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Undersea Deposits of Frozen Methane Found
geoswan writes "The CBC is running a story about large deposits of
Frozen methane off the
coast of Vancouver Island .
The deposits may be 850 meters deep. The story doesn't say how the methane came to be a
solid. Pressure? The story doesn't address what technology could be used to mine these deposits,
if the decision is made to develop these resources. The CBC showed pictures taken of the methane
hydrate. Sure enough, it looked like a big snowbank. It is an environmentally sensitive area. So, how about it, should it be exploited?"
they found frozen farts, let's rejoice! And then let's post a story about it.
...as if millions of trolls cried out with bad fart jokes for this topic... ;)
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
You know, we have something like 15 millian cows in the US alone, and we haven't even begun to milk that source yet, why go to the bottom of the ocean for it?
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1) Our office after Qdobo's 2 for $2 Thursday night burrito special.
2) My uncle Floyd.
3) The United States Congress.
Some men spend their entire lives trying to kill themselves for having been born. --Ross MacDonald
...you can put opec out of business.
:-)
And create mpec. or even mpec4
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
Hey, I say it's a great idea. Why manufacture weapons of mass destruction, when we could just have nature do it for us? I say go for it! Kill the world and have it done with.
This is bad news for Canada... Bush is going to want the land now...
42 + 1 = 42
Now, do you want them to touch it? :))
... you bet your arse I want them to touch it, or at least figure out how to release it in a contained way so we dont get a cataclysmic release during the next earthquake in that area. or it builds up to a critical mass that self releases.
after that
basically it can be captured if you can force a slowish release of the gas you can easily capture it with a collection dome of some type and gas pumps to siphon off the gasses. a high rate release (I mean slow as in only a few thousand cubic meters of gas an hour.. I mean high-rate as in 30-40 million cubic meters of gas per second... IE: the planet farts) would generate more pressure and power than any man made device could handle or contain.. a steel collection dome would rupture instantly.
Although another way would be to pump tons of Oxygen down there into the "snowbank" and set it all off underwater with explosives... Sure it would create a tsunami that would pale in comparasion to a gigantic metor crashing into the ocean but it would be really cool to watch! and imagine the TV shows about it.... "Survivor XII.... who will survive in these tiny rafts in the vacinity of the methane detonation"
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
If vast amounts of methane were released, the highly explosive gas would be ignited by lightning, scorching huge area in a fiery hell-on-earth."
We'd better start putting corks in the millions of cattle all over the world then.
"GM Cows that dont fart so much are being developed right now."
The downside is that if you let them get more than about four years old, they explode violently.
-- Terry
It's not frozen methane -- it's a cap on an undersea cave. If you take off the cap it will release the seamonsters! Run for your lives! aaaaaahhhhhh! ahhhhhhhh!
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Well, dahling, if you put on a little lipstick, they'll probably let you live.
Um. Or did you mean rogue tribe?
Never mind.
This is the kind of news story that always appears at the beginning of a Gozilla movie.
Save Tokyo!
Do not disturb the frozen methane!
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Just where would someone find an "environmentally insensitive area"?