Giant Balls Inserted Into Red-Hot Indonesian Dirt Hole!

Film At 11!

That is every kind of awesome.

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

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

...Thread necromancy?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm so proud.

the link is broke

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

It's from 5 months ago!!

The insertion failed.

Now they're trying dams, I guess.

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

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

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

This kind of experimentation is completely appropriate at certain ages.

Well, the mud is a natural occurrence.

Hmmm, C02 is also a natural occurrence

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

Now THAT is what I call lucky mud.

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

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?)

there is nothing i don't like about this story

Apparently I set this thread to explode after 4 months.