> Uh.... drilling horizontally into the caldera isn't going to set off an eruption. No one said drilling horizontally was going to set off an eruption. Indeed

> Uh.... drilling horizontally into the caldera isn't going to set off an eruption. No one said drilling horizontally was going to set off an eruption. Indeed, they said the opposite: it could relieve pressure and prevent an eruption. > Doing that is actually beyond human technology. Many people -- indeed, here, NASA/JPL/Caltech and the article author-- think it's reasonably possible to extract a lot of energy from Yellowstone without much ecological impact, and perhaps to an extent that would delay the inevitable eruption.