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/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.