9000 days - well unpluggable - expert

racist!!!!

expert???? lololol who dat? 0bama's 1/2 brother from kenya??

You know that poster is a set up to get you to think that all of us "americans" are dumb. Don't fall right into their trap! Most of us are sad, trying to do what we can to make things right. Seriously.

I know this.

But the dumbs are very strong in your country.

Do you konow Doroth Stang?

Doroth Stang was a beautiful woman that was killed in my country to do beautiful things.

There is a lot of Doroths in your country, But a lot of Bushs too.

And the Bushs can fuck the intire world.

Avian, could you put the year equivalent in parenthesis in the thread title beside the 9000 days so people realize how long this will be because 24 years sounds much longer than 9000 days.

That included the esteemed poster on GLP. The apathy is mind blowing. WTF is wrong with you people ?????

amen

bastardo

~ Black Plague Resumed ~

h6n66

The Jurassic Virus, or other corney names for it...


Slow moving sea of muck, the vehicle to carry off the bug to all shores. As it passes, it's airbourne, winds and rains, tainting the fields, the villages, eco death, ILL humans, mammals, plants, all life... No water above or below shall be safe... The Seas and rivers flowed with blood color, carrying the death.
Famine, drought ( lack of safe water ) water will out value gold. Wars, and battles for the sake of food and water.

Grim

Indeed

165,000 gallons per 24 hours of NON- Expanded relief, to expand from 18,000 feet ( 1 gal = 100 gallons, at 1,000 feet of rise in expansion, is the formula, do the math )
Then there is the GAS that's at 135,000 PSI delivered at port pre- expansion. One thing is for certain, we will not be told the ratio in the atmosphere, we shall only experience the contact effect. Imagine continued exposure to Hydrogen Sulphate and Benzene alone. There are many other lethal compounds as well blending with our life supporting oxygen ( as our folage decreases ). Then figure the compounding ratio of blended gases over periods of 30, 60, 90, and 120 days and so on... Then figure in thermal values.

Grim

Indeed

Even if the flow could be plugged, and or reduced. It will not hold !
It is FUBAR, un-fixable !


Does anyone, anywhere on this planet believe there are safe from harms way ?

It does not take rocket sceince to figure this one out peoples.






Mad as Hell !

It's been more than a month now. And it is getting worse hour by hour.

One stand out thing about the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound is this :

Exxon lied from the very beginning to the never-ending end. It was all lies and a dragged out court case until many died.

Twenty years later (2009) and Suzuki says they are still finding oil in the animals and birds.

Offshore drilling is banned for a reason. This is the reason. And the heavy hand of the State bars public access (and pics) to oil soaked beaches. No public means a lot more wildlife that could be saved, will die. It is really really bad and going to get MUCH worse.

You Southerners... start Screaming. Scream louder. It really is time.

when will we demand BP's head served up on a platter?

I know, huh; getting this wetness in my pants.

If the oil pours out for 24 years, there probably won't be too many people still alive to see it. Benzene in the air could kill or sicken most everyone if it's 24 years of benzene in the air.

Last Edited by AwthrAwthr on 05/25/2010 06:57 PM

And they want to set off explosives?

Laughable.

This spill about to become the motherload...

Halliburton.

Cheney.

It's been too long. So much will die.

This 'Accident' will do wonder sfor the Muslims in Saudi Arabia and other islamic states - if the oil is that amount under the 'accident' site, then Saudi could of been told to GFY and the USA self sustained on its own drilling...

Oh look, now the house of Saud has nothing to worry about in respect to the USA becoming energy dependant.

Gee... I wonder who benefitted the most from this 'Accident'? lol.

Follow the money is my best advice. If it was an accident, it sure as hell helped out a whole heap of people.

And not US.

Where's Greenpeace when you need 'em? They may be AGB loonies, but i'd cheer them on if they stirred things up in the Gulf of Mexico in order to get people moving.

The Earth is bleeding and nobody gives a shit! If i had good health, a passport and some money for a flight, i'd be over there with a shovel to try to help.

