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Nuke The Well

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Football_Bat, May 25, 2010.

  1. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Where's Aquaman when you really need him
     
  2. Del_B_Vista

    Del_B_Vista Active Member

    Standard torpedos aren't designed to work at that depth, way, way, way below the operating depth of any submarine.
     
  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Without further information, I would be very reluctant to take a risky course of action on the grounds that "we did in Russia and it worked great!"
     
  4. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

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  5. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    Bill Maher mentioned the the Russia-nuke suggestion on his show last weekend for a laugh. He then asked whether or not BP is reluctant to blow the hole shut (using conventional explosive) because they still want to use the well, and then proceeded to talk at length about how evil corporations are as if his suggestion were fact and he had real evidence to back any of it up.
     
  6. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Maher is an idiot.
     
  7. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    There was an old G.I. Joe comic book where they tried to do this.
    Cobra was operating a base on the bottom of the Gulf. The Joes were about to nuke the sucker, then at the last minute dropped the conventional explosive equivalent. It ended up triggering a fault line, which in turn created Cobra Island, which in short order became a terrorist nation.
    So, yeah, maybe the terrorists WANT us to do this so they can have their own island.
     
  8. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Pick your poison.

    A Gulf sloshing from rim to rim with crude, or a quarter-mile wide crater that's a mile deep and 50 miles offshore.
     
  9. Bamadog

    Bamadog Well-Known Member

    That's crush depth, times a bunch.
     
  10. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    We're sending our nukes/down the well (DOWN THAT WELL!)
     
  11. suburbia

    suburbia Active Member

    In all seriousness, would a nuke do the job? And would adding the resulting shitload of radiation to the Gulf of Mexico do even more environmental harm?
     
  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Not all nukes produce a "shitload" of radiation.
     
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