Just received an email that indicates the Yellowstone Caldera is getting ready to pop. Since this would be an extinction level event, seems it would be hard to contain the info but it is what it is. Anyone else heard anything or is this just someone pushing this catastrophic possibility yet again.
The email linked to: Supervolcano activity in Yellowstone/

My friend thinks that because we're in SOCAL we should survive the Yellowstone Super-volcano cooking off. We may survive the initial blast, but what do our local earthquake faults do in reaction. I don't know, but medium to long term global winter comes to mind. Global warming? How about a prolonged cooling... Thoughts? Comments? Beating a dead horse?

Fingers crossed for the souls on board.

BBC News

I am surprised that a commercial flight could 'disappear' for so long. I was under the impression that they were monitored very closely and that a rescue would be put in place within minutes.

What is the the typical time for locating such a downed flight?

Just ran across this fascinating study: http://www.backcountrychronicles.com/plb-slot-canyon-test/

Well worth reading- PLBs don't work all that well in slot canyons in Zion National Park. I particularly appreciate the final sentence in the article...

Dog alerted snowmachiners to injured man who survived subzero night outside

Good Dog!

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