Something called "Volcano Monitoring"
Did you know there are active volcanoes in five of our United States of America (http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volcus/ustext.html)? Yeah, in fact, the world's most active volcano is in Hawaii (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/), my and President Obama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)'s home state. Monitoring volcanoes is kind of important where we come from. So what's up with Bobby Jindal dissing funding for something called "Volcano Monitoring?" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/energy-talk-in-the-state_n_169738.html)
I know it's not as useful as, say, hurricane monitoring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina) (also important in Hawaii), but one would think the governor of Louisiana would be big on keeping an eye out for natural disasters. Oh, but I guess if there are no volcanoes in your state, then why care?
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Something called "Volcano Monitoring"
posted by Sumocat at 3/01/2009 10:18:00 AM
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I was thinking about this the other day and wondering why they don't just bury a nuke in these things and schedule eruptions before they get out of hand?
I guess spraying radioactivity into the atmosphere is generally a bad idea but perhaps a truckload of TNT would suffice? At least then they could be "let off" before the pressure builds up to dangerous levels.
Anyway I'm just an IT guy so what would I know.
Sam
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Sam Johnston, at 3/01/2009 12:41:00 PM
I was thinking that too. Not the nuke part (or the burying; who's going dig a hole in a volcano?), but we now have the ability to drop a bunker-buster to defuse potential problems. Might as well put that technology to good use.
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Sumocat, at 3/01/2009 12:49:00 PM
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