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NASA to Stop a Doomsday Supervolcano by Stealing its Heat
Popular Mechanics ^
| August 18, 2017
| Avery Thompson
Posted on 08/20/2017 8:45:36 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
I hope their models are good. I can imagine a scenario where their mitigation would make things worse, not better.
To: EveningStar
Hmph. Yeah, we can trust a space agency whose primary mission for the last ten years has been muslim outreach to do this job without killing everyone on earth.
Suuuuuuuuuuure.
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:49:43 AM PDT
by
60Gunner
(The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
To: EveningStar
I often wondered why no one else thought of that.
Just punch a hole in the bottom of the Wyoming Ocean and let it cool the Magna
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:51:46 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: rightwingcrazy
You’re thinking Army Corps of Engineers.
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:51:56 AM PDT
by
txhurl
To: EveningStar
NASA will kill all of us if we don’t stop them...
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:52:32 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Start by tearing down statues ...burning books, and eventually you go after people - John Davidson)
To: EveningStar
I have complete faith in rocket scientist pouring water on a volcano, they are experts from the govt - nothing could possibly go wrong.
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:52:52 AM PDT
by
Jolla
To: EveningStar
Why is NASA involved in this?
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:53:04 AM PDT
by
pas
To: EveningStar
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:53:25 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: EveningStar
The catch:
"Of course, this plan is the definition of "long-term." In order to siphon off enough heat to neutralize the threat of the volcano, the geothermal generator would have to be run continuously for hundreds or thousands of years."
To: EveningStar
I love it when government tries to “help” nature. They’ll probably “help” give this volcano an easy exit for blasting out its pent up energy.
Who’s the goofball in NASA that devised this plan?
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:53:35 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: rightwingcrazy
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:53:55 AM PDT
by
struggle
(The)
To: EveningStar
If they’re going to do that, they might as well just build a giant power plant.
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:55:22 AM PDT
by
Husker24
To: EveningStar
You mean like the entire Yellowstone park is currently doing?
Those geysers and pools are hot for a reason?
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:55:55 AM PDT
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: rightwingcrazy
They mean to frac the volcano. There going to need bigger water supply.
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posted on
08/20/2017 8:56:18 AM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: Jim 0216
I love it when government tries to help nature. Theyll probably help give this volcano an easy exit for blasting out its pent up energy. Whos the goofball in NASA that devised this plan?
One of NASA's finest
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posted on
08/20/2017 9:00:43 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
To: EveningStar
Nice idea but doubt it will work. Why??
Every time it rains or snows, it supposedly would be doing the same thing....and it hasn't worked yet.
To: EveningStar
This is funny. The given _primary_ benefit of the geothermal energy station NASA wants to build is to prevent a supervolcano from blowing a 25-mile crater on face of the earth. Usable energy is a convenient, secondary byproduct.
See what they’re doing there? They’re couching pet projects—even arguably straight-up beneficial ones—as operations to avert or avoid some world-wide calamity. A geo-thermal energy station project is ho-hum. Even Iceland had those. But a geo-thermal energy station that is _principally_ designed to save the world from a disaster? Well, you’d have to be a humanity-hating troglodyte to say no that!
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posted on
08/20/2017 9:02:48 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: EveningStar
This sounds like something dreamed up by Hollywood for a cheap disaster movie.
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posted on
08/20/2017 9:03:22 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: EveningStar
NASA's plan is to drill a hole into the side of the volcano and pump water through it. I know what! Let's drill into a powerkeg of gunpowder and steal the nitrogen!
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posted on
08/20/2017 9:04:48 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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