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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SGJ who wrote (33067)	7/6/2010 11:49:59 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "What happens on the surface is meaningless." OBVIOUSLY the ground could never subside around the blowout preventer' UNLESS strata had been eroded/undermined beneath. <GGG> Re: "you expecting a chasm 18,000 feet down into the ocean floor?" I am 'expecting' nothing. (Simply mentioning one possibility that has been advanced by various drilling specialists --- who have suggested the possibility --- possibility suggested by the failed pressure tests --- that the concrete lining around the drill bore might well have been compromised... allowing over-pressured oil and gas to penetrate into the porous strata behind the liner... and possibly follow it upward. Obviously not a good thing to have happen....)