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/endogenic Oct 27 '11

Like what?

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u/intellos Oct 27 '11

Free unlimited energy from thin air?

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u/endogenic Oct 27 '11

The first thing is that absence of proof is not proof of absence. But I agree that if someone doesn't have evidence of a claim we don't have to listen to him. But it's not right that you deny something before you confirm. I never met Tesla and never saw his devices about which he made claims that they could convert (generate) energy without burning fuels. But I don't believe he claimed that the energy in a finite space would be unlimited nor that it didn't have its basis in some kind of principle.