[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?]

Current graphic:

[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.

[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.

[alancarp]

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

[larrytown]

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

[Sirius Lee]

What could possibly go wrong?

[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.

[dfwgator]

Wherever I go I hope there’s rum!

[dfwgator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjRQgTbbfwA

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve got a great idea — a giant outdoor event for every Demwit politician and rank-and-file stooge.

Then drill, baby, drill.

[ckilmer]

Iceland drills to their magma that’s very close to the surface and injects water to make steam to drive turbines to give them very cheap electricity.

Does anyone know the difference between the magma below yellowstone and the magma below iceland?

[mewzilla]

I think this is the study. Behind a paywall, so just a link to the abstract...

A sharp volatile-rich cap to the Yellowstone magmatic system

[Sawdring]

Design a massive power plant off of it. If done correctly it could power the North American grid for the next 20,000 years.

[SuperLuminal]

Poke a sleeping tiger?
Not too smart...

[nuke_road_warrior]

Despite reassurances, preparation remains critical

Just how does one prepare for a potentially earth shattering event? Warning will likely be minutes or hours, not enough time to evacuate the area that will need to be evacuated, i.e most of the Pacific Northwest and a good portion of the Midwest.

[Theophilus]

No matter what, they need enough funding to research it another 70,000 yearsfoe the sake humanity.