If the “Blind Shear Ram” was the last line of defense against a blowout, why wouldn’t you arrange the system so that the ram was deployed by mechanical pressure, and the hydraulic lines kept it from deploying? A dead man’s switch, as it were. Wouldn’t that have been a bit more of a fail-safe solution?
Wait, no, that’s not my question. My question is where the heck did the MMS hide the rest of those mountains of blow? There’s got to be some Disco Yucca Mountain somewhere, right? That’s my question! Can we get Nic Cage on the case here? National Treasure: Book Of I’m Going To Party For Weeks And Weeks, is what I’m saying.
June 21, 2010 at 9:42 am
I’m with you, bra. I mean, it’s our blow, amirite, paid for with taxpayer’s money?
Comes to that…wouldn’t all illicit drugs seized by law enforcement technically be our drugs, since we pay for all the salaries, equipment, etc. for law enforcement?
At last, my long personal nightmare of weed drought is over!!!
June 21, 2010 at 10:22 am
“The big rock candy mountain…”
June 21, 2010 at 12:54 pm
“Wouldn’t that have been a bit more of a fail-safe solution?”
Yeah but, If it fail-safed unneccessarily the well would be trashed and $$ and time wasted!
Silly
June 21, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Every well is sacred, every well is great. If a well gets wasted, god is quite irate.
June 21, 2010 at 12:56 pm
George W. Bush was still President, so my guess is, all that blow ended up in the Yucca Mountain that’s his nose.
June 23, 2010 at 1:42 am
It would cost to maintain the pressure to keep it open. Somebody would have to be fired in order to recover that cost. Don’t you care about the unemployed, you bastard?
June 25, 2010 at 1:58 pm
I’d heard that the problem wasn’t a failure of hydraulics, but the lack of a secondary failure point, so that if the first failure point occurred at a weld juncture, where the metal of the pipe was thicker, the secondary could do the job that the primary was insufficiently strong enough to complete.
Wow, am I a geek or what?