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what’s the point you’re trying to make here?

I can delete as fast as you can post.

How about having everyone in America shave their heads, expose the hair to growth hormone so it is alive, enfuse it all with oil-eating bacteria, send it down on dolphins to wrap around the blasting tragedy, to build up into a living reef of oil-bacteria-hair, as the inner colums of bacterio-phage hair dies, and the outer continues to grow..
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hi.. i use acad for normal drafting, and photoshop for color rendering, trained in old school hand drawing years ago, but learned software little by little over the last few years.
I am curious about SketchUp. Is it compatible with acad, I mean can you import drawings, dwg’s and pdf’s etc? I am considering teaching myself for 3-d purposes (and job…[Read more]

First of all, hydrates was not just an excuse. Second, stick drawings are great, except when you listen to one second of science, for which you simultaneously seem to have no respect, as well as an overwhelming faith.

My solution is the no-build solution, for oil drilling.
So stick your stick drawings where They belong. Your attitude has been one…[Read more]

Dr. Nemo reporting, Sir. Ready for my next assignment…

Mike,

I would have liked to see your entire post before you edited. I’ve been listening to NPR at work and have heard some of the kooky ideas some callers have presented. Oddly enough, BP was evidently already working on them at the time, lol.

http://nyctheblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/bp-gives-up-admits-theyve-run-clean-out.html

here’s BP’s number..

TraceOne – Take your attitude somewhere else. We’re here for ideas and solutions, not half-wit criticisms…

First of all the whole hydrates excuse is just that, an excuse from BP. If the water is not frozen at that depth, why is it freezing when combined with oil in the cap. It wouldn’t. The cap just didn’t work. The tube was not big…[Read more]

Paging Dr. Nemo. Please report to the Nautalis for underwater reassignment.

Nice design Tom. Good work getting after it and doing something. Did you send your sketch to BP? It kind of looks like ‘Top Hat’…or doesn’t it?

I’m going to re-tag this discussion as ‘BP Oil Spill Concepts’ and see if we can get some google hits, lol.

I’d like to see some more sketches from anyone else..

You might change your mind if you ever heard them speak. I did in Denver a little over a year ago before Jean Claude died and it was inspiring.

of course you have accounted for the formation of hydrates? the first dome just floated away. And like I said, BP has an open call for any and all ideas – don’t post here, post there! At least you cant be faulted for self-confidence and simplicity.

TraceOne – Christo probably didn’t like you either…

Here’s my concept sketch of an oil recovery device. It’s probably too late for this event, but might be an interesting idea to develop in the future… Also, what would happen if you just placed a dome over the hole? Would 5,000 feet of water pressure keep it in place? Would the pressure…[Read more]

Never did like Christo, except for the Gates, and now I understand why..

Great images Johnson.

Too bad Jean-Claude passed away a few months ago.

the beauty of a snuff film.

Thank you for your response Mr. Halpern. Yours is the voice of reason and experience. All very true…

On a side note, there is an opportunity here to create an exhibit of images from this beautiful disaster. Art may also provide solutions to the problem. We need to call in Christo and Jeanne-Claude to do a massive installation (see images at…[Read more]

I don’t think that is the case at all that we need oil on the beaches. Hell, people are raising gazillions on global warming based on nothing more than people announcing data. Non-profits are self mobilizing and they are just not out there this time around. I don’t get it. If nothing else, it is a fund raising opportunity which makes me really not get it.

I don’t get it either.

Maybe there hasn’t been enough pictures of oil-covered animals on TV. My thought has been that it will take the ‘slick’ arriving on New England beaches to fuel real public outcry.

Really, though how are you going to use volunteers anyway? We’ve already seen cases in which local volunteers got sick.

I don’t know about…[Read more]