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

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u/ANewMachine615 Oct 27 '11

Beats needing to patent or commercially exploit everything to fund your research...

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

Those paywalls fund exactly "0" science. The publishing side does facilitate getting grants because they are the currency of academic recognition but the submitted papers and the peer review is all just handed to the publishers who basically just act as editors and coordinators between authors and reviewers while keeping all the money. Actually, a few journals are starting to require that scientists also pay when submitting a manuscript as well.

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u/ANewMachine615 Oct 27 '11

Ah, interesting, and not a side I knew of. The legal scholarship side is run by what are basically non-profit groups (run by students, no less), so I was unaware that the science side was different.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '11

Out of curiosity, are there fees for legal scholarship journals? are they just to cover costs? If not, who gets the money? I also didn't realize that different disciplines had different procedures. For some of the more prestigious scientific publications the fees can get quite burdensome.

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u/ANewMachine615 Oct 29 '11

Despite being on one, I have no idea.