[quote=Fusion_power;218863]This thread is better entertainment than I've had all year.
[quote]I've never, ever claimed that I was balanced - Cheesehead [/quote]I will print this quote out and make jumbo sized posters which I will mail to Ernst and George. We all need to keep in mind that we might just be unbalanced.[/quote]I wish to state that I am not now, and have never been, balanced.

Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.

Paul (with acknowledgments to Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás and Weldon Bruce Dayton, but not necessarily in that order.)

[quote=Fusion_power;218863]I've seen a lot of repartee but no real effort to define the problem. Everyone thinks that BP wants to stop the oil from flowing. This is NOT exactly correct. If it were that simple, the blow out preventer would have been designed with a cut off valve, end of story. The problem is that shutting off the flow at the top of the well will just cause it to rupture pipes below and force oil out along the well casing. So BP is trying desperately to figure out a way to cap the well and to pump the oil into some kind of storage. That is NOT easy to do when you are a mile deep in the ocean.

The only certain way they can stop the flow is to drill into the well from a side angle and pump enough concrete into it to plug it. This is being done but will take another 2 months to complete.[/quote]Because this belongs in the "BP Oil Spill ..." thread, I'm posting my reply there.

[QUOTE=xilman;218873]Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.[/QUOTE]

For those who haven't seen this, it's worth watching...

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo"]Rachel Maddow- The more spills change_ the more they stay the same[/URL]