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Les writes: >Actually, watching the videos from the seafloor ROVs, i have been impressed >with the technical level of the machinery down there, as well as the various >schemes available for drilling and sealing wells. What is unimpressive is the decision making at the top -- be it the oil company, the drilling rig operators, and so forth -- and the government oversight over operations. Talk about cowboy capitalism ... But none of us this is headline news here. Interesting to me was the virtual non-presence of the Steven Chu-led brain trust that had been assembled to sort out the technical challenges at the well. Never again will i assume that a Nobel Prize winner in physics will lead a team of mind-warriors in an open environment to a miraculous victory. Well, actually, i never thought any such thing, especially once the make-up of the group was announced. But its good materiel for teaching some of my colleagues that "science-itself" does not win the day. Here is a very clear case of science in the support of business interests, with due oversight from the state. Les -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Les this has been my position the whole time and is directly the opposite of what you were claiming before when you said that they do not know how to stop the flow and are doing all they can. The bomb it shut notion, as I have repeatedly stated, is a jumping off point for a political position, not an end-all theory of how to stop the flow. Brad ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
