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Scientists Attempt To Calm Volcano

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-can-plug-anything dept.

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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  1. tha audacity! by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:tha audacity! by antarctican · · Score: 5, Funny

      They've got a lot of balls, trying something like that.

      High pressure, large projectile type object....

      Why do I have visions of this turning in to one giant canon? :)

    2. Re:tha audacity! by Lloyd_Bryant · · Score: 5, Funny

      yea, if they wanted to calm it down, they shoulda just poured a few truckloads of valium into it instead. The *traditional* method is to toss in a virgin (hey, if somebody tossed ME a virgin, I'd calm down....eventually).

      Unfortunately this method runs afoul of modern legislations (it violates the Endangered Species Act).

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  2. It'll never work by Loadmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  3. How Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Teabagging a volcano...

  4. Just use by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chuck Norris's balls.

    I don't know why I said that.

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  5. Re:Sacrifice a virgin by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha! Mine turned me down. And you call yourself a nerd...

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  6. Re:Doesn't seem like a good idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The company selling the concrete did several studies, and dumping concrete into volcanoes is definitely good.

  7. Uh, Hello?! We are Geeks... by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:A more practical solution by Anonymous+Know-It-Al · · Score: 5, Funny
    Except for that tedious problem of obtaining, placing and detonating a few thousand tons of HE in the right spot deep down inside a mud volcano that is busily spewing mud upwards. But that's just a minor engineering problem, isn't it?

    This is were Bruce Willis comes in.