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Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine
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[quote:Krispy71:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzIzNDI2NjczX0M3NDJGNUNB] [quote:BHD] OK, a few of us on chat were talking about the 'issue' in Antarctica. We've all seen the articles on the drilling by the Ruskies in to Lake Vostok. The issue is relating to Aco's thread on Antarctica, and a possible stargate or something, but that isnt what I'm going to point out here. Most articles say that the Ruskies have been drilling for over thirty years. That's a long time. They also say that they stopped back in 1998, only 100 or so meters from the lakes surface, due to environmental concerns. Ahah...When has that ever been an issue that the Ruskies were concerned with? Any how, they have been pouring kerosine in to the hole for decades to stop the freezing process, so they dont have to start over again. This has caught the attention of the World, and scientists are not happy about it, so efforts have been made to correct this. Look at this picture of the Vostok drilling operation. Does it look like a 12000 foot drilling operation? [IMG]http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz161/justintimberlake9/Wostok-Station.jpg[/IMG] - then check out a deep water oil rig. Remembering that the average drilling pipe is about 12 feet long. To drill 12000 feet would require 1000+ pieces of pipe to get down that far. Do you see an area where 1000 pieces of pipe would be stored? do you see a rig capable of handing such a large quantity of pipe? Nope. Also, to fill up the hole with kerosine, basing calculations on a 8 inch drill head, hell, even a 6 inch drill head, would require a hell of a lot of kero to fill up a 12000 foot hole. Now that they have had to remove the kero in order to continue on (supposedly) where is the storage tanks for some 6000ltrs of kero? (maybe my calcs are wrong, even any large body of kero) So no storage of kero, or drilling pipes. So how do they drill that deep down in to ice without these, using a relatively tiny rig? They use a laser. The laser melts as it goes, but the water refreezes pretty quickly, so you need an anti freeze. You cant pour kero any more, so what do you use? Mega salt. Plenty of water to mix with it. So you pump down the massively saline water in to the hole as the laser punches through. The fresh water rises to the surface of the salin solution, as does the old kerosine. The nature of the saline solution still allows the laser to pass through it and melt the ice below. Slowly at that length. Remembering that they had already drilled a long ways down. So maybe that's where all that salt was going? I doubt Vostok is the only drilling op going on down there. Have another look at Vostok base. Look like an oil platform drilling operation (not for oil, but same scale I mean) or does it look like a high powered laser could be mounted to one of the two drill rigs? Maybe they even converge at a point? One in, one out? Keen to hear any other thoughts on this. [/quote] Great catch !!!! I will keep this in mind ! I think you are right. Tnx BHD :hf: [/quote]
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