NASA has recently been fixated on the serious threat that’s located directly underneath our feet- super volcanoes. They’ve stated that this is a far larger threat to mankind than asteroids are at this time so they have been researching ways to avoid the super volcanoes from erupting. There are about 20 super volcanoes varying throughout the world and the eruption of one of them could be completely catastrophic, killing millions. NASA’s goal is to prevent these super volcanoes from erupting.
“Keeping these volcanoes from devastating the human food supply and causing the deaths of 99 percent of all of humanity, that seems like a worthwhile thing to debate,” said Dr Brian Wilcox, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The primary objective is to gradually defang Yellowstone as a threat to humanity.”
This is all very unlikely to happen in anyone’s lifetime; however, ideas have sprouted as to how NASA can solve this issue. They basically want to be able to use all of this heat under the earth as natural energy so it’d actually be helping humanity while cooling off the molten lava. I believe this is a completely ingenious plan and could be extremely beneficial for society as a whole; however, I think science is no match for Mother Nature and one small mistake could potentially have the ability to set off this super volcano in Yellowstone National Park. It’s a very unsteady ground these NASA scientists are teetering on and I’m unsure if I think it’s really worth it to be poking at a beast that’s causing no current harm. If they find a way to guarantee the super volcano will not erupt due to their experiments, then by all means try out this fantastic new energy source. I don’t think that necessity can be met due to random natural errors that occur in every day life. Mother Nature is unforgiving so if anything were to go wrong, an uncountable amount of affects could trail afterwards leading to inescapable death; that is definitely not something I nor the majority of people are ready to face quite yet.