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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."
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.
They've got a lot of balls, trying something like that.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I'm sure you can find plenty here *looks around nervously*
Monstar L
I like how the locals blame the oil companies on the volcano erupting.
Actually, someone fed the Volcano God some cheese. Sherman's lactose intolerant.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
They want to drop concrete balls into it? Do you take concrete balls when you have an upset stomach? Me neither. What they need is a dump truck full of Tums and a concrete mixer full of Mylanta. If that doesn't work you can always use a virgin. But concrete balls? These "scientists" need to get a real scientist--a witch doctor. They're witches and they're doctors. That's a lot of school. And if they can't fix it you can just throw them in there and save your concrete balls for outside a library or something.
Swi
Is it just my filthy internet-corrupted mind, or did anyone else immediately think "dog in a bathtub"
No I'm not linking, go and look it up if you must
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Teabagging a volcano...
Here in L.A., we diverted the flows on Wilshire into the Ballona Creek using concrete barriers... oh wait, that also was a movie.
Chuck Norris's balls.
I don't know why I said that.
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Last November they were tossing in live chickens and goats......
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The real disaster will come when citizens start dying left and right from the concrete bowling balls that come spewing out of the volcano. "Ok, maybe we were wrong on the drilling thing, but concrete bowling balls--that's a no brainer; nothing can possibly go wrong."
The company selling the concrete did several studies, and dumping concrete into volcanoes is definitely good.
Aren't we missing the most obvious solution here?
We are geeks after all. And we know what will calm a volcano.
V I R G I N S
O.K., I need 3 Linux nerds, and 3 Linux nerdettes (come on, you know, you mention Linux at a party, you ain't getting laid).
Volunteers?
Free trip to Indonesia.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Have they tried burping it? It might have a little gas trapped it its belly. That and a story should get it to calm right down.
Balls thoroughly licked mud volcano
best off with more government controls. Unless you want "real" freedom...
Kharma is like a boomerang. Mine is broken.
I may agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to face the consequences of saying it.
This is were Bruce Willis comes in.