[thesis]

Anytime soon is one thing, but "If at all"? It's been happening for millions of years, and it sure seems like there still "activity" there.

Not sure what kind of scientist could say they don't expect it to ever erupt again?

[lkbm]

If we can be pretty confident it'll be 100 years, that's long enough for technology to progress a lot before we fiddle with it. Not sure what "soon" means in this case, but I suspect they don't mean "within a couple years".

[magicalhippo]

> Not sure what "soon" means in this case

Like there being infinite number of infinities that are ever larger, there's a seemingly infinite number of soons, each further away in time than the previous.

So I propose we invent something like aleph[1], but for soon. This way we can communicate clearly just how soon soon is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number

[friend_and_foe]

Technological advancement doesn't happen Inna vacuum. To get good at things you have to try them. Getting good at the sort of technology required to build such a project requires trying such a project. It's not a matter of waiting 100 years, it's a matter of trial and error for 100 years.