Yellowstone National Park is actually sitting on top of a dormant supervolcano that has erupted three times in the last two million years and has the capacity to plunge the…

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Yellowstone National Park is actually sitting on top of a dormant supervolcano that has erupted three times in the last two million years and has the capacity to plunge the entire Earth into a catastrophic volcanic winter; despite sitting on a ticking geological time bomb that could casually erase North America, tourists flock there annually just to watch a wet hole in the ground spray hot water into the air exactly on schedule, blissfully ignoring the apocalyptic magma chamber directly beneath their hiking boots because humans have a spectacular capacity to romanticize imminent doom