That's the mole-people's plan, yes.

Volcanic Zombies. This needs to be a thing.

Can't wait for the feature film, Zompeii.

It'll be Zompeiinado!

A spinoff of Sharknado.

Isn't Yellowstone Park actually a super volcano?

Yeah, the whole area, the park, is lifted a couple of inches every year from the ever increasing pressure of the magma chamber underneath it. 

It could be compared with a leaking artery under your skin, blood will leak through the artery wall and collect underneath the skin till the pressure is too great and it all goes bang. 

it will knock the planet out of its orbit and we are gonna have a close encounter with Mars

I've heard the energy equivalent of that eruption would be hundreds of thousands of nuclear bombs, but its really hard to calculate such kind of thing. 


I guess you could drill down a couple of miles and do the rest with explosives (The heat would destroy the drill head), but all you'd get that way would be a tiny tiny hole, its like trying to drain a lake with a needle sized sink, and the magma that adds up each day in the chamber would make the relief hole completely irrelevant. Drilling a hole, or holes that are big enough to release some of the pressure is not possible with current technology.

Ugh don't even get me started how explosives don't work in the vacuum of space. Bruce climbing into the hole and pushing the asteroid apart would have been more believable.  The guy who wrote the script should be stoned to death with little asteroid pieces.