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Title: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Attero Dominatus on May 21, 2010, 02:16:34 PM
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Tony_FLADEM  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-21-10 02:27 PM
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Can't they just blow up the oil well?
   
I know this is simplistic. Why can't they just attach explosives and blow it up to pieces?
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An explosion would just make it even worse, DUmbshit.

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AngryAmish  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-21-10 02:28 PM
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1. If it is good enough for the Moon, it id good enough for the oil well.
   
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Swede  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-21-10 02:28 PM
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2. High pressure oil,make a bigger hole,more oil.
   
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Correct. But facts do not fly at the hive.

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Dank Nugs  (46 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-21-10 02:30 PM
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3. The only thing that will seal that leak is a low yield thermonuclear bomb n/t
   
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:lmao: :rotf: :bs:

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Speck Tater  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-21-10 02:34 PM
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5. So, if the gas pipe going into your stove had a leak...
   
you'd do what, tape a firecracker to it?
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Considering the stupidity so prevailent in your little hive, I would not be surprised if someone was foolish enough to try it.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Chris_ on May 21, 2010, 02:17:42 PM
How many of these threads are there?  Let's blow it up!!!  Liberals are so violent.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Randy on May 21, 2010, 02:31:14 PM
How many of these threads are there?  Let's blow it up!!!  Liberals are so violently stupid.

Figst
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Peter3_1 on May 21, 2010, 02:36:09 PM
Lessee, 5,000 ft....3 atmospheres every 100 ft, 30 every 1,000 times 5 is 150 atmospheres times 33 PSI per atmosphere and we have 4950 psi, say 5,000 PSI to round it....and the oil's just blowing the water assice as if it were on the surface......so of course we should blow off all the overburden and expose the oil deposit open to the sea over a couple hundred sq acres. Yes, THAT'S a good idea!

How is it possible that any of these people are gainfully employed?
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Karin on May 21, 2010, 02:49:11 PM
You're encountered with an undesirable hole in something, anything.  The fix is to blow it up?  Is this what they do to their own plumbing?  

I went over to the Dump to look for something entertaining, but there's thread after thread about the BP oil.  Why do they do this?  Can't they just tack an oil comment onto another thread?  

p.s.  I love it when Adbot throws up an ad for Looney Tunes.  God bless 'im.   :-)
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: diesel driver on May 21, 2010, 03:03:42 PM
Lessee, 5,000 ft....3 atmospheres every 100 ft, 30 every 1,000 times 5 is 150 atmospheres times 33 PSI per atmosphere and we have 4950 psi, say 5,000 PSI to round it....and the oil's just blowing the water assice as if it were on the surface......so of course we should blow off all the overburden and expose the oil deposit open to the sea over a couple hundred sq acres. Yes, THAT'S a good idea!

How is it possible that any of these people are gainfully employed?

I believe 1 atmosphere is 14.7 psi, not 33....

Actually, it's 14.6959 psi, at sea level....
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: kenth on May 21, 2010, 03:07:29 PM
Oil problem, blow it up. Terrorist problem, ...
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: diesel driver on May 21, 2010, 03:09:00 PM
Oil problem, blow it up. Terrorist problem, ...

kiss their asses....
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on May 21, 2010, 03:18:30 PM
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(I made that up, but would find it amusing)
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Thor on May 21, 2010, 03:31:07 PM
I think the OP Dummie has watched "Hellfighters" one too many times but never paid attention. One doesn't BLOW UP an oil well to stop a leak. They blow it up to put out the fire. (The working theory is that the explosion uses up all of the surrounding oxygen, eliminating one side of the fire triangle and hence, extinguishes the fire.) The oil STILL flows, as demonstrated in the movie. 
:loser: :mental:


:stupidpeople:
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: jukin on May 21, 2010, 04:15:14 PM
You can't fix dumb like that.  Must be an IQ test to vote....must be.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: The Village Idiot on May 21, 2010, 04:27:27 PM

(I made that up, but would find it amusing)

 :rotf:

I would believe that
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Tucker on May 21, 2010, 05:05:02 PM

(I made that up, but would find it amusing)

It made me laugh because it very well coulda been a real post.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: miskie on May 21, 2010, 06:52:38 PM
Quote from: Dank Nugs
Dank Nugs  (46 posts)       Fri May-21-10 02:30 PM
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3. The only thing that will seal that leak is a low yield thermonuclear bomb n/t

Oh, Hell No!!  Who knows what effect the radiation would have !?! - Id much rather have oil washing ashore than these guys...

(https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~david/Images/ScoobyDoo2TarMonster-med.png)
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Carl on May 21, 2010, 08:43:09 PM
You're encountered with an undesirable hole in something, anything.  The fix is to blow it up?  Is this what they do to their own plumbing?  

