Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
by takk309 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:14PM
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Life will go on if the volcano erupts. It may not be human life, but it will still be life. The Yellowstone volcano is just another bogeyman that is not worth stressing over. It will happen or it won't and realistically there is nothing we can do about it.
Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
by ericd on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:54PM
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I happen to prefer that our species not go extinct. We spend a lot of effort on much less important things, we can afford to spend some here.
Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
by tonysdg on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:40PM
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We spend a lot of effort on much less important things <-- someone (not me, but someone) might argue that's exactly why our species should go extinct ;-)
Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
by ss248 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:02PM
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Following that logic, every single species on Earth should go extinct. As bad as we are, we are still the best. Simply because we have the most advanced brain.
Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
by awakeasleep on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:34PM
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What I don't understand.. the continuation of non-human life is an asterisk that is of no importance to us, right?
Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:28AM
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So it turns out there is something we can do about it, and someone wrote an article about that. It's pretty cool, you should read it.
> Why we as humans seem to think that life can't possibly continue without us has always boggled my mind.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with this comment. Care to clarify? If you're suggesting that any attempts to prevent an eruption would be too disruptive to the ecosystem, imagine how disruptive 8 ft. of volcanic ash would be if it were to blanket most of the western United States. That's not even mentioning the millions of tons that would end up in the atmosphere for years, blocking out the sun, and killing off a substantial amount of plant and animal life world wide.