If you read the news, and the volcano they are loading with cement balls to prevent hot mud. I am more concerned if the volcano blows dues to pressure, how much more damage the pressure pushing out the cement balls in that volcano will cause. Anyone else thinking this? Mother Nature more powerful then human beings.
2007-02-26 14:47:11 · 10 answers · asked by hbuckmeister 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Im more concerned about someone loading a volcano with cement balls because if that volcano blows with the pressure, where will those cement balls end up andhow far will they travel?
2007-02-26 14:56:16 · update #1
i'm not totally understanding the logic behind what they are doing either. scientist are sometimes quick to jump the gun. reminds me of when some scientists thought throwing a bunch of tires into the ocean would get ocean creatures to come to the area, that one totally backfired.
2007-02-26 14:54:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you read the articles, then you should know this is not an erupting volcano, or even a dormant volcano. It's just pressurized water from underground. What happened was that while exploratory drilling was being done by an energy firm looking for naural gas, an underground chamber of hydrogen sulphide was encountered and they had not put a proper well case in the borehole, allowing very warm mud *NOT LAVA* to be forced to the surface. The concrete balls are intended to slow the flow down. The pressure should actually be decreasing slightly since they punctured a sealed chamber basically, and not build any higher even if they plug it completely. It's just a big muddy spring.
Think of it as if you poked a small hole in a water balloon. plugging the hole again won't make the balloon blow up.
2007-02-26 15:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What comes from an active volcano: LAVA.
What is LAVA: MOLTEN ROCK.
What lame brain came up with the idea of putting cement balls into a volcano do disrupt anything? Some people really need to get a life.
2007-02-26 14:51:55 · answer #3 · answered by Curious_Yank_back_in_South_Korea 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
loading a volcano with cement balls is just so crazy......you cant stop a volcano from erupting......but we can make the damage lesser by making a way (like canals) which will lead out of civilization and lead it to a place where the hot lava will be cooled down.we can use the cooled lava for infrastracture
2007-02-26 19:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I Was wondering the same thing...but more in the way of what may not be able to erupt upwards could possibly erupt downwards and depending on faults/weaknesses in the earth's crust could create a more catastophic event than the volcano alone would have
2007-02-26 14:53:33 · answer #5 · answered by Wendy P 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it a hoot?!!What are those people thinking plugging the volcano that way, as if they could!! and even if they did can you imagine the volcano spewing concrete balls all over the place?.
2007-02-26 15:05:16 · answer #6 · answered by Georgewasmyfavorite 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Xino is authentic as huge-unfold. (great election result for him i think!) they're to quit human beings parking on the sidewalk / pavement. additionally they quit human beings on the your best option hand ingredient of vehicles from beginning their doors. This ends up in various bashed doors.
2016-12-14 06:35:48 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duck!
2007-02-26 14:49:21 · answer #8 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like an old girlfriend i had.
2007-02-26 14:50:19 · answer #9 · answered by BIG-IRON 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I dunno dude, but this has got crazy mad cool science project written all over it....
Mmmm.... aluminum foil, baking soda, red dye #3...
and now, cement balls!!!
Cool.....
2007-02-26 14:51:03 · answer #10 · answered by helpful_dude 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