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scullin May 4 2010, 00:18:20 UTC
I think the banner ad I got on the video might be in poor taste:

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latemodel May 4 2010, 06:04:07 UTC
The google ad on mine said, "Whole Foods Market. Let's save the planet one coupon at a time." I'm sure my organic rucola will offset the Deepwater Horizon nicely.

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gytterberg May 4 2010, 12:26:30 UTC
I got "Become a Chaplain from Home with an Online Masters!"

That's not ominous at all...

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lafinjack May 4 2010, 13:35:15 UTC
Particularly silly when you can do it for free.

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dumb move? dasht May 4 2010, 01:32:28 UTC
I read somewhere that the fellow what ran the company what put out drilling rig fires in Iraq post-invasion ....

was highly critical of this fire suppression operation. He observed that (a) by letting it burn instead, you spill less into the ocean until it's capped; (b) by pouring all that water on it, you accelerated the sinking of the platform and upped the difficulty of capping the well.

Don't know if he's right or wrong but it makes some sense to me.

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Re: dumb move? seminiferous May 4 2010, 02:32:18 UTC
Interesting, but I wonder if the giant burning platform makes it difficult or impossible to access the well anyway.

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Re: dumb move? dasht May 4 2010, 03:00:26 UTC
The suggestion in what I read is that when the platform went down, it wrecked the under-sea line of pipes between the sea-bed floor on up. That is, even while burning wildly, it was at the very least still holding the hose steady (so to speak). It made sense to me.

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Re: dumb move? ext_31821 May 5 2010, 07:51:59 UTC
I quite like the Russians solution.

http://trueslant.com/juliaioffe/2010/05/04/nuke-that-slick/

big (it's the only way to be sure)

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grim meathook ywwg May 4 2010, 02:37:52 UTC
I was really hoping the grim meathook future would take its time coming to the first world, but it looks like we're doing all we can to hasten its arrival.

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Re: grim meathook latemodel May 4 2010, 05:59:21 UTC
Naw, this is the grim meathook present. In the grim meathook future, that thing is on fire in space. Or possibly New York City.

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Re: grim meathook jwz May 4 2010, 08:45:03 UTC
No, the GMF isn't that sexy: it's when you wake up and realize that some multinational has fucked you economy and local environment so much that suddenly you live in Somalia and are trying to grow your own backyard Superfund Lemons.

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lafinjack May 4 2010, 13:36:41 UTC

spoonyfork May 4 2010, 04:38:04 UTC
All I could think of while watching those videos was how expensive that event must have been from all angles. Drill baby, drill.

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cattycritic May 4 2010, 23:42:26 UTC

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