Posted on 09/18/2017 6:12:23 AM PDT by 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”
What could possibly go wrong?....................
Ya, this is gonna end GREAT.
Let’s just poke around the one thing that could destroy civilization.
While we’re at it, let’s affix rocket boosters to huge asteroids and see how close to the Earth we can get without hitting it.
Lets try it on Chernobyl reactor vessel first..........................
These people are educated well beyond their intelligence..................
If we can change global climate, a volcano should be easy-peasy.
I thought NASA existed to promote Islam. Why don’t they just pray to Allah?
I say bomb it with a miniature black hole bomb, let it get sucked into another dimension.
“What could possibly go wrong?”
Hold my beer and watch this!
The magma chamber is like a balloon.
The tons and tons of rock on top of and around it hold it together.
And if you prick a balloon it will explode................
“NASA’s plan is to drill into the super-volcano”
There’s a wasp nest by the front door at one of my properties. Maybe they’d like to come and poke it.
I have often wondered why we don’t drill adjacent to a volcano and tap the heat energy for steam production. The energy needs of the whole country could be supplied with what is available.
When they try that it will be time to bend down, put your head between your knees ans kiss your a$$ goodby.
It's been done the world over. It's called "geothermal power." Here's the Geysers Powerplant in Northern California.
It is technically very hard to do. This is a severe corrosive environment due to all the sulfur and other corrosive minerals in the earth. You have a lot of very dirty water to clean up.
NASA isn't worth a bucket of warm piss. Once upon a time NASA was run by ace engineers, with a passion for their trade. But today, if NASA wanted to put a man on the moon again, they couldn't do it given 20 years, even with full possession of all the tested designs and working blueprints.
You mean like those guys shooting at Tannerite loaded garden equipment and derelict cars gone wrong videos?
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