Wednesday, November 25, 2020

So, I Have To Wonder...

 ...why exactly it is that British tabloids are obsessed with Yellowstone exploding and killing us all.

Normally it's the Daily Mail saying we're all going to die, this time it's the Express. Sigh. In fact, the entire first page of Yellowstone supervolcano in a news search except for one article from the Columbus Dispatch (which informs us we are not all going to die) is the Daily Express telling us we're all going to die.

(The second page has an idiot who got arrested after trying to cook a chicken in the hot springs).

So, are we all going to die? In fact, the Yellowstone hotspot is what's dying; it's becoming less powerful and eruptions are becoming less common...and by less common we mean it's gone from about every 500,000 years to about every 1.5 million years.

By that measure the most likely time for the next eruption is, oh, about 900,000 years in the future.

So, tabloids, what is with the supervolcano obsession?

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