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ghostrunner1Jun 30, 2010
Time Machine.
Where do I pick up my cheque?
spazattack5000Jun 30, 2010
They will just take the time machine back in time to before they gave you the $10M.
ghostrunner1Jun 30, 2010
Damn it! Foiled again!
picaloJun 30, 2010
AH, ok then, so on time travel laws, tomorrow GhostRunner1 will take a time machine back before the oil spill and tell them (with note from them to them) to shut down that oil rig and fix the issues with it right then. the letter will say pay this man $10M for doing this for us as it was a huge mistake and we sucks the balls.
done.
wheres my check in this reality.
ghostrunner1Jun 30, 2010
Yess!! I'm back in this!
knifesideleftJun 30, 2010
Inventing a time machine and exposing your creation to the world for the sake of a 10 million dollar prize would be a huge waste. You would be much better off going back to like 2006 and winning that record 300 million megabucks lottery or maybe go invest in some stock. After that you should probably immediately destroy the machine. You don't want people to know you made it. People would murder you/ and your family for instructions to create the thing and the world would be f**ked in general for knowing it was even possible.
s73v3rJun 30, 2010
He could go back in time to before they knew about his time machine, and take his money with him. Or use his knowledge of the future for gambling, and create a Biff Tanner-esque casino paradise city.
knifesideleftJun 30, 2010
Oh one more note for this purely hypothetical rant. Before you take your first voyage in the time machine make sure the machine can accurately map the position you want to be in 10-20 years prior. Otherwise when you come out through the other end you will be quite surprised to see yourself sitting in the middle of nowhere in space. People tend to forget that the whole universe is moving and not sitting stagnant in one spot.
ghostrunner1Jul 1, 2010
Hmm, ok. So, first I grab the letter from the company, then I go back in time and collect the money from the same company while telling them to cut the s**t. Then I go back and win the lottery, invest in Facebook and Apple and Microsoft etc... Go forward to find out who murders me and my family for the technology, go back and stop them. Then I go back in time, with my CASH money, all with date stamps from before where I'm going. Then do a bunch of betting and live happily ever after. And maybe earn some money patenting my "Location of the earth throughout time" science and algorithms...
Sounds easy enough...
angelbunnyJun 30, 2010
ffs, just make a giant tampon to plug the hole..
fxu1989Jun 30, 2010
Can we borrow your mother's?
linuxsmoothJun 30, 2010
oh no he di'int!
badqatJun 30, 2010
That's three days worth of the oil currently spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, and probably less than a single days worth of environmental damage.
mjoeJun 30, 2010
so what do nukes cost these days?
nanerJun 30, 2010
About 'tree fity.
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
Damn you Loch ness monter!
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
That goddamn lochness monster.
boner79Jun 30, 2010
they're cheaper and easier than dropping a boatload of daisy-cutters and MOABs down there.
hamder12Jun 30, 2010
I agree, nuke it.
and I think a nuke is free, because USA has to terminate 50 % of its nukes, after some agreement with Russia.
plus nukes are AWESOME. :)
mystickatdaddyJun 30, 2010
You said it dude. Nukes are AWESOME!
mohrtJun 30, 2010
what guarantees a nuke doesn't just make the problem worse?
csalitureJun 30, 2010
If it does we can just nuke the new problem. If we just keep nuking it, it has to work eventually.
j0hnnyblazeJun 30, 2010
the solution is so obvious, you're gonna slap yourself for missing it...
...TWO Nukes! (@ THE SAME TIME!!!)
hamder12Jun 30, 2010
If it get nuked then, Adam Savage, and Jamie Hyneman. got to be the one to nuke it.
deftone1516Jul 1, 2010
Nuke the whales! Hey...you gotta nuke somethin...
jayzer123Jun 30, 2010
get some meat beans some chicken bones some vegetables and you've got yourself a stew goin'
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
Auto-Dugg for Carl Weathers
matthandsomeJun 30, 2010
We get the oil spill, and we push it, somewhere else.
ofnumbersJun 30, 2010
Bury it with loaded up sand barges, plain and simple.
manicsquirrelJun 30, 2010
I just can't figure out why the hell they waited so long. BP should have offered a similar bounty weeks ago. Granted, it's a hit to a company's PR efforts to have to publicly confess, "well, we really screwed the pooch this time and have no idea what we can do to fix it," but that was already becoming rapidly apparent anyway.
