When Kilauea was making news for erupting, I showed my (now ex) partner a photo of the lava flow over the road with hazard barriers to keep people away.
Her response was to ask why they didn't just divert the flow away from where people are.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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They actually do that with earth barriers sometimes, e.g. at the Aetna.
But there is only so much these barrier can do...
I mean yeah, why instead of writing "people stay away" don't they just put "lava stay away"?
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.
Why has noone ever experimented with placing a very large spaceship in the mouth of an active volcano? And when erupting, the space ship would fly to space without needing any fuel. No resources wasted on multiple stage rockets just to carry up fuel a few km, all that's needed is an enormous spaceship in the shape of a cement plug.
They did manage to use a modified battleship cannon to fire things into orbit. I think the main problem is not knowing how much explosive power you'll get for a given eruption.
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I just realised, that I first learned about pressure as a kid, when watching cartoon characters trying too stop a leak using body parts.
This creates a bomb, the interesting thing is does the cork or the side blow first
Prevent harmful eruptions with one simple trick. Frees up more time for your other hobbies, like making pipe bombs.
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Big badda boom
The people that get off watching those pimple popping videos on YouTube would literally NUT to this one weird TRICK
Somebody didn't see those mount St Helens videos....
I thought we just needed a good guy with a volcano.
I'm sure Super Glue would work too.
God: What the fuck are they doing down there bro