We didn't know that the city of Naples would be so threatened. We never had evidence for a blast extending into the Neapolitan area and beyond it.

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These were bronze age people and they had a pantheon of gods that they thought controlled their world.

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I think what they probably had was a couple of days (to get out). There are lots of skeletons but thousands and thousands of footprints.

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They even left animals in cages.

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This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would you do with the evacuation of 3 million people? They're not coming back. There won't be anything to come back to.

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People left utensils on tables, food plates. They just left and beat it out of there.

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It disrupted a huge Bronze Age population.

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These volcanoes don't even have to erupt. They just sit there and a part of it comes roaring off.

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It seemed like the knowledge base was a lot deeper than it had been, ... The system seemed to be well thought out.

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