Confidence Inspiring...

From a BP senior vice president:

"The first chance to choke off the flow for good should come in about a week. Engineers plan to shoot heavy mud into the crippled blowout preventer on top of the well, then permanently entomb the leak in concrete. If that doesn't work, crews also can shoot golf balls and knotted rope into the nooks and crannies of the device to plug it, Wells said."


That's the plan?


I can imagine the casual friday meeting, maybe on a yacht:


VP: So, uh, what's our course of action in a blowout?


Manager: Well, our first course of action is definitely the large metal cap. If that doesn't work, maybe another kind of metal cap -just smaller.


VP: And if the caps don't work?


Manager: After that, well, mud has shown some promise.


VP: Well, what we really need here is a hole-in-one.


Manager: You know, you may have something there. We could try shooting golf balls into the well!


Nearby Sailor: Aye, matey -don't forget the knotted ropes, nutin plugs a hole like the knotted ropes!

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