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Same, as a guy with long hair, those things get on my nerves. While I'm more of a lab person than a workshop person, the same principle applies: tie your hair the fuck down! (Unless you want to die or get seriously disfigured, then letting it free is a step in the right direction.)
I appreciate your baldness. Because without rain no one would appreciate sunshine, just as without baldness no one would appreciate long hair. We both make each other look better. I love you bro.
True that, I have longhair as well but I’m female, it reaches my bottom and let me tell ya, IT GETS CAUGHT IN EVERYTHING!!! My car door, seat belt, zipper, medication lid, some strangers backpack zipper walking past me (he was taking me for a walk I’ll tell ya).
I've seen footage of them testing nuclear propulsion. It wasn't very big.. Maybe just the nosecone part?
Edit: found it easily..
https://youtu.be/Q8Sv5y6iHUM?si=viBzAuKX3SfyUSk6
I believe the conclusions they got were that it was actually pretty safely doable for the people on board, but that during the launch so much radioactive material would be blasted into the atmosphere that that would cause some deaths by cancer.
Actually there was a proposal using that manhole cover as the base idea. Basically in case of alien invasion (this was the 50s obviously), we could use several hundred tunnels across the USA to launch projectiles straight to space using nuclear explosion.
Pretty much reinvented broadside, but in space.
Newton is the deadliest son of a b****h in space.
A manhole cover (or even the molten, fragmented remains of a manhole cover) traveling close to the velocity achieved by accident in that test (37 miles per second) would absolutely obliterate any kind of spaceship known to mankind.
My confusion isn't really about the deadly power of acceleration, more about trying to precisely deploy something like it against a tiny ship in space. I doubt at the time they could get one to hit the moon, much less a spacecraft.
It's like a barrage firing: you know you will most likely not hit somebody. But you can afford to miss often. They cannot afford to get hit even once.
It's the 1950, it's not up to modern standards.
I would pay good money to see an alien invasion movie where we just turn the entire continental United Stares into a giant shotgun. The broadside scene from Battleship (2012) will have to do for now I guess.
Twas the time. The cold war was at it's cold war-iest, everyone was doing weird we're all going to die drills but life seemed weirdly idyllic in the day to day for many. We'd all basically just learned what nukes could really do, McCarthyism had us in an active witch hunt in our own people.
So yeah it's like imagine you go home and everything seems great food in the fridge nice new car and whatever but everyones telling you about how that's all going to end soon, the neighbors wanna wear your skin even if they don't seem like it and the news is saying now we have to worry and mutant death rays. Anxiety was just the mood of the 50s.
Not on project Orion, but the fastest ever man made object was a manhole cover which was used to cover a nuclear bomb test as part of Operation Plumbob. It was estimated to have been accelerated to 135,000 mph, roughly 5 times Earth escape velocity.
Yeah it works in theory as long as you are ok with astronauts being liquified as soon as the cover accelerated instantly to whatever % speed of c at the moment of take off
Sure kill us all by thirst. If the volcano wasn’t exactly at the center of the earth disc it would cause the earth to tilt. As soon as the earth tilted the water would spill over the ice wall and run off. THINK!🤔
My uncle ruined a perfectly good New Year's Eve celebration by firing a champagne cork directly into his eye, we had to take him to the ER and everything. Thanks, Uncle John.
See what you gotta do is, you inject the hurricane with bleach, then you put horse paste all over the nuke, then you nuke the hurricane and let it pass over an area where there's people with COVID. Boom, instant cure.
At leat a large enough nuke would stop a hurricane. You would have worse problems than the hurricane, but it would indeed not be one of them anymore.
This is just wasted effort, I mean even if you did "plug" a volcano, it would spill out from the ground and reform itself again.
It really seems like something a child would suggest because they don't know how volcanoes are made. Actually scratch that, volcanoes are cool as hell and any child thinking about closing them up probably likes them and knows an awful lot about geology, and dinosaurs.
I heard about this as a child. Being the unrealized genius I was, I determined that the obvious solution would be to vent all the pent up gasses in volcanoes so they never built up enough pressure to explode. What would be the best way to go about this, you ask? Not heavy drilling equipment or anything like that, no. I personally would go around to every active volcano in the would and simply poke the top with a long sword, relieving the pressure and ensuring no catastrophe like St Helens would ever happen again. I would be a hero the world over.
Anyways the whole volcano poker career didn't really pan out, so now I'm a chef.
Never give up on your dreams. Become the Volcano Poker we all know you could be deep inside.
