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Old 01-27-2021, 11:19 PM   #5350
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Default Re: New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl View Post
Before TL7, Yellowstone blowing would pretty much kill everyone in North America (and likely most of the rest of humanity as well). Each time a VEI-8 eruption occurred in the past, humanity nearly went extinct. The most recent VEI-8 eruption of Lake Top reduced the human population to a few thousand individuals.
Even now, at TL8, it would cause such havoc to the Northern Hemisphere that it would probably crash the civilizations, up here, and move the centers of human progress to south of Equator.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/fo...-supereruption

I'd certainly be dead, in Denver.
Hopefully, were it to happen in my lifetime, I'd be schlepping through Asia or Europe, on vacation. :)
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