COuld NASA Really Defuse a Supervolcano? Plan Sparks Doomsday Fears

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[PIF]

Kicking dirt (tops soil, pine needles etc) into the stratosphere is not the problem, rather all the millions of tons of sulfur dioxide, the millions of tons of ash (powdered rock) and the pyroclastic flows from the magma.

[Magnum44]

They just need one of these:

Can you say "Magma"?

[contrarian]

For some reason I am reminded of an old joke in which a monkey is sitting in a barn with a cork in one hand with his eyes covered with the other while covered in bull sh__.

[contrarian]

Different animal, same joke..
Three scientists were one day discussing what would happen if they rammed a cork up an elephant’s backside and force fed it for 2 weeks. But because the experiment had never been documented and the idea was hard to comprehend they decided to have a go. A week after the experiment had started they began to realize WHY the idea had never been tried, they were stuck for someone to pull the cork out.
One of the scientists came up with the bright idea of training a monkey to do the job, so they spent the next week training it to pull out corks once a buzzer had rung, then push it back in for another go. The big day arrived, they set up all the monitoring equipment and set out to a safe distance.
The first scientist went 1 mile away, the second went 2 miles away and the third went 3 miles. When they were all ready the first scientist pushed the button to sound the buzzer.
BBBAAANNNGGG!
The third scientist (3 miles away) was up to his ankles in shiat, the second (2 miles away) was up to his knees and the first (1 mile away) was up to his waist. When the others joined the scientist who was 1 mile away they noticed that he was in fits of laughter.
“What the %$*& is so funny?” asked one of the scientist.
“You should have seen the monkey’s face trying to get the cork back in!!!”

[Wuli]

A volcanic field is not “a volcano”.

Individual or multiple volcanoes may occur, or not, within a volcanic field, so may individual or multiple geysers and other magma induced occurrences. Each volcano, geyser or other occurrence has attributes, circumstances and requirements of its own, in addition to the common source that fuels them all. They have that source in common, but it does not make them synonymous.

[MattinNJ]

Interesting. There has to be a way to minimize the impact, even if by 20%

[PIF]

There has to be a way to minimize the impact, even if by 20%

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Nope.

Try “minimize the impact, even if by 20%” of a hurricane or tornado ... volcano even worse idea. Start with an ordinary volcano before moving on to a SUPER volcano ... Mt St Helens = lady finger, Mt Pinatubo = cherry bomb, any super volcano = truck load of dynamite.