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To: Sola Veritas
I would use a 10 megaton thermonuclear warhead. It wouldn’t plug the leak, but everyone would quit worrying about it!

How about the Tsar Bomba? B-)
27 posted on 05/29/2010 2:37:42 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Nowhere Man
How about the Tsar Bomba? B-)

As-fired fifty megatons- or it's as-designed one hundred?

It'd be entertaining anyway- as it enlarged the oil-spewing hole to a couple of hundred meters in diameter. :-)

I'm going to go with gathering up all of the hopelessly snarled strings of Christmas lights in the Western Hemisphere, rolling them into an enormous ball, and stuffing them in the hole.

Or something like it.

On a more serious note- I think it's already been suggested- but some sort of hemisphere with big flanges around the base, but with a valved vent on top. Like a brimmed hat. Open the vent so that oil can flow through it as you're emplacing the thing. Bury the extended base flanges in concrete blocks and then seafloor mud, then shut the vent. Bury under seafloor mud.

126 posted on 05/29/2010 3:08:51 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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