Poll: Global warming, 2012 and you.

[Olikunmissile]

Now before you get all that "End of the world is bollocks you're a retard use the search bar blah blah blah get your fucking head out of your ass" gayness all over me and my nice new t-shirt READ.

So, I've been doing a little bit of reading and watching into the ancient cultures that were so brilliant as to predict the end of the world without being able to see the end of their own and I've noticed rather a few of them centre around the idea of "the sun getting hotter (which is assumed to be global warming)" and sea levels rising. Well this lead me to start thinking of a possible way to stop or at least slow down the sea levels.

I figured that detonating massive bombs on the thickest part of the earth's crust underwater would create huge craters that would have the water fill them and thus drop the sea levels. However the idea of bombs could possibly fracture the earth. So I thought what about huge drills or something, creating holes all of the ocean bed for the water to fill and "hopefully" lower the sea levels.

SO I got chatting over a couple of drinks with some friends and told them about my idea, they called me crazy and said it would never work, but when I asked why it wouldn't, they couldn't give me a decent reason. Anyway the point of this thread is me asking you. Yes, you. What do you think of my idea, and are there any ideas floating around out there for practical ways to stop the sea levels rising or global warming or anything really. But none of that "turn off your lights" I'm talking practical here, no matter how crazy.

EDIT: Well forgive me for trying to have some fun in the off topic area lol, some people really are too uptight.

 

[Nepeccel]

Detonating massive bombs underwater creates massive tsunamis (I would only assume if we used a bomb big enough to blow chunks out of the sea bed) which could in theory kill quite a few people!

Also, all the water is coming from melting ice packs. They are huge, so holes the size of countries would have to be made in the Earth's crust so the water would no affect the water level. And then you would have to get rid of the rock from the hole you're digging, and with that you may as well just build a big wall around all the low countries!

In fact, it would be more economically viable to just build walls around countries that could flood, or flood gates!

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Detonating massive bombs underwater creates massive tsunamis (I would only assume if we used a bomb big enough to blow chunks out of the sea bed) which could in theory kill quite a few people!

Also, all the water is coming from melting ice packs. They are huge, so holes the size of countries would have to be made in the Earth's crust so the water would no affect the water level. And then you would have to get rid of the rock from the hole you're digging, and with that you may as well just build a big wall around all the low countries!

In fact, it would be more economically viable to just build walls around countries that could flood, or flood gates!

this thread is done. Thank you for saving everyone both time and internet hatred.

 

[JimmerDunda]

Ok first the theory of global warming is not the sun getting hotter but pollution and green house gases filling up the atmosphere causing the sun's rays to not escape the earth's atmosphere. Secondly you can take global warming out of your theory, more and more people are seeing that it is in fact a theory and nothing more.

Also why the hell would we detonate bombs in the earth's crust? This theory makes as much sense as me blowing up my own house to see if I could flood my neighborhood in the process.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

That's a solution much like taking the plug out of the tub for a few seconds while leaving the faucet running on full, when the drain is clogged. A little water might drain, but chances are you'll still get water on the floor. Oh, and you'll irreversibly damage ecosystems, not to mention the massive possibility of creating mega tsunamis. So...no.

 

[quiet_samurai]

It would never work.

Detonating massive bombs underwater creates massive tsunamis (I would only assume if we used a bomb big enough to blow chunks out of the sea bed) which could in theory kill quite a few people!

Also, all the water is coming from melting ice packs. They are huge, so holes the size of countries would have to be made in the Earth's crust so the water would no affect the water level. And then you would have to get rid of the rock from the hole you're digging, and with that you may as well just build a big wall around all the low countries!

In fact, it would be more economically viable to just build walls around countries that could flood, or flood gates!

This is why. Besides using nuclear weapons will also contaminate the area for a long time to come. Not only the area but all the earth you now displaced is radioactive and lethal so we couldn't use it for anything.

 

[0p3rati0n]

sounds like a good idea.............. But also illogical. Shock waves would probably cause a Tidal Wave (SHIT!) plus earthquakes if we hit in the wrong place. ETC, ETC, ETC. So no it's not a very good idea.

 

[teisjm]

The bomb part is prolly not smart, but i can se the idea of making "holes" in the sea to maek room for more water, and using the earth/rock from the holes to build "walls" around low countries.

The idea is good, but the execution is gonna be very hard if not impossible.

It woudl prolly be easier to make artificial lakes on the land, where the water could go, and use whatever rock that was removed to create them, to make "walls"
But that's prolly not big enough.

 

[Cargando]

[b/]Money[/b]. Also, the sea is only going to rising about four or five metres or so. An easier way to stop the sea levels rising would be to simply try your best to reduce your carbon footprint. It's not that hard really.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

No. Its just...No. Just no.

My plan: let nature regulate itself.

 

[Timotei]

Terible idea. It would result in earthquakes all around the world cause billions in damages.

As for climate change, until we develop terraforming technology that can destroy CFC particles and spread Ozone, there isn't much we can do.

 

[FLSH_BNG]

blowing craters in the sea bed wouldn't do anything because the rubble from the crater's interior would still be at the bottom of the ocean and all you get out of it is another flooded New Orleans...

A drill is too impractical, and Global Warming is a hoax that you're wasting your time with anyway...

 

[Marcus Dubious]

I have seen a fatal flaw in your argument.
To lower the ocean these holes would have to be very deep and very big, right.

If the sea fell into these big holes then there would be huge dips in the ocean surface and all the ships would fall into them.

You would then have to use hundreds of tugs to pull all the ships out adding to the greenhouse gases and undoing all the benefits.

 

[JanatUrlich]

Duuuude tsunamis!

Also if you blew massive chunks out of the earths surface, those chunks would have to land somewhere else in the ocean. Therefore water wouldn't actually be able to occupy the space where the chunks now were, so it would just be displaced.

 

[darkless]

I have seen a fatal flaw in your argument.
To lower the ocean these holes would have to be very deep and very big, right.

If the sea fell into these big holes then there would be huge dips in the ocean surface and all the ships would fall into them.

You would then have to use hundreds of tugs to pull all the ships out adding to the greenhouse gases and undoing all the benefits.

I do hope that was sarcasm you can never tell on the internet.

Besides the holes wouldn't work because they would be have to be so big the material blasted out of them would displace a near equal quantity of water thus negating the hole all together.

 

[Marcus Dubious]

I have seen a fatal flaw in your argument.
To lower the ocean these holes would have to be very deep and very big, right.

If the sea fell into these big holes then there would be huge dips in the ocean surface and all the ships would fall into them.

You would then have to use hundreds of tugs to pull all the ships out adding to the greenhouse gases and undoing all the benefits.

I do hope that was sarcasm you can never tell on the internet.

Besides the holes wouldn't work because they would be have to be so big the material blasted out of them would displace a near equal quantity of water thus negating the hole all together.

Please don?t mention displacement, my theory is having enough trouble with reality as it is.

I think that answers your supposition.