Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result
May 31st, 2010See: Obama Sends Bomb, Mars Experts to Fix BP Oil Spill:
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu signaled his lack of confidence in the industry experts trying to control BP Plc’s leaking oil well by hand-picking a team of scientists with reputations for creative problem solving.
Dispatched to Houston by President Barack Obama to deal with the crisis, Chu said Wednesday that five “extraordinarily intelligent” scientists from around the country will help BP and industry experts think of back-up plans to cut off oil from the well, leaking 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below sea-level.
Members of the Chu team are credited with accomplishments including designing the first hydrogen bomb, inventing techniques for mining on Mars and finding a way to precisely position biomedical needles.
“I don’t think there is a lot of confidence in BP in Washington right now,” David Pursell, a managing director at Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. LLC in Houston, said by phone. Chu’s decision to bring in additional scientists may reflect that concern, he said.
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Their exact activities are cloaked in secrecy. “We saw some confidential and proprietary information,” said one scientist on the team, Jonathan I. Katz, a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Katz’s early work focused on astrophysics, but now he consults on a wide variety of physics puzzles, he said. He is a member of the JASON group, a think tank dedicated to researching complex problems for the U.S. Government, including the Defense Department.
Via: Technofascism Blog:
Lately, I’ve heard many talking heads in the news media suggesting that the only way to stop the BP oil leak might be to detonate a nuclear bomb under the leak site.
Before they consider that option, they might want to watch this video of Dr. Gregory Ryskin, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University. In the video, Dr. Ryskin explains how a prehistoric methane gas explosion could explain the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, a mysterious period in Earth history where 95% of all species went extinct.
Given that the amount of methane gas that is leaking from the BP spill site is at least equal to the amount of oil, it would lead one to believe that there is a huge underground pocket of methane gas buried there. Now, if Dr. Ryskin’s theory is correct, not only would detonating a nuclear bomb near that underground methane pocket end the oil spill, it might end all life on Earth as well.
Race you to the bunker. Last one there’s a sissy.
Interesting to see this positioned as a methane explosion. A decade ago they were talking about a methane ‘burp’ from the ocean rolling across the globe suffocating everything in its path. Somehow that felt survivable, whereas the mega explosion does not.
Anyway, 100 metre tsunamis, eh? Don’t have nightmares folks.
Might produce a bad result! Now that’s a laugh and a half. Chu, from DOE has been on the case since this began. While I don’t think they want to explode a nuclear weapon, well actually I know they’ve wanted to for years, but not under this kind of scenario.
As I have what’s left of my family living in Tampa, I discreetly pointed out the the evacuation plan for Tampa has been updated by FEMA as of last week. Of course, my sister, who has had such a heavy plate for all these long years said this was due to the hurricane season.
I did not say so, but I disagree. I think the TPTB actually comprended what an oil spill of what, billions of gallons per week means to the planet. Something has got to shut the thing down. And evacuating anywhere near a nuclear bomb blast? It ain’t going to be pretty at all. I’m actually thinking of how many people I can sleep in my house here in PA.
This was a disaster from the get go. Clueless industrialists just effing raping the Earth of any and every source of fuel possible. It had to end somewhere.
While I am truly worried about all the people involved in this – and hope it is their karma to get out of this one alive, I don’t know. If peoples lives are attached to their possessions maybe they won’t go. Certainly the Weather Channel has made all residents of Tampa cynical about hurricanes.
Sounds cold, but I hope my family makes out of there alive. Not really much control I have over their choices.
Watched Deep Impact on VHS last week. For myself, dunno what to do. Going to at least check out the New Madrid fault, and keeping working towards having a full house come the end of July.
Peace to you all.
@ eileen:
by the 8th / 9th of July at the latest … after that, things get murky in the crystal ball.
suffice it to say that an interstate map shows the problem in Florida all too well: too many folks, trying to get out through too few doors. One of the many reasons I vacated the premises (sarasota) for prettier, higher, and more mountainous digs, years ago.
cybele
@cybele,
May you and yours be kept safe from harm in the days to come.
Yes, I would like to lure my sisters into being trapped in the North of pa right now.
But I cannot change the trajectory of the souls that live within my family if they cannot see what I see, and do not what to hear what I tell them.
I guess it will be alright. Not sure. Made it through Mom by the hairs of my chinny-chin-chin. Contributed a LOT to the bottom lines of vineyards in California. Getting better.
There has been a booming going off from my wsolar plexus for year now. Doom, doom, doom. I’ve made a lot of decisions with that sound in the background. It’s just noise now. Sort of.
Have been trying to “save” my family for years.
Just recently occurred to me that they have been marching to the bear of a TOTALLY differeht drummer than I.
I guess part of growing up is realizing that you can’t divert ANYONE from the path of life they are walking on, unless they see its a crummy road, and they ask for help.
I am so thankful that I am not professing to be a spiritual leader, in these times.