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[Criptfeind]

I just thought of a way to fix this.

All I need are five chickens and a alter to Ra.

[smigenboger]

Hmm, do you think successfully solving this oil crisis would be grounds for a scholarship?

[Criptfeind]

You would be killed by one oil baron or another.

[LordMelvin]

I just thought of a way to fix this.

All I need are five chickens and a alter to Ra.

Ra is a sun-god. He cannot help you.

Now, if we can get a big wooden horse to offer up to Triton...

[RedWarrior0]

Ra is a sun god. Sun = solar energy plus evaporating gulf so we can clean it up manually.

[PenguinOverlord]

Ra is a sun god. Sun = evaporating gulf

Why has nobody thought of this, yet?
EVAPORATE THE OCEANS

[smigenboger]

It will also help offset global warming!

[Lumbajak]

I don't pretend to know anything about science, but wouldn't evaporating the entire ocean cause a heavy storm covering the entire earth that would last several years?

[Phmcw]

It will also help offset global warming!

Vapor is a greenhouse gaz.

[RedWarrior0]

Ra is a sun god. Sun = evaporating gulf

Why has nobody thought of this, yet?
EVAPORATE THE OCEANS

I had suggested it twice already.

[Jreengus]

I just thought of a way to fix this.

All I need are five chickens and a alter to Ra.

Ra is a sun-god. He cannot help you.

Now, if we can get a big wooden horse to offer up to Triton...

I know where I can get you one second hand, unfortunately it's not the cleanest. It had a large number of soldiers inside it for about a day and they didn't bother getting out to relieve themselves.

[olemars]

OR, we could just get a very large hydrolic press and close the pipe by crimping the end...

You're forgetting that its 5,000 feet below the surface, whatever hydraulic press is sent down there is going to have to be adapted to those pressures and its not going to be easy to use it down there with the ROVs.

The BOP that is installed on every wellhead is basically just a set of hydraulic rams and the last ditch defense is the blind/shear ram that's supposed to cut through the drillstring and block the hole, so the idea is sound and in use. Then again, it didn't work when they needed it to in this case.

By the way, 1500 metres (5000 feet) sea depth isn't very deep in offshore-drilling terms these days. They've got wells down at 3000-3500 metres.

[LordMelvin]

I just thought of a way to fix this.

All I need are five chickens and a alter to Ra.

Ra is a sun-god. He cannot help you.

Now, if we can get a big wooden horse to offer up to Triton...

I know where I can get you one second hand, unfortunately it's not the cleanest. It had a large number of soldiers inside it for about a day and they didn't bother getting out to relieve themselves.

I don't care, I'll take it. Erm. unless... well... not to be racist, but were they Greeks? Cause those guys just leave everything smelling horribly, and the ... thing, with the olives is just wrong.

Edit to add: This Post is an example of Poe's Law, and should be treated as such.

[Criptfeind]

RA IS THE GOD OF EVERYTHING! NOT JUST THE SUN.

Or is that like Amon-Ra or something stupid like that.

[Nikov]

OR, we could just get a very large hydrolic press and close the pipe by crimping the end...

You're forgetting that its 5,000 feet below the surface, whatever hydraulic press is sent down there is going to have to be adapted to those pressures and its not going to be easy to use it down there with the ROVs.

The BOP that is installed on every wellhead is basically just a set of hydraulic rams and the last ditch defense is the blind/shear ram that's supposed to cut through the drillstring and block the hole, so the idea is sound and in use. Then again, it didn't work when they needed it to in this case.

By the way, 1500 metres (5000 feet) sea depth isn't very deep in offshore-drilling terms these days. They've got wells down at 3000-3500 metres.

As I understand it the drill itself was in the way of the ram?

Anyway I think this current solution of cut the pipe clean, mount a valve, and close it off works well enough.