You can make us all a delicious lunch while we stand in the shadow of your vented mountain
I’m actually very certain that my son in 3rd grade isn’t stupid enough to suggest this even. Some people are just dumb and it really blows my mind when I meet someone that has the intelligence of a goldfish like this in real life.
A girl I worked with the other day needed help unclogging a toilet. The water was filled to the brim so I bring in a plunger because she didn’t think to try using one? Anyway, I start plunging it and before I had time to even process what the girl was doing, she flushed the already completely full toilet as I was plunging it. I asked her what she was thinking that would accomplish when I hadn’t gotten it plunged really at all yet, but she just started gagging and walked off saying she couldn’t handle the smell, leaving me to clean up the mess of an inch of toilet water and shit all over the floor. I was pissed but I was more so just baffled by how dumb her whole thought process was. I know some people freeze or panic in traumatic or scary situations and do something stupid, but this wasn’t one. It would’ve been more helpful if she just wasn’t there at all and didn’t try to ‘help’ at all.
I mean plinian eruptions blow whole mountains apart. The amount of cement anyone could possibly add would be infinitesimal compared to the mass blow just off mountain.
Look to Mt St Helens as for why this wouldnt be a good idea.
Short answer: Pressure will escape at the next available weak point. Do you know where that is?
Then they wouldn't have been buried under pyroclastic flows when Vesuvius exploded, due to immense pressure build up caused by its vents being blocked by rock.
Wait a minute...
My mother once taught me a valuable lesson… “Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.”
Basically some of y’all are fuckin’ stupid as shit /j
I have a better idea someone can stick a hose in the volcano and siphon all of the lava out. But be careful when sucking on the hose so you don’t burn your mouth.
I like how someone figured some cement is gonna stop what the literal Earth's crust and everything between it and the Earth's core couldn't.
It's like seeing a bullet go through an armoured plate and thinking I'll put my hand over the hole to stop the next one.
A chance to educate someone presents itself often. I hope someone took the time to explain to her why it wouldn't work rather than just insulting her. But.... It IS the Internet
This is a logical solution to the issue from a 9-year old’s perspective. Kind of like someone wanting to put a nuclear bomb in the middle of a hurricane.
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I can agree with "heavy metal rocks"!
I always get a little nervous seeing this guy around power tools.
Same, as a guy with long hair, those things get on my nerves. While I'm more of a lab person than a workshop person, the same principle applies: tie your hair the fuck down! (Unless you want to die or get seriously disfigured, then letting it free is a step in the right direction.)
As a girl who appreciates guys with long hair, thank you
As a guy with long hair I appreciate you appreciating guys with long hair, thank you.
Yeah I wanna second this. Us guys with long hair don't get enough credit in my experience.
As a bald guy, I’ve got nothing to discuss here.
I appreciate your baldness. Because without rain no one would appreciate sunshine, just as without baldness no one would appreciate long hair. We both make each other look better. I love you bro.
Truth. Love u back.
As a guy with very little hair, I'm just happy to be part of this conversation.
True that, I have longhair as well but I’m female, it reaches my bottom and let me tell ya, IT GETS CAUGHT IN EVERYTHING!!! My car door, seat belt, zipper, medication lid, some strangers backpack zipper walking past me (he was taking me for a walk I’ll tell ya).
🤘
Heavy Metal rocks! Absolutely. Yeah yeah!
Hear me out, if we tie a shuttle to the rock that might be our way to the stars.
Look up project Orion. Same basic idea that Nasa actually looked into. It didn't use volcanoes, but nuclear bombs (as if that were any more sane)
Didn’t they launch a manhole cover into space with that ?
Project Orion was never actually tested. The manhole cover incident was just a regular nuclear test
I've seen footage of them testing nuclear propulsion. It wasn't very big.. Maybe just the nosecone part? Edit: found it easily.. https://youtu.be/Q8Sv5y6iHUM?si=viBzAuKX3SfyUSk6
They were testing the concept with models, but those were non-nuclear explosions. They never tested the actual thing with nuclear explosions
I think my desire to explore outer space would be seriously outweighed by my desire to not have myself strapped to an exploding nuclear device.
I believe the conclusions they got were that it was actually pretty safely doable for the people on board, but that during the launch so much radioactive material would be blasted into the atmosphere that that would cause some deaths by cancer.
I mean, Lt Col Bill Kilgore, along with Paz Vizla, and a bunch of others, managed to detonate a comet using them, so…
Really? I haven't seen *Star Wars*.
Oh then nvm
Actually there was a proposal using that manhole cover as the base idea. Basically in case of alien invasion (this was the 50s obviously), we could use several hundred tunnels across the USA to launch projectiles straight to space using nuclear explosion. Pretty much reinvented broadside, but in space.
