| Col Durnford | 17 May 2021 5:40 p.m. PST |
You're the president of the United States. You have just been informed that the Yellowstone caldera will blow in 3 days. It will result in the the near total destruction of the U.S. That is, unless the pressure is released in another location on the ring of fire (pacific coast). This can be done by detonating a nuke deep within a volcano. The choices are: 1) Do nothing and let the chips fall as they will. 2) Nuke a volcano in Washington state and chance the loss of the West coast. 3) Pick a volcano in the ring of fire that is not on U.S. territory. I told you it was an impossible choice. |
| mad monkey 1 | 17 May 2021 6:07 p.m. PST |
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| Thresher01 | 17 May 2021 6:19 p.m. PST |
Any volcanoes in North Korea? |
 Parzival  | 17 May 2021 6:46 p.m. PST |
West coast gone, huh? Hmm… there's gotta be a downside…  Time to snatch up some soon-be-ocean-front property in Nevada! Serious answer: Plenty of relatively unpopulated territory in the Ring of Fire, and some of it is even US territory. Kiss the Aleutians goodbye!
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| Stryderg | 17 May 2021 6:49 p.m. PST |
As often as the "experts" have been wrong over the past year or so, I would probably pick 1. |
| 79thPA | 17 May 2021 6:50 p.m. PST |
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 17 May 2021 7:04 p.m. PST |
It's gonna be a fun movie, though. |
| wakenney | 17 May 2021 7:04 p.m. PST |
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| Wackmole9 | 17 May 2021 8:33 p.m. PST |
1 let it all burn and fly merrily off with the US Gold reserves. It is the correct Environmental answer. |
| Zephyr1 | 17 May 2021 8:51 p.m. PST |
Unintended Consequences (A): You nuke a volcano & Yellowstone blows anyway. Best course of action would be to nuke Yellowstone & make it blow up smaller with the pressure release… ;-) |
| Frederick | 18 May 2021 5:52 a.m. PST |
If it would work, 3 – but I share Zephyr1's concerns |
| mjkerner | 18 May 2021 6:27 a.m. PST |
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| pzivh43 | 18 May 2021 7:00 a.m. PST |
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| Oddball | 18 May 2021 8:07 a.m. PST |
Left coast gone….What did Martin Luther King, Jr. say…..I have something, what was it. |
| Patrick Sexton | 18 May 2021 10:11 a.m. PST |
Going on the assumption that the premise is correct, then Three. |
| altfritz | 18 May 2021 2:46 p.m. PST |
Don't forget the Tsunami that would result from your actions. i.e. Nuke Bali, take out Sri Lanka with the wave (for bonus points!) |
| JMcCarroll | 18 May 2021 3:36 p.m. PST |
2. they say it will fall into the ocean anyways. |
 etotheipi  | 25 Jun 2021 2:50 p.m. PST |
3,a Pick an uninhabited volcano slightly subsurface as a relief valve. Relieve the pressure without killing people and make a Godzilla. Win-win! |
| Aleator | 19 Jul 2021 4:27 a.m. PST |
Parzival, maybe you can drop a second nuke on Hackensack New Jersey. :) |
touches up a toy car.
