COuld NASA Really Defuse a Supervolcano? Plan Sparks Doomsday Fears

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[SandRat]

By WND. Amid a summertime swarm of hundreds of earthquakes underneath Yellowstone National Park, NASA is developing a plan to tame a “super-volcano” that some experts believe is well overdue for a catastrophic eruption.

The scientists’ plan: cool down the volcano . . .

Brian Wilcox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology told the BBC an attempt to drill from the top of the magma chamber could accidentally cause the very thing the drilling was designed to prevent. To avoid that risk, he suggested drilling from outside the borders of Yellowstone and coming into the super-volcano from the lower side.

But some suggest such schemes are doomed regardless of how they are executed. Jerusalem Rabbi Rami Levy said science has limits and told Breaking Israel News natural disasters and earthquakes will be an inevitable feature of the end times.

Joel Richardson, New York Times best-selling author of “The Islamic Antichrist” and the new book “Mystery Babylon,” urged caution, insisting such disasters are not necessarily a sign the end is nigh. But he said they could have supernatural significance. (Read more from “NASA Plan to Stop Super-volcano Sparks Doomsday Fears” HERE)

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How NASA Plans to Prevent a Super-volcanic Eruption in Yellowstone National Park

By Phillip Perry. What’s more, monitors are set up all over the area to pick up any volcanic activity. So what is a super-volcano and is there any way to stop it? It all starts with the VEI. The Volcanic Explosive Index (VEI) is a scale used to measure how explosive a volcanic eruption is. It was devised in 1982 by Chris Newhall at the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Stephen Self at the University of Hawaii. With it, scientists classify current and historic eruptions . . .

The BBC recently reported a special NASA plan to counteract a supervolcano. In truth, there’s really nothing anyone can do to stop an eruption. Yet Brian Wilcox of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is developing countermeasures. NASA’s plan is to drill into the super-volcano and fill it with cold water to cool it down, much like how a radiator in a car works. The constant flow of steam would then provide a source of renewable energy with no carbon footprint.

The trouble is, cooling the lava upfront does nothing for the magma behind it. There are thousands of cubic kilometers of it to cool. Such efforts therefore would probably not be enough. Perhaps such a plan could quell the supervolcano for a short time but not forever. A devastating eruption would eventually occur.

Not to worry though. The scientists who monitor Yellowstone say it shouldn’t blow anytime in the next few thousand years. According to USGS, the odds that it’ll erupt in any given year is one in 730,000 or 0.00014%. It’s about the same risk as a large asteroid slamming into the Earth. (Read more from “How NASA Plans to Prevent a Super-volcanic Eruption in Yellowstone National Park”

[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.