oil rig explosion

At first glance, this article seems to be ill-informed. But, I figured someone who know more about the oil disaster details could offer more specific comments: http://www.rense.com/general91/oilor.htm I realize this is probably implausible, but I would like some specifics as to why. The...

http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam They are busy right now. Two robots either side of the pipe using cutting wheels. Lets hope they get it right. ETA. They have lowered what looks like some giant "crimping tool".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100513/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2052 The Soviets did it 5 times before. Just detonate a 10 killiton nuclear weapon at the leak..and watch it get buried in 100 million cubic yards of rock. that should stop the leak. why won't they use this method?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/us/29spill.html?hp "BP engineers struggled Friday to plug a gushing oil well a mile under the sea, but as of late in the day they had made little headway in stemming the flow. Will the BP disaster shape popular views of the president’s competency...

Like the Oil Disaster in the Gulf itself, the conspiracies surrounding it are really beginning to spill. In fact, they are beginning to flat out loose their feces. Some websites have posts suggesting this is an extinction event in the same class as the Permian mass extinction event. (Handle...

I've read that the cost of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is going to run into the tens or possibly hundreds of billions in economic damage. This raises the following questions: Is BP really going to pay for it all? Do they have the money to pay for it all? Does that include making whole...

All right, I guess this great big oil gush is ripe, but even so...this is a tad...

Hopefully leaving politics out of the equation, is there any solution to stopping the well, regardless of cost? For instance, can they use explosives or debris to plug the gusher? Let's say that the fortunes of BP or President Obama or the fuel consuming public were not at issue, what...

Uncle Rush is at the Oxycontin again and letting us all know his opinion on the recent debacle over the oil spill. Source So I suppose the thinking of ole' Rush on this one goes something like this. Environmentalists want to help the environment by preventing oil drilling and nuclear power...

Article Yikes! That video looks bad. I'm surprised that comparatively few were injured.