I went over to the Dump to look for something entertaining, but there's thread after thread about the BP oil.  Why do they do this?  Can't they just tack an oil comment onto another thread?  

p.s.  I love it when Adbot throws up an ad for Looney Tunes.  God bless 'im.   :-)

No Karin and part of the lunacy and neediness that is DU.
They can`t just comment but have to make a self centered thread so that ALL can see what they have to say or think on an issue.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Peter3_1 on May 21, 2010, 09:05:24 PM
Quite right, 14.5 lbs every 33 ft, or 2175 psi.. Still the oil gushed out and a nuclear tactical weapon rthere would act something like a shape charge and cut deep into the botton, and would kill EVERYTHING in the water for miles and as likely as not open the entire oil depoisit to the seawater.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: dandi on May 21, 2010, 09:12:54 PM
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Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Ballygrl on May 21, 2010, 10:15:40 PM

(I made that up, but would find it amusing)

:lmao:
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: sofa king on May 21, 2010, 10:53:33 PM
how could i ever get through a day without dummy logic to amuse me?

have a gaping hole in the ocean floor that is spewing oil?  BLOW IT UP!  that will stop the leak.

a porous border that allows millions to cross over illegally?  AMNESTY!  that will stop those pouring over the border.

an illegal drug problem?  LEGALIZATION!  well, yeah, that would do it.

can't pay your bills?  DON'T!  see how this works?


i have been hanging out on du for so long i can prescribe a solution for any problem you can describe.  and the solution is always simple, and beyond any human logic.


patient:  "doctor, it hurts when i do this."
dummy: "then don't do that!"

ah to be a dummy.  life is so simple.  except when their government check is late.  THAT is truly a catastrophe!





Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Revolution on May 22, 2010, 12:05:16 AM
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Tony_FLADEM  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri May-21-10 02:27 PM
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Can't they just blow up the oil well?
   
I know this is simplistic. Why can't they just attach explosives and blow it up to pieces?

I can't help laughing, I'm sorry. What a complete and utter DOLT!! Firecracker to gas leak in stove had be in tears too.



...My gut hurts.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Attero Dominatus on May 22, 2010, 12:54:41 AM
I can't help laughing, I'm sorry. What a complete and utter DOLT!! Firecracker to gas leak in stove had be in tears too.



...My gut hurts.
It is amazing the DUmmies even know how to walk, eat and breathe much less know how to post on the internet.  :rotf:
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: diesel driver on May 22, 2010, 01:01:33 AM
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Tony_FLADEM   Fri May-21-10 02:27 PM
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Can't they just blow up the oil well?
   
I know this is simplistic. Why can't they just attach explosives and blow it up to pieces?

And they call ME a redneck....   :mental:

Show a redneck how to make a living setting fires or blowing $hit up, and he'd be ALL over that.  DUmmie Tony is letting his true colors show....
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: diesel driver on May 22, 2010, 01:02:57 AM
It is amazing the DUmmies even know how to walk, eat and breathe much less know how to post on the internet.  :rotf:

I'm amazed they can read what they post thru the crayon scribble and whiteout on their computer monitors....
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: AllosaursRus on May 22, 2010, 01:44:42 AM
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and blow it up to pieces

.......and YOu BLow a LIquid To PIeces How?............Your mother dropped you on your head, down a full flight of stairs, onto the concrete sidewalk, into the street, where the taxi ran over your head, didn't she?
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Peter3_1 on May 22, 2010, 10:43:14 AM
liquid AND millions of cubic feet of natural gas. Yeah, blow it up......
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: The Village Idiot on May 22, 2010, 10:46:47 AM
Couldn't an underwater nuke cause, I dunno, the pocket the gas/oil is in to collapse spreading radioactive oil all over the Gulf and possibly even causing a tidal wave?
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 22, 2010, 10:59:57 AM
Couldn't an underwater nuke cause, I dunno, the pocket the gas/oil is in to collapse spreading radioactive oil all over the Gulf and possibly even causing a tidal wave?

Whatever it would cause as a side effect, you can bet your fourth point of contact that the DUmp hasn't thought it through.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Peter3_1 on May 22, 2010, 11:03:44 AM
indeed. The hydralic shock wave alone would kill sealife for miles and miles. Damaging nearby wells too.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: djones520 on May 22, 2010, 11:08:33 AM
indeed. The hydralic shock wave alone would kill sealife for miles and miles. Damaging nearby wells too.

Then watch what happens when all that radiated material gets into the Gulf Current.  I'm tempted to burn my mole next time I see one of these posts.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: AllosaursRus on May 22, 2010, 11:11:30 AM
Then watch what happens when all that radiated material gets into the Gulf Current.  I'm tempted to burn my mole next time I see one of these posts.

Screw that! Why waste a mole on this much stooooooooooooooopid?
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Carl on May 22, 2010, 11:47:06 AM
This is typical DUmmy think...only the outcome I want will be the one that happens.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: Attero Dominatus on May 22, 2010, 02:00:17 PM
Couldn't an underwater nuke cause, I dunno, the pocket the gas/oil is in to collapse spreading radioactive oil all over the Gulf and possibly even causing a tidal wave?

The fallout would be carried around by the currents, ingested by wildlife and work their way up the food chain to us.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: thundley4 on May 22, 2010, 02:14:46 PM
The fallout would be carried around by the currents, ingested by wildlife and work their way up the food chain to us.

I wouldn't be too concerned with the underwater fallout.  Think about how many nukes were tested during WWII and after.  The ocean is a big place.   We'd still just be trading one type of pollution for another, oil for radioactivity.
Title: Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
Post by: The Village Idiot on May 22, 2010, 02:29:58 PM
I wouldn't be too concerned with the underwater fallout.  Think about how many nukes were tested during WWII and after.  The ocean is a big place.   We'd still just be trading one type of pollution for another, oil for radioactivity.

The Gulf is a bit smaller and closer than the South Pacific though