this would be fun
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in 1815 Tambora went off and ejected so much ash it cooled the earth and became known as the "year without a summer"
Taupo's last eruption 25k years ago was ten times larger than Tambora
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i mean not its last eruption. there apparently have been lots of smaller ones since
the last Fun Mode eruption
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one reason for govts to lowkey stockpile food is that a year without a summer seems like a plausible cause of scaled famine in the developing world especially
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it wasnt even the first time
a 13C eruption in indonesia may have helped trigger the little ice age (hat tip to genghis khan?)
and the 17C BC eruption that devastated crete may have exacerbated the bronze age collapse and inspired tales of atlantis
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neither of these are the worst case, either
an unfathomably large eruption about 75kya plausibly killed most humans and reduced us to a population of several thousand. just several thousand globally
little x risk for everyone to consider you know en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_cata
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wouldnt it be a lil ironic if we had a volcanic eruption that plunged us into a lil ice age and reversed global warming
I would consider it more evidence that the gods are taking control of the simulation. 🪄
My understanding is any cooling from a volcanic eruption is pretty temporary. I think the ash falls out over no more than ~a couple years?
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