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user-inactivated  ·  4030 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Supervolcanoes in the Ancient World

Thoughts on averting it? We'd have to apply artificial pressure to the air inside the chamber, which seems ridiculously difficult.

(As an aside, a book I now vow to write, no matter how scientifically inaccurate: is the story of the most dedicated suicide bomber of all time, who penetrated our defenses around the Yellowstone caldera and blew it up by releasing the pressure.)