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BP Tries Again to Capture Oil With a Dome

Posted June 01, 2010 8:34 AM

From NYT > Science:

Unable for six weeks to plug the gushing oil well beneath the Gulf of Mexico, BP renewed an effort Monday to use a dome to funnel some of the leaking crude to a tanker on the surface. A similar attempt failed three weeks ago, but officials said they had resolved some of the technical problems that forced them to abort last time.

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Re: BP Tries Again to Capture Oil With a Dome

06/01/2010 10:52 AM

...I think they should try and plug the hole ...with some of BP's top management that ignored all the safety warnings!

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Re: BP Tries Again to Capture Oil With a Dome

06/01/2010 12:18 PM

Clearly the issue here is the shape of the "dome" or "funnel" that they're using. It's blindingly obvious to anyone that BP's only chance for success is to use a cleaved-open dodecahedron, externally coated with unconsecrated copper and placed on the sea floor with the intact facets aligned predominately to the nearest / strongest ley lines. And of course it should go without saying that the facets need to be flush inset with the appropriate appeasement runes made from bismuth.

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Re: BP Tries Again to Capture Oil With a Dome

06/02/2010 7:15 AM

Asked them to try this, but no response as yet.

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