A NASA study discovered what it would take to prevent the super volcano that sits under Yellowstone National Park from erupting. According to NASA, the super volcano is a larger threat to life on Earth than an asteroid. A JPL team calculated that the best method is to cool down the magma by at least 35 percent because molten rock spills over when it gets hot enough to more fluid. Although, it isn’t expected to erupt anytime soon as an eruption occurs about every 700,000 years.



In order to achieve a cooler state, they would need to drill down into the supervolcano’s surface letting some steam vent causing the magma to become thicker and stickier. Makes sense to me, I’m going to make more air holes in my HTPC.

“When people first considered the idea of defending the Earth from an asteroid impact, they reacted in a similar way to the super volcano threat,” Wilcox said. “People thought, ‘As puny as we are, how can humans possibly prevent an asteroid from hitting the Earth’.”

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