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[jocan2003]

Harper is an ass i know its my *prime minister* god spare us......

Alright into the problem... LAVA!!!! no yes? taker? More simple... what you do in your bath when you dont want water to get away? plug it god damn, make a giant solid block and drop it on the hole, end of story

[PTTG??]

How's Operation: KILL THE TOP going?

[Grakelin]

Harper is an ass i know its my *prime minister* god spare us......

Alright into the problem... LAVA!!!! no yes? taker? More simple... what you do in your bath when you dont want water to get away? plug it god damn, make a giant solid block and drop it on the hole, end of story

Nothing you are saying makes sense, were you drunk when you posted this?

Harper isn't an ass, by the way, he's just incredibly indifferent to everything.

"Here's this year's proposed budget: We're not renewing anything, and we're not adding anything new."

[smjjames]

How's Operation: KILL THE TOP going?

Hard to tell from the live video CNN has going.

[RAM]

How's Operation: KILL THE TOP going?

I think you will need to ask BP's PR people, but those cute graphics should have bought them a few days to come up with something else...

[sonerohi]

What if we just like... dug a hole for it to drain in maaan? Like.. save the earth with the power of love.

[Footkerchief]

Every time I hear about the Top Kill, all I can think of is that song Tip Drill.

[HideousBeing]

Am I in the minority in believing that BP has been trying pretty damn hard to cap the well (within reasonable monetary limits) for the past month? They don't exactly benefit from it leaking oil all month long. Obviously they fucked up by starting the leak and probably weren't prepared for it, but it sounds like they are trying their best possible current options to plug it aside from nuking the thing.

By the way: their dispersant sucks, but are there large enough quantities of any other safer dispersant that they could actually use that doesn't cost some absurd amount of money?

[HAMMERMILL]

Why does it seem like nobody responsible for this has any fuckin idea whatsoever to deal with it?

Did they think it was'nt possible and simply never come up with contingency plans for it?

[Jackrabbit]

Evidently not, which I think is (or should be) a massive concern. Whoever gave these idiots permission to drill this deep had no contingency plan to deal with it, which is the height of idiocy.

[ChairmanPoo]

After the whole subprime mortgages fiasco, do these new shows of corporate neglicence+ govt indiference surprise you?

[Jackrabbit]

Not particularly. Doesn't make them right. This was a colossal fuck-up that wouldn't have happened if they'd thought things through, come up with a contingency plan or just said "Don't drill that deep till we know how to deal with it in case a major disaster happens".

[Aqizzar]

You have been reading since the beginning of the thread, haven't you?  I can find the articles about oil rig managers writing in their own safety reports, which inspectors would then photocopy on trust; about Mineral Management officers were gettin' nasty with oil company lobbyists and liaisons; about how virtually no one in either the environmental regulation agencies or the upper management of the mining agencies they regulate spent more than ten years at a time in either field before switching back and forth by whim and Presidential appointment; or about how the basic equipment that failed in this leak cost less than the average manager's bonus salary, but was nixed.

I don't mean to be ruthlessly cynical, but you really have to assume the worst, that nothing works, the game is rigged, everyone responsible is (sometimes literally) in bed together, and hundred grand bribes and bonuses are the coin of the realm in the natural resources business.

[Jackrabbit]

You have been reading since the beginning of the thread, haven't you?

No, sorry, I cut out page 10. I figured I'd end up reiterating.

[Aqizzar]

And so you ended up reiterating anyway.  Reiterating quaint innocence and naivete anyway.  Do you want to turn this into the Atheists thread?

Nah really, there's been all kinds of developments I or others could post, and bashing on corporate malfeasance is always a good time.  But the specific explanations for why nobody planned for this to happen or knows how to fix it has been, at least partially, hashed out a few times.