"Phil Cook v2" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> And lo On Thu, 06 May 2010 02:45:25 +0100, gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom>
> did spake thusly:
>
> > I suppose that in some future epochs, there could be volcano eruptions
> > that
> > could do something like ground air travel over Europe not just for a
> > month but a
> > year or a century.
> >
> > Can humans do anything?
>
> We can try to stop them erupting in the first place. Alleviate the
> pressure building up rather than letting it pop, drill tunnels close to
> the chamber and fit slow-release valves to channel the gases along them;
> identify and take out the 'key log' blocking it off so it pours out rather
> than explodes. All possible just costs a lot of money and often requires a
> decent warning period to allow the work to be done.
>


Thanks. This would make a cool movie.  Britain is faced with no air travel (or
astronomy) for a century and insists on drilling big holes all over Iceland. Big
fight. For many other parts of the world, life goes on with little change.

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