MandatoryWonder if the divers that spotted these things used liquid oxygen packs to dive this deep.
MandatoryWonder if the divers that spotted these things used liquid oxygen packs to dive this deep.
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Wonder if the divers that spotted these things used liquid oxygen packs to dive this deep.
The one that worries me more is Yellowstone popping its lid. ITs about due too. USA is fucked when that thing blows, and then the rest of the world for a few years until the dust settles.
Maybe one will trigger the other.The one that worries me more is Yellowstone popping its lid.
Quakecano 9.1: Yellowstone Disaster.Maybe one will trigger the other.
I want to say this is theoretically plausible, though I have absolutely nothing to back that up, but I imagine the size of the hole one would need to puncture would be difficult for us to accomplish with current technology. If the hole is too small, the lava will probably cool and harden and reseal the hole before enough pressure is released.Is lancing a volcano possible?
There's like an average rate of explosion for stuff like this. Pretty sure Yellowstone is close to, if not past, the average already.I mean.. isn't Yellowstone erupting like, hundreds if not thousands of years away? What we probably won't be able to do now have a better chance at being possible in the near future, let alone 100 years+ from now. The only information I can see about it potentially being "soon" are retarded conspiracy sources. Everything else is like "Yeah lots of other shit to worry about than Yellowstone going boom."
I would just expect that we would build some kind of super heated tunnel to pipe the lava somewhere. It's fascinating to me that we haven't been able to penetrate the earth's crust to any meaningful degree. I'd love to hear what a geologist engineer (or whatever) has to say about the viability of lancing an earth boil. It seems like any cost incurred would be less than the cost if the thing blew and took out half the country.I want to say this is theoretically plausible, though I have absolutely nothing to back that up, but I imagine the size of the hole one would need to puncture would be difficult for us to accomplish with current technology. If the hole is too small, the lava will probably cool and harden and reseal the hole before enough pressure is released.
There's also the question of what to do once the lava is spewing up from the hole you just drilled. Imagine those old oil drilling scenes in movies, where the oil comes spurting up and pouring over everyone around the drill hole. Now imagine that oil is molten hot lava!
But yeah, if Yellowstone does start going full tilt on us, I sure hope someone is willing to at least propose this as a possible solution. It would make for hilarious headlines: Humanity Saved By Lancing Volcano Like Giant Boil!
That's why you dig a huge trench that funnels all the lava down a path to the Mexico border filling molds to build the wall. MAGMA!I want to say this is theoretically plausible, though I have absolutely nothing to back that up, but I imagine the size of the hole one would need to puncture would be difficult for us to accomplish with current technology. If the hole is too small, the lava will probably cool and harden and reseal the hole before enough pressure is released.
There's also the question of what to do once the lava is spewing up from the hole you just drilled. Imagine those old oil drilling scenes in movies, where the oil comes spurting up and pouring over everyone around the drill hole. Now imagine that oil is molten hot lava!
But yeah, if Yellowstone does start going full tilt on us, I sure hope someone is willing to at least propose this as a possible solution. It would make for hilarious headlines: Humanity Saved By Lancing Volcano Like Giant Boil!
There's like an average rate of explosion for stuff like this. Pretty sure Yellowstone is close to, if not past, the average already.
That doesn't mean a lot as the average is just that, an average, and some eruptions can occur years ahead of or after the average eruption time, but it is enough to warrant concern.
Same shit with that fault line in the article I posted up above. Its average eruption time is like 240 years, but we're like 350 years past its last eruption time. That should be pretty concerning.
Can we pipe lava at all is a question I don't have an answer to. I want to say that's highly unlikely, but I could be wrong.I would just expect that we would build some kind of super heated tunnel to pipe the lava somewhere. It's fascinating to me that we haven't been able to penetrate the earth's crust to any meaningful degree. I'd love to hear what a geologist engineer (or whatever) has to say about the viability of lancing an earth boil. It seems like any cost incurred would be less than the cost if the thing blew and took out half the country.
Could we pipe the lava all the way to the Mexican border and build a solid volcanic wall with it?