To: blam
"John McCarthy who works for an American company, Berco Services of Houston, Texas, which specialises in horizontal drilling, said: If you know where the entrance to the caves is, you could drill a hole 20in in diameter through solid rock for up to two miles at the rate of 1,000ft a day."
To do this you will need drilling mud. When you hit the caves just keep pumping. A few days and the whole damn thing is filled up.
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Squirt in a few thousand gallons of that expanding insulating foam...
Would be a Pulitzer to capture the expressions on Al-quadas' faces!
14 posted on
11/30/2001 5:48:03 PM PST by
TomGuy
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
To do this you will need drilling mud.I doubt this is the way they are going to do it unless they are very sure that they have located the precise cave and that a frontal assault would be too difficult.
But if they decide to drill, it wouldn't be necessary to use drilling mud. Air drilling would work fine for a few thousand feet of rock.
It's very loud, though, and there would be no element of surprise. More than likely, the noise would cause the inhabitants to make a run for it long before the cave was penetrated.
19 posted on
11/30/2001 6:17:15 PM PST by
Dog Gone
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