Posted on 05/31/2010 11:05:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Closing the Gulf oil well leak with a nuke sounds like a bad action cartoon. The only problem is that it has been tried successfully before by the Soviets. And it worked Mother Jones reports as follows on the latest buzz from that 24/7 town meeting known as the internet.
Let’s start with the Russians. According to Vladimir Lagovsky of Komsomolskaya Pravda (once a Soviet communist paper), “In the USSR, a few such leaks were plugged with the help of the peaceful atom.” Five leaks, all underground, were plugged thusly, the paper says—starting with a 1966 natural gas fissure in Uzbekistan. That one was snuffed using a 30-megatonkiloton blast six kilometers deep—about one and a half times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. “The idea of the method is simple,” Lagovsky writes. “An underground explosion pushes the rock, compresses it, and actually squeezes the channel well shut.”
The supporters of the nuke strategy are not raving right wing lunatics either. Christopher Brownfield, military proponent of the strategy, supports socialized medicine in the military and opposed John MCCain in 2008. The comment string on the Mother Jones article treated the nuke idea very fairly.
The stakes are very high. A hurricane could multiply the damage of the gushing oil leak exponentially. The damage to the economy and the ecosystem could be devastating.
We are hearing that we have to expect 2 more months of possibly increased oil spill. Can we wait? Is BP protecting its investment instead of the public. A decision needs to be made on using nuclear or non nuclear explosives to close the oil leak. Things are getting worse. A 22 mile long, thick oil plume has been discovered, smothering marine life in its path, according to Yahoo News. Is BP protecting its profits instead of the public? It seems that BP is in charge of closing the leak. That sounds an awful lot like privatization. That makes Obama sound like a right wing Republican. Life sure is strange.
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This is stupid talk, on top of stupid thinking on top of stupid consideration.
Put me in charge this will be managed in less than two weeks!
Everyone is just putzing around as if they have lost their brains; or is Coyote managing and ACME Incorporated in charge of supplying solutions?
>rupture the ocean floor and let ALL the crude out<
Yikes! I wondered if that was possibly happening already.
>Coyote managing and ACME Incorporated in charge of supplying solutions?<
Maybe Zero is a stockholder?
Now whys you have to go do that to Slim Pickens?
The hope, I believe, is that the nuke burns off, or vaporizes much of the oil that has already escaped. Makes sense to me.
It is not like nukes have not been used in the ocean or over the ocean. We, Russia, France.. all have tested nukes over or in the ocean. One Russia used was 100 megatons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxD44HO8dNQ&NR=1 done over the Sakhalin islands.
Here is a hydrogen nuke France tests over a pacific atoll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9mhlJ-yCo.
So it has been done over water. Of course we tested on Bikini atoll.
It doesn’t make sense to me because it would be detonated far underground in order to crush the channel of the well. They wouldn’t want any of it to explode in contact with the water where the escaped gas and oil is.
-you may be right.
There is speculation that this leak is actually a fissure on the ocean floor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDGAoU1H2gM&feature=player_embedded
THAT IS FREAKING HILARIOUS!
Someone else has proposed a similar idea on EVERY oil spill thread in every blog and publication I’ve read (and that is many).
This person keeps mentioning a Tyvek Corral. Anyone here know what that is? I didn’t have much luck from Google.
yep, and we are hearing THAT particular oil field would make Saudi jealous, etc.
The way that is gushing, I’d say there is PLENTY.
The msm tries to spin it to say BP was drilling so far out because we are running out of oil and they have to go further out searching for it.
Nobody will give credit to the EPA for forcing them so far from shore.
That said, until companies can get their sh!t together, they have no business deep water drilling. There was obviously either NO emergency plan or NO WAY of executing a plan, or NO equipment available for whatever plan may have existed.
One accident is one too many. We cannot afford it.
This coming from a conservative.
OTOH, the gulf is DONE as far as fishing and tourism, so I guess there is nothing left to do there except “drill baby drill.” Oil jobs will be the only jobs!
Oil is bad.
I kinda think radioactive oil would be worse.
Just give me a big box of cotton balls, some duct tape, and a REALLY long stick and I will fix that sucker.
You have asked an important question.
That's cuz Obamalamadingdong is calling the shots now and everybody knows that politicians don't take a whiz without first taking a poll.....
An insane proposition I believe Obama would be stupid enough to try.
“Conservatives should be screaming at the top of their lungs that this is an idiot idea. Circulating this by conservatives only makes them look like idiots.”
Got that right. But, unfortunately, some conservatives think that every problem should be “solved” with nukes.
“BP oil disaster: how a deadly methane bubble triggered explosion”
Wonderful. Lets nuke the sea floor and release ALL the methane. Dr. Gregory Ryskin believes a methane explosion triggered the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event that killed off 95 percent of life on this planet. But who gives a damn. Nukes are the only answer. sarc/
“History Channel Mega Disasters - Methane Explosion”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BE42PzZZc
Yes, these Acme Inc. procedures are strickly for Roadrunner cartoons!
The former Soviets don’t ell you of the side effects,and the other instances werw underground,not underwater
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