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5-29-10 | boycott

Posted on 05/29/2010 2:27:01 PM PDT by boycott

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To: boycott

Just stick a new BOP on top of the one that’s not working. Activate BOP. Problem solved!


21 posted on 05/29/2010 2:36:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Free Men will always be armed with the Truth. -)
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To: Doogle

“the ideal plug is running around Chicago somewhere”


Hopefully he’ll come up with a solution while vacationing or playing basketball.


22 posted on 05/29/2010 2:36:22 PM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: boycott

How about using an atomic bomb, I wonder if 20 kilotons would be enough? I know back in the 1950’s, it was proposed both in the US and USSR and atom bombs can be used for engineering purposes such as digging big holes and so on, maybe we can use one to cause a ruckus down there to the point where it would liberate so much dirt and rocks, it would seal the hole.


23 posted on 05/29/2010 2:36:23 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: chris37

Yeah, Any boob can be president if they only use a Teleprompter when they speak - and nothing bad happens.

Anybody can be a firefighter, as long as there are no fires. It’s easy to just sit around the station waiting for a fire.

Unfortunately, Obama is proving what happens when you have an unqualified president and something DOES happen. I wonder what Sarah would have done.


24 posted on 05/29/2010 2:36:44 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: SkyPilot

If nothing else, that might scare the oil back down the hole.


25 posted on 05/29/2010 2:36:48 PM PDT by OCC
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To: boycott

A large bomb near the leak would likely collapse everything around it and plug it up.


26 posted on 05/29/2010 2:37:35 PM PDT by DB
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To: Sola Veritas
I would use a 10 megaton thermonuclear warhead. It wouldn’t plug the leak, but everyone would quit worrying about it!

How about the Tsar Bomba? B-)
27 posted on 05/29/2010 2:37:42 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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28 posted on 05/29/2010 2:37:44 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (No matter where you go there are always more stupid people.)
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To: All

Let’s get Oprah Winfrey to team up with Art Bell and have the cumulative audiences of her show and from Coast to Coast AM all be given airline tickets to the Gulf Coast were they will all hold hands and have a big group prayer to heal the hole.


29 posted on 05/29/2010 2:38:39 PM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: Doogle

Plugs? Talk to Joe Biden!


30 posted on 05/29/2010 2:39:23 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: Nowhere Man

I doubt it needs to be that big.

Particularly if they could drill a hole near the blowout shaft and pack it will explosives.


31 posted on 05/29/2010 2:39:33 PM PDT by DB
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To: SkyPilot

Man, everywhere Michelle Obama goes, you need to have a 1972 Pinto as a head car with a huge “Wide Load” sign on the front. B-) B-P


32 posted on 05/29/2010 2:39:49 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: allmost

Half cast on both ends with open ends planned. Lower the concrete without closing the plume and utilize the two part valve.


I like it.

So lower some big device over it that has a two part valve and then close one of the valves off? I like it.


33 posted on 05/29/2010 2:39:59 PM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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While we are waiting to get the leak stopped, why are they not sucking up the oil laden seawater as close to the leak as possible and putting it in tankers? I don’t understand why they are just allowing all that oil to escape.


34 posted on 05/29/2010 2:40:05 PM PDT by csmusaret (Remember, half the people in this country are below average)
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To: boycott

Put a steel unbrella down the pipe, one that has the ability to grip the inner walls, then open it up...Repeat as necessary.


35 posted on 05/29/2010 2:40:07 PM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: chris37

plug da ho with basketballs.


36 posted on 05/29/2010 2:40:08 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv; Yehuda; Nachum
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37 posted on 05/29/2010 2:40:28 PM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: boycott

Nuke it. Supposedly the shock wave can pinch the hole shut.


38 posted on 05/29/2010 2:40:35 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: boycott
We can either:

(A) Shove Obama and the entire Obama Administration down the hole to plug the leak;

(B) Wrap Obama's big mouth around the blown out well head and plug it that way.

Either way, I don't care -- it solves two problems: One with the oil leak, and second with the most failed President in U.S. History.

39 posted on 05/29/2010 2:40:37 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Past Your Eyes

LOL!! That’s a good suggestion any day. It would help the economy too.


40 posted on 05/29/2010 2:40:54 PM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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