God is punishing the ecosystem in the Gulf because those damn fishies is gay.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43768
^ Some great shots from NASA.
Russ Cargill: Anyone can pick something when they know what it is; It takes real leadership to pick something you’re clueless about.
President Schwarzenegger: Ok, I pick 3!
Russ Cargill: Try again.
President Schwarzenegger: 1!
Russ Cargill: Go higher.
President Schwarzenegger: 5?
Russ Cargill: Too high.
President Schwarzenegger: 3?
Russ Cargill: You already said 3.
President Schwarzenegger: 6?
Russ Cargill: There is no 6.
President Schwarzenegger: 2?
Russ Cargill: Double it.
President Schwarzenegger: 4!
Russ Cargill: As you wish, sir.
Kitty litter works really well.
Not really the point I was making. 
Just sayin. We should fill the gulf of Mexico with kitty litter.
FYI I have oil pads in stock for industrial cleanup. They work quite well.
(I do get your point though)
I thought I heard somebody (oil company guy) say in some interview pretty early on in this whole thing that there was no more oil coming out of the well. Obviously was lying or very misinformed.
Why cant they close the valve manually with those remote controlled subs?
I don’t believe there is a valve.
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why the hell are brits drilling oil over here? go back to making your damn tea
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they say the shutoff didnt work, why isnt this periodically tested and inspected to make sure it does work?
fucking idiots.
The short answer… It’s stuck.
Thx for the link.
If the valve is stuck then an acoustic controller probably wouldn’t work either.
That is true, the thing sinking and bending the shit out of the well, prolly didn’t help things very much with the valves. It is very possible that even if they had the more advanced shutoff valve that it would have been damaged and we would be in the same mess regardless.
I wonder where Al Gore is to complain about them lighting the oil on fire, you know releasing all those toxins and green house gases into the air and all…
He’s busy
“It takes roughly a couple months to 90 days to drill like this,” Beaudo said. “We would go down 5,000 feet of water, then drill directionally through about 13,000 feet of subsurface.” Weather conditions also could prolong the process, he said.
HOLY CRAP!
Yeah, basically if they can’t make one of these temp fixes to work by either getting the valve closed or putting a dome over it this spill is going to make Valdez look like a careless redneck dumping a few quarts in his storm sewer.
They should do some underwater blowin’ up
Yup…
I was at Trans-ocean’s Houston office last week. (They own the rig). I wasn’t working on anything to do with this, (I’m working on her sister ship) but I’ve heard a lot of what happened and it isn’t really BP’s fault.
BP just leased the rig from Trans-ocean… the workers are the ones who f’ed this all up for the most part.
There are several methods to stop a blow out, and they messed them all up. 
This is sad, but this is what happens when people get lazy.
All the guys who died, died in the room that contains the system I design. :eek:
MiSwaco did this rig though not us.
As far as cleanup, it sucks that oil spreads out to about 3mm in depth naturally… with a good boom you can get it to about 3 inches in depth… but you still can’t really suck it up.
A dome might work, but it will still be messy.
I can’t believe that someone doesn’t have a sub which some tools that would allow it to cap off the pipe. Hell it can’t all be mangled.
Just when I was starting to come around a little on offshore drilling…yep they fucked up.