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    Quote Originally Posted by Laserman532 View Post
    why does this not surprise me

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...-95175304.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by mixedgas View Post
    What amazes me is they refuse to publish the tech data, so no outsiders can really help them.
    Given how political the engineering has already gotten, I can sort of see reasons for sitting on data sets that are almost certainly both incomplete and inconsistent (No surprise there to anyone who has ever done extreme environment measurements, they are nosy).

    Politicos like certainty, and they almost never understand p values, error bars, or even simple standard deviations, you release data in the state it is likely in, and some fool will scream coverup to score points.

    A lot of that tech data will also belong to third parties (Cameron, Haliburton, Transocean among others), and BP will (reality) also be lining up some heavy legal action to try to recover some of the billions this thing will end up costing from the above, so releasing incomplete and error prone data now may well have a sufficiently large opportunity cost that it is not worth doing (On the part of any of the parties to the prospective legal fun and games).

    All that said, I would be VERY interested in the specifics of the design of both the BOP and the well head casing, I can just see reasons why releasing them could be difficult to organise.

    Regards, Dan.

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    All that said, I would be VERY interested in the specifics of the design of both the BOP and the well head casing, I can just see reasons why releasing them could be difficult to organise.

    Regards, Dan.[/QUOTE]

    At this point, the damage is starting to far outweigh the potential liability.
    This is now a national, and international, emergency. Integrity has to be re-established.

    I suspect they know the only thing restraining that flow is the kinked and broken pipe.

    This looks pretty bad at this point.

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    Just wait till the hurricanes start ...

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    Every time I drive by a BP it upsets me to see people still patronizing this recklessly negligent corporation.

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    The Netherlands is sending three pairs of rigid sweeping arms which can be attached to ships and collect the oil. Depending on the weather conditions, the booms can clean up up to 350 cubic metres of oil an hour.

    http://www.abc26.com/news/local/wgno...,6588394.story

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    interesting read:

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    Apparently a real BP ad I just received in a email..
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    Cool

    Reddit debunked that as a hoax.

    Everyone has been submitting new BP logos in the wake of this monster spill. My personal favorite is this one:



    But it's no more real than the other one, even if it is appropriate.

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