Posted on 05/29/2010 1:13:23 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
AP news break via ABC News Radio that the top kill plug has failed and has not worked. Link to follow...
Would I do it? I’d consider it, after exhausting other options. I’d have a bunch of people examine the possibility in parallel with other options, getting to the point where we’d need treaty variances and reporting back. It would keep a couple of government scientists at LALN or LLNL busy for a couple of weeks.
But I’m not running the show. There’s this guy, named “Obama,” who had *zero* executive experience before taking this job, who is treating the office of POTUS as on-the-job training, with a bunch of idiot ivy-league academics for advisers around him, who, according to a survey by Forbes Magazine, has the lowest proportion of staff with private sector experience going back to LBJ’s administration, who is in charge. He’s a lawyer, and not a very good one at that, and is surrounded by people who are grifters and cronies from Chicago. If you’re going to get something out of him, you need to give something first. That’s the way Chicago politics works.
You’re going to advocate using a nuke to this crowd, not to me.
And no, I don’t really care about the people of gulf. After Katrina, I’ll wager a lot fewer people in the US care about the people of Louisiana than did before that sorry spectacle. Lots of people will cry crocodile tears and blubber that “they care!,” but then go out and drive their gas-hog SUV. Actions speak louder than words - they claim they care, but their actions say that they care about cheap oil more. I’m old enough to not care what people think about me to be brutally honest.
By the by, it was a Democrat Senator from Louisiana that screwed Nevada with the Yucca Mountain repository. Nevadans have never forgotten that legislation, nor the name of the guy who did it: Bennett Johnston.
I’d wager that most people of the gulf area don’t give a rat’s ass that suspending drilling leases costs jobs across the rural west[*], or that pulling grazing leases destroys family ranches of 100+ years, or that the stupid way that firefighting has turned into a national industry across the west is cratering hunting opportunities, habitat, communities, etc. I’m just all out of sympathy for other regions of the US after they’ve given us westerners a good screwing in all our orifices. You yourself betray this attitude with your use of the phrase “lifeless desert like Nevada.”
[*]Word is, the Obama administration is going to push to get yet more land throughout the west designated as “wilderness” in the next couple of months before Congress gets out for summer recess. More oil, gas, uranium, etc put off-limits - which is what is forcing the oil companies out into deeper and deeper water in the first place.
No, and they won't because "Donald Vidrine, listed on Transocean's documents as BP's "company man" on April 20" is alive.
There is the guy to blame. Vidrine.
“WHAT? This can’t be. Obama said he was on top of the situation and has been since the very first second this whole CATASTROPHIC event began.
This is his Chernobyl.
We are in good hands!!!! What could go wrong.
PAGING BAGHDAD BOB PAGING BAGHDAD BOB - PLEASE PICK UP THE COURTESY PHONE”
Um, sorry but first 11 or 12 days of spill, Obama’s men on the scene were too busy downloading porn and Obama was too busy doing vacations, playing basketball, etc.
I’m sure he was under orders/pressure, so you need to look farther up the ladder, probably.
No, he was an idiot. This is his fault.
This is the largest oil spill in the history of our planet.
I was hoping I wasn't.
It’s not even close.
Republicans need to start hammering Obama on this spill now and get the narrative nailed down. By the time the elections come around the taint from his colossal failure will attach itself like floating gobs of oil onto every socialist dem vampire out there.
DEMOCRATS + BP = GULF OIL DISASTER
Over time this will morph into simply...
DEMOCRATS = GULF OIL DISASTER
It’s sad that it’s gonna take a environmental/economic tragedy like this to bring down the Kenyan. But, if you think of all the human suffering that will be avoided by Obama being lame-ducked two years in and hopefully defeated and humiliated in his re-election bid... No I cant’ go there. It’s exactly the kind of cold-blooded calculus the left makes everyday. I’d rather the spill never happened.
It’s too bad him and his criminal gang of cronies couldn’t suffer the full impact of the spill themselves without all those innocent people also feeling the burden.
I would think they could drop 5000 feet of 16 ft diameter storm pipes and link them together from the floor to the surface and then just suck the oil out of the top.
They could probably have them in place in a week.
Thank you kabar, very informative, much more going on under the surface than I even realized.
Re: Joe - like silverlings said....no one is home.
>I’m sure Obama will fly down there tonight in a superhero suit to stuff it full of his magical basketballs....<
Don’t bet on it .... he is on vacation now .. he can’t be bothered with anything like a national crisis, worst oil spill in history ...
get your priorities straight, his backstroke needs work!
“Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
That’s racist!
If we go down this road, the nuke guys are very likely not the gating opinion here - the geologists studying the strata on top of the oil deposit will be the guys who have a far bigger say in the use of any nuke. The nuke guys can, given a little time and a bunch of money, make a device that meets the parameters. We know how to do that [relatively] easily. We’ve made them in the past, we can make them now. It’s just engineering. The science is done.
The geologists have to be “pretty darn sure” that the strata on top of this oil/gas deposit aren’t going to fracture after a nuke goes off on top of it to give a go-ahead. Then they have to give opinions on the possibility of nuke products leaking to the surface, etc. That’s brand-new science. No one has popped off a big bang like this on top of an oil deposit with that much pressure on top of it. This would be one huge science experiment for the geology community.
The chamber that forms as a result of underground nuke shots that I mentioned before is shown in that film very briefly at about 3:27 to 3:31 as I view it. The resulting crater you can see at about 3:40 to 3:41 or so. The dozer at the end of the film is filling this crater in.
i got the live feed on right now and looks they are doing some work .. what exactly i have no idea.
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