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Nasas ambitious plan to save earth from a supervolcano

24th Aug 2017

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This is a linkpost for http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano

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ChristianKl9y10

Both the chance that the the supervulcano erupts within the next 100 years and the chance that it's more likely to errupt with this project in place are known unknowns.

Why do you assume the danger from unknown unknowns is large?

Commander Zander9y00

Just because the magnitude of the bad outcome is enormous. Caution seems prudent for such a slow, dangerous process.

3Yosarian29y

Well, I think there's probably some danger. We know that injecting water back deeply into the earth after fracking can cause earthquakes. There's also evidence that some geothermal projects like in Iceland are also causing earthquakes. If minor local earthquakes are the biggest danger it's still likely to be worthwhile, but there may be other, more serious risks as well.

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