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“Success! We have plugged the volcano!”
two days later
For a small scale demonstration, OOP should try chugging a bottle of laxatives, insert a buttplug, and see how it goes.
Just put up some “no eruption” signs.
That’d be about as ridiculous as the proposal that is being dismissed into oblivion in this thread but at least economically and technically feasible.
Three or four signs should suffice.
Also fun fact - you can make a gun ineffective and safe just by welding shut its barel.
Ineffective, definitely.
Safe for the target, also maybe. Just depends on whether the exploding action and barrel throw shrapnel down range, or if you had a shitty weld. Guy holding it won’t have a good day, but could survive. Something something Kentucky ballistics.
Idk man, this plan is sounding pretty credible.
Wait, wrong community…
yeah a pretty credible way to defend yourself against your target
You can just plug it with your finger, unless you’re going to tell me that cartoons are lying.
Good idea, also applicable in other areas
unfortunately this would only work on tanks that shoot lava
If you put concrete over the volcano, how are you going to throw virgins in as a sacrifice to the volcano god? Just asking for trouble here.
Just leave a virgin-shaped hole in the middle of the concrete block. It won’t change the efficacy of the concrete due to the magma wavelength being so much greater than the hole diameter (the mesh screen on a microwave principal).
This is literally what happens when a volcano erupts. Magma solidifes at the top and creates a plug, which builds pressure until it explodes.
Dude, you are going to break this person’s heart. Keep this knowledge to yourself.
Bobby, if these kids could understand volcanic geology, they’d be very upset right now.
Wanna know my pet peve? I just know whoever honestly asked that question did zero research at all about it but instead of asking if anyone has ever done it they ask why no on ever has, even though I just know they didn’t so much as google it once.
Put a really big wooden spoon over the mouth of the volcano
- cement: mostly not rocks and mortar mix or whatever the fuck
- concrete: mostly rocks, mortar mix, and significantly stronger than cement.
- lava: literally actually just fucking molten rock
- also lava: buried thousands of feet deeper below millions, possibly billions of pounds of more rock
- concrete: weights about the same
shitposting aside this would just spray incredibly small chunks of solidified lava everywhere, for miles.
Cement is the chemical that cements. Mix it with sand and you get mortar, add aggregate and you get concrete. Concrete is not only made with cement, if you swap it for bitumen, you get asphalt.
there we go. This is someone that cements.
Right? Finally a concrete answer.
do love myself a good rocky foundation to base things on.
Okay, but what if you push it down with both your hands? Lava couldn’t get out then. Checkmate.
damn, you got me there.
Oh I get it! If you stack rock on the hot rock, you can stop the hot rock from moving the rock with more rock!
… Unironically, this DOES work … sorta’. Though it’d be dumb to do by man, because a ‘rock plug’ is exactly what forms at the top of many volcanos after the magma cools. It’s why many volcanos have flank eruptions where magma pushes through some side crack, or build and build until the rock plug pops catastrophically.
Of course some volcanos don’t have the right mix to form rock plugs, and any non-dormant volcano can pop them, but the point is it does have an effect that can delay and redirect eruptions.
If humanity doesn’t kill itself off soon (bad news on that front), I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we’re building megastructures around volcanos specifically to manage them instead of being subject to them.
Haha, that’s pretty cool. Is there anything written about this?
Absolutely TONS of info, though I’m not a geologist, nor have I studied much, so I sadly do not know of any solid references I could simply point at. I’ve just picked up a few details over the years watching random geology videos on YouTube.
GeologyHub makes frequent short videos on current activity, and he always comments on the mechanisms at play, and even makes and explains his educated guesses on what will happen. A plug forming comes up quite often when eruptions slow, even in eruptions that are destined to continue erupting.
If we put enough corn kernels it would fill up the volcano with popcorn and it will just shoot popcorn all over the tri state area 🧠
Hmmmm. Looks like making there worlds biggest canon has zero downsides imho.
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.
Prevent harmful eruptions with one simple trick. Frees up more time for your other hobbies, like making pipe bombs.
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Volcano erupting? Just tell it to stop. It legally can’t erupt without your permission.
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