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[-] don@lemm.ee 128 points 10 months ago

tf is this concrete shit just use some goddamn sandpaper to sand the fuckin mountain flat duh you motherfuckers is dumb af fr

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 33 points 10 months ago

Can we get this dude to be head of volcano NASA or w/e?

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 21 points 10 months ago

finally, a sensible solution

[-] Arigion@feddit.de 116 points 10 months ago

As a politician I can assure you that if you vote for me I will put into law that volcanoes will be forbidden to erupt in our wonderful country.

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

And as a different politician I can assure you that if you vote for me I will fight for the freedom of volcanoes to erupt whenever and wherever they want. In fact, I promise a volcano in every household and quicksand in every sandbox.

Cause this is America. Where land has more rights than people voting.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

The former president of the Philippines said that he will urinate on the volcano that was threatening to erupt. Lol

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[-] aelwero@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago

So... Just turn a blank round into a live bullet...

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago

Maybe we can fire it at the planet that keeps sending those asteroids that nearly hit us.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 25 points 10 months ago

Why yes, I would like to know more.

[-] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Excellent analogy, but now I want the math. Think we could push this past the gravity well? Fuck space elevator, I got ejecto-volcano cuz.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

I would imagine very small section might be able to? I know one of jupiters moons has geysers that shoot water into space and out of orbit.

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 72 points 10 months ago

Dude just tape a cease and desist letter on the volcano. And if they still don't listen just get the cops to shoot it.

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago
[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

Canadian. We have that problem too.

[-] DarkMessiah@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

That lava already has to break through literal kilometres of rock to get there. A few hundred (let’s be generous) extra meters of pourable rock ain’t gonna do shit.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

But look at the picture, the lava is trapped.

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[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

I think we can still work with the spirit of the solution. The main issue is that the lava will break the concrete. The solution is pretty simple. If we take some buckets of water we can pour it into the volcano creating a layer of obsidian. Obsidian is much harder and will easily contain the magma.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Minecraft logic

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[-] Illuminati@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

What you mean? Cement stronk!

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 13 points 10 months ago

Not to mention the average normal size of an opening you’d have to plug to begin with. Even if it didn’t just drain down the hole or dissolve the moment it got to lava, it would be a ludicrous amount of concrete just to make a layer a few feet thick. Even if you did manage to make a plug a hundred or more feet deep and it didn’t melt or move, an eruption would likely just blow the mountain apart from around it.

[-] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

All you'd need is ultra fast drying lava-proof concrete. I'm surprised no one has thought of that yet. Then once the crater vent is fully plugged you would just need to coat the rest of the mountain in the same concrete. Voila, problem solved.

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 45 points 10 months ago

Just keep adding concrete until it works

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I saw people on YouTube pour the cement directly into a hole they were filling. Should make it even quicker to not have to add water it can just mix with the molten rock.

[-] retrolasered@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago

Fools. You need to put ice in first so the concrete doesnt melt.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Even more foolish fool. Just dump water down the volcano. The lava source blocks turn to obsidian and are completely harmless.

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[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 10 months ago
[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Better yet - use helicopters to drop chunks of icebergs into the volcano to extinguish it.

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Keep fuckin around and you're gonna end up in a Republican cabinet one day.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think this could actually be someone impersonating a famous mountain on Twitter, however, the account is verified with a Blue Checkmark, so this must be the real Mt. St. Helens then.

But how could this be possible?

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[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Well now you have a very large cannon

[-] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Meh, the pressure will do the ball the way into space I bet.

[-] Killer@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

We should launch rockets like this, would save on fuel.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

I feel like we need to talk about how much heavy metal rocks.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Just going to need 14 trillion bags of cement from ACME

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Block molten rock with wet powdered rock? Wcgw?

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[-] mr_satan@monyet.cc 21 points 10 months ago

Would concrete even hold. I mean lava is molten rock and cement is kind of a rock. So wouldn't the cement melt before pressure could build up?

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago

Most cements melt at a higher temperature than most lava gets to, so it would be solid chunks of cement getting blasted miles out when the pressure builds high enough to erupt

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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Yes. That's the joke.

[-] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 10 points 10 months ago

Even if the plug would hold the volcano would just split open another hole in the earth and erupt from there

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[-] Smeagol666@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago

This reminds me of when Trump suggested nuking a hurricane.

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[-] LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

I feel like when the volcano does explode it's just gonna launch that concrete plug like popping a pimple.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Tens of thousands of tons of rapidly fragmenting concrete being launched into the upper atmosphere - cos what a major volcanic eruption needs is extra shrapnel

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[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Nobody going to mention that we have a sentient mountain with internet access? Wtf

[-] Sargteapot@lemmy.nz 15 points 10 months ago

It's 2023 things are weird now you just gotta accept it

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Big problems require big solutions.

[-] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Let's test this theory on your colon...

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