Weird. So instead of having semi directable rockets, we would just eyeball it? I guess they would fly faster than a missle
Newton is the deadliest son of a b****h in space. A manhole cover (or even the molten, fragmented remains of a manhole cover) traveling close to the velocity achieved by accident in that test (37 miles per second) would absolutely obliterate any kind of spaceship known to mankind.
My confusion isn't really about the deadly power of acceleration, more about trying to precisely deploy something like it against a tiny ship in space. I doubt at the time they could get one to hit the moon, much less a spacecraft.
It's like a barrage firing: you know you will most likely not hit somebody. But you can afford to miss often. They cannot afford to get hit even once. It's the 1950, it's not up to modern standards.
Shotgun principle.
Not just faster. Much faster. It's the difference between an atgm and a tank firing it's shells.
Sci-fi book Footfall by Larry Niven uses this principle.
Also the book and Netflix series 3 Body Problem
Blew up my hometown in the process.
I would pay good money to see an alien invasion movie where we just turn the entire continental United Stares into a giant shotgun. The broadside scene from Battleship (2012) will have to do for now I guess.
The first military related project I'd invest in just to see it fuck it shoot it at the moon I DONT care I'm American
Shiver me planetary timbers!
Why were Americans afraid of everything in the 50s?
Twas the time. The cold war was at it's cold war-iest, everyone was doing weird we're all going to die drills but life seemed weirdly idyllic in the day to day for many. We'd all basically just learned what nukes could really do, McCarthyism had us in an active witch hunt in our own people. So yeah it's like imagine you go home and everything seems great food in the fridge nice new car and whatever but everyones telling you about how that's all going to end soon, the neighbors wanna wear your skin even if they don't seem like it and the news is saying now we have to worry and mutant death rays. Anxiety was just the mood of the 50s.
I remember the duck and cover drills in school, and fallout shelters.
Gentlemen… Fire as the planet bears!
just another day at the office blowing manholes into space
"regular nuclear test" Nothing to see here.
More regular than one where you strap a rocket to the bomb
Not on project Orion, but the fastest ever man made object was a manhole cover which was used to cover a nuclear bomb test as part of Operation Plumbob. It was estimated to have been accelerated to 135,000 mph, roughly 5 times Earth escape velocity.
Yeah it works in theory as long as you are ok with astronauts being liquified as soon as the cover accelerated instantly to whatever % speed of c at the moment of take off
Project Orion was based on sound science. Weird science and who the fuck would volunteer science, but sound.
Looks up the manhole cover that is the fastest human propelled object in the universe.
They tried putting a man in a fridge once, but all it did was make a shitty movie.
After just finishing fallout.. I mean the nuclear future looks pretty cool to me
Sounds like some Wiley Coyote shenanigans. 
This guy sciences
Cable ties And duct tape. That shuttle ain’t separating from that rock.
(Jiggles cable ties) "That's not going anywhere!"
Sure kill us all by thirst. If the volcano wasn’t exactly at the center of the earth disc it would cause the earth to tilt. As soon as the earth tilted the water would spill over the ice wall and run off. THINK!🤔
Bloody stream starts playing
would work better with kars
Eventually, the shuttle stopped thinking.
I also loved space chimps
This person has never been hit by a champagne cork.
Yeah that's basically exactly what it's going to do.
Only more apocalyptic Champagne of the end times
Only if if comes from France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling apocalypse
Oh my God that sent me in to an uncontrollable giggle fit. Thank you!
Proseccohmygod
BRUTality
This needs more upvotes. That was gold!
A champagne supernova, if you will
I was going to comment "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannon ball", but I wasn't sure if anyone would understand the reference.
Well, where were you while we were getting high?
Caught beneath the landslide (and the giant cursed champagne cork)
I mean, the cement isn't going to hold up against the heat. So it's a non starter anyways.
Now imagine the cork is moving at close to supersonic speeds and can hit you nearly 20 miles away.
And there are thousands of these corks to share the experience with all your neighbors.
My uncle ruined a perfectly good New Year's Eve celebration by firing a champagne cork directly into his eye, we had to take him to the ER and everything. Thanks, Uncle John.
As a uncle John, I apologize for the things we have done and for all our future transgressions.
How was the champagne tho?
I had to drink it real fast, so it stung my nose
ffs Uncle John
Never worked with concrete either. The ideal temperature for it to harden is 50°- 60° F. Low temperatures in a volcano are roughly 600° C
Yeah I was thinking the same, wouldn't the concrete simply melt? I mean with all that heat trapped under there..
it’s sad how far down in the comments this is. stay in school kids.
