Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano

Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by takk309 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:14PM (#15597055)

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.

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Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by ericd on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:54PM (#15597789)

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.

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Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by tonysdg on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:40PM (#15598023)

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 ;-)

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Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by ss248 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:02PM (#15598367)

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.

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Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by awakeasleep on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @07:34PM (#15597662)

What I don't understand.. the continuation of non-human life is an asterisk that is of no importance to us, right?

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Re:Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:28AM (#15599400)

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.

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