…why didn’t they invite Whoopi Goldberg and Paris Hilton too?

Or Perez Hilton for that matter…

If he truly is considered an expert on “underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies”, then maybe his input could be valuable.

I support the overturning of every possible stone of potential value in getting this leak stopped or diverted.

They are going to use Cameron’s massive ego to “plug the dang hole”.

Win Win.

The Obama administration should contact any surviving members of Hanna-Barbera who produced the Super-Friends, because, you know… Aqua-man.

“BP is filming what they’re going underwater! We need experts to show that they’re doing it all wrong.”

Underwater? Check.
Filming? Check

The trouble is, of course, that the underwater filming is just one small part of the job. Even cutting stuff with robots, while essential, is only a small part of the job.

Nobody but petro engineers knows about oil, and geology, and hydraulic engineering, and stuff only they know you have to know.

And even after you get all of those skill sets put together, you still have to merge them into a team. Teamwork never happens overnight, even when everyone knows their role. Knowing all about a job is nothing like doing it.

This administration is so arrogant it astounds.

Of all of the Hollywood people you could mention, he’s probably the one who actually has the right sort of experience for this. He’s spent a LOT of time running robot subs and underwater cameras, and a lot of it’s been at extreme depths (the Titanic documentary was shot at over two miles down, and the Bismarck one nearly three miles). If you want to find someone who’s got experience at running hi-res robot cameras in tight spaces way down under water, he’s either the guy – or knows the right people to call.

It’s easy to make fun, but this is actually a pretty good call. He really is an expert at this sort of thing.

Get the best you can get……. Corky from ‘Life Goes On’.

I’m serious.

The dude has a ‘never give up’ ethic and all he needs to do is see the problem, think a few minutes and you’ll get that deep-down knowing yell of “I can do it !”……. and he’ll do it !

You even know why. You’re in La-La Land.

Danny Glover , Dennis Kucinich and Rosy. Round out the O Team with Michelle Obama and Lindsy Lohan.
lol… Dont laugh…does anyone think it could get much more bizarre?

Didn’t he drill a well with his shotgun?

I would imagine that BP may quit and walk away from the whole thing.

BP may tell Barack then can take over BP and he now owns all the problems – lock stock and barrels of oil.

It usually does for him.

I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night!!

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Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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. . .that keeps him from scripting dialog.

There is no more reason to necessarily assume a director can write than there is to assume he can sing.

I guarantee they will have Cameron put an “independent” ROV down there to collect evidence for their prosecution.

. . . we’re done for. I was sure that I couldn’t be surprised by anything Obama’s administration did next, and yet here I sit stunned. *smh* God save us.

Calling in the cavemen from the Geico commercials or maybe the duck from the AFLAC commercial.

OK, enough fun I guess.

I think Common Cents is right on the money here, time will tell.

$24 million is a lot to waste…even for an actor. Now’s his chance at ROI…

For 15 years, Kevin Costner has been overseeing the construction of oil separation machines to prepare for the possibility of another disaster of the magnitude of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.

Does this evoke his tagline from “Field of Dreams?” It seems that Mr. Costner, the 55-year-old actor, environmental activist and fisherman, was ready for the current spill in the gulf.

Disturbed by the effects of the Valdez spill in Alaska, Mr. Costner bought the nascent technology from the government in 1995 and put $24 million of his own money into developing it for the private sector.
“Kevin saw the Exxon Valdez spill, and as a fisherman and an environmentalist, it just stuck in his craw, the fact that we didn’t have separation technology,” said John Houghtaling, Mr. Costner’s lawyer and business partner as chief executive with Ocean Therapy Solutions, which developed the technology.

Mr. Costner’s brother, Dan, is a scientist who worked on the project and was also in New Orleans this week.

On Wednesday, BP’s chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, said that the company had approved six of Ocean Therapy’s 32 machines for testing. All boast centrifuge processing technology — giant vacuum-like machines that suck oil from water, separate the oil, store it in a tanker and send the water, 99.9 percent purified, back into the gulf.

“I’m very happy the light of day has come to this,” Mr. Costner said at a news conference in New Orleans. He said he was “very sad” about the spill, “but this is why it’s developed.”

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/if-you-build-it/?dbk

In separate news, Al & Tipper are going their separate ways. Not sure what the connection is, but there must be one.

He could McGuyver a device to clean up the mess *and* get the Stargate team to teleport the refuse into space.

Come on Obama, you’re falling down on the job. (But to be fair, when aren’t you?)

call in Mighty Mouse to save the day? Threats of criminal charges is a Jim dandy way to ensure cooperation and a successful outcome, isn’t it?

he must of thought it was Barney.

vlad

How about a heaping of ManBearPig? Should be just about the right size to “Top Kill” the leak with his large…

It was exactly my first thought. And that was…”Oh my goodness.. how embarrassing. We’ve totally lost it.”

Vlad you encapsulated it all in one of your first posts when you said operating at 5000 feet below sea level can be as much an engineering challenge as an Apollo moonshot. Then this is our Apollo 13. I do wonder if BP is calling in some of the real experts besides their own in house, whose CEOs have offered their services I understand. By that I mean other oil companies who have gathered tremendous experience in drilling and construction on the sea bed:
1) Phillips Petroleum’s jack up of the **entire** Ekofisk Platform in the North Sea to deal with sea floor subsidence- this one makes the engineers whistle, to this day;
2) Shell Trollhattan – again, North Sea offshore, the sheer size of this took underwater platform construction & operation to an almost unbelievable new level;
3) those were supermajors – just two very respected names in deepwater offshore among the independents are McDermott and Kerr-McGee (now Anadarko). There are many others. Somehow I hope some cross pollenization is going on with these tremendous available sources. When I think of Ekofisk and Trollhattan, just as two examples, my hope and faith restore that we’re going to find a way to get this done.

Of course, it will have to be filmed in 3-D so that everyone can feel that they are right there with our governmental heroes when the film finally hits theaters just weeks after Barry saves the world.

And since it is in 3-D, you will be expected to shell out the additional $$$ for the privilege of seeing it. If you’re really lucky, perhaps there will be some clever marketing tie-in on the popcorn bucket and/or the commemorative cup that your beverage comes in. Maybe there will be an entree with some clever name just for the occasion in the theaters that offer dinner and a movie….

Come on, people – you gotta think like these narcissists do. You just know that Barry sees himself as the hero in every single one of his fiascos, right?

Cameras and dexterity. Been there since day one.

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Obama comes in. Lights!!! Camera!!! Action !!!

Plug the damn hole.

Cut!!! Beautiful. Yay.

I’ve got no problem considering Cameron an expert at “doing stuff” way, way underwater. He’s done it, and at the very least has a commanding idea of what CAN be done down there.

I’d even entertain an argument that he has a usefully different, out-of-the-box perspective that a dedicated oilman might not have, precisely because he’s done so many many different things underwater in the course of all his movies whereas the oilman would be expert in one somewhat more narrowly defined field.

BUT…

Considering that it takes this guy 10 years to make a movie, calling him in to plug the hole is NOT an optimistic sign.

…to terminate the flow of oil. Pure genius! Better yet, have him send the Terminator back in time to terminate the person who was responsible for the explosion and change the present.

Or maybe send an alien to gobble up all the oil.

Maybe this is why the Obama FCC is listening to garage rock band OK Go instead of experts on the Internet?