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Giant Weights to Be Dropped Into Indonesian Mud Volcano Friday, Officials Say
FOXNews.com ^
| 02/23/2007
| AP
Posted on 02/23/2007 12:10:08 PM PST by quark
SURABAYA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities will drop hundreds of giant concrete balls into a fissure Friday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has inundated villages and factories, an official said.
The hot, noxious mud — enough to fill 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools — has flowed from the hole each day for the last nine months, forcing at least 11,000 people from their homes.
Four villages and 25 factories have been buried under a 30-foot layer of mud.
The chained cement balls, weighing up to 550 pounds each, will be dropped from a scaffolding into the so-called mud volcano on the island of Java starting Friday, said Rudi Novrianto, a spokesman for a national task force handling the disaster.
If successful, the project will decrease by up to 70 percent the volume of the mud now being channeled by a system of dams into a nearby river and out to sea.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: volcano
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:10:14 PM PST
by
quark
To: quark
--this doesn't sound like a very good idea, IMHO---
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:11:04 PM PST
by
rellimpank
(-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: quark
This is going to go downhill fast.
3
posted on
02/23/2007 12:11:26 PM PST
by
day10
(Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
To: quark
LOL! That's the best headline I've read in years.
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:11:54 PM PST
by
Zeroisanumber
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: rellimpank
"--this doesn't sound like a very good idea, IMHO"
What trying to plug a volcano with concrete? What could go wrong???
/sarc
To: quark
Who the h*ll can teabag a whole volcano?!
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:12:07 PM PST
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: rellimpank; Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:12:12 PM PST
by
patton
(Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
Perhaps for a future episode of "hold my beer and watch this?"
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:12:17 PM PST
by
OneLoyalAmerican
(Truth was the first casualty in the MSM's war on President Bush.)
To: rellimpank
Don't volcanos tend to blow up when they are blocked?
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:12:21 PM PST
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: quark
10
posted on
02/23/2007 12:12:54 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: quark
To: quark
Did Allah tell them to build a really large cannon?
12
posted on
02/23/2007 12:13:01 PM PST
by
msnimje
(The Pro-Life movement is about winning Converts to the cause. Why attack the converted?)
To: Frank_Discussion
What the hell is Cheney doing in Indonesia?
To: quark
Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Fire!
14
posted on
02/23/2007 12:13:12 PM PST
by
techcor
To: quark
*sigh* Well, at least they didn't say "thrust".
To: rellimpank
Yeah, just wait until the volcano blows those suckers sky-high at the speed of light. Old Chinese proverb, "What goes up, must come down." What's the word in Indonesia for "INCOMING!!!"
To: quark
Final episodes of Sopranos being filmed...large concrete balls...coincidence?
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:13:39 PM PST
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: doctor noe
LOL! (People are looking at me funny...)
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:13:41 PM PST
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: I still care
To: quark
somehow using tissue paper to fix a leaking fire hose comes to mind...
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posted on
02/23/2007 12:13:57 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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