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IPCRESS posted:Dynamite lava canals. Send the lava where there's nothing worth worrying about. Utah, possibly. Do a Lex Luthor, make more real estate.
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Rexxed posted:I think they do that to wear the gator out so it won't fight so much. Maybe he needed to aggravate it more. SLAP SLAP SLAP "Still got hands, it'll hold"
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Some men just can't let go.
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SelenicMartian posted:Some men just can't let go. Waste not, want not.
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revolther posted:I'm no lip reader, but I can guarantee you this was in response to, "How do we know if the tape is gonna hold?" Tapem down. Then give it a little provocation to make sure the tape will hold while your in a position to get away. You don't want to find out that the tape isn't enough while it's right next to your face; though, as this demonstrates, it's still plenty dangerous. RE: Lava chat: There's this whole, interesting sequence of things that happens to turn a wasteland of crumbly rock into a wasteland of lush vegetation. You might be able to jump start it by going through with bulldozers and other heavy equipment to break up the rock. Follow that up with manure spreaders and seeding with the appropriate local plants.
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Moto42 posted:RE: Lava chat:
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Surtsey was part of the seafloor until the 1960s eruption and it already has vegetation with zero human intervention. that's not the problem here. the problem is that lava rock is fresh and unweathered, meaning it is jagged and destroys poo poo that moves over it through thousands of tiny cuts. plants typically do not move very much so they dont care about being on jagged rock or sheer cliff faces or whatever also, the question is if there's a way to speed up the weathering process to less than a fifty year timescale
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boner confessor posted:that's not the problem here. the problem is that lava rock is fresh and unweathered, meaning it is jagged and destroys poo poo that moves over it through thousands of tiny cuts. plants typically do not move very much so they dont care about being on jagged rock or sheer cliff faces or whatever Rent a sandblaster and go wild
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boner confessor posted:that's not the problem here. the problem is that lava rock is fresh and unweathered, meaning it is jagged and destroys poo poo that moves over it through thousands of tiny cuts. plants typically do not move very much so they dont care about being on jagged rock or sheer cliff faces or whatever
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rndmnmbr posted:The answer is, volcano insurance pays out and now they own a couple acres of lava rock. Or you skipped the volcano insurance and now you own a couple acres of lava rock. There's no going back, there's no rebuilding, you just have to take a loss and rebuild your life somewhere else. Because even if you were mad enough to try, no one is going to rebuild roads and utilities out to a couple acres of lava rock.
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You know how you can buy those lava rocks for your grill, the porous ones that look like slag? Imagine walking over miles and miles of that. It sounds like walking on broken glass. After decades, lichen starts to grow, and now your little murderstones are undergoing primary succession.  At some point, the ground will be pulverized enough that it resembles the Moon or Mars rather than Venus.  And after hundreds of years, that ground approaches what normal people would consider habitable, with trees and soil. 
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this is the content i signed up for
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Moto42 posted:You're pretty much on the mark. Splicer posted:I would watch a show called Terraforming Hawaii. You might be interested in what Charles Darwin did with Ascension Island.
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No reflective vest.
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Cichlidae posted:You know how you can buy those lava rocks for your grill, the porous ones that look like slag? Imagine walking over miles and miles of that. It sounds like walking on broken glass. Bro chillax. I walked miles all over the lava fields in Hawaii last year. I did it in Keen sandals, without a shirt because it's frigging hot in the sun! But even the couple of times I had to put my hands down it's not like razor wire, but you did get some superficial cuts. Still, no one is building poo poo there. And nothing will grow in your lifetime, but it's not like an impossible place. You rent a bike for like 8 bucks and ride the lovely 4 mile road in, laugh at the for sale signs, and watch lava hit the ocean. It was a highlight of the trip for me.
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SelenicMartian posted:Some men just can't let go. "Men, I need a volunteer for an exciting job!"
