Indonesia vs Mud Volcano

Coming Soon: Indonesia vs. Giant Mud Volcano. My money is on the volcano.

In the red corner:
A volcano which for the past nine months has been spitting out mud at a rate of a million barrels a day.


In the blue corner:
The government of Indonesia, which hasn't had much luck with bigger problems like corruption, terrorism and poverty.

The plan is for Indonesian scientists to drop 550 pound concrete balls into the volcano, which they hope will slow down the flow of mud long enough for the 11,000 displaced people to go back home.

Or the concrete balls could stop up the volcano so much that the pent up pressure could explode and turn them into giant concrete cannon balls of doom.


Links:

CNN - Indonesia to try to plug mud volcano with concrete balls

CIA World Factbook on Indonesia