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Barack Obama sends nuclear experts to tackle BP's Gulf of Mexico oil leak
telegraph.co.uk ^ | MAY 14, 2010 | James Quinn

Posted on 05/15/2010 7:13:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The US has sent a team of nuclear physicists to help BP plug the "catastrophic" flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking Deepwater Horizon well, as the Obama administration becomes frustrated with the oil giant's inability to control the situation.

The five-man team – which includes a man who helped develop the first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s – is the brainchild of Steven Chu, President Obama's Energy Secretary.

He has charged the men with finding solutions to stop the flow of oil.

President Obama yesterday promised a "relentless" effort to resolve the problem as he criticised the "cozy relationship" BP and other oil companies have with US regulators in Washington.

He also denounced the attempts by executives from BP, Transocean and Haliburtion to blame each other during this week's congressional hearings into the rig disaster. "I will not tolerate more finger pointing or irresponsibility." Mr Obama said.

The five scientists visited BP's main crisis centre in Houston earlier this week, along with Mr Chu, and are to continue to work with the company's scientists and external advisers to reach an answer.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hayward said the five-hour meeting involved a "very deep dive" into the situation at hand, with "lots of nuclear physicists and all sorts of people coming up with some quite good ideas actually."

Pressed further about the meeting, he said they had "come up with one good idea" but declined to elaborate.

The five include 82-year-old Richard Garwin, who designed the first hydrogen bomb, and Tom Hunter, head of the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs.

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KEYWORDS: chu; nukeit; oilwell; stevenchu
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The US has sent a team of nuclear physicists to help BP plug the "catastrophic" flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking Deepwater Horizon well

How f---ing stupid can you get!

What expertise do nuclear physicists have in deep-water oil wells!

61 posted on 05/15/2010 8:31:35 PM PDT by tophat9000 (It ain't about Black... It ain't about White...It's about a Red...Trying to take our rights!)
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To: txhurl

OK, how did you do it? It took some bodacious HTML to pull that one off.


62 posted on 05/15/2010 8:33:33 PM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: gcraig

“Another thing... I thought all this oil was supposed to be from “fossil fuels”? LOL there is no way all this oil came from dinosaurs.”

None of it came from dinosaurs like t-rex, it came from planktonic flora and fauna that thrived on the vast amounts of carbon and oxygen available to them at the time. The molecular structures found in fossil fuels indicates that the carbon and oxygen had to have go through a biological to form. The metabolic processes are quite well understood, and still observable in every living organism today..... coal formed in a similar way, with different geological conditions resulting in it being coal rather than oil.


63 posted on 05/15/2010 8:35:59 PM PDT by AussieJoe
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To: jimbo123

Must tell us which are his own eh?


64 posted on 05/15/2010 8:40:32 PM PDT by Lera
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To: mountn man

“A gynecologist had become fed up with malpractice insurance and HMO

....

“I gave you an extra 50% because
you did it all through the muffler, which I’ve never seen done in my
entire career”.

ROFL!.... good one, except that I would have gone with a proctologist rather than gynecologist.


65 posted on 05/15/2010 8:41:04 PM PDT by AussieJoe
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To: swatbuznik

Yeah, let’s use a nuke on it! It’ll turn the ocean floor bottom into glass and seal off! Yeah, yeah, yeah! That’s it!

And what about the tsunami and the nuclear fallout?


66 posted on 05/15/2010 8:42:04 PM PDT by CommonJudge (Captions on, for the hearing impaired, haha)
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To: mountn man
A gynecologist had become fed up with malpractice insurance and HMO paperwork, and was burned out.

Hey sending a gynecologist would make more sense... he could design a giant tampon

You know this was a joke... but...if in fact you could come up with a material that would swell and absorb oil but not water and could design a something like a giant tampon???

67 posted on 05/15/2010 8:45:50 PM PDT by tophat9000 (It ain't about Black... It ain't about White...It's about a Red...Trying to take our rights!)
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To: jimbo123

You can’t get much more evil than that!!!


68 posted on 05/15/2010 8:47:40 PM PDT by CyberAnt
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To: CyberAnt

69 posted on 05/15/2010 8:57:03 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Nuclear scientists to an oils spill? What the heck is that about? Isn’t that somewhat akin to sending a bank manager to rebuild the engine in my truck? Hello... Mr. Obama - What are you smoking?


70 posted on 05/15/2010 9:29:48 PM PDT by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: Kirkwood
Nothing like having Chu send his pals some work. At least obama didn’t ask Maya Angelou to round up a bunch of poets for the job.

Nah, Maya and her gal pals will be used as some sort of advisory committee to provide us with viable alternatives to deep sea drilling.

Just you watch.

71 posted on 05/15/2010 9:35:40 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: AussieJoe

Or - an alternate theory:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n1/origin-of-oil


72 posted on 05/15/2010 9:37:49 PM PDT by TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What about sending the global warming scientists? Aren’t they the smartest guys on the planet?


73 posted on 05/15/2010 9:39:07 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
great we will move from an oil spill problem to dealing with radioactive tidal wave.
74 posted on 05/15/2010 9:45:11 PM PDT by seastay
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To: jimbo123

"... eh, last year, I commissioned a study of this kind of scenario by the BLAND Corporation; - and did not deem it to be a 'practical' solution for reasons, which at this moment, must be all too obvious.".

( Doctor Strangelove, one of the scientists on Chu's five man team. )

75 posted on 05/15/2010 9:46:31 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Remember the “Russian report” several weeks ago that said that a north Korean mini sub attacked the rig and Obama would have to nuke the sea bed?

http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blackout-over-north-korean-torpedoing-of-gulf-of-mexico-oil-rig/

Weird.


76 posted on 05/15/2010 10:10:08 PM PDT by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

With all the experience these guys have with the engineering and geology involved in deep sea drilling Obama might be better served by sending psychics.


77 posted on 05/15/2010 11:08:42 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Flip Both Houses)
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To: Mike Darancette
If they're anything like the rest of Obama’s experts ( think finance ) then Northern Canada is in for quite a shock.
78 posted on 05/15/2010 11:15:08 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Right. That is just what we need.

I can hear little bammy now.

(LEFT) "Uhh, Let me be perfectly clear. (RIGHT) We can no longer afford, uhh, (LEFT)to pursue a course of energy policy, uhh, (RIGHT) that requires the emergency use, uhh,(LEFT) of nuclear weapons (RIGHT) to stop such a crisis."

The eco-terrorists would absolutely have a field day with it.

79 posted on 05/16/2010 12:43:38 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TheBattman

“Or - an alternate theory:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n1/origin-of-oil";

That’s not a theory, that’s a collection of absolute rubbish derived from the completely baseless belief in a supernatural god (not just the linked page but the whole site). Maybe I missed the joke, but if you’re seriously putting that forward as science with a straight face then I can only suggest that you put your myths and fairytales aside and pick up a real science book.


80 posted on 05/16/2010 10:56:38 AM PDT by AussieJoe
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