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How about a Live Dome Lowering thread? {v}
tih | 050710 | tih

Posted on 05/07/2010 12:55:44 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand



TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: dome; oilslick
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To: traderrob6

Fantastic!!! And a very appropriate message as well...

I hope the media doesn’t butcher up the news...I haven’t actually seen the news before I saw this posting...


81 posted on 05/07/2010 7:03:55 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: steve86

I agree, it is that way to ease fabrication...

Man, I would have loved to be on the team designing that thing...I bet some of it had to be done on the fly...

Looks like they had some places where they could have dedicated spots for the ROV’s to attach or push/pull on to position the cap precisely where it needed to go...

I bet it was a walk in the park, but those operators sitting on eggshells...hehehe


82 posted on 05/07/2010 7:15:08 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: steve86

Make sense. Thanks.


83 posted on 05/07/2010 7:52:31 PM PDT by piytar (Ammo is hard to find! Bought some lately? Please share where at www.ammo-finder.com)
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To: stevie_d_64

Confirmed!

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2010/05/first-good-news-from-gulf-spill.html


84 posted on 05/08/2010 6:08:44 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: piytar

Boxes are easier to build.


85 posted on 05/08/2010 8:56:56 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: traderrob6
From Yahoo:

Containment dome hovering above U.S. Gulf leak

86 posted on 05/08/2010 8:59:51 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Yahoo says they are closer...


87 posted on 05/08/2010 9:01:06 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yahoo, wayyyyyy behind the curve, as usual...


88 posted on 05/08/2010 9:52:08 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509466/posts


89 posted on 05/08/2010 9:59:55 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

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90 posted on 05/08/2010 10:10:59 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: the invisib1e hand; Lazamataz

We’re domed!


91 posted on 05/08/2010 10:13:34 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: stevie_d_64

If this idea works, Obama is going to have them build one to put over Joe Biden.


92 posted on 05/08/2010 10:17:37 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

This operation will be considered a walk in the park compared to that problem...;-)


93 posted on 05/08/2010 10:26:47 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: steve86

I’ll Bet you think it will be more difficult to raise a pyramid from the ocean floor than a cube

ATM pressure
As a scuba diver you quickly learn that at the surface you are at 0 ATM of pressure...at 33 feet below the surface at 66 feet 2 atm of pressure and on and on and on every 33 feet = an additional ATM of pressure.

ALSO when you go up higher and higher in the atmosphere, air gets thinner and less ATM pressure. That’s why NO fly for scuba divers after being under 2 or more atms of pressure, until all gas comes out of compression in muscles, blood, tissues etc.

So I’ll guess you are also a scuba diver and work in the oilfield well control and blowout containment as “I do”.

Or you are a Holiday Inn dweller...my bet is on the latter.


94 posted on 05/09/2010 6:54:59 AM PDT by antivenom (OBASTARD must become a "Half Term President" * Impeach the anti-Constitution Bastard!)
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To: antivenom
Why so defensive? Insecure?

You yourself just argued successfully as to why the wings do not exert downward pressure due to the weight of the water above. Pressure is the same in all directions, on the sea floor, 100,000 ft in the atmosphere, etc.

Did your SCUBA and oil field instructors omit the Fluid Dynamics lessons or are you just lacking common sense?

95 posted on 05/09/2010 9:29:44 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: DJtex
I just pray that “the Eagle has landed” and that we get some very good news over the weekend that the oil escaping is down to 1,000 bbl/day or less.


Below is an image of the flight path my son did yesterday over the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. You can see he departed from the airport in Mobile, and went over the outer eastern islands of Louisiana, proceeded to the site of the actual tower, circled it, and returned to the Mobile airport. I've merged a few photos to give you an idea of the aircraft, sensor location, and interior. Results of this imagery have been some of the finest detail, and resolution on this mess currently available. The results of the flight have been released to the various news media. Son's wife said she saw it was running on CNN & Headline News.

Check out a different video on the address I put into the image - or click here - to see what the capability of this imaging system is.

FLIR imagery via sensors is gyro stabilized.


96 posted on 05/09/2010 7:55:46 PM PDT by B-Cause ("Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.")
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To: Larry Lucido
We’re domed!

LOL! Bwahaha! OMG! Post-of-the-Century! Worthy, I say, of a Laz ping.

97 posted on 05/10/2010 8:47:12 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the three of the five is the two of the one.)
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To: steve86; piytar
I'm not one of the knowledgeable ones but it seems it would take way longer to fabricate a curved shape -- rather than just welding flat steel stock.

that's my hunch. even though it would be more stylish.

98 posted on 05/10/2010 8:49:46 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the three of the five is the two of the one.)
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