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Say Nothing posted:No reflective vest. That is awesome
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Nocheez posted:Bro chillax. I walked miles all over the lava fields in Hawaii last year. I did it in Keen sandals, without a shirt because it's frigging hot in the sun! But even the couple of times I had to put my hands down it's not like razor wire, but you did get some superficial cuts. It was definitely not as sharp as broken glass or scalpels, but it was memorably unpleasant to sit on.  The skinks didn't seem to mind, though.  Bonus view from the summit, where I stepped in a fumarole and got my boot scalded with vaporized sulfur. Thank goodness for waterproofing and puncture-resistant soles. Also visible to those with astute eyes: a little solar-powered monitoring station to keep track of volcanic activity, since it's a Decade Volcano. 
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Might be worth keeping the lot in the family though bc I can't imagine you can sell it for much until it's habitable?
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Can't you like, put it on stilts? Although I suppose just getting to your house would be a pain in the rear end.
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FCKGW posted:Can't you like, put it on stilts? The stilts, even concrete ones, would be damaged by the sustained heat of volcanic lava. You'd lose the foundation after a flow easily, and likely the house above anyway.
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Make the stilts out of lava, which is exactly the temperature of lava. How is this that hard.
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Lava has metal in it so it's obviously magnetic so obviously make a house floating on a big rear end neodymium foundation!
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tangy yet delightful posted:Lava has metal in it so it's obviously magnetic so obviously make a house floating on a big rear end neodymium foundation! Is lava the softest metal?
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Just build everything out of chert God, it's like none of you played dwarf fortress
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Jerry Cotton posted:Is lava the softest metal?
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Jerry Cotton posted:Is lava the softest metal? Now you've got me thinking about a gallium "swimming" pool.
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tangy yet delightful posted:Lava has metal in it so it's obviously magnetic so obviously make a house floating on a big rear end neodymium foundation! Why not just build the while house out of neodymium and have the lava avoid it?
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tangy yet delightful posted:Lava has metal in it so it's obviously magnetic so obviously make a house floating on a big rear end neodymium foundation! Lave is above the Curie point, so no, it's not magnetic 
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wdarkk posted:Now you've got me thinking about a gallium "swimming" pool. You’d want a gallium alloy instead, because pure gallium freezes above room temperature and expands like water when it freezes. So, a cloud going overhead on a mild day means you get crushed and suffocated at the same time. In any case, good luck getting under“water” without iron boots or moving at all. If you did, though, it would be more waterlike than mercury, since liquid gallium is actually wet (and non-toxic, for that matter). It would be great to float on, though.
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I don't think you can even "swim" in mercury, jou Just float. Also the pressure under mercury is gonna be very unpleasant.
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I don’t see why you couldn’t swim in mercury. You’d just look like a cartoon character as you did it.Blindeye posted:The stilts, even concrete ones, would be damaged by the sustained heat of volcanic lava. You'd lose the foundation after a flow easily, and likely the house above anyway. Actively cool the supports with internal channels like is done with jet and rocket engines. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Jun 9, 2018 |
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Platystemon posted:I don’t see why you couldn’t swim in mercury. You’d just look like a cartoon character as you did it. Because it's way denser than water and you'll just float.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8KzmlIEsHs
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spankmeister posted:Because it's way denser than water and you'll just float. So? Reach in and paddle. Perhaps we have different definitions of “swimming”.
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Platystemon posted:So? I suppose we do.
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PetraCore posted:Might be worth keeping the lot in the family though bc I can't imagine you can sell it for much until it's habitable? If you keep the lot you're paying property taxes on it. You don't get to stop paying taxes just because the road burned up.
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Facebook Aunt posted:If you keep the lot you're paying property taxes on it. You don't get to stop paying taxes just because the road burned up. No but the assessed value plummets.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t see why you couldn’t swim in mercury. You’d just look like a cartoon character as you did it. gently caress passive protection. Build a rocket engine to blow the lava flows away!
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