Nuke, baby, nuke...

[daglob]

Some wise guy is proposing that they use a nuclear weapon to "melt closed" the runaway oil well in the Gulf.

I know I've seen this in an old Atlas comic: "SLUUDGE-The Oil Spill That Walks Like A Man". It would have been by Stan and Jack, and appeared in Journey Into Mystery or Tales To Astonish...

[BlueBard]

Oooh!  Oooh!  Nuclear underwater explosions!

We could totally end up with GODZILLA!!!

Or, possibly, a form of contamination that destroys all marine life in the Gulf and makes the oil spill look like no big deal.

[daglob]

Oooh!  Oooh!  Nuclear underwater explosions!

We could totally end up with GODZILLA!!!

Or, possibly, a form of contamination that destroys all marine life in the Gulf and makes the oil spill look like no big deal.

That's pretty much what we have now. Dead things have been washing up on the beaches at Dauphin Island for a couple of weeks now. Someone at BP is supposed to have said that it wasn't from the oil spill. The cadavers have been put in freezers pending further examinations.

Radioactive seafood... yum, yum.

[Deaths Jester]

Or, possibly, a form of contamination that destroys all marine life in the Gulf and makes the oil spill look like no big deal.

Hey!!  No talking bad about me when I'm in the room!!!

[ow_tiobe_sb]

*channelling Baudrillard* The likelihood that a nuclear device's detonation will be used to solve this problem is zero.  The efficacy of the bomb relies upon its not detonating, so that its mere existence will perpetuate the simulation of the political on the international level.  Should the bomb go off again (and it will not), it would lose all efficacy by exposing an almost unthinkable truth: there are no political stakes to be had.  Meanwhile, we must buttress the deterrence and neutralisation systems facilitated by the bomb by a proliferation of simulacra via the media (cf. Season 6 of 24, Independence Day, etc.) that, while illustrating the horrors of a detonation on a limited scale, serve to remind us that the bomb will never be detonated.

Or something. *shrug*

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and World Breaker

[Deaths Jester]

*channelling Baudrillard* The likelihood that a nuclear device's detonation will be used to solve this problem is zero.  The efficacy of the bomb relies upon its not detonating, so that its mere existence will perpetuate the simulation of the political on the international level.  Should the bomb go off again (and it will not), it would lose all efficacy by exposing an almost unthinkable truth: there are no political stakes to be had.  Meanwhile, we must buttress the deterrence and neutralisation systems facilitated by the bomb by a proliferation of simulacra via the media (cf. Season 6 of 24, Independence Day, etc.) that, while illustrating the horrors of a detonation on a limited scale, serve to remind us that the bomb will never be detonated.

Or something. *shrug*

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and World Breaker

TIOBE?!?!?!?!  Is this true...the Tiobe is back?!?!?!  What the?!?!?!?!

[ow_tiobe_sb]

"No, it isn't."

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ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and World Breaker

[daglob]

*channelling Baudrillard* The likelihood that a nuclear device's detonation will be used to solve this problem is zero.  The efficacy of the bomb relies upon its not detonating, so that its mere existence will perpetuate the simulation of the political on the international level.  Should the bomb go off again (and it will not), it would lose all efficacy by exposing an almost unthinkable truth: there are no political stakes to be had.  Meanwhile, we must buttress the deterrence and neutralisation systems facilitated by the bomb by a proliferation of simulacra via the media (cf. Season 6 of 24, Independence Day, etc.) that, while illustrating the horrors of a detonation on a limited scale, serve to remind us that the bomb will never be detonated.

Or something. *shrug*

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and World Breaker

This makes as much sense as anything else we've been told the past few weeks.

[The Phantom Eyebrow]

This makes as much sense as anything else we've been told the past few weeks.

Perhaps so, perhaps so.  But, given his unsettling behaviour in another thread, I'm surprised that tiobe didn't wax layrically about BP's plan to fire debris into the line.

[daglob]

This makes as much sense as anything else we've been told the past few weeks.

Perhaps so, perhaps so.  But, given his unsettling behaviour in another thread, I'm surprised that tiobe didn't wax layrically about BP's plan to fire debris into the line.

They did that already. It didn't work.

[ow_tiobe_sb]

But, given his unsettling behaviour in another thread, I'm surprised that tiobe didn't wax layrically about BP's plan to fire debris into the line.

Actually, Eyebrow, I don't wax; instead, I ... ah, sod it, I won't go there ...

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and (Mercifully Restrained) World Breaker

[Glitch Girl]

Fixed.

Actually, Eyebrow, I don't wax; instead, I ... ah, sod it, I won't go Nair ...