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
I suggest we plug up the hole with Sarah Palin: http://www.frequency.com/video/sarah-palin-we/107154
snafflepaffleJun 30, 2010
Not to be a BP apologist, but while the well is technically uncapped they do have a lid on it that's capturing a lot of the oil. More than half.
On June 27, total oil recovered was approx. 23,395 barrels:
approx. 15,310 barrels of oil were collected,
approx. 8,085 barrels of oil were flared,
and approx. 54.1 million cubic feet of natural gas were flared.
Not saying it's great, but claiming 40,000 barrels of oil is going into the ocean is incorrect.
serif69Jun 30, 2010
That's the f**king problem as I see it: they're more concerned with capturing the oil then they are with capping the well.
ksudesignerJun 30, 2010
So you propose they don't capture the oil and let it ALL flow freely into the Gulf while they try to figure out how to cap it?
dushJun 30, 2010
They are drilling two seperate wells as we speak to try and cut off the broken one down near the source.
They don't just want to just "cap" this one because if anything happened to the already comprimised well head it would happen all over again.
snafflepaffleJun 30, 2010
Well, the fact that they BURNT OFF over 8000 barrels of oil would seem to contradict your thesis. If they were truly only interested in capturing the oil they'd be trying to keep all of it.
s73v3rJun 30, 2010
@EntropyFan: The use of nukes in this situation has NOT been proven. The Soviets used nukes on 5 ground based natural gas wells, not deep sea oil wells.
cephlaJun 30, 2010
Because it's oil. As we all know by now, oil changes everything. Welcome to the industrial revolution, care for some steam?
danj484Jun 30, 2010
Until that robot crashed into it and knocked it loose.
liveinthenowJun 30, 2010
With recent estimates, the gusher is spewing ~60,000 barrels a day. If they are claiming they recovered 23,395 barrels, then you sir are wrong. It is not incorrect to claim 40,000 barrels of oil is going into the ocean. Did you factor in also the dispersant they are injecting? They have used hundreds of thousands of gallons of CORExit, which some scientists claim is far worse than the impact of the oil will be. Not trying to attack you, but you shouldn't falsely dismiss a claim when, in fact, it is quite factual. The 60,000 barrels a day is a rough estimate, of only which has been revised again and again. It is most likely much more. If it was even 65,000 per day, then yes, based on what they collected on June 27th, more than 40,000 barrels are leaking into the ocean. Most likely much more. Just wanted to point that out. I agree with serif69.
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
Flash freeze it with liquid nitrogen, buying time to find a permanent solution.
solkreJun 30, 2010
Interesting. What would have happened if instead of pumping in mud and trash, they pumped in liquid nitrogen.
pathouston22Jun 30, 2010
Won't work, the pressure and flow is too great. I know somebody who presented this to an oil engineer.
ascusJun 30, 2010
Would not work, unlike water, oil contracts when frozen.
rasone77Jun 30, 2010
We gather all the oil up into a giant ball and use a rocket to send it into outer space where it will return in 1000 years. Then they can shoot another giant ball of oil into it and deflect it into the sun.
Problem solved.
trainofthought6Jun 30, 2010
Dugg for Futurama
thecrazyasianJun 30, 2010
So we are gonna pay someone for doing what BP should be doing...
serif69Jun 30, 2010
Upside-down umbrella made out of high-strength steel and a silicone/Kevlar composite canopy. Maneuver it into the center of the well about 20-30 feet down, and open it inside. Once it's locked, the pressure will force the tips of the ribs into the sides of the pipe, sealing it into place. It may not stop the flow, but it will slow it down enough for the ROVs to even out the end of the pipe and weld a cap in place.
ygeoff421Jun 30, 2010
As long as the pressure doesn't blow out the pipe below the plug....... if the pipe hasn't been damaged already.
govtdoesnotworkJun 30, 2010
The pipe must be hosed. We've had 2 months of high pressure oil full of sand and rocks rubbing against it continuously, and at immense pressure. At some point, parts of the pipe get thin. Then our only hope is MAYBE the side wells can plug what's left at a low enough point that cracks in the rock don't let oil & gas around the plug attempt. If that fails, I suspect we're f**ked for years. If not decades.
slvrbullet87Jun 30, 2010
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jaydub99Jun 30, 2010
Except it doesn't keep building pressure. Nothing is increasing the pressure inside the well. It's not like putting your thumb over a hose with the water running, it's more like the lid on a pop bottle.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
slvrbullet87Jun 30, 2010
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jaydub99Jul 1, 2010
Sorry, you think the pressure in a Coke bottle is continually increasing? Or the pressure in a capped oil reservoir? What is the cause of this continually pressure increase?
