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Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« on: May 21, 2010, 02:16:34 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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1. If it is good enough for the Moon, it id good enough for the oil well.
   
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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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3. The only thing that will seal that leak is a low yield thermonuclear bomb n/t
   
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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.
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 02:17:42 PM »
How many of these threads are there?  Let's blow it up!!!  Liberals are so violent.
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2010, 02:31:14 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on May 21, 2010, 02:17:42 PM
How many of these threads are there?  Let's blow it up!!!  Liberals are so violently stupid.

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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #3 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?
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #4 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.   :-)
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2010, 03:03:42 PM »
Quote from: 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?

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

Actually, it's 14.6959 psi, at sea level....
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2010, 03:07:29 PM »
Oil problem, blow it up. Terrorist problem, ...
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2010, 03:09:00 PM »
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Oil problem, blow it up. Terrorist problem, ...

kiss their asses....
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2010, 03:18:30 PM »
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #9 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. 
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2010, 04:15:14 PM »
You can't fix dumb like that.  Must be an IQ test to vote....must be.
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2010, 04:27:27 PM »
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2010, 05:05:02 PM »
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2010, 06:52:38 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...

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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2010, 08:43:09 PM »
Quote from: 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.   :-)

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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #15 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.
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2010, 10:15:40 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on May 21, 2010, 03:18:30 PM

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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #18 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.


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





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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
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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.



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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2010, 12:54:41 AM »
Quote from: Revolution on May 22, 2010, 12:05:16 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.



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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....
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Quote from: Attero Dominatus on May 22, 2010, 12:54:41 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....
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #23 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?
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Re: Can't they just blow up the oil well?
« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2010, 10:43:14 AM »
liquid AND millions of cubic feet of natural gas. Yeah, blow it up......
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