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To: semi_infinite who wrote (368689)6/14/2010 1:15:00 PM
From: DMaA10 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793843
 
I was reading you as a serious person until this sentence:

Obama otoh, has very bright people running the show



To: semi_infinite who wrote (368689)6/14/2010 1:21:43 PM
From: TimF6 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793843
 
It's funny to see you try to defend the notion that failsafe is a waste of time

Its not so funny to see you distort and misrepresent my points.

BTW - acoustic control is what the Norwegians have that our industry has lobbied against during the Dubya years.

Its also apparently irrelevant to the current situation.

Acoustic controls would have stopped this early on imo.

How? Even local triggering by robots did not cut off the leak. Having eight hundred billion backup signal systems doesn't help if the problem is not a signal problem.



To: semi_infinite who wrote (368689)6/14/2010 1:25:31 PM
From: Brumar892 Recommendations  Respond to of 793843
 
Why didn't the Obama administration and Democratic Congress move to require acoustic controls?

Democrats have controlled Congress for three years and Obama is well into his second year in office.

BTW acoustic controls would likely have made no difference.