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1. i heard that 1 gram of oil contaminates 100.000 to 1.000.000 liters of water if thats true do the math

2. great video

3. @myncknm “my point was that YOU were unaware of the difficulties encountered” repeating what I’ve said to you doesn’t make your arguement more valid or any more correct. Funny, how I know about the difficulties, the technology needed, and can fathom several options appropriate for solution but you’ve said none. I don’t know? Correction, I read a lot, paid attention in school (high and college), and am a learned individual. You are some moron who probably spends his days in his parents’ basement.

4. @theonlyacid No, my point was that YOU were unaware of the difficulties encountered, and that engineering problems tend to be harder than they seem. These guys were experts with a lifetime of experience in oil drilling. If they couldn’t fix it, you couldn’t fix it either. The fact that I was unaware of the technology needed is true, but irrelevant since I don’t claim to understand jobs I have no experience in. My only point was that the task was more complicated than it seemed.

5. @myncknm

   no, the point is that YOU are unaware of the technology needed to complete such a task (which we DO indeed have) ((ever hear of a hydrogen cutter?)) some people like to write lengthly solutions and yet know nothing about what they are talking about. 9 times out of ten, this instance included, they are simply regurgitating something someone else has said before. fucking tools.

6. lawn darts! LOL! I had those when I was a kid. One time I threw one straight up in the air and as it fell towards my stupid little head my dad jumped and tackled me to get me outta the way haha.

7. @myncknm
   It’s not about us doing a better job. It’s about them doing their jobs right.

8. Point is, if there really were that obvious of a solution, somebody would’ve thought of it. These guys have dedicated their entire careers to engineering problems like these; they know what they’re doing better than anyone else does. Unless, you really think that you’re a better engineer than all of BP’s employees combined. In that case you should go apply for a job! There’s really no shortage of work for some good engineering talent. ;)

9. @theonlyacid Your kitchen sink faucet looks barely more than half an inch wide. Imagine it’s stuck on. Let’s fashion a cover to plug that flow. Try your hand, say. Your hand is about the right size to fit snugly around that faucet and block the flow, right? Oh wait, but your hand isn’t strong enough to hold that much pressure back. Let’s try welding some metal to it instead. Except… turns out welding is pretty hard under a high-pressure flow of water. The water keeps blasting the solder away!

10. 2:17 did anyone else notice an inconsistancy with how the oil (pictured black) was spilling into the gulf? The hole looks like a fissure or hole barely more than 10 feet wide. You mean to tell me they couldnt make a dome shaped cover as THICK-as-HELL and made of metal to cover it? (6 feet per say, like our concrete bomb shelters made to withstand a NUCLEAR explosion) I think no one gave this issue more than a second of thought. Cause that was the FIRST THING that came to my mind.

11. @gsuitter I agree with you up to your last sentence of your response, which was very well worded. Like you said, Govt needs to set the stds and enforce them. There is a known flaw in the BOP that BP used and it surfaced in the Deep Horizon event. I think the onus is on BP to demonstrate that it will not happen again by utilising superior technology. I think in this case saying the BOP will usually work is not good enough.

12. @resiakd Gov needs to set safety standards where needed and enforce existing safety regulations to the fullest. They need to double check oil company recovery plans and only issue permits when all requirements are met. If flaws exist in our present drilling techniques or safety regulations address them. When accidents occur you make oil companies totally responsible. But, you can’t say BOP don’t work when they usually do

13. This is an excellent report!

14. Double You Tee Eff?

15. Thanks, Rach, for explaining simple concepts like prevention, regulation, etc., as if you were speaking to 3-yr-olds.

16. Who is more insane, the government for doing this or us for letting them?

17. it’s times like these that i wish i still had my lawn darts.

18. Government enforced monopolies…..

19. sounds like they are expecting a foreign oil shortage.

20. Ah! Corruption! What would America be without it?

21. thanks for telling us how an airbag works. didn’t have that 1 figured out yet. amazing.

22. it’s no surprise no lessons were learned from the bp oil thing. no one learned anything from the 08-09 recession. just look at the 2010 election.

23. Elite eugenic’s.

24. Egyptian*

25. because BP along with other corporate elites have lined the pockets of elected officials for the past 40 years It’s time to oust the lot of them and start again.. Go and watch some Egyption revolution videos if you want to know how.

26. OUR OWN F^cking OCEANS, PEOPLE!!! It’s time to get pissed!!!

27. @gsuitter so you think it is OK for the oil company to say ‘trust us, we will put something in place’ when it comes to preventing a blow out? Because that is what the Department of the Interior is saying by issuing the drill permits.