Supervolcano: "Are we ready" is not quite what I meant in giving a title to that post
By Janet Chapple on September 6th, 2010
In science
Before I left for a visit to the park, I sent along some comments and a URL about the monitoring being done on the potential eruption of the volcano under Yellowstone. Looking at that post's title again, I realize the word "ready" is ambiguous there. We will never be ready to be inundated with hundreds or thousands of square miles of ash and lava. The hope is simply that we can be warned in time to get out of the way when it does happen. And that is the best that modern scientists can prepare us for at this time.
Such forces of nature do not wait for man to figure them out.
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Coming soon: Some notes about my adventures and observations in Yellowstone in August.
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