Timeline for What kind of apocalyptic event can be predicted years before it happens?
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| Jul 23, 2017 at 16:46 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | To be specific, three known super-eruptions at 2.1mya, 1.2mya and 640kya. | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 16:45 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Things we know about Yellowstone: (1) it doesn't erupt that regularly (we have those strata and they aren't so regular that anyone can predict one to accuracy within a human lifetime); (2) it doesn't cause a global mass extinction event once every 5k years, on account of there not having been one at any point in the last 5k years. Still a good idea though, because we can imagine that vulcanologists might discover new techniques and apply them to Yellowstone. It's just that the technique won't be so simple as "it goes off like clockwork every 5000 years so that's... next Tuesday!" | |
| Jul 23, 2017 at 9:53 | history | answered | Memetican | CC BY-SA 3.0 |