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[Ultimuh]

You can't break what isn't there. Get the Alaskan crabfishers to remove all of the shrimp and fish from the Gulf of Mexico. We'll all have fish tacos for weeks!

"I wonder what hey have put in theese? They taste different.."

[PTTG??]

Why not get somebody with a few thousand tons of cement and a boat to row out and install an undersea mountain of sorts?

[Qloos]

It's time for operation sinkplug, gentlemen.

[Pillow_Killer]

Just nuke it! Im sure coastal cities will LOVE it!

[piecewise]

You want to know the real way to get shit done? Tell BP you're going to fine them $10,000 for every minute that the oil continues to escape from the well. I can pretty much guarantee you that BP will have interns and temp workers down there drinking oil and sea water tomorrow morning.

[Qloos]

You want to know the real way to get shit done? Tell BP you're going to fine them $10,000 for every minute that the oil continues to escape from the well. I can pretty much guarantee you that BP will have interns and temp workers down there drinking oil and sea water tomorrow morning.

This already happens to construction companies if they damage a power/gas/water/sewage line or pipe.

[Shades]

Why not get somebody with a few thousand tons of cement and a boat to row out and install an undersea mountain of sorts?

Yer you wouldn't have thought pumping something like concrete down there would be all the hard, I mean the stuff sinks anyway and will cure quite happily (actually better) underwater.

[Sean Mirrsen]

The problem seems to be that oil is lighter than water, and creates some decent current trying to flow up from the depths. Any attempts to just "pour" something will likely fail. The most dwarvenly insane project would be to construct a giant reinforced concrete slab over the well and just drop it down. Using a giant steel bucket is also an option, but it'd have to be one damn large bucket, and it'd need guidance to get down JUST right, and then make sure that nothing leaks off from the edges.

[Jackrabbit]

Presuming they drilled pretty far, we could just wait for a Deep One to sort this mess out.

[Vester]

Presuming they drilled pretty far, we could just wait for a Deep One to sort this mess out.

The oil is leaking out of Cthulhu's brain.

[Rilder]

Presuming they drilled pretty far, we could just wait for a Deep One to sort this mess out.

The oil is leaking out of Cthulhu's brain.

They missed his computer right, he can still post and shit?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Wait, wait, I know! This thing's more or less localized, right? It's not like it's drifting all over the place or just seeping through the ocean floor, it's a (set of) big, constant stream(s). What if we just take currents into account and let the oil float up to the surface on its own, right into giant collecting pools where it's sipped off into tankers? That'd work as a stopgap solution until some plumbers come in and get a valve put on the thing so it can be plugged and controlled later.

[RedKing]

The problem seems to be that oil is lighter than water, and creates some decent current trying to flow up from the depths. Any attempts to just "pour" something will likely fail. The most dwarvenly insane project would be to construct a giant reinforced concrete slab over the well and just drop it down. Using a giant steel bucket is also an option, but it'd have to be one damn large bucket, and it'd need guidance to get down JUST right, and then make sure that nothing leaks off from the edges.

Umm..they already tried that. They used a huge multi-ton concrete dome to try and funnel the spill up into an attached pipe that went to tankers on the surface. Problem is, at that depth the water is both extremely cold and extremely dense. And it can chemically combine with water to form gas hydrate ice crystals. These are lighter than water, and a number of said crystals accumulated inside the dome, lifting it up off the wellhead (and clogging the pipe at the same time).


The "good news" is that this leak would have to go on for 50 days to match the size of the Exxon Valdez spill (~250,000 barrels). The bad news is that at the rate things are going, that's well within the realm of possibility. It's 19 days as of today.

[Rabble]

But in principle there is no difference - you still need to drill a well at a distance from leaking. And it lowered the bomb. As in the movie "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis in the role of a driller. It is desirable that the calculations were done correctly. Such hope is: the U.S. is full of smart scientists and powerful computers. And Russia could have contributed. We still live peaceful nuclear demolition.

Really?

[RedKing]

In Russia, Bruce Willis drills you! Or something....

Yeah, the Ruslish that came through the translation much amusment to be bringing is.