The mountain has a point.

tf is this concrete shit just use some goddamn sandpaper to sand the fuckin mountain flat duh you motherfuckers is dumb af fr

As a politician I can assure you that if you vote for me I will put into law that volcanoes will be forbidden to erupt in our wonderful country.

So... Just turn a blank round into a live bullet...

Dude just tape a cease and desist letter on the volcano. And if they still don't listen just get the cops to shoot it.

That lava already has to break through literal kilometres of rock to get there. A few hundred (let’s be generous) extra meters of pourable rock ain’t gonna do shit.

Just keep adding concrete until it works

Better yet - use helicopters to drop chunks of icebergs into the volcano to extinguish it.

I think this could actually be someone impersonating a famous mountain on Twitter, however, the account is verified with a Blue Checkmark, so this must be the real Mt. St. Helens then.

But how could this be possible?

Well now you have a very large cannon

I feel like we need to talk about how much heavy metal rocks.

Just going to need 14 trillion bags of cement from ACME

Block molten rock with wet powdered rock? Wcgw?

Would concrete even hold. I mean lava is molten rock and cement is kind of a rock. So wouldn't the cement melt before pressure could build up?

This reminds me of when Trump suggested nuking a hurricane.

I feel like when the volcano does explode it's just gonna launch that concrete plug like popping a pimple.

Nobody going to mention that we have a sentient mountain with internet access? Wtf

Big problems require big solutions.

Let's test this theory on your colon...

It's concrete, not cement. Cement does fuck all without water, aggregate and sand. Don't forget your tensile strength in rebar. It's like calling ketchup tomatoes.

Just add several layers of cement all around the area you want to save. Then, it'll either be someone else's problem or lava landberg.

Even still best case scenario would be like a pimple popping internally. There's still something going on below the surface that is not good.

But there would not be that best case scenario with a volcano. It's gonna blow if it wants to blow. Bonus: flying shards of concrete to compound the death and disaster all around.

I feel like this is a Veratasium video in the making

We don't do this stuff because of Phineas Gage.

I remember reading an article discussing the difficulties of re-directing a lava flow. One thing they mentioned was they tried dropping concrete blocks into or in front of the flow, and the concrete just floated on the lava.

Does remind me of my ongoing question of why we aren't using volcanoes as generators for geothermal power.

Apparently it can be implemented in a way that deliberately draws heat away from the source that's being used for the power, so why not just stick cooling rods into volcanos and then get free electricity courtesy of the earth being a hot pocket?