Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Celebrity Saves World

The world's best engineers can't fix a gushing oil well but maybe somebody who produces crap movies can?


Some days I wonder which Monty Python movie I've stepped into.


From the ABC:


Avatar director called in to stop oil leak


Avatar director James Cameron and another Canadian who built submersibles for his 1989 thriller The Abyss have joined talks in Washington on innovative ways of capping the Gulf oil spill.


Cameron, who also directed Titanic, and Phil Nuytten, the head of North Vancouver-based Nuytco Research, will meet today with several deepwater and oil sector experts as well as US Environmental Protection Agency officials.


No details of their talks were immediately available.


After failing to plug the leak with mud, BP has moved on to a plan to cut the leaking pipe and seal it with a tight cap.


The company said this latest effort could stem the gushing oil within 24 hours.


Full article here

2 comments:

  1. Excuse me? Crap movie?

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  2. "Avatar" was pretty ordinary at best.

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