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[ChairmanPoo]

I wonder how many suggestions were "DO A BARREL ROLL"

[Nikov]

Time it would take the U.S. to use spilled oil: 4 hours, 24 minutes

Ah, sweet perspective. How I missed you in this news story.

[RedWarrior0]

A few weeks ago they predicted 7 minutes of worldtime use.

[Zangi]

Time it would take the U.S. to use spilled oil: 4 hours, 24 minutes

Ah, sweet perspective. How I missed you in this news story.

I wonder how the Gulf will look when it gets to 12 hours.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Time it would take the U.S. to use spilled oil: 4 hours, 24 minutes

Ah, sweet perspective. How I missed you in this news story.

Time it would take you to drink how much I pee: 9 seconds.

Ah yes, perspective is all about making non sequitur comparisons. You're starting to sound like Rush Limbaugh there, who said that oil is natural and that the ocean would take care of it. Well, arsenic and lead are natural too, but I wouldn't want to... how do I put it as the oil is to the gulf... have them shit all over my cornflakes.

[Kogan Loloklam]

I wonder how many suggestions were "DO A BARREL ROLL"

They got all those "barrels of oil" spilled, well what to do with those barrels?
Why make a boom out of them, of course!



(I feel I must add this due to the level of hostility exhibited here recently. I am fully aware that the word "barrel of oil" does not mean that the oil really is stored in barrels. Thanks Captain Obvious, you can sit back down now.)

[smjjames]

On a slightly lighter note, CNN is saying that one of the relief well drills is within 15 feet of the main oil bore and will adjust to hit it when they get closer.

Lets see what happens then.....

[Kogan Loloklam]

On a slightly lighter note, CNN is saying that one of the relief well drills is within 15 feet of the main oil bore and will adjust to hit it when they get closer.

Lets see what happens then.....

Lighter meaning "Here comes another blunder!"

I'm betting that it goes wrong, costs a lot of money, and has little effect!

[The Architect]

Am I late in saying...

"There's a frog on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea!

"There's an Aqizzar on the frog on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea!

There's a hole! There's a hole! There's a hole in the bottom of the sea!"

[Nonsapient]

On a slightly lighter note, CNN is saying that one of the relief well drills is within 15 feet of the main oil bore and will adjust to hit it when they get closer.

Lets see what happens then.....

Lighter meaning "Here comes another blunder!"

I'm betting that it goes wrong, costs a lot of money, and has little effect!

Actually, if they're really that close,  this next bit is pretty much a no-brainer.

We use magnetic sensors (and a few inertial ones) to orient ourselves while under the ground.  That close, those mags are going to be pointing straight at the casing and drill pipe.

Unless they're in a shitty section of the formation (like an area where they have fractured the rock) this should be relatively easy, especially if they have the other relief well's magnetics tied in to triangulate.


With that said, being able to pronounce with surety that you are within 15 feet is a hard task.  You accumulate more error for every stand of pipe you drill, since you have to base every measurement upon previous measurements (take a directional heading every 32 feet, and describe an arc from the last point measured to the current point.  Thus 1° error per 1000' becomes by 12,000' a ±12° error.  directional drilling is all trigonometry, and some materials science)

I'd sure like to be involved in this.

[RAM]

Are the relief wells actually going to stop the leak, or just reduce the pressure and make stopping the leak easier?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

In theory, the relief wells will drain the deposit that Horizion was drilling. In reality, BP will screw this up like they screwed everything else up. Will most likely end in another rig destroyed.

[Euld]

Or, a gigantic chunk of the rock surrounding the oil deposit will break off, float to the surface, and completely empty the entire oil deposit into the ocean in about a week.

[Duke 2.0]

Or, a gigantic chunk of the rock surrounding the oil deposit will break off, float to the surface, and completely empty the entire oil deposit into the ocean in about a week.

They got some funky rocks down there.

[Josephus]

Or, a gigantic chunk of the rock surrounding the oil deposit will break off, float to the surface, and completely empty the entire oil deposit into the ocean in about a week.

They got some funky rocks down there.

It will be buoyed up to the surface via a combination of crude oil and the wrath of Poseidon.