•••••• Video - BP's "Crack In The World" - from 1965 movie to real life nightmare ••••••

[breadandwine]

Just dig down to where the temperatures and pressures are enormous and tap UNLIMITED ENERGY! What could possibly go wrong?!

Doomsday, that's what.

As we've been hearing, if they can't stop BP's Gulf oil leak - and it's possible they won't be able to given the enormous pressures down there - the oil could poison the whole planet's oceans, killing off most of the plant life that supplies us with oxygen and asphyxiating the whole planet. This is the problem with digging so deep where the temperatures and pressures test the limits of our technology and where we are playing Russian roulette.


It's deja vu time....


Crack In The World - clip from the 1965 movie ---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAU12PiW4NA


Crack in the World: Trailer ---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjqQTTB9aAc


Don't say you weren't warned. It's too late now......

It was a nice planet while it lasted.....

[cliffordu]

1. Nuke it from space.

It's the only way to make sure.

[Javaman]

10. Fuckin' A! I'm with her!

Oh Bill Paxton, you scamp.

[cliffordu]

11. "....We're on an elevator to hell......"

[Ikonoklast]

12. "Somebody wake up Hicks."

[DearAbby]

33. GAME OVER, man!.................n/t

[Strelnikov_]

34. It would mostly work . . . mostly. n/t

[breadandwine]

35. They've been saying that a lot lately, haven't they?

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[SammyWinstonJack]

2. So what's the ETA for Dead Planet Earth?

:-(

[breadandwine]

4. No one knows how to fix the leak. They're flying blind.

If it isn't fixed we really are doomed.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. I don't think I could be more depressed right now.

:-(

[breadandwine]

29. Hey. If this planet goes, there's always Mars.

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. 2012

:crazy:

[breadandwine]

16. Yep. If only them dang DERMACRITS had let the oil industry alone, they'd have had the money

to prevent disasters like this! It's all the fault of the Dermacrits! Drill baby drill!



(The mantra you will soon hear from commie-hating REAL Americans everywhere, as Rush will tellya. )

[TransitJohn]

3. Clearly, we're being paid back for bombing the moon.

These damn celestial orbs are so vengeful.

[TacticalPeek]

5. Steve Simels reminds us it's coming out on DVD.

Prescient stuff, obviously, and more than a little depressing, even terrifying, given that there is currently chatter that theoretically sane people believe the Gulf oil gusher may have be to nuked before the crisis is over.

In any case, Crack in the World has never been on DVD, but a restored widescreen version is due July 27; you can pre-order it over here...

...if there's still time........!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/the_steve_simels_show/2010-05-drill-baby-drill

[breadandwine]

14. Thanks for that link, Tactical Peek. And the trailer link there is much better quality ---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtZ6Ixeqvs&feature=player_embedded#!

[MilesColtrane]

6. The math says that, given how much water there is in the ocean, and the present rate of leakage

we only have thousands of years left.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8259665&mesg_id=8263548

This is bad enough without the hyperbole.

[meow mix]

7. that math stops at 200,000 gallons per day? why?

the worst case scenario includes a total blowout which makes it 2.1 million gallons per day.

and why are you thinking that every drop has to be poisoned, id say even 1/3 would at least bring our civilization down.

[MilesColtrane]

9. "that math stops at 200,000 gallons per day? why?"

Because the poster did the calculations based on the estimated rate of oil flow.

Sure, I suppose a total blowout could happen at some point.

Even at 2.1 million gallons a day it would take years to poison a third of the ocean.

That gives years in which to drill new wells to relieve the pressure and years in which to fabricate, test, and deploy a containment/collection device.

[breadandwine]

13. Don't be ridiculous. The whole Gulf is getting poisoned right now.

And the pollution is already threatening to seep out of the Gulf.

The whole ecosystem in the Gulf is under assault because of this "minor" little oil industry boo-boo.

[MilesColtrane]

22. Who are you quoting as describing this as a minor accident?

Because I didn't say it.

My point is that there's a little bit of a difference between a major accident and the death of the planet and human civilization.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Yeah, stop using facts and numbers and logic and things.

This FEELS like it's going to doom all of earth's oceans. All three of them. I can tell from the auras and from having seen quite a few apocalypses in my day.

[breadandwine]

30. A total blowout not only could happen, it is a major threat at this point.

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[breadandwine]

17. Drilling in the middle of circulating ocean water is about as dumb as putting a nuclear reactor on

a moving vehicle and then painting a bull's eye on it for the enemy to use as a target, i.e., nuclear-powered warships. Insane.


And they are going to try to stop the leak on Thursday, using a technology that has never been tried at that depth.

Translation:

Last chance to get your shotgun and a year's supply of canned goods before civilization comes to an end.

[Rex]

19. Actually in another post, someone did the math and no the oceans

are not in danger of dying off...not for another 900 plus years (given the current rate of leakage). That is not to say we don't have a catastrophe on our hands...just not the End of the World as we know it.

[breadandwine]

20. And another report said the opposite. That it only takes a small amount of oil to poison

a lot of ocean water and they did the math and came out with a doomsday scenario.

[Rex]

24. Guess then we will just be in wait and see mode then.

I'm really don't know who to believe, but I'm going to at least hope for a best case scenario.

[breadandwine]

25. Here's an interesting read ---

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8275072

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

21. It's one of my favorite late night classic sci-fi flicks.

The good guy does all he can, including going over his boss's head, to stop the madness. Although they listen to him and try to stop the process, it's too late to prevent disaster on a global scale...

I may just pop it in tonight.

[breadandwine]

23. I once read a nuclear power executive admitting nuke power was a huge risk

but worth it since we have to take risks blah blah.


Look at it this way. If the world comes to an end, we can always start life on another planet. SOMEBODY'S got to take risks for money.

[breadandwine]

39. The Prisoner was also a great TV series.

Too bad it ended so quick.

[n.michigan]

26. Always wondered about that-turning Earth into a pin cushion

not a scientist.

Wouldn't you think someone in leadership would have stopped them from such grave actions against earth? where are those scientists anyway? oh yeah- they doomed science didn't they in favor of creationism. The new education.

[breadandwine]

27. Where did the scientists go?

A lot of them are working for the corporations.

[breadandwine]

28. Reminds me of the old '60s song, "Where have all the flowers gone" ---

--- might be due for a rewrite...

[underpants]

31. WOW! Mika Brzezinski looks great in a lab coat

[ThoughtCriminal]

32. The science was cheesy, but it's a pretty good action flick - nt

[breadandwine]

36. Now that the coffer dam failed, we might have to trot out that nuke option yet.

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[breadandwine]

37. Nuke, baby, nuke.

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[breadandwine]

38. Then it'll be, H-bomb, baby, H-bomb.

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