I'm a chemical engineer and studied fluid mechanics, physics, and reservoir engineering. You?
richmomzJun 30, 2010
Two problems with this (and all the other "plug the hole" solutions):
1) The amount of pressure behind all the stuff coming out is enormous - most of the solutions proposed are the equivalent of trying to put a baseball cap over a firehose.
2) There's evidence that the borehole has ruptured deep within the well, and there's tons of oil and nat. gas leaking into the sediment and percolating through surface fissures. Plugging the well may actually aggrivate the problem by creating too much back pressure and eroding the bore column further. Any "plug" or relief well would need to be installed below wherever this erosion is occuring... and that could be several miles deep.
boner79Jun 30, 2010
let Ron Jeremy work his magic on that hole
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
That fat f**ker can sit on it to stop the leak.
lex0429Jun 30, 2010
You not only get a digg up from me but a "well played sir."
drmangrumJun 30, 2010
Weren't leaks like this sealed elsewhere with the use of high explosives to collapse the well?
cakecakecake2Jun 30, 2010
There haven't been any leaks like this before. Not at this depth and pressure.
Even the wells that the soviet union sealed with nukes were natural gas wells with a fraction of the pressure as this one.
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
An admirable idea and one that might actually yield a solution but for one thing: the Feds.
"The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort...make no mistake: BP is operating at our direction. Every key decision and action they take must be approved by us in advance." --Barack Obama
There you have it. You can make BP your whipping boy all you want, but the Feds THEMSELVES have unequivocally declared that they have been in charge of this whole thing from the outset. So... good luck with getting that brilliant X-Prize innovation approved by a phalanx of Federal bureaucrats in anything less than... oh, eight months.
Digg me down if you must, but these ARE the President's exact words.
pentayJun 30, 2010
Take the 10 million dollars and throw it at the leak. Oh wait they're doing that.
dccabsJun 30, 2010
Not sure 10 mil is gonna cut it. Didn't BP just put in 20 billion in an escrow fund to cover the future damage claims that result from the spill? If a 10 million dollar contest could solve the issue, i think they would have tried that already.
Then again, BP doesn't appear to be the most competent group of blokes, so what the hell. give it a shot.
thereverendbillJun 30, 2010
I'm not sure that you understand the X Prize. $10M didn't cover the cost of SpaceShip One, nor did the Orteig Prize cover the cost of The Spirit of St. Louis. The prize provides for publicity and encourages competition, rather than serving as a reimbursement.
picaloJun 30, 2010
well, how about a nice big long tube and or multiples of them with applied pressure, or, we really messed up now.
ummmmm...ill think of something and get back to you if that time machine really doesn't work.
ganymede2010Jun 30, 2010
Send in Harry Stamper!
camaroz06Jun 30, 2010
Uh hate to tell you the bad news but, he got blowd up in space...we're doomed
ygeoff421Jun 30, 2010
My mother-in-law, she has both the weight and circumference to plug the hole, it is a sacrifice I am willing to make for the betterment of the world!
ygeoff421Jun 30, 2010
Let the f**ker gush, this is mother natures way of saying "f**k you, greedy humans'.
shwaavayJun 30, 2010
So mother nature is s**tting all over itself to spite us? Maybe mother nature needs some Prozac.
ygeoff421Jun 30, 2010
The Earth will survive and heal itself, done it before and will do it again. Humans will feel the brunt of this, oh s**t my bad I forgot, the Earth is here for us and only us cause the mythical sky daddy needed a terrarium.
This disaster is on mans shoulders, its our fault and greed got us here. The blame isn't on anyone person or company its on our f**king species for refusing to coexist with ANYTHING. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
rustygbJun 30, 2010
Blow it up! Blow it all up, you filthy animals!
gsydiggerJun 30, 2010
well you get a load of fat people and tell them that in the place where the oil is spilling, there is the biggest and best cheeseburger in the world, and they have to swim down into it to get itComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
centranJun 30, 2010
They should offer the 10m prize to the first person to figure out how to get BP to let you help with the spill.
thereverendbillJun 30, 2010
These comments suck.
sgvpreludeJun 30, 2010
Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake!
groovydooJun 30, 2010
These X-Prize people rock!
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
Sham-Wow!
happyimbecileJun 30, 2010
We have a winner! The check is in the mail.
