RE: LawDog And The Pipeline Debacle: “The Plot Thickens!” Edition

A little over a week and a half ago, I wrote a post detailing my buddy LawDog’s thoughts on what might have caused the Nordstream pipeline explosions, and how some metric goat diddler keeps nerfing his website on purpose.

Well, on Tuesday, while I was busy celebrating my birthday with homemade fried chicken, Vice Grip Garage reruns, and sleeping in, reporters from the Swedish Newspaper Expressen were on a boat in the middle of the Baltic, deploying an undersea camera that ended up capturing the first photos of the damaged Nordstream pipelines released to the general public.

Now, I don’t shop at IKEA , and the only Volvo I’ve ever driven was a front-end loader, so I had to make use my web browser’s “Translate” function to be able to make heads or tails of the article, and more importantly, the photo captions. You, my dear readers, might have to do the same, if the only thing that comes to mind when you hear “Swedish” is “Fish”. That said, despite continuously seeing As and Js where they shouldn’t be after reading the article untranslated, I thank the staff at Expressen for their efforts, because the photos they managed to obtain are interesting.

The video at the end of the linked article shows what the underwater camera picked up in greater detail. Key details involve “a thin layer of sludge and bottom sediment” in the remnants of the pipes, divots in the seafloor near where the pipes blew apart, and–wait for it–the edges of the rupture expand outward from the center of the pipes.

Couple that with the fact that the ruptures happened at bends in the pipeline (where it doglegs around a small island), and the ruptures appear to have originated from inside the pipes.

GOLLY, I WONDER WHAT COULD HAVE CAUSED THE RUPTURE FROM INSIDE THE PIPELINE. I’M SURE THERE MUST BE SOME POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OUT THERE.

It’s almost as if somebody raised the possibility of this before!

I’ll be archiving a copy of this blog post on the Wayback Machine, just in case some goat fucker decides to nerf my blog, too. Link here.