Raw Video: Oil Containment Box Arrives at Spill

The barge carrying a massive containment box is in place over the site of a blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. A crane on a second boat will lower the 100-ton concrete-and-steel contraption to the seafloor later Thursday. (May 6)

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[AdamEtheredge]

Those dirty fucking hippies...WERE RIGHT.

[Yoetah]

"Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico

ONE DAY

before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water.

Goldman Sachs employee Fabrice Tourre... bragged to a girlfriend that the firm was taking a big short position on the Gulf.

One oil rig goes down and were going to be rolling in dough, Mr. Tourre wrote in one email. Suck it, fishies and birdies!"

[MrBigEnchilada]

we're screwing up nature

[AzNgiftedkid]

Too bad it failed.

[sailorseal]

the Nature and the planet will make us pay it soon !!!!

[SPACECADET2U]

Well that was a big ole fail................

[monkeyman1004]

It's so sad the place used to be beutiful

[RoadRunnerProduction]

@AdamEtheredge What about it?? lol

[korzon]

@copperpaint It seemed the problem they had is there are no natural gas fill stations and they couldnt refuel traveling base to base with the vehichles but the local vehichles are still natural gas.There are many other ways we dont even know of.They brag about technology they dont give it out unless there is money to be made thats the problem.

[korzon]

@copperpaint They have alternatives natural gas is way abundant and quite safe.I worked with it not to good on volume because a 18 by 64 inch tank only gives you 200 miles thats a big tank but some i worked on ran on both gas and natural gas.I was hoping maybe i will get my old job back because i was phased out after they found out cars can safely run off it that is when the government scaped the funding.I repowered old military vehichles with a cum b5.9 natural gas engine propane works too.

[AndrewDeLong]

@korzon

Well, a Nuke a mile down wouldn't ignite the surface oil at all. Water has a high capacity for absorbing energy, and at a fairly decent rate too. A small nuke would be just enough to fuse the pipe shut w/o massive damage. Perhaps a tidal wave, but honestly, a small price to pay in order to stop the oil flow. As for radiation, the water would also quickly absorb and disperse that with minimal environmental impact. Yes, a small Hiroshima sized nuke would work well.

[korzon]

@AndrewDeLong Never tested a nuke around all that oil if it did ignite it would spread so fast it couldnt be put out let alone got near to again to attempt tp plug it.Yeh i work with diesel fuel it takes it to be atomized but im sure a nuke does that np.also the sludge jells up/freeze and once it builds up enough in the general area it stays down because its to heavy to go above the sea level anymore then we cant get to it either. this sucks