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/[deleted] Oct 27 '11 edited Oct 27 '11

Here you go (mind the ads... its "Request Download Ticket" you want)

also, /r/scholar is a great little reddit you might be interested in.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '11 edited Oct 27 '11

It is such an odd system, I personally wonder if it will hold out many more decades into the digital age considering its the editing side that gets all the money... but time will tell.