"TIM RICHARDSON -> ALL"  wrote in
news:30875$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 DD>> Note to Hulet, Richardson, Croasmun and the rest of the "not
 TR> invented DD>here" bunch - pay particular attention to the last
 TR> paragraph.


 TR> Note to the slow-minded:


 DD>> BP has received at least 38,000 unconventional ideas from around
 TR> the world DD>to stop the oil leak, including the use of oil-eating
 TR> bacteria around the


 TR> No doubt ideas from all over poured in, ad infinitum!


 TR> I didn't call in any of mine, as I am not knowledgeable on drilling
 TR> for oil 5000 feet beneath the surface of the ocean. I have to wonder
 TR> how many ideas the 5000-feet-beneath-the-sea-oil-drilling experts like
 TR> Drum, Lewis, Otto, Chirnside, Klahn (and don't forget Wilson) phioned
 TR> in to them. I wonder how many of the above-mentioned's ideas were used
 TR> by BP to try to stop the leak.

Why'd you drag me into this?
You know damn well I never claimed to be an expert, or offered any
ideas.

I guess it's just instinctive for you.
Instinctive playground stupidity.

 DD>> Perhaps the most alarming idea to reach the oil company was a
 TR> nuclear DD>explosion over the wellhead, a method which has worked in
 TR> Russia. BP says DD>it has no plans to use a nuclear explosion as a
 TR> solution to the crisis.


 TR> *Russia* does a lot of things, not all of which are very sensible.

 TR> A nuclear blast is an uncontrolled thing. Once the nuke `goes off',
 TR> there's nothing that `controls' it. Whatever Russia did along these
 TR> lines to `cap' an undersea oil leak, could as easily have made the
 TR> thing far worse than it already was. (Gee! Lets not let *that*
 TR> possibility occur to us!)

It wasn't to cap off undersea leaks.
It was an attempt to stop a natural gas geyser.
And it didn't work.

 TR> The only reason we heard about Chernobyl was that it got so large it
 TR> affected a large part of the area, and was detected world-wide. The
 TR> Russians couldn't cover it up.

Like Kystym. (sp?)

 TR> Who knows what the old Soviet Union did, or the new Russia does that
 TR> is unsafe, that we never hear of?

Who knows what else American companies like Union Carbide do like
Bhopal?

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