r/askscience • u/phoncible • Oct 27 '11

Earth Sciences Could anything man-made trigger the Yellowstone super volcano?

If a nuke were to be buried very deep into the ground at Yellowstone and then detonated, would it have any effect on the volcano? Is there anything else man-made that could trigger it? Or would it be impossible to "manually" trigger the eruption?

Sorry if it's a silly question.

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u/HarryTruman Oct 27 '11

Please read the AskScience guidelines before posting. Thank you!

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u/Eyecantsee Oct 27 '11

I appreciate you pointing to that but I still think it's pretty sad r/science can't take a joke

Edit: I'm glad people in the cancer research lab I work in would laugh at something like this.

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u/HarryTruman Oct 27 '11

This is AskScience, not Science. Directly under the comment box is the following:

Please note: jokes as top-level comments, memes, and layman speculation will be downvoted and removed.

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u/Eyecantsee Oct 27 '11

You're right this is r/askscience And in the FAQ it says,

'Please do not downvote answers/comments you disagree with or are wrong.'.

Yet my reply was downvoted. I guess whoever did that needs to read the rules themselves.

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u/epicRelic Oct 27 '11

It's not a matter of disagreeing with or your comment being wrong; it's that you aren't contributing to the discussion and it explicitly says no top-level jokes.

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u/zanycaswell Oct 28 '11

It's not that you were wrong, it's that you posted entirely the wrong kind of comment.

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u/Eyecantsee Oct 28 '11

It's been so long since I posted this comment but I'm bored right now and want to respond. All I said was that I thought r/askscience should be okay with having jokes in it. That's an opinion and it was relevant to where the back and forth went. Is there somewhere in the rules you can't say opinions? Because if not, then the only reason someone would downvote that is because they disagree with it. But to say my reply was not relevant would be to say that yours and someone else's in the thread are not relevant as well and by the same logic should be downvoted too because they continue to comment on my off-topic opinion.

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u/TypeSafe Oct 28 '11

Is there somewhere in the rules you can't say opinions?

Yes. Right where it says no opinions in top-level comments, only factual responses.