Comments on: Possible Seepage

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:52:27 +0000

In reply to Badtux. I think it was a Stan Freberg record that had a bit about the "bubble machine" running amok. Ah, yes, YouTube strikes again.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:14:56 +0000

Uhm, Lawrence Welk is *not* before my time. Alas. I still remember asking my mother, I was maybe 5 years old, “What are all those bubbles?!” That was back in the days when the Lawrence Welk Show was broadcast in black and white. Moving to color was somewhat traumatic, because the early NTSC colorbursts were none-too-accurate…

Somehow, like you, I doubt that the Lawrence Welk orchestra is down there blowing and sawing and squeezing away… no tap dancers or polkas, nosiree :).

– Badtux the Ancient Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:57:17 +0000

It is hard to figure out what is going on with most of the information coming from unidentified sources in both camps and the Admiral’s letters the only thing actually put out by an official source.

The seep is supposedly about two miles from the well, which is close enough in sandstone, and there are gas bubbles showing up around the cap itself.

The gas bubbles are being treated just like the initial oil sightings, i.e. they have to be captured and analyzed before anyone will render an opinion as to what they are. In the absence of a clown or the Lawrence Welk orchestra [before your time] I think it would be fair to say that they are methane bubbles from the Well from Hell.

That pressure is too damn low and it would be safer to just suck up the oil until the relief well is ready.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:51:56 +0000

It looks like Admiral Allen has been overridden by BP going over his head to the Corporate Hopey Changey Tool in Chief, because they’re still not sucking on those hoses…

– Badtux the “Who elected BP as President?!” Penguin