3 ms·
Personally I'm for going all Deep Impact on it. Nuclear bombs on the sea bed being blown to get down to the deeper leaks, and then going for another topkill...
by demallien 16y ago
Personally I'm for going all Deep Impact on it. Nuclear bombs on the sea bed being blown to get down to the deeper leaks, and then going for another topkill... Of course, I know nothing about how to fix oil well leaks, underwater nuclear explosions or topkill, so I wouldn't listen to me. Still, I like the image - would a nuclear bomb going off underwater create a tsunami?
- Tamerlin 16y ago"would a nuclear bomb going off underwater create a tsunami?" Possibly a small one. It would vaporize a large volume of water around the blast, leading to a vast surge in pressure, and as we all know, water isn't compressible. So you'd have a large pressure wave expanding away from the blast, followed by a trough when the vaporized region cooled, forming a partial vacuum and the area collapsed. It would be like a small version of a megathrust fault. Fortunately however, the amount of energy even our larger H-bombs can release that way is miniscule compared to what a real megathrust fault would release, so the wave would probably not be much more than a slightly rougher surf for the nearest coastlines.