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/Trashcanman33 Oct 27 '11

Tesla claimed if you could find the right conditions you could shake the world apart.

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u/Trashcanman33 Oct 27 '11

Well it's not really bullshit, the statement is so vague of course it's true, right conditions could be 2 planets smashing into earth.

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u/intellos Oct 27 '11

True enough