NASA’s Yellowstone Plans Leaked… Have Nothing to Do With Space

by:Kimberly J Smith 

NASA is generally known for adventures that take place far away from the the planet, but one of the agency’s latest endeavors includes a project in Yellowstone National Park.
The project involves the Yellowstone Caldera, a super volcano that could cause an enormous amount of damage to the planet should it erupt.
The Yellowstone Caldera last erupted some 70,000 years ago and NASA wants to eliminate any threat that could come from another explosion, The Science Times reported.

While the Caldera is not expected to occur any time soon, Brian Wilcox from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory told the BBC that an explosion would be a greater threat to life on earth than any asteroid. An ash cloud could cover up to 800 kilometers of the surrounding area of the Yellowstone, according to the Times.
Dust and soot from the explosion could reach as far as Chicago, and the eruption could also emit a large amount of gas, including sulfur dioxide.
All of that might be perfectly natural, but none of that is good news for the human inhabitants of Earth, of course.

Now, NASA scientists are hatching a plan that might prevent an eruption — but it’s raising concerns all by itself. 

Their plans include cooling down the magma that lies beneath the surface of the earth. Since drilling a hole directly into the earth’s surface could set off an the exact kind of explosion that scientists are looking to avoid, drilling into the hot water below and around of the magma chamber seems like a better option.
Scientists could inject cooler water into the hot water and essentially cool it off, preventing the volcano’s magma from reaching a temperature which would cause an eruption.
Well, OK. But considering that nobody expects a Caldera eruption in the next century or so, and considering that the plan has an obscenely expensive price tag of $3.5 billion now (and as a government project, would likely end up costing 10 times that), it might be a good idea to hold off.

After eight years of Barack Obama in the White House, the agency has deviated too far from its original mission, whether it’s hyping the liberal boogeyman of “climate change” or trying to make modern Muslim countries “feel good” about themselves.
Thankfully, President Donald Trump has already started reining in the agency from its global warming goose chase. And he’s made it clear he wants NASA to concentrate on space projects — like it was intended to.
If this volcano really is a problem that needs to be solved, there are plenty of agencies that could take the lead.
H/T The New York Post
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