Posted on 04/20/2010 7:21:52 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
The fire itself was started as an emergency measure [probably started too late]. Could it have been simply pressure that caused the leak?
Triple blast from the Past:
Chris Matthews Fantasizes About Killing Rush Limbaugh (Blast from Past)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361655/posts
Kucinich’s ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Threat To O’Reilly: Stop Celebrating Fox News Success
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435424/posts
Blackburn (R-TN) Takes Swipe At Net Neutrality (the fairness doctrine for the Internet)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366892/posts
Sure, simple pressure could have caused a burst. But all we heard from the beginning was that there was an “explosion” which caused the rupture, and ensuing fire that caused the rig to collapse.
“Rasmussen By the Numbers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504583/posts
Trust on Issues
Gov’t Ethics/Corruption 35% (D) 33% (R)
It’s the only issue with a rat edge.
Thank you. I noticed backhoe offered some detail:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2128550/posts?page=2802#2802
[I’m at a bit of a disadvantage — no pics or TV. Loading one image is a hassle.]
IMR: “By all accounts from people on the rig, the BOP was working fine. It had been checked and rechecked. Tested and retested. The BOP got damaged. It happens.”
So there was an actual explosion that triggered this? Could an air pocket have fed initial oxygen? Air bubbles in the oil? Underwater welder?
A huge margin of undecideds or ‘both’ in corruption question. I’m not too worried about that. =]
TRICYCLE BOMB Wounds Six in SW Pakistan: Police
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504952/posts
[They will stop at NOTHING — tricyles, underwear, breast implants ...]
Times Square’s deadly SUV bomb fizzles out ... [I think the SUV did it.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505028/posts
Backhoe lists numerous explosions in April ... linked?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2128550/posts?page=2808#2808
Same backhoe post ... Obama’s ‘unity’ efforts [tea baggers, get in face, etc]
Sheriff outside Fort Leonard Wood prepares for possible Muslim extremist attacks on schools
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504843/posts
Obama to reveal details on US nuclear arsenal {0}
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504831/posts
backhoe: “On the other hand, birth certificate will remain top secret.”
Stars Gather to Hobknob with Celebrity in Chief (Hussein Laughs it Up, Louisiana Faces Disaster)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504879/posts
Michelle Obama’s fashion designer: Going out of business...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/us/politics/01maria.html?hp
Obama Uses Teleprompters At Commencement Address...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/01/obama_uses_teleprompters_at_commencement_address.html
Man Shoots Neighbor With Bow & Arrow Over Parking...
http://cbs3.com/local/Trenton.Man.Arrested.2.1666866.html
BRITISH AIRWAYS Caught Short: Passengers told ‘don’t drink’ as ALL airliner’s toilets fail...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270360/BA-caught-short-airliners-toilets-fail.html
Census ‘has computer problem’...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100501/D9FDNILO0.html
Military tells Congress to keep gay ban for now... Milbank: Obama’s fatal flinch...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/30/AR2010043001389_pf.html
Abortion Dem 32% GOP 47% ***
I love it, I love it, I can’t get enough of it!
At 30,000psi of pressure you don’t need an explosion. Crap just starts coming apart.
The gas ignited when it got to the surface and settled into the rig.
From all acounts here is the screw up.
They assumed the cement held and they opened the BOP with that assumption. The cement didn’t hold and a gas bubble shot up to the well.
Oil Rigs Just Don’t Explode - Al Qaeda? 9/11-II?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2505062/posts
Border Disorder [NYP]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505063/posts
South of the border, down Mexico way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes. After less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached 22,000.
Sounds reasonable. Your input will be helpful in a new thread. Ping coming ....
Justice Records: Adding Gun rights into the Kelo/Citizens United Mix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2499753/posts?page=6#6
Obama Says F-word At Correspondents’ Dinner, Posts It At YouTube
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505087/posts
His fawning media might have gotten tingles up their legs and laughed, but he overreached. The drive-by media is out of touch.
Pittsburgh Marathon Course Altered by Bomb Scare [Day after Times Square]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505121/posts
The bomb squad used a robot to disable the device. [Microwave oven with something inside it.]
Thank you Rush and Roy Spencer for making CCX Expose Possible
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2505139/posts
Pakistani Taliban Claim Credit for Failed NYC Times Square Car Bombing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505084/posts
The CCX scandal surfaced way back — a Canada Free Press report in 08. It was only now that Americans are ready to think seriously of carbon offsets as a scandal. The brilliance of Beck was his timing.
George Soros, Maurice Strong and company redefine the Middleclass (Must read)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091792/posts
Canada Free Press ^ | September 26, 2008 | Judi McLeod
[posted by maggief]
Correction, maggief mentioned CCX here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091792/posts?page=6#6
Referred to this link:
http://commitments.clintonglobalinitiative.org/projects.htm?mode=view&rid=43035
Mama’s boy, man’s man [”she leapt from the [abortion] table and fled”]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504211/posts
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