On 5/25/10 11:44 AM, thunder wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:27:39 -0400, gfretwell wrote:

On Tue, 25 May 2010 06:42:23 -0400, wrote:

I wonder of Opie had thought of asking NASA to look into the problem.

I doubt NASA has much to offer but the Navy and perhaps the CIA might
have some deep water capability they could bring to the party. What ever
happened to the Glomar Explorer? That had the heavy lift capacity to
deliver a dome that would not float up. It picked up a flooded Soviet
sub.

You sure that's a good idea? Transocean is operating that as a drilling
rig.


What has become apparent is our dependency on the private sector to
clean up its messes. That dependency is not working out for us. Perhaps
we need to develop federal government operational capabilities in the
fields of drilling, operating, and cleaning up after the inevitable
messes connected with oil drilling, and not a contracted out capability.

I find it interesting that so much of our economy that is almost
entirely run by the private sector simply does not work: health care,
resource exploitation (oil, gas, coal), maufacturing.


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