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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. Re:That should work just fine by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Although I would hate to have to be the guy who sticks his finer in that hole.

    I dunno ... I've stuck my finer into plenty of nice holes over the years.

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