Why the hell hasn't this oil well been plugged yet?

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Oil is their business! If NPR and others can look at the same info and say it's more than they are reporting, I think the skilled staff they employ kinda knows the real numbers.
 
If they can't do anything because the pressure is to much it sounds like they need to drill another well to relieve the pressure so they can cap the leak. Isn't that what they're doing?
 
Looks like Obama ordered updates from BP...good thing he is taking the bull by the horns.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/oil-spill-deepwater-horizon-obama
 
try something real quick. get a concrete truck and start dropping concrete down the chute. at the same time, use a firehose and spray back up the chute. see how much concrete cures in the chute.
 
1) navy subs dont go a mile deep. only research subs do.

2) what would dropping explosives do except doestry what available pipe is still there? bigger hole = no success.

3) we do have "everything" on this.
 
they couldn't they tried repeatedly to kill it but couldn't. once shit ignited, it was done. they couldn't send down an ROV because the fucker was a huge torch.
 
yeah, but you'd have to sink thousands of feed on compressed materials on it all at once. small individual pieces would simply be pushed aside by the pressure and you'd have a mountain of garbage that looks like a volcanic caldera.
 
no thats just retarded... i meant heat it down there.. rig a research sub to arcweld itself, or maybe place a mechanism inside the sub(s) to heat and dump the metal directly on the site..
 
1) you could not hold something that big without it sinking to the sea floor WAY faster than your concrete would harden

and

2) high pressure crude would leach sideways through the sand and come out the edges, much like water line failures under a home's foundation. the thing that keeps the oil in the earth is THOUSANDS of feet of compressed material.
 
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