Horrible Today: USGS WARNS | Powerfull Eruption of Yellowstone Supervolcano Rocks Millions Worldwide

Horrible Today: USGS WARNS | Powerfull Eruption of Yellowstone Supervolcano Rocks Millions Worldwide

NASA scientists came up with an idea a decade ago to save the world from a potentially deadly supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park. Their plan would prevent one of the world’s largest supervolcanoes from erupting by sucking out its heat and cooling it with water.

It was an ambitious proposal — and an expensive one. It was also logistically impossible and, according to volcanologists, would not reduce the potential for a Yellowstone eruption. The 2015 theory would never work, and NASA has never tried to make it happen. So why are people still talking about it?

“It was a random calculation by a few scientists who saw the possibility that Earth might be threatened by a catastrophic event in the future,” said Mike Poland, the scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. “But it was never a plan. It was never taken seriously.”