{"id":24747,"date":"2017-08-20T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24747"},"modified":"2017-08-20T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T14:49:12","slug":"nasa-unveils-plan-to-stop-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-theres-just-one-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24747","title":{"rendered":"NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone &#8220;Supervolcano&#8221; Eruption, There&#8217;s Just One Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-19\/nasa-unveils-plan-stop-world-ending-supervolcano-eruptiontheres-just-one-catch\">NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone &#8220;Supervolcano&#8221; Eruption, There&#8217;s Just One Catch<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-601966 ads-injected\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>A NASA plan to stop the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting, <strong><em>could actually cause it to blow&#8230; triggering a nuclear winter that would wipe out humanity.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/19\/20170819_yellow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/19\/20170819_yellow1.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-05\/sudden-1400-quake-swarm-prompts-question-if-yellowstone-erupted-what-would-be-left\">As we have detailed recently<\/a>, government officials have been closely monitoring the activity in the Yellowstone caldera.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/nasas-risky-plan-to-save-us-from-yellowstone_08192017\">as SHTFplan.com&#8217;s Mac Slavo details<\/a>, <strong>scientists at NASA have now come up with an incredibly risky plan to save the United States from the super volcano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4803246\/NASA-reveals-risky-plan-COOL-Yellowstone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A\u00a0NASA\u00a0scientist has spoken out<\/a> about the true<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/snyder-warns-a-full-blown-eruption-of-the-yellowstone-supervolcano-would-have-the-potential-of-being-an-extinction-level-event_06192017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> threat of super volcanoes<\/a> and the risky methods that could be used to prevent a devastating eruption.\u00a0Lying beneath the tranquil and beautiful settings of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/montana-earthquake-increased-super-volcano-eruption-concerns_07062017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Yellowstone National Park <\/a>in the US lies an enormous magma chamber,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowstonepark.com\/things-to-do\/yellowstone-supervolcano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> called a caldera.<\/a> It\u2019s responsible for the geysers and hot springs that define the area, but for scientists at NASA, it\u2019s also one of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/russian-analyst-calls-for-nuclear-attack-on-yellowstone-national-park_03312015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> greatest natural threats to human civilization<\/a> as we know it.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianomi.com\/smartads.epl?id=2381\" width=\"100%\" height=\"114\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"NO\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"el_985506166\" class=\"hidden\" data-google-query-id=\"CPvKrIOH5tUCFYeoaQod14UPcQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5206\/invc.zerohedge\/non-finance_governmentandpolitics_4__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5206\/invc.zerohedge\/non-finance_governmentandpolitics_4\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5206\/invc.zerohedge\/non-finance_governmentandpolitics_4\" width=\"3\" height=\"7\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Brian Wilcox, a former member of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/planetarydefense\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense<\/a>, shared a report on the natural hazard that hadn\u2019t been seen outside of the agency until now.\u00a0Following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20170724-would-a-supervolcano-eruption-wipe-us-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article published by BBC about super volcanoes last month<\/a>, a group of NASA researchers got in touch with the media to share a report previously unseen outside the space agency about the threat Yellowstone poses, and what they hypothesize could possibly be done about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"excl\"><strong>\u201cI was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets,\u201d <\/strong>explains Brian Wilcox of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">Nasa\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology. <\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"excl\"><strong>\u201cI came to the conclusion during that study that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or comet threat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone &#8220;Supervolcano&#8221; Eruption, There&#8217;s Just One Catch A NASA plan to stop the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting, could actually cause it to blow&#8230; triggering a nuclear winter that would wipe out humanity. As we have detailed recently, government officials have been closely monitoring the activity in the Yellowstone caldera. 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