full title: Italian 'Super Volcano' May Threaten Millions: Scientists plan to drill deep below Romans' 'hell gateway'.
Sulfur emerges from the Phlegraean Fields, a zone similar to the Yellowstone caldera, but much more heavily populated.
Posted on 08/06/2012 7:54:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Sulfur emerges from the Phlegraean Fields, a zone similar to the Yellowstone caldera, but much more heavily populated.
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I hope they don’t hit a pocket of magma while drilling that deep - they may unplug it and set it off.
Ba-DOOM-Ba!
Doesn’t sound too bright to me, Drilling into the thing could set it off as opposed to the drilling giving them a warning before it goes off. If they do get the warning, how the hell do they expect to move Millions in a short enough time to save them.
Move Over, Pompeii [Nola buried between 1800 and 1750 B.C.]
Archaeology, Volume 55 Number 2 | March/April 2002 | Jarrett A. Lobell
Posted on 08/10/2004 10:03:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Soooo is your local volcano still erupting?
Cool stuff, thanks SC. I’m sure you remember the Athens subway - every time they took a scoop of dirt they ran into a new find. Some very cool history over there.
It's Always Something. (IAS)
The evacuation would kill off half of ‘em.
The drill hole would seal itself unless the whole thing was ready to erupt anyway.
We’re all gonna die.
Maybe the Doctor will save them!
That’s an inside joke about a “Doctor Who” episode called “The Fires of Pompeii.”
“The drill hole would seal itself unless the whole thing was ready to erupt anyway.”
I have to believe that’s the case. The Italians are not idiots (I’ve worked with them) and I doubt they’ll do something that will take out one of their major cities.
Well, considering Pliny the Elder went over in a small boat to watch Vesuvius erupting and then lost his life doing so, maybe sometimes a guy thinks he knows what he is doing, but...
“Oh, I’ll be okay, I can watch it from over here:)”
How can it threaten without arms to wave dramatically?
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