(BP oil spill) Kevin Costner > Sean penn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5Xg...layer_embedded

Kevin costner while making the movie Waterworld, set to work on helping create a device that purifies/cleans sea water. now with the Crisis in the gulf Kevin Costner is getting to ****ing work. The army just signed off and now his devices are being put to use to clean up the oil spill.

Makes d-bag pieces of garbage all talk and no walk mother lovers like sean penn look even worse when they are out with a dixi cup helping flood victims for 1 day a year.

He's no Dean Kamen. Dude invented a machine that convert ANYTHING wet into drinkable water.

Was that the guy on The Colbert Report a long time ago and he dumped a whole bag of Doritos in it?

You'd need the 200 gallon a minute one and somehow get it not to clog with,,,fish and otherthings that show up on the surface.
Even then 200 gallons a minute still would take a very very long time to make a slight dent in the current spill.

yes wannabe.

He was a wildman. Definitely a good guy to have around.

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Originally Posted by Frets

You'd need the 200 gallon a minute one and somehow get it not to clog with,,,fish and otherthings that show up on the surface.
Even then 200 gallons a minute still would take a very very long time to make a slight dent in the current spill.

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Ummm...prototype, anyone?

See video KC talks about versions available.

Well, I guess you are taking the whole thing very literally. I think they were making the assumption that everyone understands that the machine that's barely as big as Costner himself is not expected to clean the entire Gulf of Mexico. The assumption there is that if the tech works, scale it so it can work for THIS application.

If they are expecting that version of the machine to do the job, then I'll just hang out at Costner's unicorn farm while he scrubs out the gulf. :rolleyes:

the point i was getting at is KC actually did something productive and helpful where as Penn would probably go with some photogs on a row boat and show him scooping up oil with a bucket, then be on the cover of people magazine talking about how much he has helped

KC - looked like a photo op to me. Why would he need to call a press conference? Put the product to work and he's done. When Penn comes to town he shakes the money tree.

It's just how progress works in america now. You can't simply have a working product, you have to win acceptance through indelible imagery and presentation. Any campaign manager would tell you the same.

If brilliant science were the only requirement, we'd be powering our house on 5 liters of water per day.

Let's hope someone famous decides to be the face of the latest breakthrough.

I still blame him for The Postman.

At least something good came out of waterworld.

i enjoyed waterworld, people need to lighten up a bit when they watch movies.

Haha don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite worst movies of all time.

It's just awful.

You mean other then an amazing movie ;)

damn 2 post down before I even hit enter. That what I get for leaving a thread open for 2 minutes...

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i enjoyed waterworld, people need to lighten up a bit when they watch movies.

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the movie sucked and it deserved to bomb. I hope it rots in movie hell.

oh man the Non-Pc post i want to make!

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Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day

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http://www.examiner.com/x-19632-Salt...r-a-day-photos

all about money.

Good for him.
The US needs to take over capping the leak.

This is the BP recycling process
Wait to try something > mostly fail> make false reports of progress > adjust data after being called out> Complain that the bad press is affecting thier lifestyle> hold out a new promise that this time they can get the situation under control > repeat.

Can't we just plug it with Rosie O'Donnell?

</man show reference>

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Good for him.

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Yes. Actually good for everyone involved in the process.

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The US needs to take over capping the leak.

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No.

There is an out of control cannon in your neighbors house. It's set to autokill and and wiping out the nieighborhood. Your house could be next. Do you call in the police to resolve the situation or do you trust your nieghbor who says he can get a handle on it but at every turn has been unable?

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There is an out of control cannon in your neighbors house. It's set to autokill and and wiping out the nieighborhood. Your house could be next. Do you call in the police to resolve the situation or do you trust your nieghbor who says he can get a handle on it but at every turn has been unable?

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I call the cops...because they have experience with firearms.

I don't call Uncle Sam to fix a hole in the bottom of the ocean as they have ZERO experience there. If you must do something, perhaps they mandate that every oil driller and rig servicer step up to assist in the process lest they stop doing business in the US.

The Army, Department of the Interior, etc...none of them have the slightest clue about how to plug up the hole or how to stop the oil from flowing, else it'd be done already. While the most knowledgeable people may not have solved the problem to anyone's liking as of yet...they're still the most qualified.

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There is an out of control cannon in your neighbors house. It's set to autokill and and wiping out the nieighborhood...

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Incidentally, I'm still giggling about this scenario. Someone's been playing too many video games.

It's already cost gulf residents over 11 billion dollars. It's killed the fishing and tourism industry as well as had a devestating affect on marine life. For all the stop gap methods to clean up the mess the situation has gotten worse not better. This isn't a bp problem it is a national problem. BP has shown time and time again that the methods they are appliying arent working. They've had thier chance and another chance and another chance. And they've falsified findings time and time again. Either they don't know what they are doing or they don't know what they are doing. The expericense they have had is in creating disaters not addressing the disasters that they created.

Agreed 100%. I also agree that the devil you know is better than the one you don't. If the Army Corps of Engineers had a foolproof method to 'fix' it, Obama would've had them in already. In addition, let's stop with the conspiracy nonsense. If behooves BP from a $$$ perspective to fix it...now. They are not procrastinating - they are not holding out - they are not lying. They're simply incompetent. Unfortunately, their incompetency may be the best option available.

I'm not sure it behooves them, exactly. Cost-benefit analysis drives all kinds of sorry human behavior, like whether to recall an item or not.

We're siphoning X amount of oil, they'll likely be held accountable for Y amount of damage, they'll probably come out ahead instead of just bombing the pipe and stopping it. It's not a conspiracy, it's accounting.

sigh, its a sad day when the two people most qualified to fix this situation is James cameron and Kevin costner.

Cameron is one of the most experienced deep sea submarine persons in the world, with a fleet of machines capable of reaching that depth, Kevin costner has ****ing machines hes been developing for 20 years specifically to help in this situation.

Both forward thinking people that actually care about the ocean, Get them in a room, give them the money they need and get this **** fixed.

What we dont need is The government ****ing this up as they jostle for money from bp because its oil, and we dont need Bp cutting corners and going from cheap poorly thought idea to cheap poorly thought idea.

What happened when the chicago pipe line broke and the tunnels under the city flooded? they called in army engineers and personal contractors and experts in the fields that would be needed. The same thing should be done now. they sat in a room, they round tabled solutions found one that would work and ****ing fixed it while also developing new safty codes to prevent a disaster like that from getting out of control.

WTF

WATCH. THIS. VIDEO! :D

classic!

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/24...beach-full.jpg

Saw that yesterday. Also saw that they literally have oil raining down on them too. Insane.

Beautiful photograph.
Sh*tty f*cking subject matter.

whats ****ed up is i highly doubt this will be clean in my lifetime, ill never be able to take my kids(if i ever have any) to the gulf. While i was on a buisness trip to north carolina they had radio ad's trying to convince people to come to Florida they still have some open beaches. This is a disgusting situation, and ill never go inside a BP station again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0zw...layer_embedded