February 23, 2007

Indonesians have massive balls, plan to plug volcano.
posted by Capt. Renault 17 years ago
  • On a vu souvent rejaillir le feu D'un ancien volcan qu'on croyait trop vieux. Il est paraît-il des terres brûlées Donnant plus de blé qu'un meilleur avril. Et quand vient le soir pour qu'un ciel flamboie, Le rouge et le noir, ne s'épousent-ils pas?
  • A *mud* volcano? Weird. "Those experts can say what they want, but we have to do something," said Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for a government task force handling the disaster. "There is no time to debate and sit around." That's the spirit. Anyway, come winter the gorillas will freeze to death.
  • TUM, translation please! my french is too weak to get more than a vague gist...
  • ok, but seriously tho. I know this mud volcano has been a terrible disaster, massively effecting the people in the area, but um...so let's say there is all this stuff in the ground, and like, um...pressure is making it come out. so, um...like, if we plug that hole, is there not some concern that the pressure might um...still need a place to go, and like...do something bad?? just sayin' nunia? care to chime in, darling?
  • She's busy with her plans to turn it into a luxury day-spa.
  • We are about to witness the most serious case of blue balls in a few weeks. I don't want to be there to see what happens after that.
  • Medusa: ...ne me quitte pas.
  • Apparently these Indonesians didn't watch nearly enough Saturday morning cartoons.
  • We have often seen fire gush out From an ancient volcano that we thought was too old There are, it seems some scorched fields That yield more wheat than the best April And when evening comes so that the sky is ablaze The red and the black, do they not wed? Thanks for the vid, goetter!
  • Why, you don't trust Babelfish? "One often saw flashing back the fire Of an old volcano which one believed too old. It east appear burned grounds Giving more corn than better April. And when comes the evening so that a sky blazes, the red and the black, they do not marry each other?"
  • Like, this is gonna work. Yeah. Riiiiight.
  • Did anyone ask him WHY he wanted to do this? Gedoudda my toolboz! Damn those kids anyway!
  • whoops, wrong thread BLAME IT ON THE TABS!
  • You OK, GranMa? Do you need me to fetch your "medication" from the liquor cabinet?
  • hey Louis while yr up you could get me my meds too darling. the docs call it "Makers Mark n coke". thanks for the link goetter! I loves the French.
  • hey Louis while yr up you could get me my meds too darling. the docs call it "Makers Mark n coke". thanks for the link goetter! I loves the French.
  • Tea-bagging a mud volcano! Hah!
  • Giving more corn than better April That... that was beautiful, man.
  • nunia? care to chime in, darling? I think you're right: pressure is probably the main factor here, and blocking the flow will only cause it to spout out somewhere else. My guess is that the concrete balls will be dropped in per The Plan, then the mud will work its way around and cut into the softer country rock, causing a surface flow in the same general area. The flow occurs there because there is a pre-existing weakness. I don't care what their bone-shaking, chicken-sacrificing geologists say, plugging the flow won't make it go away. If it wants to get out, it will.
  • Capt, can you help me to my chair, darlin'? GramMa's feelin' a bit feeble today. My corns are achin', and I have this sensation of pressure building up....
  • More pictures (flash) of Guatamalan hole.
  • Neighbors said the ground had been shaking for weeks after a huge sewer pipe burst, making the ground underneath the houses unstable. So, let me guess: they did nothing about it because it's a slum.
  • Good Dogs that's scary. What a horrible way to die. I can't believe that a sewer pipe burst could create a hole that wide and that deep. What is the substrate like underneath there?
  • Monkeyfilter:I don't care what their bone-shaking, chicken-sacrificing geologists say Captain, can you get me some of my Old Man Buckley's Canadian Remedy while you're up? Actually, Koko, the article I read said that they'd made plans to acquire a robot camera to go down in and check it out, and that they'd put a seismometer in there, but the didn't get the camera in before the disaster. Also, they were thinking of a controlled explosion to clear the clog that built up to a burst. Still don't know that more wouldn't have been done , and sooner, if it had been a richer neighborhood. Third body found in giant sinkhole.
  • Well done, Lara. dang, I might have lost my touch here! *GramMa worries
  • READY FOR WAR: Two men run a security post at Pasar Baru Porong market in Sidoarjo, East Java, where angry victims of the mudflow have stockpiled sharpened bamboo poles in anticipation of a forced evacuation by law and order officers. Thousands of displaced Sidoarjo mudflow victims have fiercely refused the local government's order to vacate the market they have occupied since the hot mud buried their homes. (JakartPost/ID Nugroho)
  • Mud eruption caused by drilling.