Plans to nuke BP oil spill gathers steam

[Woodsey]

I thought the major issue was the damage to the environment; how exactly is a nuke the best answer to that?

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

and im sick of people saying that BP arnt doing enough to cap the well. remember that every barral of oil lost from that leak is a barrel that THEY CANT SELL. plus the fact that they have to pay for the cleanup means that they'r gonna lose Billions of pounds on this.

You do realize that no one gives a flying fuck about BP's profits, right?

I'm tempted to tell you to go fuck yourself just for bringing this up. They're ruining an OCEAN. People should go to prison for 20 years for this bullshit. BP should be fined until they've got nothing left. Have you seen the number of safety and environmental violations they've had in the last three years? Easily 900x as many as the other oil giants. They've sincerely earned every horrible thing coming their way - and then some.

Edit: as for the OP, I think we should just use smart bombs on all BP execs' houses if they can't fix the problem in a week.

 

[manaman]

Double post below because I goofed and hit quote rather then edit. Sorry about that.

 

[manaman]

Pouring a shit load of concrete on it fixed Chernobyl. What's the harm in trying it here.

I thought the major issue was the damage to the environment; how exactly is a nuke the best answer to that?

It won't be as bad as it sounds down where the well is.

You do realize that no one gives a flying fuck about BP's profits, right?

I'm tempted to tell you to go fuck yourself just for bringing this up. They're ruining an OCEAN. People should go to prison for 20 years for this bullshit. BP should be fined until they've got nothing left. Have you seen the number of safety and environmental violations they've had in the last three years? Easily 900x as many as the other oil giants. They've sincerely earned every horrible thing coming their way - and then some.

BP is not a US company. There is only so much the US can do to them unless the British goverment wants to get involved. Not that I really see them getting involved in taking apart the largest energy company in their country to satisfy the US's need to punish them for an ecological disaster.

 

[IzisviAziria]

But the pressure wave is still going to kill everything in a good distance.

and so is millions of gallons of crude oil leaking out into the gulf for another 4 months.

 

[Ickorus]

I say give BP one last try to solve it using traditional methods, and then use the nuke iff they fail.

I say we give BP one more chance and then nuke BP if they fail.

If they do nuke the oil someone will have to film it, im assuming that they'll be detonating the bomb underwater so the explosion will look awesome.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

How awful of an idea! Maybe a regular bomb, but a nuke? Wouldn't that be... bad? I mean, wouldn't all that radiation be harmful to wildlife and humans who swim in the ocean?

You wuss, radiation makes people grow big, and strong, as opposed to killing them in a painful and horrible death.

Be a man, eat a battery a day!

If I get to watch it, I'm all for it. I've always wanted to see a nuke go off.

Would that cause more damage than it prevents though? For a start you've got one bigass explosion...

Or maybe I'm just not thinking their way.

 

[Aiden_the-Joker1]

I am just wondering here but wouldn't setting off a nuke make things worse sure it might stop the oil but it is just going to replace it with radiation which can come out of the water and travel on land and what if they do it wrong now they have oil andradiation

 

[AfterAscon]

The obvious problem with this thread is people's understanding of the term nuke in this situation. The blast used would be a controlled explosion and not something from the ending of Dr. Strangelove. Despite the risks being minimal, I agree that it should only be used as the last option.

Some info about it :http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/05/nuke-that-oil-well.html

 

[manaman]

actually chernobyl is leaking and the radiation is starting to get DANGEROUSLY near a water source meaning radioactive water. they plan another casing but the funding is something they don't have. yea, 20 years and their "cure" is already breaking. talk about shit construction.

I beleive you have a mix up of stories about this:

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  They are building a new permanent sarcophagus that should be completed by the end of 2012.
  
  The issue was the rush to confine the core so that work could be done in and around the plant. They ended up resting part of the sarcophagus on a damaged wall, which they have since shored up, but it was all intended to be temporary and the permanent containment was supposed to be finished in 2005.
  
  There is also the issue with the possible collapse of the roof inside the sarcophagus making the situation inside the sarcophagus worse, as well as the remote possibility that is could release some toxic materials into the atmosphere.
  

