What if we shot a wad of osmium into the gusher?

[lonestarnot]

It's heavier than water, but how does it react to cold temperatures? Sounds like ok Melting Point: 3045.0 °C - 3318.15 °K
Boiling Point: 5027.0 °C - 5300.15 °K

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. That's what she said nt

[lonestarnot]

2. LOL.

:evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

3. Facts about osmium

http://www.facts-about.org.uk/science-element-osmium.htm

[ericinne]

4. Or corn slurry

How about corn slurry? The starch in it will clog up the best pipes.

Isn't that what they were looking at doing? Clogging it up? When corn slurry gets cold it turns to a thick gel like substance.

I saw the thing for hair donations... maybe they could create a giant HAIR CLOG and stop the flow. :shrug:

[lonestarnot]

5. Hairballs sure stop up my cat.

But don't know about corn slurry. How well does it stick together in water?

[amborin]

6. well,

don't know..

but this article is rather intersting:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19068

[lonestarnot]

7. I've already read that pile. Thanks though.

[rpannier]

8. Had to read your OP twice

I thought it said

...shot a wad of Osmond into the gusher

I was gonna say, "The Osmonds shot their wad in the 70's"

[lonestarnot]

9. Well their plan B is to shoot shit in the hole, so why not the heaviest element in the periodic

table, albeit expensive, but fuck the expense. The most dense element, liquify it and shoot in in there. Could work if it didn't sink the boat.

[rpannier]

10. Thos republikkans and their science

Four years ago they were suggesting we could handle the global warming crisis by exploding a nuclear warhead in the arctic
The plan was to release all that ice which would cause the world to cool off

Never mind the radiation because the area is uninhabited
And we all know that radiation doesn't travel with the winds -- I guess that's what they were thinking

[lonestarnot]

11. Still no opinion on the element.

:shrug:

[rpannier]

15. I'm sorry.

I'm not big on the idea.
I'm not sure it would do the trick

As heavy as it is, it may or may not plug the hole.
Even if it did, there is the possible negative impact from pressure build up elsewhere
It may not hold anyway.

The Dome idea seems to be a bust

[entanglement]

12. What about unobtainium?

;)

Anyhow, I suspect Osmium is highly reactive and would form an oxide with water. Osmium's oxides might have totally different properties.

[lonestarnot]

13. All the chemists are sleeping, but I know that platinum does not oxidize.

[entanglement]

14. True, but platinum is a noble metal (like gold) and doesn't react. Osmium, as far as I know, isn't a

noble metal.

Disclaimer: IANAC

[lonestarnot]

16. So mix them.

[petronius]

17. Wouldn't the gusher shoot it back out? Even if there was a clean opening

at the bottom of the pipe, there would still be a need for a way to clamp the plug in place. Or do you mean just dropping a huge pile of super-heavy stuff over the whole area? In which case there would be the issue of getting enough of the heavy stuff and making it land in the right place...

[lonestarnot]

24. That is my idea. Enough of the shit to cover the top of a volcano.

:evilgrin:

[Brother Buzz]

18. It may be counterintuitive but I'd pump Olean® down into that well

It should mix well with oil but and just may unstick that valve and allow it to be shut.

[wtmusic]

19. Can we cut to the chase here?

[lonestarnot]

25. LOL!

:rofl: The old bushitler remedy for all.

[AnArmyVeteran]

20. If the well used pipes from my house, they'd be clogged by now...

[Oregone]

21. I think we should instead just try and shoot arsenic it there

Put enough in and we wont have to watch the devastation caused by the oil. Problem solved. Out of sight, out of mind.

[fishbulb703]

22. Heavy crude is nearly impossible to bind to, it is very stable. And,

even if we did, wouldn't we just have a shitload of crude+whatever sludge on the bottom of the ocean?

[provis99]

23. heh, heh...you said shoot your wad into the gusher...

[lonestarnot]

26. No beevis. A wad.