Scientists Uncover New Details About Yellowstone’s Supervolcano as Magma Chamber Sits Just 2.3 Miles Below Surface

Discern Report ^ | April 18, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Drill into the magma chamber???

What could possibly go wrong?.....................

[Red Badger]

Don’t Drill, Baby, Don’t Drill! PINGGG!................

[where's_the_Outrage?]

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[BenLurkin]

[telescope115]

I can’t imagine how they could possibly inject water into the magma chambers without triggering massive steam explosions.😮🙄

Sounds like a good way to cause massive global warming, to me, however, I am NOT a geologist and may not know what the hell I’m talking about.

[Red Badger]

Hold muh Chardonnay and watch this...............

[xp38]

I saw it as a child in theatre and it scared me.

[Patriot777]

You’re spot on! Go for it! No holding back.

[Vaduz]

NASA’s controversial plan to cool the magma via drilling to vent.

Isn’t that what the geysers do.

[wildcard_redneck]

“NASA has even proposed a controversial $3.46 billion plan to drill into the volcano and pump water through its magma chambers, theoretically reducing eruption risks by cooling the system.”

No mention made of hydrothermal power generation. I suspect these Poindexter scientists just want Americans to subsidize the cooling while they waste the power potential.

[Pol-92064]

No, the magma just boils the water from the underground stream until it is so hot the steam and water are elected out of the hole/vent. If Yellowstone erupts most of middle America would be affected. But it may never happen because the tectonic plates have been moving for thousands of years since the last eruption. We have several old volcanic hills where I live but there are no longer in danger of an eruption due to plate movement.

[alancarp]

Just beam Spock directly into the chamber with an ice bomb and problem solved.

[crz]

Some of these Einsteins need to be taken out and clubbed to death.

Friggin man caused phearatic eruption.

How stupid can they get.

Phearatic eruptions are the most violent of eruptions. Tonga is thee prime example of one.

[larrytown]

So, they’re suggesting INCREASING ‘global warming’? The heat would have to go somewhere.

[Sirius Lee]

What could possibly go wrong?

[sasquatch]

Boiling point increases with pressure. However, if they succeed in cooling the magma, it’ll heat the atmosphere.
Were they to put in a bunch of exchangers and turbines,
it’d make a great generation facility.

[dragnet2]

An enemy or terror group could put a nuke into caldera.

That could get interesting.

[fidelis]

I'm ready for it. I had plenty of practice as a kid pretending the living room floor was boiling hot lava.

[Huskrrrr]

Like spitting into a forest fire

[dfwgator]

Wherever I go I hope there’s rum!