Scientists Attempt To Calm Volcano

An anonymous reader writes "Since May 2006, a mud volcano in Indonesia has spewed out up to 126,000 cubic metres of mud a day, flooding an area of more than 4 square kilometres. This unprecedented natural disaster has become so bad that geophysicists now plan to enact an untested scheme to try and slow the flow: dropping concrete balls into the volcano."

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Stupid Thinking

[eno2001]

The way I see it, a volcano is basically a zit on Gaia. That mud is pus. Dropping those concrete balls in would be the euqivalent of trying to push poppy seeds into your clogged pore cum zit. Don't lie. You've all been there as geeks. In front of the mirror in our teens with a zit larger than an erection and that yellowish-white head... Do you honestly think that it could have occurred to you as a good idea to fill your infected pore with tic-tacs to keep the pus from oozing out? Didn't think so. Volcano? Same thing.

If they do this, all that's going to happen is that the unstoppable force of the mud is going to ooze out from somewhere else. Probably near where the volcano is. Just like when you used to squeeze pimples that weren't quite ready to pop and instead of popping them, you damaged the wall between the infected pore and neighboring pores and wound up making that zit into a gash. Nope. I don't suggest the insane course of dropping those concrete balls in. Not one bit. Who came up with that plan anyway? George W. Bush?