After dropping 220 chains of concrete balls down the throat of Lusi, the man-made mud volcano, what dramatic results do the people who dreamed up this madcap venture have to report?
“If you ask me, it appears calmer, but that is a subjective view,” said Satria Bijaksana from Indonesia’s Bandung Institute of Technology, which devised the plan to slow the disastrous mudflow.
So in place of objective measures like, I don’t know, changes in the eruption rate, we get a mood assessment. They’ll be trying aromatherapy next…
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