Posted on 05/30/2010 10:54:47 PM PDT by mojito
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Bad analogy...you'd have more success at it than the bankers would (you might want your mudlogger's opinion on hedge funds and a roughneck to consult on derivatives, though, just to be sure ;-)!
It has been one month. The Ixtoc 1 took 10 months to shut in. Keep your frilly panties on and quit crapping in them people.
Excuses, excuses...it should have been shut down by the next tour! >grin<
If I recall correctly, during the initial events, the head of Ibama’s original gulf spill advisory committee was the nuke physicist that helped develop the hydrogen bomb.
They could end this at anytime if some one has the guts to make the call. The alternative is to allow the Gulf of Mexico to turn into a pool of oil.
I doubt they will try to do a normal capping of the well, the unknown damage below is to risky to expect it to hold if capped. For now they will just attempt to contain the existing leaking with plumbing to surface ships until a hurricane changes their minds.
They should detonate a small nuke on Capital Hill while they’re at it, preferably during a joint session.
What could possibly explain that?!
Ixtoc 1 well, 1979 Bay of Campeche (The southern bight of the Gulf of Mexico), offshore blowout and fire.
I already listened to it. I think the guy is mixing up the underwater plume with a second leak. ("second fissure" would be wrong in any case, as the first is not a "fissure").
I'm guessing that he's totally incompetent/dishonest.
Exactly what has been said to date... that it's from the use of dispersants on the original leak, not a second leak.
LOL
Damn! You geologist folks can get as riled up as us coon-ass wireline electronic techs ;^)
Ya sure, You dam betcha! (you should see us when we're really mad!)
There is no megaleak. This talking head banker is misunderstanding what's going on.
I figured it probably had something to do with the explosion but, like you, I wondered about the distance being so great. If the explosion caused a “rift” to open up that far away, one would have to consider that pretty seriously when looking at using a nuclear device - potentially 2 nukes btw - one for the rift and one for the drilling hole. I wish Fox would get a really good geologist on and discuss this.
The news people (such as they are) and an educated public together are the only hope for this situation - and big time public outcry. Maybe even a few politicians would get on board. The Obama government has its agenda and so does BP and I am afraid neither puts the welfare of the Gulf anywhere near the top of the list.
This seems to be what he’s referencing:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100518/full/465274a.html
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/earth_environment_ecology/oil_spill_science/
As can be seen, it’s not a second leak.
Hope the stories at your links are correct. Easier to deal with. Thanks for the info.
“...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...”
Yeah baby!
5 minutes after successful sealing, the libs would be screaming about Big Oil not paying enough taxes.
I'm with you. I swear to God, if one more know-it-all pops another "Nuke the Whales" story, I'm gonna crap myself. This is so incredibly stupid.
And what's this business about a second plume? Where's the data -- I said DATA! dammit! not rumors! -- that supports that wild-ass claim?
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