I have not seen this information anywhere, and it just occurred to me today to compare something I saw several years ago to the well disaster in the Gulf.

Nobody can deny the pressure of the oil and gas coming out of the well is in the range of 20,000 to 50,000 psi. Due to the simple physics of the depth it must be a MINIMUM of about 20,000 psi.

In the late 1990's, I was at a defense department vendor meeting in Virginia and saw a device demonstrated that used water combined with a simple abrasive as a cutting device.

A stream of water 1mm or so in diameter was forced out of a super hard orifice at approximately 50,000 psi. I saw it cut 1" steel like it was butter. I also saw a video of the same technology adapted to a device to cut through 8 feet of concrete like it was not even there. In a few minutes it could cut a slab out of an aircraft runway so a fast repair could be made in situations where aircraft must land quickly.

Can you imagine the cutting power of an abrasive laden stream 8 inches in diameter at lets say 30,000psi or more?

The drill pipe in the Gulf well that extends down to the bottom of the well is as I understand approximately 8 inches in inside diameter with a 2" wall thickness. I realized today that with the pressure of the oil and gas coming out and with the sand and other abrasives that have to be carried along with it. That drill pipe is almost certainly already eroded away to practically nothing. It was never meant to withstand full flow at those pressures.

The reservoir of oil and gas at the other end of the pipe is estimated to be the size of Mt Everest. It WAS contained by thousands of feet of rock and the weight of the water in the Gulf. Those idiots drilled into something they were not prepared to deal with and it is going to kill all of us.

I think what they now know and are not telling is that it is not stoppable. The immense pressure is eating a hole in the floor of the ocean that will only get bigger and bigger. The pressure and the abrasive nature of the oil, gas, and rock particles that are coming up will eat a bigger and bigger hole until it literally does erupt like a volcano letting oil out and seawater into the heated area below and creating an explosion the likes of which has not been seen on this planet in hundreds of thousands of years.

There is no way anyone is going to survive this long term. The only game in town is going to be who can manage to be the last man standing.

Let us all hope that when the realization of this truth lands on the masses that they hunt down the greedy bastards who did it and make sure they die a long and torturous death.

Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.