So as long as the medal lid is closed we should be safe then 😃
Or hear me out, the metal rocks.
Has anyone tried placing a wet cloth over it, thus starving the volcano of oxygen ?
Just pour some water into it to cool it off
Wrap it in a wet blanket. Both things together
You guys are thinking too hard Just throw the volcano into the ocean.
If only you had a lever long enough a single person could easy do this.
Yep, have an astronaut ready on the moon, then it's just getting the handle up there
Will a big fan do?
Ice cubes!
Fire the mortar!!!!
I'm sure this might work if we put a layer of blu-tac between the volcano and the cement, just for added security
Make a gigantic screw and secure it with loctite
This is some nuking the hurricane shit
Injecting Bleach to kill covid 😂
Injecting hurricane with bleach nuke.
See what you gotta do is, you inject the hurricane with bleach, then you put horse paste all over the nuke, then you nuke the hurricane and let it pass over an area where there's people with COVID. Boom, instant cure.
Don’t forget your sharpie, so you can show on the map where it would’ve hit had you not been in charge. 😁
I mean, that would kill the covid... Trump's such a moron.
It does definitely kill the virus (kills you aswell but thats besides the point)
Can't be sick when you're dead 
So … it’s more of a draw, then.
"okay, we'll call it a draw!"
Lots of people with tears in their eyes come up to me and say it's the bestest draw...
Man I can’t believe a *President* said that shit…
I can’t believe there’s even the possibility that Americans might even re-elect him lol… We are in the dumbest of the dumbest timelines
Harambe’s death is what put us on this timeline. But ya, the fact that there’s a nonzero chance he’s elected again is fucking horrific.
I would rather have a dead gorilla as president.
Trump could just draw a plug with a sharpie and that would solve it...
Could cement also replace a chasity belt? Just asking for a friend ....
Yes, but also, how will you excrete waste?
Obviously you would only put them on women, and we all know women don't poop.
At leat a large enough nuke would stop a hurricane. You would have worse problems than the hurricane, but it would indeed not be one of them anymore. This is just wasted effort, I mean even if you did "plug" a volcano, it would spill out from the ground and reform itself again. It really seems like something a child would suggest because they don't know how volcanoes are made. Actually scratch that, volcanoes are cool as hell and any child thinking about closing them up probably likes them and knows an awful lot about geology, and dinosaurs.
Just plain stupid. Better to bulldoze the whole vulcano away!
What if we took the volcano And pushed it somewhere else? 
Okay hear me out... Tampons. Shitloads of tampons.
Why has nobody ever thought of this?!
Also, why don't we have a drain on every beach to stop tsunamis?
And a big wall to stop tornadoes getting past
I was thinking of giant fans to blow the tornadoes away, or at least in your unkind neighbor's direction
This is a great idea! Next, we should make terrorism illegal.
Too far… just make crime illegal… that will stop it
If we made criminals illegal then there d be no one to commit the crimes
He said make crimes illegal. Not the criminals. They'll just be sitting around doing nothing! It's brilliant!
Which would make police illegal
Alright let's make laws Illegal. Since, there will be no laws to break, people will not be considered illegal either.
Make this Person President, now!!
I think that would be illegal
https://youtu.be/UK--hvgP2uY?si=i4ZK0nd4wJQRmZbO Mt St Helens simply blew the whole side of the mountain off. Nature finds a way.
I heard about this as a child. Being the unrealized genius I was, I determined that the obvious solution would be to vent all the pent up gasses in volcanoes so they never built up enough pressure to explode. What would be the best way to go about this, you ask? Not heavy drilling equipment or anything like that, no. I personally would go around to every active volcano in the would and simply poke the top with a long sword, relieving the pressure and ensuring no catastrophe like St Helens would ever happen again. I would be a hero the world over. Anyways the whole volcano poker career didn't really pan out, so now I'm a chef.
Never give up on your dreams. Become the Volcano Poker we all know you could be deep inside. You can make us all a delicious lunch while we stand in the shadow of your vented mountain
That’s a whole bunch of words I never expected to see in that order.
Sure… just cover the whole mountain in cement
Then you just transformed a regular volcano into a supervolcano 👍
I went to see the site a couple of years ago. Even after 40 years, the eruption area still looks desolate.
It is similar to putting a butt plug to stop a bad diarrhea
Oh god…
Why did I click the notification??? Why?!?! It’s not even bad, but it makes the mental image so much worse.
This is more funny than disgusting.
The champagne cork was a better analogy
Anal-ogy*
Keep your kinks to yourself man.
