chance of plugging the pipe hole being successful

[Sheepshank]

[marmar]

1. pipe plug=pipe dream

nt

[flamingdem]

2. plug = PR STUNT nt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. I think it is theatre --

They know it is not goimg to work, the Administration knows it is not going to work.

We need to start planning how to handle the next three months of oil flow. :(

[Sheepshank]

4. Slim to no chance this will work

The pressure of the oil gushing out will exceed the pitiful attempt to try and stuff crap into the pipe. It'll just blow out as fast as BP can try to shove it in.

[CanonRay]

5. Don't you think they'd have tried the most likely thing first?

Not third...

[Sheepshank]

7. Depends on the goal here

if the real goal was to stop the leak without extracting the precious oil...well then I'm sure a difference course of action may have been taken on the 1st and 2nd try lol

[guitar man]

12. no

I'm of the opinion that the earlier attempts were to save the well first and stop the leak second. They have money invested in that hole and did not want to lose the oil. Money is more precious to them than human life, wildlife and the entire environment....the very definition of evil. :mad:

[Upton]

6. Virtually nil

I hope I'm wrong, but I think this "attempt" is all for show anyway..

[Kitty Herder]

8. I'm being optimistic simply because I can't stand the alternative.

I keep getting my hopes up for each one of their attempts to stop this mess. And then my hopes get dashed. It may be foolish, but it alleviates the despair, if only temporarily. Sigh...

[lpbk2713]

9. BP is blowing smoke.

At this point I have as much confidence in what they as I did in Ari Fleischer or Dana Perino.
They are just saying what sounds good while they know they are just tinkering with the problem.

[flamingdem]

10. Check out the screen captures of the riser when something went wrong:

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/

scroll down to yesterdays post

[gateley]

11. Other -- the blog that flamingdem links to was fascinating to read. At one point

it was posited that maybe the floor was fracturing? If that's accurate, then this surely wouldn't work.

[flamingdem]

13. Yet they still sound confident about attempting the Top Kill? Who knows nt

[flamingdem]

15. CNN just announced they will kill the feed during Top Kill.. suspicious

because they might not do anything anyway so they are covering arse.

[Sheepshank]

17. I'm not normally a tin foil hatter

but surely BP doesn't want everyone to see the rest of the garbage they are tossing into our oceans as it goes from one pipe into another and back out onto the ocean floor?

[spinbaby]

14. A useless poll

Because none of us know squat about it.

[Sheepshank]

16. well looks like I'm not the only one...

...who lacks a little confidence in BP's big high falutin' plans to shove golf balls and shredded tires into the pipe hole to hold back a epic catastrophe.

[TransitJohn]

18. When are they going to try to plug the pipe hole?

Last I heard they were going for top kill.

[Codeine]

19. We could pull numbers out of our asses all day,

but they'd all be equally meaningless. I just hope the damned plan works.

[Spirochete]

20. "We'd have more luck

playing pick-up sticks with our butt cheeks..."

[Sheepshank]

21. at least watching that would be funny...funny as all hell!

I think watching this other stuff would just make me weep.

Of course the numbers are meaningless as a representation of the chances of the mechanics of this working out. It is clearly a representation of our confidence levels in BP's latest attempts