Re: Rigging a Volcano

zooz_at_woozooded.zooz
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:30:34 GMT

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:46:19 -0700, "Robert Flory" <wyogeo@bigfoot.com>
wrote:

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>"Greg Campbell" <nospam@null.net> wrote in message
>news:UaMFc.16257$Qj6.8423@fed1read05...
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>> Alternately, you could allow the magma to degass as it rises, cool it a
>> bit, then pump it back down another hole. (Similar to the CO2 degassing
>> of Monoun and Nyos.) Given the volume of magama involved, you'd need
>> some mighty fat pipes or a bunch of wells.
>>
>> Of course, you'd wind up dumping a lot of sulfur and other nasty stuff
>> into the air. While objectively a much better option than enduring an
>> eventual magacaldera eruption, I'm sure the local population would raise
>> hell. "I've lived here 70 years, and it ain't erupted once!"
>>
>> -Greg
>>
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>That solution is far beyond the capability of human engineering. Man has a
>really poor record of keeping mother nature from doing what she damn well
>pleases. It could well be like trying to pop a cork of a bottle of bubbly
>and just letting if fly or letting the air out of a balloon with a pin.
>
>The forces involved are most likely beyond mans abilities. Like Jo says,
>nature generally gets the last laugh. To nature, man doesn't count, doesn't
>even figure into the equation.
>

 It's "funny" to see the Dopefishes (the rich, pompous fucks)
reactions when they find out that all the money in the world
can't buy their way out of Mother Natures wrath.

>Bob
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