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[HAMMERMILL]

Yep. You can even drink heavy water without ill effect, so long as no more then 50% of your body mass is composed of the stuff. Not that it matters in this case, because a nuclear bomb isn't going to make heavy water and nuclear detonations underwater, by definition, do not create any fall out. Not that nuking the well head is a good idea anyways.

I dunno if this is the worst man-made disaster. The Soviets and their diverting of rivers to the Aral Sea made the body of water vanish and turned a huge portion of land into useless desert. Not to mention Chernobyl. The Russians are the same people that brought up the nuclear bomb solution to the well, I might add.

[Nikov]

But the Russians have also closed four somewhat similar leaks in the same manner.

[Phmcw]

This is unrelated but the Russian had a lot of fun wih ecological disasters : nuclear combustible blowing up
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_Disaster), leaking nuclears submarines rusting in the barentz sea (emphasis on the "s"), the aral sea of course, and way too much other for me to list them all here.

[HAMMERMILL]

Not to mention the failed "Virgin Lands" project that turned central asia into a dustbowl.

[C4lv1n]

I'm not saying that the nuke isn't going to cause any problems, but they will be a lot less than continually trying, and failing. It's the lesser of two evils.

[zchris13]

@bombing the well:  It will probably be rather difficult to work at the detonation site for a while, so if it fails, what do we do?


Edit in reply to Josephus: Radiation might mess up the detonators if they are electric.

[Josephus]

Bomb it again.

[cowofdoom78963]

run electricity through the water to denature the oils.

[alway]

Oh shi... http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/06/03/even-more-bad-news-about-the-oil-spill-slick-to-travel-up-the-atlantic-coast.html
"Using computer models of ocean currents, scientists at the National Center for Atspheric Research, part of the Commerce Department, conclude that once the oil in the uppermost ocean has been picked up by the Gulf of Mexico's energetic Loop Current, it is likely to reach Florida's Atlantic coast within weeks. It can then spread north with the Gulf Stream as far as Cape Hatteras, N.C., and then turn east into the open ocean."

I have a trip planned to Cape Hatteras this summer. 

Also, Aw... I lost on the XKCD thing... I guess I better return one of the internets I won...

[Footkerchief]

I have a trip planned to Cape Hatteras this summer. 

Shit, me too.  Frisco, you better not be all oily when I get there...

[olemars]

Good thing I chose to go the mediterranean this summer.

[sonerohi]

Good thing I'll be skiing.

[PTTG??]

Good thing I'll be lighting the Atlantic Ocean on fire.

[Cthulhu]

Good thing I hate going on vacation.

[warhammer651]

I have a trip planned to Cape Hatteras this summer. 

Shit, me too.  Frisco, you better not be all oily when I get there...

I live on the eastern seaboard.