Yellowstone Road Melts

[HawkMan]

Expansion joints?

 

 

Asphalt doesn't fare any better to shifting terrain and it melts.

 

Of course it has never truly happened...we wouldn't be discussing this, heh.

 

Asphalt adapts very well to shifting terrain, what you're looking at there is EXTREME. I'm talking regular shifts that will crack ashpalt wide open while asphalt will just become more curvy. 

 

heck look at most Norwegian roads in spring where they didn't bother to dig deep enough for the foundation. 

 

Tell me the cement that could survive this without expansion joint every meter

http://pub.cdn.tv2.no/multimedia/TV2/archive/01046/telehiv-1024_1046614i.jpg

 

Sorry but cement is a terrible road surface, but because it's to hard and brittle, and because it literally rips tires apart when you drive on it.  Also a very bad surface to use on roads that get snow or ice in winter for several reasons. 

 

there's a reason why road engineers DON'T use it. 

[Hum]

I still say we should do small punctures to slowly relieve pressures.

[Shaun N.]

I thought that a Yellowstone eruption would mean an "extinction event" for the entire planet?

 

 

I would imagine it would certainly have an effect on the entire planet but as its a regular occurrence it certainly wont kill us all

I still say we should do small punctures to slowly relieve pressures.

 

the problem with that is that similar to a balloon, you could make small punctures and it all be fine but you could get a wrong puncture which would start it all off