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Once you have come to terms with Mr Negative and have learned to accept fear as a friend, allow adrenalin the run of your body and don’t allow yourself to panic. Knowledge is power. By understanding your own body, by understanding the mechanics of adrenalin and fear you can learn self-control. Panic is catalysed by ignorance; by not understanding your own body or its workings.
Fear - The Friend of Exceptional People
Geoff Thompson
The explosion had left a crater more than forty miles across—much too huge to be perceived from anywhere at ground level. At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans. Yellowstone, it turns out, is a supervolcano. It sits on top of an enormous hot spot, a reservoir of molten rock that rises from at least 125 miles down in the Earth. The heat from the hot spot is what powers all of Yellowstone's vents, geysers, hot springs, and popping mud pots. Beneath the surface is a magma chamber that is about forty-five miles across—roughly the same dimensions as the park—and about eight miles thick at its thickest point. Imagine a pile of TNT about the size of Rhode Island and reaching eight miles into the sky, to about the height of the highest cirrus clouds, and you have some idea of what visitors to Yellowstone are shuffling around on top of. The pressure that such a pool of magma exerts on the crust above has lifted Yellowstone and about three hundred miles of surrounding territory about 1,700 feet higher than they would otherwise be. If it blew, the cataclysm is pretty well beyond imagining.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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