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Or i can just say a pipe busts a mile down and everyone knows what i'm talking about? then people like you and this other guy can be petty about semantics without actually stating anything at all

There were several reasons to call you a dumbarse. I just chose the most obvious one. "Water we were born and raised in?" That's a bit over the top.

The Deepwater Horizon disaster stemmed from many failures. A "busted pipe" was not one of them.

Drilling for oil is hard. Some of the smartest people in the world are involved in finding the oil and producing it safely. You demean the industry, which is a helluva an industry, when you make stupid comments such as you did.

There was a plan to contain the oil. There is on every well. There were redundant measures to keep the oil in the ground, and the operations they were involved in were not particularly difficult. A variety of human factors made those plans and those measures moot. (That's my view at least.) That had nothing to do with a "busted pipe."

Your larger point is that because no system is foolproof, and considering Murphy's law, there should have been a better plan to contain oil in the deep water when a well went out of control. That may or may not be true. But like the other commentator, I discounted your point as so much blather because of the obviously ignorant language that you used to describe the event.

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Posted by supatigah

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Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:00 am to Boagni Swamp

Frankly the oil spilled is not the environmental disaster some make it out to be. The use of the NalcoChampion Dispersant COREXIT made a serious problem far worse than it needed to be. LINK

The dispersant injected directly into the well flow and sprayed on the oil that made it to the surface caused the oil to coagulate and sink. This created massive sheets and layers of gooey oil under the surface of the water. The coagulated oil was not dense enough to sink to the bottom but also not light enough to rise so it just sat there accumulating. If the oil could have reached the surface and stayed there the sun could have helped break it down and naturally degrade it.

These gooey sheets of oil stayed below the surface and got caught up in currents and spread out across the gulf. Nalco was able to dodge legal ramifications when a Louisiana judge ruled they werent culpable in a summary judgement
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Posted by AU_251

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Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:17 am to Boagni Swamp

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But like the other commentator, I discounted your point as so much blather because of the obviously ignorant language that you used to describe the event.

Congrats man. You win the OT.

You went on and on with all that pretty language, and still relayed the same point. They messed up. Oil is a necessary evil at this point, but things like this can't happen. Don't have to have a degree in petroleum eng. to figure that one out, bub.