Senator Bill Nelson: “If BP doesn’t solve this today, the President should turn this over to the military”….
One reporter at a BP conference had asked “Have you thought about dropping a huge bomb in and collapsing the chamber…. like a bunker buster?”
Ummm… while the shaft is 24 inches at the sea bed, it narrows as it goes deeper… it’s 9 5/8ths inches at the bottom. There is no oxygen there to support an explosion. The hydrostatic pressure would crush any device not designed to withstand the external pressure…. I don’t know if that reporter got that idea from some dumbass at the Pentagon or the Huffington Post
Art as usual your succinct summation says it all.
After I wrote that, I read the quote from the military officer wanting to put the boot of the US Military on the neck of BP.
Let’s make a wager – which happens first – BP stops the leak or we kill Osama bin Ladin…?