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Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke

Posted by samzenpus on from the lesser-of-two-disasters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could be stopped with an underground nuclear blast, a Russian newspaper reports. Komsomoloskaya Pravda, the best-selling Russian daily, reports that in Soviet times such leaks were plugged with controlled nuclear blasts underground. The idea is simple, KP writes: 'The underground explosion moves the rock, presses on it, and, in essence, squeezes the well's channel.' It's so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities, and it only didn't work once."

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  1. Re:From the same guys... by Grishnakh · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, that's a great idea. Just give up, and willingly march into the gas chambers when ordered.

    Stupid liberal.

  2. Re:What's the scariest part of this? by TheoCryst · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But in the mean-time I have a lot of hardwood to sell to humanity.

    Oh, I think I've seen this movie before. But you were a gardener, and the housewife was so lonely...

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  3. Re:What's the scariest part of this? by Dunbal · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    (hint: short term variance != long term trend)

          Hahaha oh wow, and yet it doesn't apply to climate change apparently.

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