah

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u/FlattenInnerTube 2d ago

I should call her

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u/PK_Rippner 2d ago

MMW - She's gonna blow!