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

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i worry about LA. Fishermen are fucked. NPR also brought up the point that all the oil is gonna destroy the marshland which helps protects against hurricanes going too far inland.
 
concrete, steel, explosives, robotic submarines, and giant ships

Only resource we are missing is someone that will order the use of any combination of them that will get this fixed the fastest.
 
I agree. It's just bad and I'm smack dab in the middle of this shit. The BP training center is maybe a 10 minutes away from my house.


They wanted to try sealing it after everything had failed but unfortunately, with the rig acting as the earth's torch they really couldn't do shit. they knew it was going to sink so they couldn't really do much till after that happened.
 
I'd like to know who'll be paying to clean up this environmental catastrophe, when they eventually stop the leak.
 
it almost looks like a loop.. crazy.

whats that thing sitting next to it? some kind of robot?
 
Actually, that is what they're doing. The relief well will tag into the original well at some 18000 feet and they'll pump it with mud from there and seal it off. Basically aiming for a target the size of a car from 3.5 miles away.
 
explosions only work for putting out wells above ground where oxygen is a factor. an explosion undersea is just going to make things worse
 
I want to see a giant concrete boat the size of the new Dallas Cowboy stadium sunk on top of it.
 
In for us finding some huge prehistoric fish that swallows the mini sub whole when we try to cap the hole.
 
because it's not fucking easy to tackle a major engineering and logistical problem like this in a month, dumbass.
 
cliffs on your in-depth knowledge of plugging high-pressure wellheads a mile underwater?
 
Estimates based on satellite imagery and analysis of output from videos? Yep, that should be able to get the kind of accuracy you described.
 
intial blast to open the top of the hole then subsequent blasts around the opening to collapse the sea floor into the hole.
 
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