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Posted on 02/08/2006 3:52:36 PM PST by blam
My uncle, John Campbell, wrote the short story the film, The Thing, is based on. He wrote science fiction short stories for 3 cents a word while at MIT, paid his own tuition, but eventually flunked out because he was too interested in writing to go to class!
Oh, I know some rigs, hands and companies that could screw it up proper.
Sounds like the good doctor has never had natrual gas come out of solution bubble up and blast a column of fire a couple hundred yards in the air for a day or so off the diverters as the whole rig floor shakes.
He needs to grow a pair.
I did a long time ago, and just re-read for old time sake.
Still very good.
"Oh, I know some rigs, hands and companies that could screw it up proper."
Been to Oklahoma or Louisiana, I see.
Me and Paterson Drilling (I pick the crew and rig) could do this on turn-key.
To a topic from 2006, a link to a topic from 2003. :’)
Warning: Well in Antarctica may pop like a can of Coke
Knight-Ridder Tribune News | August 14, 2003 | Joshua L. Kwan
Posted on 08/14/2003 11:46:58 AM EDT by Dog Gone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/964070/posts
http://www.solcomhouse.com/antarcticicesheet.htm
http://www.solcomhouse.com/170953main_SubglacialLakes_Nature_lg.jpg
Not only did the scientists find four new lakes, they discovered that the lakes coincide with the origin of tributaries of the Recovery Glacier ice stream. Upstream of the lakes, the ice sheet moves at just a few feet a year; downstream the flow increases to a third of a mile each year. The research team concluded that the lakes provide a reservoir of water that lubricates the bed of the stream, which speeds the flow of ice, and prevents the base of the sheet from freezing to the bedrock.
http://www.solcomhouse.com/170956main_SubglacialLakesVostok_lg.jpg
WHAT!? Don’t tell me the ice melts from the bottom not the top!
:’)
Wow! I love this stuff.
BUMP for great posting.
“When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.” This will take longer.
It's always something. Don't tell Algore.
There's SCIENCE and then there's BIAS!
And as BIAS has no SCIENTIFIC basis, it must be prefaced by:
WOULD. SHOULD. COULD. (sometimes all three in one article.)
LOL
I’m not an engineer, but I get it.
If the pressure is high enough, water can remain liquid even below the standard freezing point.
Antarctica has volcanoes, hot springs, etc, from an underground magma hot spot. The red dots below are volcanoes.
Notice how that side of Antarctica has a lot less ice cover than the other side?
That was the first story I read as a kid that kept me awake at night. Scared me to death.
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