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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did she ever pop a pimple? Volcanoes build up an insane amount of pressure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's almost like lifting a large area of the world by just a few microns per year using hydraulics and then pushing all the power through a tiny tiny hole the size of a house.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmmmm. Looks like making there worlds biggest canon has zero downsides imho.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

More like a champagne bottle than a cannon really. The concrete/asphalt cork will just go flying and barely slow down the eruption. Might make the initial part of the eruption a bit more "spurty," since there's bound to be a ton of kinetic energy behind that cork being ejected.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

When Kilauea was making news for erupting, I showed my (now ex) partner a photo of the lava flow over the road with hazard barriers to keep people away.

Her response was to ask why they didn't just divert the flow away from where people are.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

They actually do that with earth barriers sometimes, e.g. at the Aetna.

But there is only so much these barrier can do...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because that's the avatar's job and he went missing... Again

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I mean yeah, why instead of writing "people stay away" don't they just put "lava stay away"?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why has noone ever experimented with placing a very large spaceship in the mouth of an active volcano? And when erupting, the space ship would fly to space without needing any fuel. No resources wasted on multiple stage rockets just to carry up fuel a few km, all that's needed is an enormous spaceship in the shape of a cement plug.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They did manage to use a modified battleship cannon to fire things into orbit. I think the main problem is not knowing how much explosive power you'll get for a given eruption.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Not knowing how much is not that big an issue. If it's too much, then it becomes an interplanetary ship. If it's not enough, then it will come down soon enough and we can just try again on an another volcano. It's probably going to require a bit of patience from the crew, passengers and offspring, but eventually there will be a big enough eruption and it will all work out smoothly in the end.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just realised, that I first learned about pressure as a kid, when watching cartoon characters trying too stop a leak using body parts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

This creates a bomb, the interesting thing is does the cork or the side blow first

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Big badda boom

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Prevent harmful eruptions with one simple trick. Frees up more time for your other hobbies, like making pipe bombs.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The people that get off watching those pimple popping videos on YouTube would literally NUT to this one weird TRICK

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'm sure Super Glue would work too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Somebody didn't see those mount St Helens videos....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I thought we just needed a good guy with a volcano.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Thoughts and prayers have a better chance of success

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If pressure builds up we won't risk anything because the cement would just be propoulsed in the outter space and not hurt anyone.

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