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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:30 AM Original message |
Why not use a nuke to stop the oil spill? |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. Cuz then they'd lose the oil. |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. How? They know where the well is. They could drill other wells. nt |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Precisely. That argument is nonsense. |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:10 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. I thought they were already planning on that. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 07:15 AM Response to Reply #13 |
28. They actually started drilling 10 days ago. |
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Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #28 |
44. Let's hope the "relief well" doesn't screw-up and just poke another big gusher! |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. The effectiveness of a large explosive device in shutting down the flow, let alone |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. Why don't we all line up for our Jim Jones kool aid... |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Since you don't know what you're talking about, why are you talking? |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Excuse me.. But no one on this site is a nuclear scientist, I will |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 07:17 AM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Bikini Atoll wasn't a detonation of a small device underground under 5000ft of water. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #8 |
42. Actually, there ARE nuclear scientists on here. |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. BTW, I know a few people in physics too. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:10 AM Response to Reply #5 |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 10:09 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. I don't think that you understand the difference between science and pseudoscience. nt |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-18-10 12:24 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. LOL. I think my biotech employer would disagree with you on that. |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:51 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. From what I understand it would only take one. |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 12:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Do you even know what occurred out in Johnson & Bikini atolls |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:04 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I know nothing of it. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:09 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Well, on the plus side... |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:14 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Are you serious? You know nothing of our history of nuclear testing |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 05:19 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. It's pretty well-documented |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:07 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Easy there, fireball. |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:16 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Orrex |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:22 AM Original message |
It probably wouldn't be a surface explosion |
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underseasurveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:22 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I'm not a nuclear scientist |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 02:33 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Yes... |
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dbmk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 10:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
30. Nuclear holocaust would seem to be a highly subjective guess |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 10:32 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. ... |
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dbmk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 10:50 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Whats your solution? |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
17. The Gulf's ecologically damaged enough without making it radioactive. |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 01:58 AM Response to Original message |
18. Doesn't that run the risk of opening a larger hole for ALL |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 05:41 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Crack in the World 1965 Trailer |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #18 |
38. Runs the risk of creating fractures which could leak |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 03:37 AM Response to Original message |
20. If we don't mind killing every marine mammal within a hundred miles or so |
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Lochloosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 04:51 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. There already dead. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 05:28 AM Response to Original message |
23. Sure, what could possibly go wrong? |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 05:36 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. my brain hurts |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 06:13 AM Response to Original message |
26. A nuclear blast runs the very real risk of fracturing the rock and turning the top |
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newfie11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 07:02 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. that would sure solve the problem |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 10:33 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. +1 for that. n/t |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
31. What the fuck? |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
32. Using a nuke didn't even kill the aliens in Independence Day, a non-fiction disaster movie. |
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dbmk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:01 AM Response to Reply #32 |
36. The fact that it has been done before, maybe? |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
37. Dispersants work better |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
39. Because the Russians also have a much BETTER way of stopping the leak than |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:35 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. What way is that? nt |
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