Hot Water, Hot Earth 236
Calopteryx notes a New Scientist article on the discovery of "supercritical" water emerging from a vent in the Atlantic Ocean at 407 deg. C (765 deg. F). One of its discoverers actually said, "It's water, but not as we know it"; it's the hottest water ever found on earth. The cause seems to be a huge bubble of magma beneath the ocean floor, 3 km below the sea surface. Meanwhile Nymz shares a journal entry on a hot spot on land: a 2-acre patch in Ventura county, in California, that has heated up to 433 deg. C (812 deg. F). Here geologists blame buried hydrocarbons burning as they get access to air through cracks in the ground. That high temperature was measured a foot below the ground surface.
Start drillin'! (Score:5, Funny)
Burning hydrocarbons?! Sounds like a good place to put a combo drill/refinery/gas station!
Hot Water, Hot Earth (Score:3, Funny)
When will people learn?!?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Buy an electric car TODAY people! That petrol is causing the ocean to heat up... Wait, what? Magma? Really? Wasn't that around before we invented cars?
Hang on folks, I'll have to get back to you...
He got the quote wrong (Score:4, Funny)
"It's water JIM, but not as we know it". Yeash. If you're going to make pop culture references, at least get them right!
In other news, I vote we go to war against California. They are obviously attempting a scorched earth policy against the world's oil supply. Once we've secured the area, we can bring John Wayne [imdb.com] in to take care of the problem.
Seems like.... (Score:5, Funny)
The cause of Global Warming! (Score:1, Funny)
See! humans aren't at fault for causing Global Warming! The Earth itself isdoing it!
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:5, Funny)
Smokin' in Ventura County (Score:4, Funny)
It happens that I'm not far from Fillmore, so I went to see the spot. It was intensely hot, and the smoke emanated from a particular bush. I left a mashed up recording of Jeremy Irons playing on a loop. The recording says "You must lead my people out of captivity and into the promised land."
Re:Can we still blame pollution for this? (Score:5, Funny)
>Could this conceivably be used to power locomotivators (more commonly known as "iron horses") across large distances on metal rails? This could help solve that whole oil problem!
This could help solve that whale oil problem!
There. Fixed it for you.
So we can finally (Score:3, Funny)
This prooves it (Score:3, Funny)
global warming is a myth. hot water from magma is causing the earth to warm.
go back to your long hair and pot, you anti-american pro-global warming hoax hippies!
California hotspot (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, many Minnesotans already knew that... (and others learned it the hard way)
Re:Carbon sequestration (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, in "There will be blood" they were able to get oil from a well that was gushing out oil, on fire ABOVE ground, by using a cool battering ram thing with a steel drum that had a bunch of dynamite in it. Push it up to the geyser of fire, it explodes, I guess it either disperses all the oxygen or maybe just the high-temperature gasses, and voila, you have just a regular old oil spout, not flaming, ready to be tapped.
So
1. Push a bomb into the ground
2. Blow it up
3. ???
4. Drink a milkshake.
Re:2 acres? Let's get grilling! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hot Water, Hot Earth (Score:5, Funny)
It sounds like hot fire is already present, throw in "hot heart" and you've got yourself a hot captain planet!
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder how difficult/reliable it would be to harness those deep sea monsters.
Great burial site. (Score:3, Funny)
"The 812-degree temperature was measured Friday about a foot below the surface."
Buried AND cremated for the price of one.
That should even stop a troll.
hmmm toxic waste dump...
Re:But... (Score:2, Funny)
WTF?
That was like me saying "Hey, check out my haircut!" with you responding "Yea, my iPhone does that!"
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:When will people learn?!?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Buy a magma car!
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:5, Funny)
I can already hear the drums in the deep.
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:4, Funny)
Damn, that's a cool name, "Red Adair." With a name like that, you practically have to get into some kind of hero business.
Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)
WTF?
That was like me saying "Hey, check out my haircut!" with you responding "Yea, my iPhone does that!"
That's what SHE said.
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hot Earth?? (Score:4, Funny)
"Global warming" was to specific. They changed it to "Global Climate Change" in case things started to cool back off they could get more funding out of it.
Re:Supercritical water oxidation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:5, Funny)
There's this oil fire going on, so they call Red Adair up and ask him how much it will cost to put it out. Red, being the world-famous guy that he is, rattles off a number that's much too expensive, so they end up going with one of his cheaper competitors.
So, these guys show up, get briefed, and then proceed directly in their truck right to the heart of the fire. There they stop, and all the guys jump out and start stamping on the fire with their feet! They do this long enough, and what do you know, they put the fire out.
Of course, the oil guys are just completely awestruck, and ask the heard fire chief guy if they're off to celebrate another job well done. The head fire chief guy replies "Hell no. First thing we're going to do is fix the brakes on the truck."
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:5, Funny)
I brought a deep sea monster home from the bar last night, and I didn't notice any difficulty in obtaining it at all.
Re:Start drillin'! (Score:3, Funny)