One would presume that we would try to figure out a way to create a shunt.
Puny hoo-mans, thinking they can derail (or even affect) forces of that scale.
(Envisions soldier throwing himself on top of a nuke.)
I would. Not because I live there, but because my favorite kittencam is located there, and so are many of the furry adoptees whose lives I now follow on Facebook. They’re too cute to be cut loose!
Well you say that, and yet we’re looking at raising the temperature of the planet a few degrees.
Given ingenuity and (more importantly) constant, long-term impact, you can cause a great change. Using just tweezers, you could move a whole mountain, given a few thousand years, a lot of workers, and a steady supply of new tweezers.
I’m starting to wonder if scientific utility might be a secondary concern to “Hey, we have a chance to dump a shit-ton of explosives into a volcano and set them off! Let’s go !!!”
This is probably how they appealed to the student volunteers who will be placing the charges. :eek:
I doubt it.
The utility of it would be to help us understand basic science better, and possibly to aid us in developing better early warning systems. Mt Ranier, for example, has the capability of dumping 30 feet of mud on top of 100,000 people with virtually no warning. You’re not going to stop that from happening, but it would be nice to be able to predict that there’s a 90% chance of it happening tomorrow so that we could at least evacuate.
Well the big danger with a cola volcano is obviously all the carbon dioxide it produces.
THIS sounds like a job for [del]SUPERMAN[/del] Bruce Banner!
The detonations were delayed 24 hours. So it’s supposed to occur tonight.
So? Pop went the volcano?
I sensed a disturbance in the Force, but that might have just been the wind.
Went off as planned:
And we are still here.
The next big event is Monday at around Noon when the Navy’s Blue Angels will photobomb Mount St. Helens on the way to the Seattle Air Show.
Hopefully, it won’t blow chunks…
Did your wife run off with a guy from Yakima or something?
I’m still here, so is the rest of Seattle and its environs. I’ve heard nothing about anything, other than a couple hash oil operations blowing up. (I guess hash is the new meth.)
