All of the mainstream discussion surrounding mega-volcanoes seems to relate to early detection systems for impending eruptions, etc., but I've been unable to locate any intelligent discussion surrounding what, if anything, humans can or might be able to do in order to possibly avoid such a cataclysm. Even the presumably expert geologists interviewed in so much of the material available on this topic seem to have a pretty fatalistic perspective, based as it is in the fundamental assumption that, in the final analysis, volcanoes are gonna' do what volcanoes are gonna' do.

Is it completely out of the realm of possibility that, if we were to begin far ahead enough in time and work slowly and gradually, that we could drill very large well borings or otherwise strip off the lid of the overlying land in order to intentionally release the otherwise intensely-building pressure in the magma chamber below so that an "eruption" as such of a mega volcano can be avoided? We have figured out a pretty plausible scientific theory for being able to deflect large asteroids hurling towards us through space at around 50,000 MPH that would otherwise threaten our planet, and, well, next to that, this seems like child's play.