# Operation Top Kill - Any one else watching this crap (shoot)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 26, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872 "2010-05-26T20:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/1 "2010-05-26T20:47:05Z")
I began watching the CNN video feed shortly after 2:00pm this afternoon, checking back every 30 minutes or so. What started as what seemed to be a single plume of oil now looks like multiple, possibly 4 plumes. What the heck?! Did BP just make things worse? [Video Linky](http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3&hpt=T1) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/2 "2010-05-26T21:02:03Z")
Dunno if they made it worse; might be easier to get ahold of the new plumes than the single was now. But, yeah, I definitely see at least 3 places where oil is spewing out of something (the ground? a containment device? I can’t tell). ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/3 "2010-05-26T21:07:55Z")
No matter how many plumes, I don’t see how it could be leaking more oil than before unless they widened the shaft. It’s probably more like putting your thumb over the end of a hose, making the water squirt out in other directions. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/4 "2010-05-26T21:09:56Z")
I see 4 plumes, and not evenly spaced. That does not look like a happy-happy-good-good piece of undersea equipment doing what it was designed to do. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/5 "2010-05-26T21:13:14Z")
I think the camera in the CNN feed is in the same position it was when I first began watching it earlier when there seemed to be a single plume. There are now definitely at least 3. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/6 "2010-05-26T21:21:49Z")
The chatter I’m reading seems to be assuming that the plumes are a mixture of mud, gas & oil. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/7 "2010-05-26T21:27:14Z")
Looks like they broke away from the BOA Deep 1 single camera feed. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/8 "2010-05-26T21:34:21Z")
I’m looking at a feed with six views, do you have that? > **[How to watch CNN Live TV in the United States - CNN](https://www.cnn.com/specials/about-live-tv)** > > Find out how you can watch CNN TV live on any platform. Oil Drum chatter thread: [http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6511#comments\_top](http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6511#comments_top) ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/9 "2010-05-26T21:37:49Z")
Well crap, it’s down. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-top-kill-any-one-else-watching-this-crap-shoot/540872/10 "2010-05-26T22:48:49Z")
I really do not see a debate, here. I would suggest continuing any follow-up commentary in the other threads on the topic: _e.g.,_ [LiveFeed from the oil spill](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=564692) .