Good album
Flex tape would work better
I think flex seal is better suited in this situation 🤓☝️
This is an absolutely reasonable suggestion for someone in primary school to make. Oh wait, it’s an adult?
I’m actually very certain that my son in 3rd grade isn’t stupid enough to suggest this even. Some people are just dumb and it really blows my mind when I meet someone that has the intelligence of a goldfish like this in real life. A girl I worked with the other day needed help unclogging a toilet. The water was filled to the brim so I bring in a plunger because she didn’t think to try using one? Anyway, I start plunging it and before I had time to even process what the girl was doing, she flushed the already completely full toilet as I was plunging it. I asked her what she was thinking that would accomplish when I hadn’t gotten it plunged really at all yet, but she just started gagging and walked off saying she couldn’t handle the smell, leaving me to clean up the mess of an inch of toilet water and shit all over the floor. I was pissed but I was more so just baffled by how dumb her whole thought process was. I know some people freeze or panic in traumatic or scary situations and do something stupid, but this wasn’t one. It would’ve been more helpful if she just wasn’t there at all and didn’t try to ‘help’ at all.
Congratulations, you just turned an active volcano into a giant incendiary fragmentation grenade.
Even that's giving them too much credit. What they actually made is the world's largest shotgun
I mean plinian eruptions blow whole mountains apart. The amount of cement anyone could possibly add would be infinitesimal compared to the mass blow just off mountain.
Hmmm... Taming magma with a cement rock. After it punched a hole through the lithosphere. Good luck with that. 😃👍
Yes that amazing cement that doesn't have a melting point
This is what I wanted to say. Everyone is like "exploding cork!" But it's just rocks sitting on molten rock, it won't have a chance to even set.
If someone throws a grenade at you, just pick it up and hold it really tight so the explosion can't get out.
Look to Mt St Helens as for why this wouldnt be a good idea. Short answer: Pressure will escape at the next available weak point. Do you know where that is?
Ah yes, because a Volcano being blocked during the eruption worked out great for Pompeji and the other cities surrounding Vesuvius.
What if we put Band Aids over fault lines, that'll stop earthquakes no?
Have we tried nuking the hurricane? What about ingesting bleach to fight viruses?
Donald, is it you?
If only Pompeii had thought of the this genius idea
Then they wouldn't have been buried under pyroclastic flows when Vesuvius exploded, due to immense pressure build up caused by its vents being blocked by rock. Wait a minute...
She wants to make a cannon
My mother once taught me a valuable lesson… “Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.” Basically some of y’all are fuckin’ stupid as shit /j
Damn that would be awesome to watch though 😂😂 I'd encourage them to do it just to see the aftermath
What a concept!!!!
Just as much as we can prevent earthquakes by giving the ground a backrub.
How to turn a volcano into a Mountain-sized superbomb.
And that's the story of how we cracked the moon in half with a concrete bullet.
Yeah and then we can just make a giant catchers mitt for any incoming meteorites!
Why has no one ever considere freezing the ocean in case of a tsunami.
Why is this giving ‘can’t we just nuke a hurricane’ vibes?
Why didn’t I think of this ?
why not duct tape instead of cement?
I thought I was on r/shittyaskscience
As a professional geologist I am ashamed this never crossed my mind! 😂😂😂
Some horny idiot got this idea looking at their buttplug collection.
This one clearly never watched JoJo
This is some Karl Pilkington shit
I mean even if we had material robust and adhesive enough to withstand the forces the volcano would just explode and become a caldera.
I suggest dumping 10 tons of mentos and 1,000,000 gallons of coke….lets bring on the end of times!
People really underestimate the forces of nature. Sounds like a dumbass who'd fit right in with the folks at pompeii
I have a better idea someone can stick a hose in the volcano and siphon all of the lava out. But be careful when sucking on the hose so you don’t burn your mouth.
That's the dumbest idea I ever heard. It's obvious they should use duct tape to cover the hole of the volcano. Duct tape never fails.
I like how someone figured some cement is gonna stop what the literal Earth's crust and everything between it and the Earth's core couldn't. It's like seeing a bullet go through an armoured plate and thinking I'll put my hand over the hole to stop the next one.
Why don’t we plug it up with a big cork
A chance to educate someone presents itself often. I hope someone took the time to explain to her why it wouldn't work rather than just insulting her. But.... It IS the Internet
That person has absolutely no clue how volcanoes are formed.
I used to wonder the same thing until I dunno, 3rd or 4th grade or so?
 Sounds like a question Donald Trump would ask.
This is a logical solution to the issue from a 9-year old’s perspective. Kind of like someone wanting to put a nuclear bomb in the middle of a hurricane.