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PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

FEB 26, 2007 01:46 PM

Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

FEB 26, 2007 01:49 PM

That is every kind of awesome.

Colinism

Colinism

Atlanta, GA
July 2005

FEB 26, 2007 02:23 PM

I always knew mother nature was into some wierd shit but damn i never expected her to just whore herself like that.

herbancowboy

herbancowboy

Houston, TX
June 2004

JUN 20, 2007 09:48 PM

With the true cause of Global Warming finally having been conquered, free Hummers (and hummers!) were dispensed to the masses.

fountainofdreams

fountainofdreams

Batavia, IL
January 2005

JUN 20, 2007 10:05 PM

herbancowboy said:
With the true cause of Global Warming finally having been conquered, free Hummers (and hummers!) were dispensed to the masses.



...Thread necromancy?

joker_

joker_

Minneapolis, MN
October 2005

JUN 20, 2007 10:06 PM

Well, we no longer have to worry about Yellowstone. We've got balls.

herbancowboy

herbancowboy

Houston, TX
June 2004

JUN 20, 2007 10:32 PM

fountainofdreams said:

herbancowboy said:
With the true cause of Global Warming finally having been conquered, free Hummers (and hummers!) were dispensed to the masses.



...Thread necromancy?



Yeah, I was trying to bring back my receding hairline but I got this instead. Oh well, I hear zombies are the new pirates. It happens.

FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

JUN 21, 2007 02:01 AM

Hmm... I can see how an oozing volcano (or mud in this case) might divert or slow down the flow this way, but I seriously doubt the logic behind "putting a cork in it"... If you were theoretically able to stop the upflow of magma (or mud) into the cone of a volcano, you could create a serious amount of back pressure. We all know what happens when you open a shaken soda, right? All the pressure (from gas rapidly coming out of solution) violently erupts. Similarly, you might create an explosive eruption, sending out a massive pyroclastic cloud of hot gas and ash. Then you get swift moving lava and mud flows (and new unpredictable channels of outflow). I'm seeing a simple problem turned into a disaster here... Theoretically speaking, of course.

Interesting to note that there is debate as to whether the massive outflow of mud was caused by a natural phenomenon involving plate tectonics (there was an earthquake two days before it started), or as a result of excessive oil drilling (which tapped into a giant zit on the face of the Earth). Yuck.

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

JUN 21, 2007 02:09 AM

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

JUN 21, 2007 05:59 AM

FellOnEarth said:
Interesting to note that there is debate as to whether the massive outflow of mud was caused by a natural phenomenon involving plate tectonics (there was an earthquake two days before it started), or as a result of excessive oil drilling...



The "an earthquake caused it!" argument is coming from PT Lapindo Brantas, the company whose exploratory gas drilling set the whole thing off in the first place. Since the government is demanding that PTLB pay compensation and cleanup costs amounting to 3.8 trillion rupiah (@US$425 million), it's no wonder they're trying to pin the blame on something else.

Sidoarjo is 300 km away from the earthquake's epicenter, and the earthquake measured only 2.0 on the Richter scale there - which is quite minor - so the company's claim is hardly credible.

FellOnEarth said:
Hmm... I can see how an oozing volcano (or mud in this case) might divert or slow down the flow this way, but I seriously doubt the logic behind "putting a cork in it"...



You're right, the giant concrete balls haven't worked. The mud flow has now overflowed about 600 hectares and displaced 15,000 people, and has in recent weeks been causing geysers of water to erupt inside local homes and businesses.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JUN 21, 2007 06:25 AM

I can only assume that this thread was resurrected because someone searched "Giant Balls" or "Red-Hot Indonesian Dirt Hole."

I'm so proud.

Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

JUN 21, 2007 06:49 AM

PointBlank said:
Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.



the link is broke frown

Uncognitive

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY
May 2003

JUN 21, 2007 07:00 AM

PointBlank said:
I can only assume that this thread was resurrected because someone searched "Giant Balls" or "Red-Hot Indonesian Dirt Hole."

I'm so proud.



One of the things one finds when perusing Google Image Search for "Red-Hot Indonesian Dirt Hole"


PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JUN 21, 2007 07:11 AM

chainlink said:

PointBlank said:
Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.



the link is broke frown


It's from 5 months ago!!

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUN 21, 2007 07:14 AM

PointBlank said:

chainlink said:

PointBlank said:
Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.


the link is broke frown


It's from 5 months ago!!


The insertion failed.

Now they're trying dams, I guess.

Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

JUN 21, 2007 07:21 AM

PointBlank said:

chainlink said:

PointBlank said:
Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.



the link is broke frown


It's from 5 months ago!!




But they told me once you put it on the interweb it was FOREVER !

frown

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUN 21, 2007 07:24 AM

chainlink said:

PointBlank said:

chainlink said:

PointBlank said:
Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.


the link is broke frown


It's from 5 months ago!!


But they told me once you put it on the interweb it was FOREVER !

frown


It's only naked pictures of your ex-girlfriend that do that.

Uncognitive

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY
May 2003

JUN 21, 2007 07:25 AM

Zarth said:

PointBlank said:

chainlink said:

PointBlank said:
Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.


the link is broke frown


It's from 5 months ago!!


The insertion failed.

Now they're trying dams, I guess.



Yeah, the same thing happened to my high school sweetheart during her freshman year at Bryn Mawr. wink

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

JUN 21, 2007 07:30 AM

Uncognitive said:

Zarth said:

PointBlank said:

chainlink said:

PointBlank said:
Film At 11!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Engineers dropped chains of concrete balls into a "volcano" oozing hot mud in Indonesia's East Java province Monday as they resumed a bid to stem the flow which has submerged entire villages.

"We have been able to insert four chains of concrete balls today, before changing smoke from the hot mud forced the operations to be halted," Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for the audacious bid to plug the crater, told AFP.


the link is broke frown


It's from 5 months ago!!


The insertion failed.

Now they're trying dams, I guess.


Yeah, the same thing happened to my high school sweetheart during her freshman year at Bryn Mawr. wink


This kind of experimentation is completely appropriate at certain ages.

joker_

joker_

Minneapolis, MN
October 2005

JUN 21, 2007 01:31 PM

Well, the mud is a natural occurrence.

Hmmm, C02 is also a natural occurrence

Wait, wait...
This means, we need to throw mud everywhere:

herbancowboy

herbancowboy

Houston, TX
June 2004

JUN 21, 2007 04:12 PM

joker_c said:



Now THAT is what I call lucky mud.

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

I'm lost
August 2004

JUN 21, 2007 04:16 PM

i can only dread what may follow the balls as they're yanked out of that dirt hole.

SignalNoise

SignalNoise

USA
February 2004

JUN 22, 2007 10:23 AM

I can't wait for the day when we drop hot metal balls in *other* planets. (I mean, this thing we're Earth - we're not *exclusive* right baby?)

Mark_plus_Beer

Mark_plus_Beer

United Kingdom
August 2005

JUN 22, 2007 10:44 AM

there is nothing i don't like about this story

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JUN 22, 2007 10:45 AM

Apparently I set this thread to explode after 4 months.