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AP: BP Plug/Top Kill Has Failed
AP | 5-29-10

Posted on 05/29/2010 1:13:23 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

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To: kabar

Me too! I would be very interested in seeing that!


261 posted on 05/29/2010 8:06:09 PM PDT by Danae (Don't like the Constitution, try living in a country with out one.)
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To: Bushbacker1

That there is a video to download and save to a disk. Thats gonna come in mighty handy later I think. Thanks for posting it!


262 posted on 05/29/2010 8:11:33 PM PDT by Danae (Don't like the Constitution, try living in a country with out one.)
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To: Lmo56

It would have had an impact for sure.

It’s sickening. Sickening.


263 posted on 05/29/2010 8:18:17 PM PDT by Danae (Don't like the Constitution, try living in a country with out one.)
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To: dennisw
When this well could have crushed shut by a tactical nuke 5000ft down below the ocean floor

To crush it shut (rock moves and pinches off pipe), we would have to drill down next to the existing pipe to stick the nuke in the proper spot. Might work, might not, but any kind of explosion near the surface will just fracture rock and pipe and make the leak worse.

264 posted on 05/29/2010 8:19:15 PM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: ebshumidors

Prevailing winds in the Gulf of Mexico during summer (April/May through September) are easterly, which means that this giant oil slick probably is heading toward Texas, not Alabama yet. But just one decent tropical storm into Louisiana and that changes drastically.


265 posted on 05/29/2010 8:22:27 PM PDT by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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To: NVDave
Because that’s what happens in some geological formations when you pop off a nuke, it creates a large underground void and it caves in. Look at the floor of the Nevada test site. See all those conical craters on the surface? Those aren’t from the nuke itself. Those are from the subsequent cave-in, the pressure of the earth above the void created by the nuke, caving in.

A situation could be created that would be much worse than the one we have now? That's what you're saying? Dems will go for it - look at their track record - ObamaCare - Immigration - financial markets - they take something with problems and turn it into a full fledged nightmare.

266 posted on 05/29/2010 8:24:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: Danae

See my post #218


267 posted on 05/29/2010 8:26:26 PM PDT by kabar
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To: My Favorite Headache

Top-kill has failed...what a perfect metaphor for the entire 0bama FAILED Experiment.


268 posted on 05/29/2010 8:27:26 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: razbinn

Thunderbirds are go!

Thunderbird One to Base...


269 posted on 05/29/2010 8:34:31 PM PDT by coaltrain
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To: Walmartian

BINGO! I sent that tip to BP’s tip line just this morning—crimp the riser and inject a junk shot of appropriately sized shredded rubber and straw, followed up with bentonite and ultimately cement. By restricting debris flow with a mechanical obstruction such as this, the debris would clog up the riser and keep all of it from just flowing out of the holes.

Guess I should have sent it sooner, but I thought they’d have figured that out by now.


270 posted on 05/29/2010 8:35:46 PM PDT by bnev
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To: My Favorite Headache

Send in Jack Shepard to plug the hole.


271 posted on 05/29/2010 8:39:16 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: screaminsunshine

Yes, he was the proximate cause, but I doubt he made the decision in a vacuum. He either had intense pressure or direct instructions.


272 posted on 05/29/2010 8:40:40 PM PDT by savedbygrace (Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord)
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To: NVDave
Looking for comments on this (perhaps ignorant) idea

'Top Kill' Fails to Plug Leak; BP Readies Next Approach - Post #22
273 posted on 05/29/2010 8:45:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: davetex

Looks like there might be a decrease in flow from the well. Anyone else seeing this?


274 posted on 05/29/2010 8:47:02 PM PDT by davetex (All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yep, this ain’t good for the people, oil companies or Hussein. It’s got mess written all over it.

I wonder how this blame game will play out? I’m sure they will demonize the evil oil company...and they do share huge amount if not all the blame. But Hussein said he was in charge since day 1 and tried to take credit for fixing the problem. So if he wants credit when he thought it was fixed he surely gets the blame for when it fails.


275 posted on 05/29/2010 9:03:53 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: P-Marlowe

I *think* the new dome/cap is going to do something like that. They have it with an open end and then they will bring it into ships on the surface until they can get the relief drill created sometime in August.


276 posted on 05/29/2010 9:05:32 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: AndrewB
Won’t it stop on its own eventually if the pressure equalizes as the oil flows out?

Yes, but considering it's down THOUSANDS of feet underwater (33 feet = 1 atmosphere pressure) it will probably gush for an incalculable amount of time and seep oil until Judgment Day.

277 posted on 05/29/2010 9:28:35 PM PDT by mrreaganaut (In practice, the 'social gospel' always violates the commandments against stealing and coveting.)
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To: xzins
That's why God invented guy wires. Wonder what He had against "gal wires"?

They tend to get crossed.

278 posted on 05/29/2010 9:35:33 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Wolfstar
We may never know for certain, but I will always wonder if this was due to sabotage. Simply because it could have been an accident does not mean it definitely was an accident. Just sayin..

LOL!!! Of course! Greenpeace did it, with the CIA's help, under orders from Obama himself!

Hey, if the screaming Left could force the press to beat up Bush with these kind of allegations for eight years, we can try it, too...

279 posted on 05/29/2010 9:39:07 PM PDT by mrreaganaut (In practice, the 'social gospel' always violates the commandments against stealing and coveting.)
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To: for-q-clinton

Obama has about as much impact on what happens in the Gulf, as a fart in a windstorm.


280 posted on 05/29/2010 9:44:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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