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ShortHand: What If Yellowstone Erupted?

7/3/202635 min

Any moment now, we might experience an explosion that emits the power of 1,000 atomic bombs every second. An explosion so fierce that it would reduce the world’s most powerful country to an ash-covered wasteland – and, if it was feeling particularly gnarly, could lead to the extinction of the entire human race.

This week we take a look at just how royally f***ed we’d be if the world’s largest above-ground supervolcano blew its top. How likely is it? When could it happen? And is there anything we can do?

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Clips

Apocalypse Drug Lucky-Dip
Pompeii-ing Salt Lake City
Yellowstone’s First Explosive Seconds
Eruption Odds Debunked
Do I Even Know Volcanoes?

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First 90 seconds

  1. Suruthi Bala· Host0:00

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  3. Hannah Maguire· Host1:01

    [upbeat music] Hello.

  4. Suruthi Bala· Host1:15

    Hello.

  5. Hannah Maguire· Host1:16

    And welcome to Shorthand.

  6. Suruthi Bala· Host1:18

    Mm-hmm.

  7. Hannah Maguire· Host1:18

    Doom edition.

  8. Suruthi Bala· Host1:19

    Doom!

  9. Hannah Maguire· Host1:20

    We do quite a lot of doom on Shorthand.

  10. Suruthi Bala· Host1:22

    We do, but the people like it.

  11. Hannah Maguire· Host1:23

    Do you know what I was thinking about on my bike this morning?

  12. Suruthi Bala· Host1:26

    Uh-huh.

  13. Hannah Maguire· Host1:26

    We recently had a, a sales meeting where we were told,

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