I was fascinated by repeated suggestions that the BP oil spill be nuked.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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You forgot… “Energy crisis? Air pollution? Global warming? I got one word for ya… NUKES!!”
The name “Abraham Maslow” leaps to mind. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail…”
I’m actually a supporter of the “Nuclear Option”, so to speak.
And most think I’m “Left Wing” though IMO “Left vs. Right” is now just another media lie/control by divide and conquer thing.
Simply put, a large powerful explosion would shift the earth and cut, bury and crush the pipe in several locations. Ever play with a compass on graph paper? Well just imagine a series of circles from the middle of the paper interacting with the index line, the horizontal one… Top layer gets the most circles, then less as you go down. Now in RL that well is thousands of feet deep and double that to the oil.
As long as we don’t use MOAB (Mother of All Bomb – 100,000 Megatons) level nukes, it won’t touch the oil deposit itself.
So, why didn’t they use it? Why make sure the major media doesn’t talk about it, and when a blogger says use a nuke to seal it always have some “Rig worker, but not connected to BP” shill?
IMO, because all they’ve done is tapped the well. They got a gusher after all and boy did this one cost. If they’d nuked the area, the ground would have been too unstable for too long to drill in that area again.
So, again IMO, instead of sealing it within a week of finding out how sh-tty a situation it was, they put it off for months to tap the well and make a public show of it. Just one man’s opinion.
It wasn’t an entirely unreasonable idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpPNQoTlacU
The Soviets used it successfully on several runaway gas wells.
It wasn’t a GOOD idea, per se, since it requires drilling a parallel shaft, specific geological strata to be present, and a bespoke nuclear weapon (although one of the dial-a-yeild bombs might work in a pinch). But it wasn’t necessarily as frothingly violent as it might seem at first blush.
Ted,
I heard some propaganda on the corporate faux news that some Christians were killed by the Taliban. If it’s true, I’m sure they deserved it, but maybe you can tell us what really happened.