Detonating nuclear bomb at BP oil spill site could end all life on EARTH

Lately, I've heard many talking heads in the news media suggesting that the only way to stop the BP oil leak might be to detonate a nuclear bomb under the leak site.

Before they consider that option, they might want to watch this video of Dr. Gregory Ryskin, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University. In the video, Dr. Ryskin explains how a prehistoric methane gas explosion could explain the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, a mysterious period in Earth history where 95% of all species went extinct.

Given that the amount of methane gas that is leaking from the BP spill site is at least equal to the amount of oil, it would lead one to believe that there is a huge underground pocket of methane gas buried there. Now, if Dr. Ryskin's theory is correct, not only would detonating a nuclear bomb near that underground methane pocket end the oil spill, it might end all life on Earth as well.

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[QuattroStig]

This is absurd and unrelated. You made a completely irrelevant argument by posting this video.

[jnburch]

did i miss something or was there nothing about either a nuke or bp in this entire vid

[oomblikkies]

Holy crap - what utter nonsense. This guy does not know much about the solubility of methane in water. Is is about 15ppm (15 grams in 1 million grams of water in pure water) and in the oceans where the salt concentration is high (thus a high salting out effect), the solubility is much less even. So, the oceans will be very poor reservoirs for methane.

[RAVENclanTV]

4/20 is HILTLERS birthday. HMMMMM

[smokslyboltx]

@METALMAN4Wii NO shit ! cant WAIT :DDD !

[METALMAN4Wii]

@smokslyboltx Only on December 21 2012 lol....!

[METALMAN4Wii]

Dumb Rednecks want to blow shit up and don't care what damage it does ? bombing an oil spill that big would be like microwaving a gas can full of gas only it would be about a hundred trillion times bigger.......! 

[gazakind]

yes sure!!

and i can inflame a match under water

[smokslyboltx]

im gona die ?

[skunkystar]

BULL . . . SHIT