Nuke the damn oil leak!!

I'm not experienced enough on this forum to know your posting habits, so my question before I answer is:

Is this satire, or are you serious?
 
You could also just shatter the rock so badly that the opil pressure would blow it all right back out and then we are screwed. There is also the problem of building a nuke that work work under that water pressure.
 
Nuke, nuke, nuke! Why always jump directly to the nuke? Ooh, Iran is very, very bad. Nuke 'em. Ooh, I have a hangnail. Nuke it! Ooh, there's a hole in the mile-deep ocean floor leaking oil. Nuke it! Doesn't anyone realize that this nuking stuff is really friggin' dangerous?
 
hgc said:
Nuke, nuke, nuke! Why always jump directly to the nuke? Ooh, Iran is very, very bad. Nuke 'em. Ooh, I have a hangnail. Nuke it! Ooh, there's a hole in the mile-deep ocean floor leaking oil. Nuke it! Doesn't anyone realize that this nuking stuff is really friggin' dangerous?
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America was born via war, hence Americans tend towards war as a solution.

Nukes whupped the Japs and held back the reds, hence Nuke em as a strategy.

When you look at the thinking through a historical prism it's pretty obvious.
 
Thunder said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100513/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2052

The Soviets did it 5 times before.

Just detonate a 10 killiton nuclear weapon at the leak..and watch it get buried in 100 million cubic yards of rock. that should stop the leak.

why won't they use this method?
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You can't detonate it on the site itself because of the radioactive debris generated from the irradiation of the material that would be vaporized in the creation of the explosion crater. The only way one could avoid this would be to bury the nuke deep enough so that the explosion would not breach the floor of the sea.

When the superpowers used to conduct underground tests, it often took MONTHS to dig out a shaft to the required depths to keep the detonations trapped underground - and this was from the surface. I don't know of any technology that currently exists that would allow a similar shaft to be dug out in over a mile of water...
 
carlvs said:
When the superpowers used to conduct underground tests, it often took MONTHS to dig out a shaft to the required depths to keep the detonations trapped underground - and this was from the surface. I don't know of any technology that currently exists that would allow a similar shaft to be dug out in over a mile of water...
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It not only exists, we've had it since 1976.
 
The "top kill" has just failed, and to my knowledge that was BPs last-ditch effort. There may be a non-nuclear fix but we have to weigh nuking it now or letting the leak continue until we think of something.. and still maybe have to nuke it. At the moment the A-bomb is the only card left in the deck, if anyone knows of any other backup plans please let the board know.

Edit: Looks like BP now has some kind of capping plan that will take another month, so I suppose no nukes until we see if that's going to work or not.. Assuming the govt doesn't get fed up before that.
 
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The "top kill" has just failed, and to my knowledge that was BPs last-ditch effort. There may be a non-nuclear fix but we have to weigh nuking it now or letting the leak continue until we think of something.. and still maybe have to nuke it. At the moment the A-bomb is the only card left in the deck, if anyone knows of any other backup plans please let the board know.
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"Wait until the Earth runs out of oil to leak"
 
I'd like to know the environmental impacts of the Russian method before using it. However, I do suspect the reason we don't use this in the Gulf is because of the anti-nuke sentiment here.
 
It has never been done underwater and few things have ever been done that far underwater. Mistakes are just too much to contemplate.

The only thing Simmons called right was that Obama should order the BP wonks out of the way and take command.

Just be sure that the BP people leave the credit cardss behind when they leave.

We need their engineers and laborers, not their bean counters and managers.
 
The horrible, horrible humanitarian disaster of the oil spill -- it caused Obama's popularity rating to drop four more points so far -- had led some people to call for the, er, nuclear option.

To be sure, it might seem a bit of an overreaction to call for the use of nukes just to help with a president's popularity, but then again, he is THE ONE, so the rules which apply to mere mortals don't apply to him.
 
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