To say that the water is dangerously radioactive, and that that the current sarcophagus is falling apart is untrue.

You have more to worry about from fires in the area. Fires can re-release radioactive materials into the atmosphere.

I think you also have a small mix up about what exactly radiation is as well. Here read this: Radiation. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation]

 

[Reolus]

I will only approve of this plan if Bruce Willis himself is personally responsible for placing and detonating said nuke.

 

[swolf]

They should just attach a really big pipe to wherever the oil is leaking from, that then diverts back into the system. Easy.

OMG!!! You are apparently a genius and should immediately be awarded millions of dollars. Seriously, it does seem to be that easy. Makes me wonder who picked the "experts" in charge of the mess? What have their genius plans been so far? "Eh, let's fill 'er up with dirt and trash. Yepperee, that oughta do it."

I think a nuke would be a bad idea especially since one of the world's greatest minds (me) lives so close (FL) to where it would be detonated. Can, we as a world, really take that risk?

 

[Joe Deadman]

They should just attach a really big pipe to wherever the oil is leaking from, that then diverts back into the system. Easy.

OMG!!! You are apparently a genius and should immediately be awarded millions of dollars. Seriously, it does seem to be that easy. Makes me wonder who picked the "experts" in charge of the mess? What have their genius plans been so far? "Eh, let's fill 'er up with dirt and trash. Yepperee, that oughta do it."

I think a nuke would be a bad idea especially since one of the world's greatest minds (me) lives so close (FL) to where it would be detonated. Can, we as a world, really take that risk?

Yes.
Hell the radiation may cause your brain to mutate and become even greater!

Seriously though have they still not fixed this yet???
The nuke is starting to sound rather attractive...

 

[S.R.S.]

I'm all for nukes but they still haven't tried Krumm, he could suck all that oil up.

 

[Shadowed Intent]

The number of people who are so ignorant and brainwashed into thinking nukes are not to ever be used irritates me a great deal, did they not read the thread?! It has been done 5 times with a 80% success rate and that was in the 80s, modern nukes are more efficient and reliable, it is worth a try.

 

[swolf]

They should just attach a really big pipe to wherever the oil is leaking from, that then diverts back into the system. Easy.

OMG!!! You are apparently a genius and should immediately be awarded millions of dollars. Seriously, it does seem to be that easy. Makes me wonder who picked the "experts" in charge of the mess? What have their genius plans been so far? "Eh, let's fill 'er up with dirt and trash. Yepperee, that oughta do it."

I think a nuke would be a bad idea especially since one of the world's greatest minds (me) lives so close (FL) to where it would be detonated. Can, we as a world, really take that risk?

Yes.
Hell the radiation may cause your brain to mutate and become even greater!

Seriously though have they still not fixed this yet???
The nuke is starting to sound rather attractive...

Hmm...except my brain is not the hulk...though people don't like it when it's angry. Anyways, I don't understand how nobody has fixed this problem yet. I mean, isn't their hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ideas coming in from around the world on how to fix this? Also, I heard that, with the currents of the gulf stream, this could eventually cause damage to other oceans and, possibly show up on foreign shores. I don't know how true that is though, came from an unreliable source.

 

[swolf]

I say give BP one last try to solve it using traditional methods, and then use the nuke iff they fail.

I say we give BP one more chance and then nuke BP if they fail.

If they do nuke the oil someone will have to film it, im assuming that they'll be detonating the bomb underwater so the explosion will look awesome.

Except then I will have to drive another half mile to get cigarettes and gas. (I'm joking, they caused major damage and made the rest of us Americans look like idiots. Do what you must.)

 

[bad rider]

The number of people who are so ignorant and brainwashed into thinking nukes are not to ever be used irritates me a great deal, did they not read the thread?! It has been done 5 times with a 80% success rate and that was in the 80s, modern nukes are more efficient and reliable, it is worth a try.

Actually considering there original purpose, despite 70 odd years of development, they are still only 100% efficient at killing people. That's a zero percent increase than what they originally were.