I remember when I was a kid my dad took me to see Old Faithful. This was around 1973. At that time the eruptions were about every 60 minutes. I remember a park ranger would come out and place a large wheel on a post and start slowly turning the wheel, saying, "She's getting ready to blow," pretending like it was a release valve that caused Old Faithful to erupt. Then right when Old Faithful erupted, he'd give the wheel a hard turn and say, "Thar she blows." He made a big show of it. It was a lot of fun. I wonder if anyone does this anymore?
I question the timing referred to by this young ranger. When I was a child traveling with my Parents and Grand Parents it erupted every 20 minutes non-fail.
+Johnny Allison The ranger is correct. As you might imagine, more data has been collected about Old Faithful than any other geyser. According to T. Scott Bryan (author of "The Geysers of Yellowstone"), the average of more than 46,000 intervals prior to the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake was 64.91 minutes. Since then, there's been a tendency toward longer intervals, and an earthquake in 1983 increased the average to 78 minutes. The average of over 4,000 intervals recorded in 2007 was 90.4 minutes.
I stand corrected. I was pretty young at the time, 10 or so. It is possible that what I remember was a reference being made about the duration of each spouting rather than the intervals?
I hope that ticking time bomb underneath the park doesn't go off soon I hope this park is around for 100-1000 years more. I've been there 2 years ago and I hope the Volcano doesn't Blow Sky High
Well the USGS says given all the information they have on the Yellowstone Caldera the yearly odds of it having an eruption are 0.00014%. So that's good news for us but they also say these catastrophic events are largely unpredictable but still I wouldn't lose sleep worrying about it.
AT LEAST THEY SHOWED A LITTLE OF THE CRAP AROUND THERE, USUALLY THEY DONT. LARGE CROWDED PARKING LOT, TOUR BUSES FULL OF OLD ORIENTAL PEOPLE, CHEAP ALUMIUM BLEACHERS, BIG OLD RUN DOWN HOTEL COMPLETE WITH GIFT SHOP , POSTCARDS & T SHIRTS, CROWDS AND CROWDS.
I remember when I was a kid my dad took me to see Old Faithful. This was around 1973. At that time the eruptions were about every 60 minutes. I remember a park ranger would come out and place a large wheel on a post and start slowly turning the wheel, saying, "She's getting ready to blow," pretending like it was a release valve that caused Old Faithful to erupt. Then right when Old Faithful erupted, he'd give the wheel a hard turn and say, "Thar she blows." He made a big show of it. It was a lot of fun. I wonder if anyone does this anymore?
We need that log book! Very Important records!
Is.... is that the violins from Believe Me by Fort Minor in the beginning or am I mishearing?
m.ruclips.net/video/YF-KUpCTCyo/видео.html
Fort Minor sampled (Orchestral string 8) in their song. Good ear.
I’d love to see if machine learning computer software could be implemented to predict geyser eruptions.
What happens if the tree grows?
she has a cool job
Cool!
I question the timing referred to by this young ranger. When I was a child traveling with my Parents and Grand Parents it erupted every 20 minutes non-fail.
+Johnny Allison The ranger is correct. As you might imagine, more data has been collected about Old Faithful than any other geyser. According to T. Scott Bryan (author of "The Geysers of Yellowstone"), the average of more than 46,000 intervals prior to the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake was 64.91 minutes. Since then, there's been a tendency toward longer intervals, and an earthquake in 1983 increased the average to 78 minutes. The average of over 4,000 intervals recorded in 2007 was 90.4 minutes.
I stand corrected. I was pretty young at the time, 10 or so. It is possible that what I remember was a reference being made about the duration of each spouting rather than the intervals?
I hope that ticking time bomb underneath the park doesn't go off soon
I hope this park is around for 100-1000 years more. I've been there 2 years ago and I hope the Volcano doesn't Blow Sky High
Well the USGS says given all the information they have on the Yellowstone Caldera the yearly odds of it having an eruption are 0.00014%. So that's good news for us but they also say these catastrophic events are largely unpredictable but still I wouldn't lose sleep worrying about it.
using the tree to gauge height of water jet over time is dumb! the tree is growing.
Why not mark graduations on the window itself?
The tree is growing far slower than the margin of error dummy. Now get lost KAREN.
AT LEAST THEY SHOWED A LITTLE OF THE CRAP AROUND THERE, USUALLY THEY DONT. LARGE CROWDED PARKING LOT, TOUR BUSES FULL OF OLD ORIENTAL PEOPLE, CHEAP ALUMIUM BLEACHERS, BIG OLD RUN DOWN HOTEL COMPLETE WITH GIFT SHOP , POSTCARDS & T SHIRTS, CROWDS AND CROWDS.