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Originally posted by ~Lucidity
reply to post by HunkaHunka
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The clearance? Yes. Want me to post it?
I'm sort of stuck on latitudes and longitudes and I can't make heads or tails of it.
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
This was drilled in a military zone.... Not sure why it was militarized
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
... military zone?
Didn't some people early on say that the site they were drilling was already very, very deep and that it was used as a scientific drilling site?
Originally posted by In nothing we trust
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
This was drilled in a military zone.... Not sure why it was militarized
Originally posted by ~Lucidity
... military zone?
Didn't some people early on say that the site they were drilling was already very, very deep and that it was used as a scientific drilling site?
Interesting Stuff
Do they really know what they drilled into?
They probably do.
Six Places to Nuke for Multiplier Effects
Destabilize an oceanic shield volcano next to a methane clathrate deposit.
This one is subtle. A couple weeks ago Phil Bowermaster posted about the risks of methane clathrate. Essentially, when this stuff melts, it is 20 times worse than carbon dioxide when it comes to contributing to global warming, and can be found easily in half-kilometer-thick deposits on the ocean floor. There are undersea mountains with precarious peaks that have been slowly destabilizing over thousands of years, and with the right placement, a nuclear blast could start a catastrophic landslide. If the result is as massive as large historic landslides, it could displace more than 100 cubic kilometers of rock, creating a debris trail covering tens of square kilometers. The kinetic energy of the avalanche could melt 40+ cu km of methane clathrate, potentially kickstarting a global warming feedback effect, with all its nasty ramifications. Beneath the methane clathrate is even more methane in gas form.
Fictional expositions of the possible effects of severe global warming can be found in John Barnes’ Mother of Storms and Clive Cusser’s Fire Ice. For the first one, think of four storms like Giant Red Spots constantly raking the earth’s surface for years on end, and for the second, tsunamis followed by complete global climate change. This target is only rated 4th out of 6 because of a relatively low probability that global warming would actually be accelerated all that quickly. If it were successful, however, it might be better placed in 2nd place.
www.acceleratingfuture.com...