I don't see any fat cat executives from BP doing anything. Come to think of it, i don't see Barry Soetoro doing shit either.
More to the point, i don't see millions of Americans on the beaches building sand barriers. Just a scattered few people in lab coats.
Who cares who is to blame? Do Americans not care about their country? The devastation will be felt for decades.

Get a shovel and DO SOMETHING! The damage being caused is dwarfing 9/11...

A shovel isn't going to help.

Mr Brazil - please don't send thank yous to America.......its BRITISH petro that caused this disaster in American and surrounding waters. Thank that bitch the queen!

Understandable impression...

WTF! BP execs patting themselves on the back for all their "innovation" and "learning" as they chart themselves forward through this unprecedented challenge. Challenge? Learning? Excuse me! Shouldn't all that needed "learning" have been learned already long before actually punching through this rock formation? Shouldn't the approach to deep sea drilling have been akin to NASA's space program when the goal was to put a man on the moon? First you try sub-orbital, then orbital, then orbit the moon without landing, all the while building up your knowledge and experience base including all the "what if's". Finally, and only after understanding the problem as completely as possible from all the different angles do you land men on that hostile surface. And even then nasty surprises like the launch pad fire of Apollo 1 and the almost marooned Apollo 13 may intrude. Shouldn't the Gulf have been alive in that first week with backups and emergency equipment at the ready with already tested emergency procedures A, B, C , D already in place? And if all this prior planning is just too much to expect from corpgov then there was an even simpler approach available as well. Since the gold standard of killing a blown out well appears to be drilling a relief well then it could easily have been mandated that all deep sea drilling be done in pairs with each well immediately available to kill the other should something unforeseen happen. Sure it would double the "cost" but that doubled cost is the "true" cost as we now see. There'd better be heads rolling on this. Of course instead we're more likely to get an oil tax increase or surcharge aimed at the general public. [link to www.breitbart.com] "Never let a crisis go to waste", they say. And just like the so-called highway "trust fund" you can bet that drilling safety will appear far down the list of beneficiaries.

So what are the "take-aways" from this travesty? First, the "can-do" spirit of the Church of American Technology - improvisation and pragmatic - is just another name for socialization of risk and privatization of profit and has no place on the deep ocean floor. Either treat it respectfully as NASA did the moon program or declare it off limits. Secondly, speaking of off limits, the industry actually does have a pretty good safety record in the easier, more accessible areas. Areas which have been declared off limits for political rather than safety reasons. Thirdly, CONgress seems all too readily cowed by industry and academia. Certainly they have no interest in simply representing their constituents who have repeatedly made their voices known on such things as the Wall Street bail out, auditing the Fed and health care "reform". All to no avail.

So now we're going to be treated to a long playing double ringed circus. Stage left will feature the "Who coulda knowde" clown act, and the "What's done is done, let's move on" crocodile tears act. Stage right will feature a Keystone Cops' riot of improvisational gee-whiz gimcracks and whirly-gigs, "top hats" and "junk shots". No doubt culminating in "Let's nuke it". When all you have is a hammer everything appears to be a nail. Why is it we have only a hammer? Oh, I know: "who coulda knode".

Meanwhile, 5000 feet under the Gulf, anytime you want to look, day or night (except when BP decides to interrupt the feed), there it sits in quiet contempt: thousands of barrels billowing out... mocking and giving the lie to everything that has been said and will be said up here on the surface.

Yeah, why aren't we in the streets protesting??????????

You have a point UNEARTH9. But understand that that the govt has long paid more attention to industry/academia than the people as a whole. Remember the people's opposition to the Wall Street bail out? To the people's wanting a proper audit of the Fed? To the health care "reforms"?

'knoath Av..it sure looks like we might be waiting fer that beer a while.
Teach your children Well, my friend.

Obviously, we need to look to them for courage, and hope, and inspiration.

Prayers best wishes, Godspeed.

Gee I really hope the gulf of mexico doesn't catch on fire... that would be some apocalypse stuff right there.

Very good point. Can anyone explain??

I swear the leak just doubled in size.

[link to www.cnn.com]

Just what we've suspected all along. UNFIXABLE!!!