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2010-05-04 Science & Technology

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2010-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 There missing Howard Hughes' GLOMAR CHALLENGER, GLOMAR EXPLORER, ALVIN DSV, etc, about now.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-04 01:41|| 2010-05-04 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Betcha the baby bolsheviks will use the incident to further block offshore drilling.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-04 03:20|| 2010-05-04 03:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Wouldn't surprise me if the 'baby bolsheviks' had something to do with it.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2010-05-04 08:07|| 2010-05-04 08:07|| Front Page Top

#4 There is already a Venezuelan based Nork mini-sub conspiracy theory circulating.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-04 08:10|| 2010-05-04 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Here you go Besoeker etal....:

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1367.htm

Posted by Jairong Barnsmell6359 2010-05-04 08:18|| 2010-05-04 08:18|| Front Page Top

#6 The liberuls think they can escape all possible bad consequences from oil drilling by buying their oil from Nazis instead. It's ironic that people so obsessed with pretending their political opponents are Nazis can overlook this sort of thing, but they do, usually right before going on to large-scale oil consumption activities like flying their private plane around (too many to mention) or driving their Hummer (too many to mention) (although the Governator, who just reversed support for offshore oil drilling, gets honors *spit* in both cases).

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-04 10:44|| 2010-05-04 10:44|| Front Page Top

#7 The linked article in #5 was an "interesting" read until it spun off down the tangent that the only way to immediately stop the oil spill would be to explode a nuclear warhead.

:-/

Posted by ExtremeModerate 2010-05-04 11:47|| 2010-05-04 11:47|| Front Page Top

#8 the only way to immediately stop the oil spill would be to explode a nuclear warhead. I don't think that would stop the spill, but it would divert attention.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-04 12:09|| 2010-05-04 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 The NoKor Sub story is from a flaky source, but if there really is a media black out then it would kind of have to be.

Easiest part of the story to verify is South Korean ownership of the Deepwater Horizon. That part checks out.

Also there was the recent incident with the sinking of the Cheonan, where a NoKor sub is the leading suspect.

So, who knows?

Posted by Iblis 2010-05-04 15:47|| 2010-05-04 15:47|| Front Page Top

#10 If you want to put your tin foil hat on, consider that the druggies have a sizable submarine fleet that has been able to smuggle plenty of dope into the country. Ooogo has plenty of ties to druggies. Ooogo has an interest in seeing our domestic supply of oil and influence in the Caribbean diminished.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-04 16:08|| 2010-05-04 16:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Actually, that part DOESN'T check out. The rig was owned by Transocean, which is apparently based out of Switzerland these days.

The _HULL_ was built in South Korea by Hyundai, for Reading and Bates/Falcon, which ordered it built. R&B/Falcon was then taken over by Transocean, which finished equipping the rig.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-04 16:12|| 2010-05-04 16:12|| Front Page Top

#12 unfortunately machined part break
- look at your car the last time it broke down
- what i haven't heard is this might actually be a broken part...

Posted by linker 2010-05-04 21:05|| 2010-05-04 21:05|| Front Page Top

#13 At least two things had to simultaneously go wrong to create this disaster. The BOP had to fail (and they normally have to be tested weekly) at the same time something in the liner cementing process failed (cement cure, cement contamination, lost circulation?? don't know what.) Not just a broken part - though that could be half the answer.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-04 21:36|| 2010-05-04 21:36|| Front Page Top

#14 from what i hear a cementing process was just preformed before the explosion...
but i have not heard how this process( a cement fixture on the base) -(which was supposedly made by Halliburton..) could have cause an explosion on the upper part of the rig - -
not that i'm an oil rig expert but.. and none the less this does not have an effect on why the stop-gap mech did not activate - like i said before machines break down - especially in the pressure of 1 mile water with sat

Posted by linker 2010-05-04 21:52|| 2010-05-04 21:52|| Front Page Top

#15 not sat but salt .. sorry

Posted by linker 2010-05-04 21:53|| 2010-05-04 21:53|| Front Page Top

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