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-10 # Guest 2010-06-24 21:39

When are we going to start discussing the use of PNE, (Peaceful Nuclear Explosive)? People at Lawrence Livermore Labs have done these tests 100 times underground. This is the only way to stop this leak. It's time to set this into motion before we completely destroy all life in the Gulf and a large part of the Atlantic!!! This disaster makes Global Warming feel like a chilly afternoon in Alaska!!! Get on the phones everyone and get this ball in motion!!!!

+4 # Guest 2010-06-25 09:21

Yeah, what if the bomb~~~any bomb were to set off all that methane I keep reading about, like the huge 'bubble' that's been collecting? I agree with Fletch anyway, NO nukes!

0 # Guest 2010-06-27 02:49

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When are we going to start discussing the use of PNE, (Peaceful Nuclear Explosive)? People at Lawrence Livermore Labs have done these tests 100 times underground. This is the only way to stop this leak. It's time to set this into motion before we completely destroy all life in the Gulf and a large part of the Atlantic!!!

Are you crazy? The underwater fallout alone WOULD kill every living thing left in the Gulf and a large portion of the Atlantic. Quite aside from that, Obama is trying to work internationally to send the message that nukes are no longer acceptable. The geology of the area is not certain enough for the strategy, either, or conventional explosives would have been used by now: do you want to risk a total shattering of the seabed that would make it impossible to plug?

+11 # Guest 2010-06-25 05:51

NO NUKES don't be stupid. Conventional underwater demolitions can succesfully implode the well. Using nukes in the ocean is an unprecedented standard sending the wrong message to the world. Further the ecological impact is great. Fissile materials mixed in, less than 50 miles from shore would kill what's left of the fragile ecosystem and pollute the region for thousands of years. It is unacceptable.

Nuclear energy is not clean. The waste problem has never been solved. Mass use of nuclear energy must be abandoned also if humans will avoid extinction. Unless the waste problem is solved both nuclear and oil will snuff out life as we know it in the end. It may take a thousand years, it may be much sooner, but that is the path these industrys now have us on.

+1 # Guest 2010-06-25 09:16

I agree with you Fletch. Nukes are out of the question. As for Nuclear energy, future innovations may prove that we can, indeed, turn to that source for our enormous appetite for power. As for oil the jury is in and the verdict is all bad. I suggest you read an article about oil,and the future lack thereof, overpopulation and how the two will combine to lead to a series of Malthusian predictions concerning the welfare of the planet and the people living on it. It don't look good. The site of the article is http://www.countercurrents.org/goodchild090510.htm

+4 # Guest 2010-06-25 12:30

I just hope Congress doesn't give that corporate-bought Supreme Court's five justices (all christian conservatives) the power to decide on using nukes.

They might, you know.

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