That’s right: workers at a geothermal site in Hawai’i accidentally busted into a pool of live magma. Which, as we all know, is lava that has yet to come out.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh.

In other, totally, [...]]]> Does anybody else find this, ah, disturbing? Wired.com informs us that Drillers Accidentally Create First Live Magma Observatory.

That’s right: workers at a geothermal site in Hawai’i accidentally busted into a pool of live magma. Which, as we all know, is lava that has yet to come out.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh.

In other, totally, completely, utterly unrelated news, scientists claim that evidence suggests the Deccan Traps event was the primary cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. What caused the Traps was a colossal escape of magma to form what’s called a Large Igneous Province. How large? About half of India. Which constitutes an eruption way beyond a mere supervolcano.

It would probably look, you guessed it, a lot like the picture of Kilauea above. Only bigger. Much, much bigger.

So go right on ahead, boys! Poke that sleeping monster with a stick. It’s for Science, right?