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Originally Posted by hunnychile
Doesn't it seem odd that the U.S.A. can have NASA land a rover on Mars with cameras, but no one is able to cap a 22 inch hole in the Gulf of Mexico to stop the oil leak? It seems like we are more worried about star wars than our southern coast.
I find this most distressing!
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I made this point earlier in this thread. The problem is that it is much easier to explore the moon than it is to do things a mile below the surface of the ocean. The pressures and temperatures at a mile blow the surface are much harsher than the moon.
I'm wondering who has technology to deal with something like this. The US Military does not. Maybe NASA has something to deal with this but that is unlikely. There are very few machines capable of operating at that depth let alone actually repair a leak.