How about a Live Dome Lowering thread? {v}

tih | 050710 | tih

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I can't moderate it, so hopefully some will (if they haven't already started one, or if it hasn't landed yet...)

[Paladin2]

Where’s the concrete?

[OldDeckHand]

Can’t Aquaman help here? What good is this guy?

[dead]

What?!

[traderrob6]

Inside the steel shell.

[the invisib1e hand]

Deepwater Horizon Response Site

[deport]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6995080.html

Robots position giant box over oil-spewing well

By HARRY R. WEBER Associated Press Writer © 2010 The Associated Press
May 7, 2010, 2:08PM

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Underwater robots positioned a giant 100-ton concrete-and-steel box over a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as workers prepared to drop the device to the seafloor in a first-of-its-kind attempt to stop oil gushing into the sea.

A spokesman for oil giant BP PLC, which is in charge of the cleanup, said the box was suspended over the main leak just after noon EDT Friday and was being moved into position.

Several undersea cameras attached to the robots were making sure it was properly aligned before it plunged all the way to the bottom.

“We are essentially taking a four-story building and lowering it 5,000 feet and setting it on the head of a pin,” Bill Salvin, the BP spokesman, told The Associated Press.

If the device works, it could be collecting as much as 85 percent of the oil spewing into the Gulf and funneling it up to a tanker by Sunday. It’s never been tried so far below the surface, where the water pressure is enough to crush a submarine.

Once the device in place later Friday, the robots will secure it over the main leak at the bottom, a process that will take hours.

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[ThomasThomas]

Would you like me to start one?

I need to take a shower first.

[the invisib1e hand]

wtf is that supposed to mean?

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Ain’t gonna work.

Is it?

[the invisib1e hand]

I wouldn’t buy here.

My hunch is...maybe...! Leaning toward, yes, for a little while at least.

Be nice if some Engineering-type Texan can chime in on pressure of the oil vs. weight of the big thingy.

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sorry, meant to quote this:

Is it?

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[mad_as_he$$]

On the “Big Bang Theory” this week they did a Stan Lee episode. Raj declared that Aquaman was the most useless comic book hero. Funny stuff.

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[the invisib1e hand]

wow, already down that far, eh?

[rottndog]

I don’t believe this dome is meant to contain the pressure...merely to redirect the flow into a pipe to the surface.

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yeah, yeah, of course. but will gravity be enough to keep it doing that?

That, friends and neighbors, is the question!

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graviy and a mile of water, that is.