# Yellowstone geyser guy

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 2, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstone-geyser-guy/761570 "2016-08-02T18:26:12Z")
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#### Post date: [August 2, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellowstone-geyser-guy/761570/3 "2016-08-02T18:43:35Z")

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Would the high temperature and low pH of the hot spring eventually take care of any remains? How long would it take?

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> Rangers tried to reach the site but quit “due to the extreme nature and futility of it all,” Reid said, referring to the high temperature and acidic nature of the spring.

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