BawatabaJun 30, 2010
Plug the well with all the dead birds.
camaroz06Jun 30, 2010
Question on using nukes/high explosives in this case, how much risk would using explosives pose to rupturing a nearby well head?
ascusJun 30, 2010
Or that we would now have a gigantic hole leaking now-radioactive oil.
supersunnyJun 30, 2010
A GIANT separatory funnel :D
robestylesJun 30, 2010
Just suck up all of the water with a giant robotic maid's vacuum cleaner. Separate the oil and water and then put it back. Now give me my money.
gizmo12688Jun 30, 2010
If only Billy Mays was still alive.....he'd have a product ready for this situation.
focus89Jun 30, 2010
why don't they just google the answer ?
u8erJun 30, 2010
Doing nothing is probably the best solution, from an environmental point of view:
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE65R16720100628
obonicJun 30, 2010
Nuke it? Can I have my 10M now?
ghostalkerJun 30, 2010
Just give it to Kevin Costner and buy more of those machines to clean the place up.
bossm4nJun 30, 2010
You know the Digg dupe filter is broken when even the former CEO submits a dupe. http://digg.com/world_news/XPRIZE_Announces_10_Million_Clean_Up_Challenge
Let's hope that gets fixed in Digg v4
benthedogJun 30, 2010
Hey, he's just "disrupting a monopoly."
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
Buried, Duplicate Submission.
anomaly100Jun 30, 2010
Wow, they're all here. The BP advocates that are trying to ruin our country while feigning liberty and screwing the American people at the same damn time.
,People of digg, this is part of the bury brigade. There's just a few missing. Like a few of the Mollys ip addresses, et al. You try that "Dupe" bulls**t with me. You know geniuses, it doesn't always show duplicates, so live with it. Quite gaming digg. Now, SCAT!
You act like hillbillies, not educated people.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
bossm4nJun 30, 2010
What the hell are you smokin'? I don't know what in the hell you're talking about. I didn't bury either story. I think it's actually a very cool story. I was just poking fun at Jay for submitting a dupe. Someone's hearing black helicopters. You're mental lady.
benthedogJul 1, 2010
You dig Hemingway, C?
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
Hillbilly thugs? Well, yo and yee-haw.
Yeah, it doesn't always show dupes. Great job at getting the point, Connie. So we should only use the "Bury as Duplicate" option when we collectively read the mind of the submitter and know damn good and well that he did it on purpose?
anomaly100Jun 30, 2010
The only reason they know there is a duplicate, is because they buried that one too. Let's let Digg check that out. They must be PISSED there is no bury feature on the new digg.
Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
anomaly100Jul 2, 2010
@Bossm4n: You didn't bury this post? Prove it. Simply digg it. You can't because you buried it. You LIE!
You said you liked it, why didn't you digg it Hotshot?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
bossm4nJul 2, 2010
Because I dugg the other ORIGINAL submission, not this dupe. Feel free to corroborate that. Not only are you a troll, you appear to be a stalker. Perhaps I need to do a bit of abuse reporting as well. Users like you on Digg are what drag the entire site down. Everything has to be about politics and conspiracies. Don't go away mad, just go away.
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
The "New Digg" (which has all the appeal of "New Coke" and should be described as such to Mr. Rose & co) doesn't have a Bury, Connie -- just a "report." So, you're happier with your stories being "reported?" (That's reported as in, "turned into the admins" -- not reported as, you know, something a journalist did; I know you're not really familiar with that.)
technoesJun 30, 2010
Gravel Kill, fill up a crap load of ships with gravel and just keep dumping it above the blowout until its covered.
jaydub99Jun 30, 2010
There must be a reason why they can't use something like an industrial scale blow bag:
http://yedda.com/questions/kitchen_sink_epair_old_house_home_518210613898996/
Maybe there is no material that is flexible that can withstand the pressure of the well.
j0hnnyblazeJun 30, 2010
Plug it with dead sea creatures?
haikufuJun 30, 2010
They should just make it illegal for wells to leak. Problem solved.
Closed AccountJun 30, 2010
And once you've convinced XPRIZE, all you have to do is convince the government to let you implement it.
digitaldiyJun 30, 2010
Just have the President give another speech about it and declare it solved. Maybe an executive order mandating that it is solved? Then maybe he can get another Nobel prize then too.
alecksJun 30, 2010
Get Dyson on it
alecksJun 30, 2010
I don't understand why they don't just lower on top of the leak, a lager pipe that captures all the oil and pipes it back up to the surface...